150 copies delivered to me over the past few days
Hey , hopefully this email finds you well.
Those of you who know me, know that logistics and operations is not my strong suit.
On Thursday I took delivery of 100 copies of Digitopia 2, on Saturday (i.e. yesterday) I took a delivery of 50 copies of Digitopia 1 and 100 Digitopia art postcard sets.
I've been running a bit of a logistical operation, ensuring all Kickstarter backer's addresses and orders are correctly arranged, printing custom forms and organising envelopes by weight and country.
What to do when not playing to your strengths
What do you do when you're doing tasks that don't play to your strengths?
I've been reading this book called Money by Rob Moore, in it he talks about the concept of high value tasks versus low value tasks.
The argument being, and one that I've heard other people repeat to me, that I spent a best part of a week of my author time preparing envelopes and ensuring fulfilment of my last Kickstarter versus writing new IP.
The argument, which I am still trying to wrap my head around, is that preparing envelopes and ensuring fulfilment is something that I should have outsourced to others while I focus on writing new projects.
It'd be interesting to know what you think, is this the kind of thing you would recommend outsourcing?
Gratitude versus Efficiency
I see the logic in it, but to be honest, I'm not sure I agree with it.
While I was preparing the envelopes, I had this feeling of intense gratitude while reading each backer's name.
That feeling that I had while preparing close to 100 envelopes, that so many people, many of whom I haven't met, put trust in me and my project was something that I wouldn't have gotten had I just outsourced the whole operation.
That feeling of gratitude is a huge motivating factor for me. Going through that process helps push me through the early morning starts and late night finishes, knowing the individual's names who backed me.
This feeling of gratitude is something I'll have to weigh against the efficiency of outsourcing as (I hope) the next Kickstarters will garner more support and the number of backers and scale of fulfilment make it necessary that I'll eventually have to outsource.
I put my favourite YouTube videos on and though I wasn't expecting to, I actually quite enjoyed this last week of logistics.
I'm on my way out to meet a friend and give him his copy of Digitopia 1 and 2, which will be the final copy to dispatch and then this project is closed.
In case you missed the Kickstarter and want to get yourself a copy
I have about 10 copies of both issue 1 and 2 spare. Hit reply if you'd like to buy yourself a copy.
I'm going to put the remainder on sale but wanted to first offer it to anyone on my email list.
I'll send you the PayPal details for the project, all the money goes into the book fund which pays for the editor, the artist, the colourist, the letterer and the printer.
Most likely it will be only £15 for both books plus postage (£1.80 for UK, £3 for Europe and £5 for US and Australia).
Coming Soon - Digitopia issue 3
I have some exciting news about issue 3, which I will announce in the next newsletter, it's something that I'm really excited about - stay tuned for that one.
Thanks and tell your friends too
I know I always say thank you for your support, it is true this is hard to do on my own, I really appreciate every click, every like, every share and every comment that the content gets.
As always tell your friends about the book and
the blog - recommending your friends sign up is the best way for the audience to grow.
The best place to point your friends is to the sign up page where they'll get a free digital art book of Digitopia 1.0 and get to join the community.
Hope you're enjoying the content, stay safe and we'll speak again shortly.
Thanks
Farhan
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