{"id":3884,"date":"2014-10-17T11:20:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T16:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/blog\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2014-10-17T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T16:23:40","slug":"mailbag-steal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.growthtools.com\/?p=3884","title":{"rendered":"Mailbag: How to steal from your friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday, which means this afternoon you’ll be doing your best to pretend to work while secretly wishing you were somewhere else.<\/p>\n

I’m here for you.<\/p>\n

Our tool of the week is WhatFont<\/a>. I’m working on spiffing up this website and wanted to steal James<\/a>‘s font type.<\/p>\n

But trying to figure out what font type and size he uses was a major pain.<\/p>\n

Then I found WhatFont. You just click a button, then click on the text, and it tells you the exact font family and a ton of other confusing-looking stuff.<\/p>\n

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Happy stealing.<\/p>\n

On to your questions….<\/p>\n

STARTUP PROCESS:<\/strong> If you were to launch an “Authority Site” in a niche other than video\/internet marketing, what would be your process, and reasons why?<\/em><\/p>\n

Hoping to gain insight into how you might change\/keep strategies knowing what you know after a year of doing this site.<\/em><\/p>\n

-Derrick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s assume a few things.<\/p>\n

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  1. Your primary goal is to grow your email list to 10,000 people.<\/li>\n
  2. Your secondary goal is to make $100,000 per year by selling products and services to that list.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To accomplish that, I followed these 10 steps:<\/p>\n

    Step 1:<\/strong> Pick an industry you are\u00a0interested in.<\/p>\n

    Step 2:<\/strong> Find your\u00a0unique teaching angle and style.<\/a><\/p>\n

    Step 3:<\/strong> Write 2 expanded guest posts<\/a> per week.<\/p>\n

    Step 4:<\/strong> Write 1 epic article for your blog per week.<\/p>\n

    Step 5:<\/strong>\u00a0Use Content Upgrades<\/a> in every guest post and epic article.<\/p>\n

    Step 6:<\/strong> Repeat steps 3 thru 5 every week for 12 weeks.<\/p>\n

    Step 7:<\/strong> Find a product in the data<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Step 8:<\/strong> Start building the product in public.<\/p>\n

    Step 9:<\/strong> Launch the product.<\/p>\n

    Step 10<\/strong>: Rinse and repeat.<\/p>\n

    —<\/p>\n


    \nREADING<\/strong>:\u00a0What are all the blogs you follow and what do you read regularly?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

    –Kimberly<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    I read a lot. And I do my best NOT to read too much in my industry. It becomes incestuous.<\/p>\n

    If all I read was Noah Kagan, Neil Patel, Brian Dean and LeadPage articles (people in my industry), I would start sounding\u00a0exactly like them. Why? Because we have a tendency to take on the characteristics of the writers we read.<\/p>\n