Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media

Today we’re going right to the heart of email marketing and answering your burning questions!To do that, I’m joined by Dawn Richardson, Product Education Manager at Flodesk and owner of Tech Savvy Creative.Dawn is here to explain how your emails end up in spam, strategies to get better open rates, and why you should stop sending reengagement campaigns immediately.She’s got the stats from millions of emails sent through Flodesk, so you can stop guessing what works and use the strategies that are effective in 2025 (rather than repeating things that haven’t worked since 2015).Tune in and you’ll learn:Exactly how email deliverability works and why it matters (even for tiny lists!)Why you need to be sending your emails from a custom domain (not gmail)How to warm up your domain if you’re sending your first email in a long time (or ever)How to clean your list without wrecking your statsThe outdated email practice messing with Amelia’s open rates 👀Plus answers to more questions from Interweb members with businesses like yours! Full disclosure: Off the Grid is a Flodesk partner! So if it feels like the right tool for you, we’d love to share our affiliate link so you get 50% off your first year. We also recommend signing up before November 29th when their unlimited emails and checkout plans end.  RESOURCES + LINKS👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for courses + community💓 Join the Clubhouse for more episodes + emails📔 Buy Amelia's book at yourattentionissacred.com!

Discover 100 innovative ways to share your work and life beyond social media! The host explores fears of leaving platforms like Instagram and introduces inspiring local outreach ideas. Learn about refining your message, engaging with your community, and the power of collaboration. Daily outreach tips and practical suggestions for hosting events and creating public art are also highlighted. It's all about expanding possibilities and fostering genuine connections in a digital-free environment!

Today we welcome copywriter Nicole Cloutier back to the podcast (yay!) to help us avoid the most dreaded small biz experience: putting something new into the world and hearing … nothing … in return.We talk through launch basics then go deep into the strategies that have helped grow our sales — even in this challenging year.Join us as we stare into the void together and discuss:What a launch really is (hint: it’s pretty simple)Why it’s so important to pre-launch and “warm up” your audienceNicole’s 3-part pre-launch framework (with timeline!)Behind-the-scenes stats like Amelia’s email open rates 👀The only 2 CTAs you need for your launchWaitlist strategies & the one email that you never want to skipWhy your launches don’t have to be perfectThe importance of great subject lines 📨 👉💰 If you want to improve your emails and launches, click here to get the Great Subject Line Experiment! RESOURCES + LINKS👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails📔 Buy a copy of Amelia's new book — Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media

My book is here! Learn more & buy your copy at offthegrid.fun/attention  🥳 🥳 🥳In today's episode, I tell you all about the book AND the virtual retreat I'm hosting this fall.Then I share an amazing conversation I had with Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer for her podcast Imagination State. It's all about how extractive algorithms wreck our creativity + community — and ways to make that stop. Tune in, then please ORDER THE BOOK! 

The most radical choice I’ve made in self-publishing is not putting my book on Amazon.Tune in to this episode to learn: Why I made this decisionWhat it means for my bookHow I’m going to find readers anyway& Exactly how many books I’m hoping to sellThen join me in my journey of self-publishing without giving Jeff Bezos more money… by getting a copy of the book at yourattentionissacred.com!  Mentioned in the episode:Postcards from: Carolyn Yoo, Debora Figueiredo, Kening Zhu & Chelsie TammsFifty Feminist MantrasIngramSpark & LuluHow to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine  UPDATE: I’ve amended the start of this episode to share the unfortunate news that — if you distribute your book through IngramSpark, IT WILL ALWAYS be available on Amazon. This was not clear before my publication date, but after many support tickets to IngramSpark they’ve clarified that “our distribution program is ‘All or nothing’ which that we are unable to leave out any of our distribution partners.”  I was able to stop the ebook and audiobook from going to Amazon, but the paperback version is now unavoidably there. Please buy it elsewhere! RESOURCES + LINKS👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails📔 Buy a copy of Amelia's new book — Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media   

Welcome back to Book Week! In this behind-the-scenes episode (from the Clubhouse!), I tell you all about: The story of my first book (& why I had to rewrite that story to move forward)Why I decided to write this book (instead of just making more podcast episodes)My process for writing the 15,000 word manuscript in ONE WEEK (a wild choice)How I ended up getting a book offer from my last publisher…And the exact sentence that made me turn that offer down 🙃   Tune in, then get a copy of the book at yourattentionissacred.com!     RESOURCES + LINKS👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails📔 Buy a copy of Amelia's new book — Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media

Bailey Lang, a book coach and ghostwriter, guides aspiring authors through the publishing maze. In a lively chat, she reveals the four crucial phases of publishing: writing, editing, publishing, and marketing. Bailey emphasizes the importance of gathering ideas from various sources and waiting for a full draft before diving into edits. She also discusses the value of beta readers and shares effective marketing strategies outside of social media, urging authors to be realistic about expectations while celebrating the power of storytelling.

Tracy Candido is a creative coach and the host of Hidden Parts, a podcast about the inner voices that shape how we live, work, and lead.Today she joins me on the podcast to help me unpack how my inner perfectionist, procrastinator, and hyper-achiever showed up in the book writing process.To do that, she teaches us a lot about Parts Work. Tune in to learn:What Parts Work is (and how it’s different than Internal Family Systems)How to identify protector partsTracy’s 3-step methodology for quieting mental chatterHow Parts Work can heal overachiever patterns & visibility wounds   RESOURCES + LINKS👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails📔 Buy a copy of Amelia's new book — Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media

This summer, Cody Cook-Parrott deleted their Instagram account. In doing so, they “lost” 80,000 followers and gained so. much. more.In this conversation, we dig into why Cody decided to delete IG, how their creative attention has shifted since, and what it really looks like to build a business (and publish a book) off the grid.Tune in to this episode to hear us explore:Why Cody deleted their account instead of deactivatingWhat it means to archive your work onlineThe realities of giving up social capitalSacred witnessing and ways to cultivate the feeling of being seenHow Cody is approaching their next book launch without social mediaWhy we love self-publishing & the fate of Amelia’s first zine project 🌟 If you love this chat, listen to Cody’s podcast Common Shapes! (The party Amelia & Cody hosted has passed.)RESOURCES + LINKS👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails📔 Buy a copy of Amelia's new book — Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media

Seth Werkheiser was one of the first 3000 people on Twitter. Now he runs Social Media Escape Club and helps people get off X, Facebook, Instagram, and more.In this conversation, we chart how we’ve each spent 20+ years online — beginning with AOL, Tumblr, and Twitter all the way through Instagram, TikTok, and the current state of Substack.This one goes out to everyone feeling lost online and looking for the magic of the early internet era again. Join us for this journey through:Amelia’s cringe-inducing 2013 Tumblr blog & Twitter handle 😬Seth’s path from AOL Music to heavy metal email marketer 🤘The risks & rewards of bridging online connections into offline relationships 🥰Why Seth moved his paid subscribers off Substack & lessons he learned in the transfer process 🌶️The perils of the paywall 🚩If you love this conversation, join me and Seth for a LIVE Q&A on September 11th! Only $10 if you sign up right here.  RESOURCES + LINKS👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails