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Xian's avatar

Against this backdrop of AI, I believe everyone is a product manager. The biggest brand you will ever work on is yourself. I began applying product thinking to my Substack as well, and everything shifted. I gained 100 followers in a month and the momentum hasn’t stopped.

It turns out that when you treat your work like a product, your audience becomes a community, your voice becomes a differentiator, and your growth becomes repeatable.

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J. Thorn's avatar

This is fantastic... for now. I wonder what happens when the "source newsletter" was generated by AI. A copy of a copy of a copy...

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Guney Topcu's avatar

Learning remains incomplete without action. Books and advice provide frameworks, yet the real understanding forms only through the friction of personal mistakes. Projects become filters that turn scattered information into retained knowledge. Without real world application, most insights evaporate.

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Preeti Dixit's avatar

Great read! Very insightful and full of information and ideas for a budding writer ✍️ 💯💯💯💯💥💥💥💥

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Percy's avatar

Are you using "advertising" as interchangeable with "marketing" here? or, what do you mean by these, definitionally in this case?

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Ralph Rickenbach's avatar

I am sure you are correct. And I might just pick up advertising to advertise a system where advertising is not needed. But then, the thought alone induces enough cognitive dissonance, way above my threshold, not to do it.

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Barry J McDonald's avatar

You're right, Dan. By sharpening your advertising skills, you can stay true to your creative self and make sure your unique voice gets the spotlight it deserves.

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Elect Hyginus's avatar

The only letter I didn’t know I needed.

Funny how I started Cashvertizing cos I work with people so I needed to understand them, but stopped half way.

I’d pick it up again. psychology, marketing and sales.

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Patrick Rene's avatar

💯

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