Jessica Abel

Life Sucks, a timeless (literally--there are vampires) goth love triangle/coming-of-age story by @jccabel, @johnbellairs, and @WarrenPleece, is out 12/10! Originally published in 2008, we're proud to bring this YA classic back into print 🩸 ow.ly/p7ur50T1ynG

@DannyBrownCA @KieranMacRae Much appreciated!

Has anybody read any podcasting books they recommend? Or any books generally that have helped them with podcasting

@anniewestdotcom @mmaddencomics Wow, go Annie! That's awesome!

@jccabel @mmaddencomics Thanks to you for your brilliant book *Drawing words and writing pictures* at 62 years old I got my very first graphic novel published. Yay 😍😍

Get paid without guilt: 6 lessons I’ve learned: buff.ly/3STrx8x @jccabel #wkb8b

@StretchJourno just resent

@StretchJourno Hi Stretch - I answered you on Oct 23. Check your Spam?

@StretchJourno Don't be sorry! I love it, too.

Love this!

@SeanDoesLife @jillmetcalfe Just read a relevant article that lays out just how rare--and random--significant success with cultural products is. every.to/p/power-laws-h… @every

I’d read that before. It actually points to another Hopium trope that Jessica assigns to Srini Rao in her piece. “You just need to make amazing content and play a long game.” That’s perfect because it’s unquantifiable and open ended. If you fail, well your content simply wasn’t awesome enough… or if your content was good, then you quit too soon, you really weren’t playing a long game. It’s the guru version of a shell game - it’s a sleight of hand trick where they get to make this generic comment that sounds profound but has no weight or merit behind it and then they get to defend it with subjective arguments that you can’t refute.

Beware of “Internet Marketing Math”. We’ve all seen this. “To make $100k/yr, you just need to make $275/day. You just need to sell 10 low priced, $27.50 products per day and you’ll get there.” This math trick is a trope. It gets pulled out and re-used in various forms all the time and has been for almost the full 20 years I’ve been building businesses online. I’ve seen this applied to coaching, consulting, SaaS, plugins, service businesses, and everything in between. The numbers and modeling change, but the illusion is the same. And it’s always being pushed by someone selling Hopium. It’s not necessarily “misinformation” either - the math checks out. But it’s a persuasion gimmick. It’s breaking down a big number into seemingly more achievable smaller numbers to make it feel more realistic. And that’s the Hopium angle. Whenever anyone starts reverse engineering big numbers into smaller numbers to make you think you can do something… run away. Here’s a better plan for you. Rather than focusing on selling 10 of the $27.50 products a day that you need to do every day for a year to make $100k, focus on selling… 1. Not 10. 1 Get the process down, refine it, figure out how to do it… Then sell 1. And you know what you do next? Yep, learn how to sell a 2nd one. Scaling up with something you know how to do is practical and works. Playing pretend in ImaginationLand of selling 10 of something every day when you don’t have a product and haven’t sold a single one isn’t going to get you anywhere.

@SeanDoesLife I like @jccabel's take on the 1000 true fans trope. jessicaabel.com/1000-true-fans/

@lysikowski @holliesgotmoxie For real. That's why I teach a workshop called "Price Your Work for a Profit." Tough stuff, but everyone needs to know.

@holliesgotmoxie @jccabel Stating your value is one thing, I find that creatives have even bigger problem pricing that value and that's the reason their businesses fail.

Can you clearly state the value of what you do? 🤩 According to creative business strategist @jccabel, it's the biggest thing creatives are missing. If you wanna hear how Jessica figured out her work's value, listen to her Brand Your Passion episode! 🎧 makerandmoxie.com/blog/jessica-a…

Great conversation with @franklintaggart about setting priorities according to what ACTUALLY matters to you (rather than what you "should" do or what seems like maybe a good idea?) youtube.com/watch?v=H63JYP…

@austingovella @jenny_blake You'll find your way out again!

@jccabel @jenny_blake Perfect timing. I’m totally in the dark forest right now.

The Dark Forest in the middle of creative projects is when you start to doubt your idea, your ability, and even yourself. We all get stuck in the forest from time to time, and I’m talking to @Jenny_Blake on the #ItsFreeTime podcast about how to get out. itsfreetime.com/episodes/195

*FWIW the dark forest is a reference to this great insight on writing and generating creative work: jessicaabel.com/podcast/episod… (h/t @jccabel)

@jillmetcalfe @ayushtweetshere @jccabel Wow, super cool analysis! I’ll send people there whenever I hear the 1000 fans theory thrown out lightly 😀

@ayushtweetshere According to @jccabel it depends. jessicaabel.com/1000-true-fans/

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