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Well, this sucks ... and I hope that's okay.

The title (which should be read like the Sheriff in Mel Brooks' titular movie Blazing Saddles) is only relevant to email newsletter subscribers.

I'm specifically talking to those who subscribed on or before January 9, 2024.

For the last three weeks, starting on December 25, 2024, I've been publishing new podcast episodes and embedding the web player into each newsletter.

Yesterday, on January 9, 2024, I realized the embedded web player isn't supported by email clients.

If you read the READ ME section of the last newsletter, you were probably annoyed when I went into great detail about the two version of this series (this written newsletter and the audio-only podcast) and seemingly expected you to go find the podcast on your own because I didn't include a link or anything.

I'm truly sorry.

You'd think email clients would display an element with an error message but noooo... they just yeet out the embedded HTML element and pretend it never existed. 🤬

😤 But at the end of the day, it's on me to make it right.

So here are the first three episodes. If you haven't listened to them yet, please do. The podcast is the primary experience at the moment and I ask that you view the written newsletter version of the series as one does the novelization of a Star Wars motion picture.

You can rest assured that you'll see a banner like these at the top of every newsletter from here on out.

Also, in addition to righting this wrong, production coordinator Alex Bleeker and I are working on bringing you behind-the-scenes of Marketing Under The Influence Volume 1 sooner than I promised in previous newsletters.

Stay tuned for the announcement of Marketing Behind The Influence, a series that will give you a sneak peek at how the project was developed, produced, and distributed.

Thanks again for being here with me!

♥️ Ronnie