You can feel it in the air…the morning weather is getting cooler. The garage fridge is calling your name. That’s right…it’s college football season.

But before all that, here’s everything interesting from August.

✍️ Decided to pivot the format of our weekly newsletter.
Instead of focusing on the full length podcast promo, we’re going to pull helpful insights from each episode as a standalone newsletter piece.

Check out next week’s issue to see what I mean…

💻 On a similar note, we’re adding something awesome to each newsletter. We’re thinking of calling it Rogue Recommendations or Rogue Recs.

We’ll highlight a subscriber’s business at the bottom of each newsletter. If you’re interested in being featured (or nominating someone), let us know here.

🔥 Had my first viral Linkedin post (on my personal profile).
I got excited when it hit 50K views. By the end of the day I was scratching the surface of 1M views!!

In this episode of the Grow Rogue Podcast, me and Nikki discussed the benefits of newsletters for driving business growth.

There are many different types of newsletters — company updates, educational content, story-based, and curated collections. The important takeaway is that you need a content mix that resonates with your audience.

We also talked about some strategies for building a healthy subscriber list

Watch it here.

😷 Here’s how I became immune to rejection.
TL;DR — I did over 10,000 cold calls, got called every name in the book, sold a crap ton of meetings, and now I have no feelings (kidding, mostly).

🤝The best advice for starting a newsletter, if you're just getting started – JUST GET STARTED!

❌ The hub-and-spoke strategy
Or the relationship between social media and a newsletter

💵🌊 The great wealth wave
The tide has turned – evidence shows ordinary citizens in the Western world are now richer and more equal than ever before.

📆 Ditch Your To-Do List and Do This Instead | The Tim Ferriss Show
The inspiration behind our recent adoption of time blocking.

Until next week,

-Reade