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... well, him and the master of Simplero

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We are at McDonalds.

No, it ain't too healthy.

But from time to time we go there, because dang-it, they are good at attracting kids, for them youngsters are always nagging us to go there, whenever they get the chance.

Well done McDonalds, great marketing to make referral monsters out of kids – but that is for another email.

Today I want to talk about the game.

So, whenever we get in there, our youngest son (3 years old) just runs into the …

True story...

Around 1986 I travelled from Denmark to England – it was a 15 hour trip by ferry.

Before the trip, the weather forecast was not too promising, so friends and familiy warned me that the trip would be rough, and I should get some sea sick pills, because... for sure, I would throw up and want to jump over the side of the ferry before the end.

But when people say stuff like that to me, I tend to go...

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Screw you, I am not getting sea sick.

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So I went to the library (no…

Well, I’ll probably take some heat for that headline.

I’ll live with that, though.

Especially since there actually is some truth to the notion.

Here is the evidence.

Now, anyone could have made that graphic with a fictive number, but i tell you man...

it is really true, this is a real screen dump from inside the Simplero backend, and the number is the total revenue of our customers over the past 8 years.

And hey.

The number is growing, and so is the number of active, Simplero users.

I thi…

I once heard this (maybe not so) crazy »advice« about being depressed…

If you throw someone down a stairway, you can be pretty sure, they won’t be depressed on the way down.

Maybe the feeling will come back.

But it will be gone for at least a little while.

Now, of course you don’t want to throw people down stairways, but it is true though—I bet that you (like me) can easily picture, that the mind would simply HAVE to change focus from the depressed state if someone forced you to into a d…

One of my favorite people on the planet…

(Let's just say it's someone I follow).

...he recently announced that he was leaving the platform Patreon, and that if I wanted to support him still, I would have to sign up again and enter my credit card on his website.

I am not going to tell you who it is, as I’d rather keep that private, and it’s not even interesting.

What IS interesting about it, though…

Is that I didn’t sign up again, even though I don’t mind supporting him.

Why?

Because I’m l…

Recently a reader called me "the young man", and NO, I didn't take offense... (on the contrary – how could I be offended..?)

I just wanted to give you some context...

How so?

Well, if you are a... “young" man like me...

You may remember the movie »Tango and Cash« (from 1989).

Yea?

It's from the time when Sylvester Stallone had a Danish girlfriend (Gitte Nielsen/Stallone), or rather...

The movie was made right after they broke up.

Anyway, in the movie there is a scene, where Stallone and …

Have you ever had a great idea for a campaign or sale only to have your heart sink as you think about the work that needs to be done to set it up?

You need to build a landing page, a product, tags, an email series, the automation for those emails, etc. The list goes on.

Not only does that kill your excitement and drive for the idea you just had, but it costs you money and sucks away time that you should be spending with your family or really just doing anything else.

But what if you could do …

To describe our colleague Beth, I asked our leadership team for some help.

Who is Beth to them? What is she like?

Here are some of the words they used:

Amidst words like blazing, funny, caring, and pajamas, a common theme arose – "Beth can."

"Beth is always there to help," Deanna told me. "She has a special ability to make you feel like you've been friends forever. And if you end up in a new country with no luggage, she is kind enough share pajamas and socks."

Our CEO Calvin added, …

If you’ve looked at your website builder lately, you might have noticed a few new additions. 

That’s because we recently went live in the Facebook group to talk about the what, why, and how of our redesigned website and branding as well as give you the tools to do it too (new features!). If you didn't get to attend the event, you can watch it below. 

Here's a quick summary of what we talked about:

• We brought a bolder, more masculine look to Simplero to balance out our very develo…