Last Day for 25% Off Coaching!
And a question for you
Hey, just a friendly reminder that today is the last day for 25% off on my coaching services. The offline game review is already discounted, and you can use the code NEWMENU at checkout for 25% on live coaching.
There are further discounts if you buy a package. I don’t know when I’ll offer another deal like this, so if you want to get some coaching at the best possible rate, this is your chance.
Paid Subs
I’m also thinking about reintroducing paid subs. I have some ideas, but I want to hear from you:
What premium feature would really help with your chess? What would be so valuable that subscribing would be a no-brainer?
Here are some of my ideas:
Monthly group coaching session
Weekly opening update with my co-author GM Eugene Perelshteyn, a world class openings expert
Ability to submit games for game review
Access to resources and guides from my coaching library, like How to Learn Any Opening, How to Review Your Games, and The Piece Primer
Do any of these stand out to you? Is there some other feature you’d like to see? Let me know in the comments.
I think both creators and subscribers want/need the core of a paid newsletter to be the ongoing value and "habit", which is why most have a steady publishing cadence. My vote might be for a rotating series of options? Like I think there's a balance of how much work each option takes vs. how valuable it will be to the widest group of paid subs. My sense is that a *weekly* opening update feels too frequent from a paid sub perspective, for example (weeks might go by before you talk about an opening I play), and obviously a group coach session cadence higher than monthly is probably unreasonable from a creator perspective. You might have to play around with it, but maybe it's every month you (1) video review a paid sub game, (2) video review a contemporary GM game that you think adult improvers can learn something from (not just Magnus games but maybe like World Cup 2500 crushes 2200 stuff), (3) opening update, and (4) grab bag. And then maybe on every annual renewal, you give the sub a choice of a guide from your coaching library? Perhaps that's too prescribed but it feels like then there's a little something for everyone, avoids people churning because they get bored by one type of thing, and (potentially!) avoids burnout on your end.