The Z List33 posts

The Z List

Strategy and clarity for founders done building businesses that don't fit.

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How to Get Email Subscribers, and the Right Ones

The number on your list is the least useful thing about it. Where the right subscribers come from, three ways people build the wrong list, and a calculator for your own numbers.

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Digital Business Strategy

How to Get Email Subscribers, and the Right Ones

The number on your list is the least useful thing about it. Where the right subscribers come from, three ways people build the wrong list, and a calculator for your own numbers.

· 5 minutes

Digital Business Strategy

How to Explain What You Do in One Sentence

Your one sentence isn't a wording problem, it's a decision you haven't made yet. The four checks that decide whether it travels, and a tool that marks yours as you type.

· 7 minutes

Digital Business Strategy

Quiz or PDF: What People Actually Finish

Both cost about the same to make. Only one of them regularly gets finished. Watch the same hundred people go down each path, and see where the guide loses them.

· 5 minutes

Digital Business Strategy

What a Lead Magnet Is, and Why You Need One

A lead magnet is a trade, not a giveaway. The four shapes one can take, which fits your business, and why most of them sit there doing nothing.

· 5 minutes

Digital Business Strategy

Put Your Instagram on Your Google Profile

Google lets you put your Instagram on your Business Profile in about two minutes. Here is where the setting lives and why it brings people in.

· 4 minutes

Digital Business Strategy

Pick One Platform and Mean It

52 per cent of local searches start on Google and 75 per cent of people use more than one channel. That is an argument for focus, not for being everywhere.

· 4 minutes

Business Frictions

Get One Thing Off Your Z List

The work with no deadline loses every time, and it happens to be the only work that compounds. How to move one thing off the bottom of the page.

· 5 minutes

AI For Business

Be the Business AI Names

45 per cent of people now ask AI for local recommendations, and ChatGPT names 1.2 per cent of businesses. Here is what actually decides which ones.

· 5 minutes

Digital Business Strategy

Reviews Do the Selling

97 per cent of people go over reviews before choosing a local business, and 74 per cent want them from the last three months. Rhythm beats volume.

· 5 minutes

Digital Business Strategy

Your Website Deserves a Second Opinion

You can't see your own website any more, and that's not a flaw in you. Here's what a second opinion actually looks for, and how to run one yourself.

· 6 minutes

Digital Business Strategy

How to Be Found Online Without Posting Every Day

A single blog post can send people to your business for years. Here's why Found is the most underused side of your digital presence, and how to start building it.

· 6 minutes

AI For Business

Stop Using Claude Like Google

Most founders use Claude like a search engine and wonder why it falls flat. Here's what a personalised AI setup built around how you work actually looks like.

· 6 minutes

Business Frictions

Your Digital Presence Should Excite You

Something feels off in your business but you can't name it. Play the free 90-second game and find out exactly what's slightly wrong, and where to start.

· 2 minutes

Business Frictions

Why Visibility Won't Fix Your Business Strategy

You're not inconsistent; your business architecture is structurally on fire. Why "showing up more" is the most expensive advice for high-functioning founders, and how to strengthen your digital foundation instead.

· 5 minutes

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