6 January 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, founder stories, and leadership, with new digests from Ryan Deiss, Dr. Grace Lee, and EO. Highlights include You can't optimise customer acquisition until you've mapped it visually. Your words are seeds — they shape what you notice and become.
Showing 43 digests for 6 January 2025.
Customer experience
Podcast
How UserList evolved customer success across four stages over seven years
Startups For the Rest of Us
January 7, 2025
Customer experience
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Niche selection
6
Self-serve resources fail for complex products — most customers won't onboard alone
Done-for-you services outsell software and build repeatable frameworks faster
Technical investigation skill beats charisma when hiring for customer success
How to build a $10k/month online education business using AI
Sunny Lenarduzzi
January 7, 2025
Business models
9
Content marketing
8
MVP & prototyping
6
People pay for transformation, not information — your offer must deliver results.
Niching to a micro-audience makes marketing effortless and positions you as the authority.
Automate only after proving your offer; building funnels first guarantees failure.
Winning on social media in 2025: organic content, live shopping, and mindset
GaryVee
January 7, 2025
Social media
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Content marketing
6
A zero-follower post can now outreach a 5-million-follower account.
Live social shopping in 2025 is where social media was in 2008.
Fear of judgment — not lack of strategy — is why most people never post.
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
IRS e-filing mandate: what the new 10-form rule means for HR
HR Party of One
January 7, 2025
Compliance & regulation
9
Combined form count of 10 now triggers mandatory e-filing
Non-compliance costs up to $290 per form, $1M+ annually
Even micro-businesses filing a few form types must e-file
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Six common misconceptions about Stoicism debunked
The Daily Stoic
January 7, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Motivation
6
Stoics processed emotions through journaling — they never suppressed them.
An early Stoic literally died laughing; humor was a deliberate practice.
Acceptance of reality is the starting point for action, not a replacement.
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
Four Secrets to Closing Premium Copywriting Deals in 2025
Matthew Volkwyn
January 6, 2025
Prospecting & outreach
9
Branding
7
Feature prioritisation
5
Personal brands pay $3K–$15K/month for writers who nail their voice.
Premium gigs circulate privately — referral networks beat job boards every time.
Full-stack copywriters close deals email-only writers are forced to walk away from.
How to eliminate team politics, silos, and turf wars as CEO
Cameron Herold
January 6, 2025
Culture building
9
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Politics start when leaders prioritise department over company — fix that first.
Bonuses demotivate most employees; five weeks vacation retains A players better.
Skip-level meetings only work if you listen without committing to anything on the spot.
Practical advice on team chat, peer engagement, and donor boundaries
Coaching for Leaders
January 6, 2025
Processes & SOPs
8
Communication
7
Conflict resolution
6
Teams Chat is the wrong tool for help-desk workflows — use ticketing software.
Announcing recordings kills attendance; leave people wanting more instead.
Categorise donor requests by mission-fit before setting any boundary.
Hallmark movies as a case for lifestyle-centric planning
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
January 6, 2025
Goal setting
8
Time management
7
Long-term planning
6
Hallmark movies secretly sell lifestyle freedom, not romance
Resonant daily life beats any single grand career goal
Study less time, more active recall — white paper method works
Business operating systems
YouTube
Frameworks: the invisible structure behind every great idea
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
January 6, 2025
Business operating systems
9
Productivity & habits
6
Frameworks are rules that save mental calories and make results reproducible.
The gap between a smart person and a thought leader is a codified framework.
Intuit doubled its stock price in two years by adopting one framework.
Hetty Green: how America's first female tycoon built a financial empire
Founders
January 6, 2025
Origin stories
9
Cash flow management
8
Investing strategy
7
Cash and no debt turn every financial panic into a buying opportunity.
She grew her income — not her inheritance — into over $100 million.
Defiant independence let her buy against the crowd when others panicked.
How Todd Graves built Raising Cane's on a single menu item
How I Built This with Guy Raz
January 6, 2025
Case studies
10
Business models
8
Bootstrapping
6
Four-item menu outperforms every fast food chain except Chick-fil-A
Funded the first restaurant by working dangerous Alaskan fishing boats
Bought back most franchisees to keep full control of quality
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stoic sphere of choice: allocate energy where it matters
The Daily Stoic
January 6, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
8
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Stoicism is energy allocation, not resignation from the world.
Your sphere of choice is the only thing you truly possess.
Individual impact lands in family and community, not outrage.