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Episode 148 | Josh Earl - Programmer Perspective

Josh Earl talks with Dave Rael about diverse interests, programming and marketing, why email courses are awesome, and a bumpy and circuitous path

Josh Earl is a copywriter, email marketer and programmer. He currently specializes in writing email courses and is leading effort at Simple Programmer. He's the author of two self-published books for programmers. He has also written articles for national publications including The Washington Times and Writer’s Digest and his blog posts have been featured on major sites like Entrepreneur.com, Smart Passive Income, LifeHacker and SitePoint.

Josh's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
  1. Understand who you are talking to and what their pain points are
  2. Don't try to automate everything before you observe real people using your stuff
  3. Be entertaining

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