Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 148 | Josh Earl - Programmer Perspective
Guest:
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.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Josh Earl
- - Josh's relationship and progression with writing
- - Josh's story of enjoying Sublime Text, commitment to blogging
- - The genesis of Josh's interest in email marketing
- - Diverse interests and 80% mastery
- - Josh and John Somnez and Simple Programmer
- - The bumpy road to where Josh is now
- - Josh Earl: the email copywriter for programmers
- - Josh's definition of value
- - Josh's story of failure - making the wrong impression in a community
- - Josh's success story - Growing Simple Programmer and seeing results from his efforts
- - How Josh stays current with what he needs to know
- - Josh's Book Recommendation
- - The things that have Josh most excited
- - The nature of email courses
- - Josh's sources of pain and suffering
- - Josh's prediction for the future of software
- - Josh's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Josh
Resources:
- Josh's Website and Blog
- Entreprogrammers - The Podcast for Developerneurs
- Sublime Text
- Leanpub
- Josh on Leadpub
- Peter Cooper
- Linda Rising on Developer On Fire
- Simple Programmer
- John Sonmez on Developer On Fire
- Josh on entrepreneur.com
- Derick Bailey
- Derick Bailey's: The Rules For Mastering JavaScript’s “this” Course
- Derick Bailey on Developer On Fire
- Josh on Smart Passive Income
- Infusionsoft
- How to Market Yourself As a Software Developer
- Pinal Dave on Developer On Fire
- Charles Max Wood on Developer On Fire
- Josh's Email Courses Product
Josh's book recommendation:
Josh's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Understand who you are talking to and what their pain points are
- Don't try to automate everything before you observe real people using your stuff
- Be entertaining
