15 July 2024
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Rob Walling, Ryan Deiss, and Dylan Davis. Highlights include Pricing is the biggest lever — one number change can unlock overnight growth. Three hidden spend categories quietly drain cash as companies scale
Showing 34 digests for 15 July 2024.
Five tactical changes to grow your SaaS after product-market fit
Rob Walling
July 21, 2024
Pricing strategy
9
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Conversion rate optimisation
6
Pricing is the biggest lever — one number change can unlock overnight growth.
A cheap, high-churn tier with no upgrades is attracting the wrong customer.
Proactive customer success can lift demo close rates 2–3x.
Cash flow management
YouTube
A 90-day expense audit process that eliminates wasteful recurring spend
Ryan Deiss
July 21, 2024
Cash flow management
9
Automation & tools
6
Three hidden spend categories quietly drain cash as companies scale
One copy-paste email triggers an audit that recovers five figures monthly
Cancel subscriptions in the meeting itself — delays let them survive
AI tools & automation
YouTube
What six LLM practitioners learned building real AI products
Dylan Davis
July 21, 2024
AI tools & automation
9
Product-market fit
6
Prompt engineering and RAG cover 80–90% of what most products need.
Fine-tuning's last 10% costs far more effort than teams expect.
Your moat is guardrails, caching, and feedback loops — not model choice.
True delegation means elevating the person, not splitting the role
EOS Worldwide
July 21, 2024
Hiring to share the load creates overlap, not relief
Elevate the over-capacity person; backfill below them
Clear vertical hierarchy beats two lateral seats every time
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Haruki Murakami on obsession, routine, and the long game
Founders
July 21, 2024
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
7
Authenticity isn't a feeling — it shows up in longevity over decades.
Stopping before empty each day keeps the flywheel spinning tomorrow.
Burning out on an ultra marathon cost him years of running enthusiasm.
Conversion rate optimisation
YouTube
Three principles for high-converting SaaS landing pages
TK Kader
July 21, 2024
Conversion rate optimisation
9
Copywriting
7
Design kills conversions — content and copy are what convert.
Credibility in your copy can push conversion rates to 80%.
Embedding your lead magnet on-page drives immediate activation.
Content marketing
YouTube
A step-by-step framework for writing a business book
KeyPersonOfInfluence
July 21, 2024
Content marketing
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Communication
6
A book builds authority and reaches thousands for the price of a coffee.
Five-section structure: disrupt, share insights, methodology, handle objections, inspire.
Embed a scorecard to convert anonymous readers into warm business leads.
What most people miss about marketing and psychology in product success
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
July 21, 2024
Business models
9
Branding
8
Product-market fit
6
Great products routinely fail — marketing and psychology are usually decisive
Fame compounds non-linearly; it changes every rule of doing business
Small, weird product details create disproportionate attention and loyalty
How to write a vivid vision that aligns your entire company
Cameron Herold
July 20, 2024
Vision & mission
9
Culture building
6
A mission statement aligns no one — a vivid vision does
Write your company three years out, in present tense, in detail
Persistence past mockery is what triggers organisation-wide buy-in
Three strategies to maximise team performance and potential
Dr. Grace Lee
July 20, 2024
Management
9
Motivation
5
Every team member must understand and articulate the shared mission.
Align personal goals with mission objectives to drive intrinsic motivation.
Clarity, metrics, and self-discovery compound into lasting team confidence.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Patrick Dempsey on Stoicism, Acting, and Race Car Driving
The Daily Stoic
July 20, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Founder interviews
7
Relationships & family
5
Racing and acting both demand presence — preparation is what makes it possible.
Stoicism means channelling emotion, not suppressing it.
Ritual dependency creates fragility; real confidence survives any conditions.
Using tags in Semrush Social to understand content performance
Semrush
July 19, 2024
Social media
9
Content marketing
7
Tags transform social post data into filterable performance insights.
Three tag types — campaign, purpose, format — cover most use cases.
You can tag published posts retroactively, no resharing required.
21 principles of the top performers
Dan Martell
July 19, 2024
Motivation
9
Long-term planning
7
Why wanting more and feeling grateful are not mutually exclusive
Your calendar and bank account reveal what actually matters to you
The biggest trap of success: building happiness around a destination that never arrives
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Embrace your weirdness and forgive others: two Stoic lessons
The Daily Stoic
July 19, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
5
Suppressing your authentic self makes you replaceable by definition.
Rainn Wilson's misery turned around the moment he embraced his weirdness.
Marcus Aurelius and Jesus agree: wrongdoers act from ignorance, not malice.
Tarpit ideas: what they actually are and when they stop being traps
Y Combinator
July 19, 2024
Niche selection
9
Product-market fit
6
AI strategy & adoption
5
Universal praise from friends is a warning sign, not validation.
Two tarpit types: utopian behavior change, and get-rich-quick arbitrage.
LLMs can unlock classic tarpits — if you can explain why now works.