Nerdy Mails: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Ok, so it's hard for me to fathom that most of you who are reading this; do not know who Clint Eastwood is - so I am going to go with the assumption you do.

Ok, this is not a @cinetv post, but I have to give them a shout out; because hey it's CineTV.

Anyway, the weekend has come and gone and although I remain active all 7 days on HIVE Saturday and Sundays are not as full force; because the time is limited and I value my personal time with Tiffany and there are just chores we have to do. She still has two young boys and if they are not with their father, we have to go the extra mile and make sure they are taken care of in many ways.

With all that said, I'm doing something on HIVE and at the very least some HIVE TWITTER sharing.

Going into the a new week, it's important for me to hit the ground running like Dirty Harry is chasing me. So I always have part of my brain focusing on what I'm going to post, etc.

Today's post is easy, because now that I spend a lot of my time using ListNerds to elevate my HIVE interactions and increase my numbers; I rather enjoy creating content and being - NERDY -

To that end, I wanted to cover the mail messages themselves and what type of emails are falling into the category of The Good emails, The Bad emails and the Ugly emails from my daily activity.

Now, there is a huge disclaimer.

I am accustomed to seeing many of these type of emails off-chain that fall under the same categories; but what separates ListNerds from ALL THE OTHERS is that it's on a blockchain - the HIVE blockchain. So it's safe to say that my post will be HIVE centric - no surprise to most of you, I'm sure.

I'm no expert, but you can check out my "BY THE NUMBERS" stats below and believe I earned some leeway; in providing an informed opinion.

The Good

Everyday, I'm seeing the transformation of the type of mails I go through. How the approach to messages have evolved into a more personal tone and at the very least a creative gate to their messages.

HIVERS have taken to send out mails that leads to their HIVE posts and I can tell you without question; I am rarely not super happy that a nerd mail took me to a post that would have been a shame to have missed it otherwise.

Another cool trend that I've noticed, is sending mails to older HIVE posts, so although you may not earn from it through upvotes; you may earn gifts - but more importantly - MORE or NEW engagement to your post.

Using Canva to creating snazzy looking mails is a good one, although it can distract from the message - at least folks are being creative. I would tone this down a bit and keep it simpler - but that's just my opinion.

It's extremely important to note, this mailer existed before the HIVE blockchain and before it was ever thought to be on one. We still have many old school marketers that do a great job off-chain as well as on-chain to grow their subscribers list, downlines and their brand. There is no need to fix was not broken, so they don't; what they have done - is an excellent job of bridging the two.

Which is what the CTP team has essentially done and have brought forth a heckuva a tool for online marketers and HIVERS.

The Bad

If you come from the online marketing world, then it's a trend that never dies; but that is detrimental for most new marketers. At it's basic, they are promoting the same affiliate page that hundreds, if not thousands of others are doing as well - how does that put you in a position to succeed?

It's like paying rent and paying off someone else's mortgage.

What blows my mind is that it is still happening and not a little - A LOT - and I still see it on the ListNerds platform as well. To be fair, I'm sure there are many who are still not sold on HIVE and have not been open-minded about it; so they continue the status quo.

Whether you are on-chain or off-chain, you are spinning your wheels.

Being on HIVE, you can share someone else’s post or whatever message they are pointing to with one of your mails and benefit. You will get more activity and more action taken.

Continuing to put up the same affiliate page in every mail will probably get drowned out and yes, will get clicks; because folks want to earn from the platform - but how is that helping you long-term and your own journey towards growth?

If the product or service you believe in is great and you want the world to know about it. Promote it as if it was your own and be creative about it. Let your messages be about you using the product or service and build stories off of that and send emails about it and you will get much more activity. Just my opinion.

The Ugly

The links that don't work. That go nowhere. That goes to blank pages. Broken links. Broken tracking links. Links that go to pages that take foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrr to open. NO BUENO!

There is a way to test your links. It's a pretty big button:

Hey broken links happens to all of us, but if we are checking the Preview and clicking on the links we are adding, including the images; there is a pretty good chance - most of your mails will go through and work well.

Honorable mention on the bad: no war and peace type messages. If you are going to put everything in the mail what is the point of trying to get folks to the bigger picture of what you want folks to interact with outside of the mail?

Just my opinion.

BY THE NUMBERS

I earned another ListNerds token claim today. It's been a few days of consecutive claiming, which is nice to have a good streak going:

This put me over the top and I made it to #1 on the LISTNERDS Richlist. As short of a reign that may be, I'm super stoked to have reached it:

With today being the end of the month, it's safe to say; I had an awesome month of February as a Nerdy 🤓

02.24.22 to 02.28.22 (the current group of mails that have reached verification or will soon)

02.15.22 - 02.23.22

02.01.22 - 02.14.22