🚀 MakerList #8: Writing, Productivity, and Watermarks
1. Intro to Lifecycle Emails
Patrick McKenzie offers actionable advice on how to create an email campaign that helps you convert your free trial users into happy paying customers.
2. The Modern Content Marketing Guide
A tactical introduction from Julian Shapiro on why content marketing is important and how to do it. He believes that your #1 writing objective should be quality.
3. How founders can write a quality blog post in 1 hour
Josh Pigford of Baremetrics recommends a writing process of 20% research, 20% drafting, and 60% editing/revising, and mentions some great tools to help you write better (like Grammarly and Hemingway).
4. Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity
An oldie (but a goodie) from Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He gives some interesting advice, such as not keeping a schedule and using “structured procrastination” to get things done.
5. How We Used Watermarks to Grow our Startup
Fun read from Julia Enthoven on how Kapwing used watermarks on their videos to grow organically through channels such as Reddit, Kanye West’s Twitter, Joe Jonas’s Instagram, and Comedy Central commercials.
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