a single source, nothing corroborates it
Run the same challenge as a peer, same day
Committing to ship on the same date as somebody with a comparable audience, and cross-linking progress throughout, means each of you borrows the other's readers. It also creates a format other people copy afterwards, which extends the reach past the two of you.
The method
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Invite a peer to run the same challenge on the same day and cross-link progress, so each of you borrows the other's audience
What it returned
Amy Hoy committed to shipping a long-delayed short ebook alongside him and Alex Hillman joined her; several other bloggers later ran their own versions of the challenge
Sources
- Join me as I create & launch a product in 24 hoursNathan Barry · nathanbarry.com · 11:00 AM update: · 2014-12-01
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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