The dark truth about owning a business

Alex In My Inbox #95 ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­     Hey there, happy Friday! Welcome to Edition 95 of Alex In My Inbox. Alex In My Inbox is a weekly copywriting series where I share interesting, actionable, and hilarious copywriting tips from "Alex." Alex is an anonymous copywriter who shares these tips with me so I can share them with you. Today, Alex has an email for us about something you need to remember when you’re playing the game of business. Every freelancer and new entrepreneur needs to see this. But first...     Do you want AI to code your next email? Remember this ad breakdown (see the ad image above) from last week's newsletter? That product, [Kombai for Email]( got voted as the #1 Developer Tool on Product Hunt today. Which doesn't surprise me one bit! It's exactly the kind of tool agency folks like me are always looking for - one that lets us scale output without increasing our overhead. What does it do? It converts any email design into HTML code with a single click. The code output works perfectly on all email clients and ESPs. And yes, that includes the dreaded Outlook! With this, you can retain more $$$, while delivering custom emails, all while saving time and money. If you’re an agency owner, email developer, or marketer, you definitely want to check out [Kombai for Email]( today! sponsored  Now, onto today's edition:     Dear Chase, We’re in December now, and we’re about to have a lot of New Year’s Resolution Entrepreneurs. People starting in January from scratch. Because of that, there’s something that you and I need to tell the budding entrepreneurs on this list. This is such a simple concept, but we forget it all the time. Both new and seasoned entrepreneurs struggle with this. Even I struggle with this. Maybe you do, too. But once you understand it, you actually begin to enjoy what you’re doing in your day-to-day no matter what. I want you to internalize this as much as you can. Don’t just read these words. I’m begging you to actually sit and reflect on what this means for YOU, so that you can actually get everything out of it. This is not hustle BS. This is real-life stuff that you need to take into account. *Clears throat* Ready? Business is supposed to be hard. Painfully hard. Business, in general, is not meant to be a straight line from $0 in your bank account to $1M a year in profit. It’s supposed to be hard. It’s supposed to test you. It’s supposed to make you earn the reality you want to live in. But that’s what makes it fun. The reason we call business a “game” is because it’s supposed to challenge you. It’s supposed to leave you stuck with hard questions that you don’t immediately know the answers to. If you really, really wanna be successful, you will figure it out. And when you solve these problems, you will feel a high that you’ve never felt before. The feeling of getting a stuck business unstuck is something that you need to feel to really understand what it’s like. Having a business go from $0-10k a month with no hiccups is cool. But having a business go from $10-500k a month after really grinding, losing money, not sleeping, not eating, and wanting to pull your hair out every day is much better. Business is supposed to be hard. LIFE is supposed to be hard. Life is meant to weed out the weak. Survival of the fittest. If you’re not ready for that, you’re not ready to make $8 million a year sipping pina coladas on a yacht in Croatia. You’re not ready to be invited to exclusive, invite-only meetups with 9 and 10-figure entrepreneurs to smoke cigars and learn industry secrets. You’re not ready to drive through the countryside in a white Ferrari. You’re not ready to walk into a store, grab every single piece of clothing you like, completely ignore the price tag, and replace your entire wardrobe in one afternoon. You’re not ready to fly private and be unbothered by regular people while you take a 6-hour trip in the sky to Vegas for the weekend with your friends. Sorry, not sorry. If you’re struggling right now to send out 20 cold emails a day because it’s too hard, freelancing isn’t for you. If you’re too tired at the end of your workday to try and get a client, freelancing isn’t for you. Not trying to be harsh. Just reminding you that you deserve absolutely nothing until you’ve done the work. And when you do the work, fight through bad days, and do hard things, you will end up on top. It’s not about who’s smartest or most experienced. It’s about who’s willing to endure hard times before you get showered in dollar bills every month. Simple as. Anything to add, Chase? Yours truly, Alex Sent from my Soapbox     I hope you enjoyed this week's Alex In My Inbox edition. Have a great weekend, Chase   Other links: - You can hire the best freelance marketers on the internet [here.]( The company is awesome, and I'm an advisor. - You can hire the best copywriting freelancers on the internet [here.]( I'm a part-owner of this business. - This [LinkedIn post]( of mine is going viral! I greatly appreciate it if you could go [like and comment]( on it. I'd love for you to help me add more juice to it! Thank you in advance. P.S. Here are two ways we can work together:  1. If you own/run an ecommerce brand and are looking for a best-in-class email marketing agency, [please fill out this form.]( 2. If you want to grow your LinkedIn following, [here's some info on my LinkedIn Growth Service.](     © 2023 Chase Dimond No longer want to receive these emails? [Unsubscribe](. Chase Dimond 2960 Champion Way #1701 Tustin, CA 92782