Editing The Pen Addict 371/transcript (section)

== Live Show Announcement ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Talking about kind of weird. We're doing a big live show in San Francisco. A big RelayFM celebration for our fifth anniversary. We've spoken about that in the past. If you're going to be at the SF Pen Show, you should get yourself a ticket to this if you haven't already. There's not a lot of tickets left, actually. So if you haven't done that, don't sleep on it. Get it now. And we're going to be playing Family Feud with RelayFM hosts. If you're not sure what Family Feud is, so there'll be a series of teams and they'll be answering questions. The question is basically for you to guess the most popular answer amongst a survey of people. The people that are going to be surveyed are RelayFM listeners. You will find a link in the show notes to the RelayFM anniversary Family Feud survey. Please complete the survey because you will be going towards helping us with the answers for the questions that our wonderful RelayFM hosts will be participating in. So that episode, by the way, will be released on the Connected feed a couple of days later. So maybe probably the next day. So you will be able to hear this live show. So if you can't make it in person, it will be recorded, obviously, because we are podcasters and it will be released within probably 24 hours of the recording.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, just so we're clear, I'm not allowed to look at this document, right? No, it's best not to. It's probably suggested. Yeah, like I don't want to ruin it. You don't want to think about it beforehand. No, and I'm very familiar with the Family Feud style of things.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's known as Family Fortunes in the UK. Same format. If you're familiar with Family Fortunes, you'll know what Family Feud is.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Same terribly awkward host? Just as a general style of hosting, it's very awkward. Sure, can be. Yeah, yeah. We have enough people for four families. This is going to be a very large, awesome event, and I can't wait to see. We're all just going to be like randomly assigned teams, right? Kind of like drawing names out of a hat or whatever.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't know if we've mentioned this publicly yet, but I do. So me and Stephen are going to be together in the days leading up to it, and we're planning on doing a live stream random drawing of the teams. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I need to. Yeah. Hopefully I'm there or available to listen because that'll be that show in itself will be a blast.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And it will be up to the teams to assign their team captain and their team name. So you've got that in your future. Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Great.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, because we all like to step out and be the leaders of our own little teams. You know us. This is going to be fun. I can't wait. It's going to be awesome. It's the Thursday night before the Friday of the pen show. FYI. You did mention that just to kind of paint a picture. If people are going to have time early to be out there, consider this. It should be fun. It's going to be nuts. And I'm very excited and definitely avoiding clicking that link. I'm a good boy and I will not go down that path. But I will share it with all of our listeners to go in and see. And don't spoil me. Don't tell me what questions are in there about the things. All right. So what have we got next? I launched a, well, launch is maybe too big of a term, but I started a Panatic newsletter option on the website. And this is something that came out of my retreat a few weeks ago. You know, just working on business things and other things. And people were like, well, how's your, what kind of newsletter following do you have on your site? And I'm like, well, I don't really have one because I've never really had any need for one or don't really have anything to say. Other than people have always asked for, hey, can I get your blog posts in mail? So I figured, well, let me at least start with that. And so I did. So I created just a newsletter that you can sign up for to get all the Panatic blog posts in your mail if you would like. And as a bonus, I'll be moving the infrequent Tuesday tool set feature that I used to post on the blog as a more permanent feature for this newsletter. So every Tuesday, I'll write like one extra post, one extra newsletter a week outside of the blog feed. Just talking about things that I've used this week and the past week. And, you know, I like kind of having that little current, current what I'm using conversation. And the Tuesday tool set seems to be like a good feature for that. And I wanted to give an impetus to sign up for the newsletter for a little bit something different than just getting all the blog posts in your inbox, which can be a lot. It's daily. You know, like this is all kind of up in the air. Like I could schedule like a weekly digest or whatever. But, you know, some people seem to like it daily. I'm getting feedback.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I would like to be able to just have the tool set.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So that's the feedback I've gotten. And I think I'll be able to manage that without like changing hardly anything. I think I can just, I mean, one of the other reasons I wanted to do this is I wanted to use a new platform to me called ConvertKit, which is a different email platform than I've used before. And I got to meet with one of the one of the higher ups in that company and really like the product. So I wanted to to do that. So, yeah, I think I'll just be able to take this list segment out the Tuesday tool set people who just request that. So I just got to figure out how to do that and not have, you know, like multiple lists going, just have like this one sign up list. And then we can just have like a Tuesday tool set email list.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes, I would like that. Like I would totally like that because then you would have my email address. And if you wanted to use it for things in the future, like I can choose if I would let you do that. Right. Which is another way that you would manage that kind of thing. But I would I already subscribe to the pen addict and an RSS reader. So I don't. They also need it to my email address, you know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So that's something I'll be looking at this week just to see how to segment that off. And it's also this is like a learning experience for me. Like, you know, newsletters are newsletters are good. They're good business practices for someone who runs their own business. And this is something I should have. So I'm also using it in that aspect. Right. This is not the pen addict members newsletter, which is very different and much more thorough.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That is a part that I spend a lot of time, which is a very different situation.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So like I put a lot of time and effort in this and not that I'm going to put not put a lot of time and effort in getting this newsletter. Right. But once I do, it's kind of, you know, kind of self-fulfilling type of thing. It's just something that I should have on the blog if people are interested in it. And I'm still working on figuring out the best way. But I announced that this week and I was excited about it. So, yeah, it's cool. I'm glad to have done it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Good.