Want to know 7 reasons you should share this article?
1. Sharing helps you find this stuff in the future.
2. Sharing helps you meet like-minded students – and it’s kind of like waving your flag.
3. It gets you involved in our community.
4. Tell us about your share and we might just thank you AKA goodies
5. Your sharing helps us survive and keep the community growing.
6. It reinforces your motivation to get killer scores.
7. It will make you a more beautiful person – at least that’s what your crush told me. I don’t know though. That’s just their thought, right?
🙂
Thank you for listening.
A smart reader just presented Kay (and she presented me) with quite an interesting pickle that needs a little untangling!
ESL Clarification: Pickle is a fun way to say… conundrum… Get it? Of course not, I’m just making it more confusing. Attempt #2: When someone is having a problem, they might refer to the problem as being “in a pickle.” Don’t ask me why we say it (or how we got inside of the pickle.)
I’m in a pickle right now.
The problem is related to:
Smart Student Secrets is cleaning our email lists (and unsubscribing lots of readers) based on whether or not our analytics say they’re interested in our emails.
That’s important because:
1. We don’t like packing the inboxes of uninterested readers.
2. Email clients are less likely to mark us as spam if we send fewer emails (but basically any small company has the problem of being marked as spam.)
3. Sending emails costs us… the more we send… the more we need advertising or sales to survive.
But the interesting problem presented:
Some readers signed up using their school email. Some are on summer break and never checking their email…
So they don’t have much activity but they may still want to read our stuff when the school year starts back up.
So we’re currently discussing solutions:
Important: if this is relevant to you, or you think it’s relevant to someone you know, then please reply and let us know.
Some potential solutions (and we’d love to hear your thoughts on them:)
1. We temporarily stop sending emails to readers that stop participating (like over summer break.) Then we send a message to them later on where they can confirm they’re checking their emails regularly and put them back on full emails.
2. We upgrade our members-only content to include virtually the exact same content as the email list, that way members don’t need to be subscribed to our email list to read everything. (We’ve been hoping to get a little message board up too.)
3. What ideas are you thinking of? We would love to hear them.
In other news:
I just got a new review of KAIC that makes me super happy. In particular, I love the fact that it wasn’t all lubby dubby. It was the good stuff he liked. Then it was some stuff to improve on. That’s the stuff that makes our stuff good – the feedback from you beautiful folks. I’m going to be sending a private little reward for that review. The reader was generous enough to let me share their first name and photo with the review. I’ll be plopping in somewhere for reading soon.
Reviews are gold. I always appreciate them.
And your opinion on these things is like… super gold or something…
Okay… my creative bone is on the fritz. I’m going to hang up the email now. 😛
-Aaron
How Do We Escape This Pickle!?
Are you desperate to improve your grades?
Good.
That’s the first step.
Desperation creates action.
Acceptance is the death of action.
One day, you’re going to decide never to settle for less. That’s the day that changes are going to be made – and that’s not a gradual one little step at a time thing. That’s an instant where everything changes.
Gradual change works… Sure… eventually…
But you don’t have time.
There are only so many years to prove yourself academically before you’re dropped in the real world where those grades will help define your future for decades to come.
Good grades, senior year of college can’t completely make up for bad grades the first 3 years.
Good grades in college can’t completely make up for bad grades in high school. (Your college has been decided by that point. Harvard grades still have a huge advantage over a state school.)
Good grades in high school can’t completely make up for the foundational knowledge you missed in grade school…
The best time to start getting good grades is from the beginning…
The second best time is now.
If you’re ready to take your academic game to the next level – if you want to see it for yourself.
I’ll also send you some awesome freebies.
Write your email in the box. Check the confirmation you want emails. Confirm your email. And see for yourself.
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