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Chris Humphrey's avatar

For the Gumroad AI feature mentioned in the video, go to your product > Share > Great Gum and it'll create a version and a link for that version. You can do it again and create a different version but it will have a unique link.

Mike Searles's avatar

Thanks, Chris. Going to play with this today.

Mike Searles's avatar

😥 Ran out of hours today (my Sunday). For a good reason. Family took priority. On the list of things for this week. Thanks again for the guide.

Chris Humphrey's avatar

It was fun and Mike is such a great host!

Mike Searles's avatar

It was fun, Chris. And thanks for being such a professional guest. Best wishes for your new PDF on Gumroad...

https://gum.new/gum/cmkrq555x000l04l42e8j70cj

Todd Takes Pictures's avatar

Just polled the 15 y/o boy in our household: "Do you ever dream about your wedding?"

Immediate answer: "No!". 😁

Mike Searles's avatar

All the evidence we need! 😃

Chris Humphrey's avatar

Boom. There it is!

Mike Rohde's avatar

My wife and other women I know have often talked about their dreams of a wedding since they were little girls. It is a huge deal. I will say that I was fully involved in wedding g planning with my wife and she required that we get a great photographer, which we did, and she was willing to trade things like flowers that were temporary for a set of photos that to her was the only lasting object from that special day.

Our photographer knew the assignment - he had an entire system (he was also a pro for marketing photography and had done journalistic work) and laid it out in his office for us. We got a journalistic approach of the day with heavy emphasis on mostly in the moment (not staged) photos with he and his assistant. He sold us the negatives so we could make prints. The final box of photos came in a fancy box with a photo in a metal lid so we could look through his chosen images. It was pretty amazing.

Funny too, it was probably pretty pricey and yet we have never ever questioned the value. We both think we got the photography for a steal.

Mike Searles's avatar

Great story share, Mike. Thank you. And there are lessons in marketing within your experience.

Chris Humphrey's avatar

You hit the jackpot, Mike!

I love you and your bride took this path. You paid a little more, made deals to offset the price and got priceless moments in return.

I'd love to see a Sketchnote of your wedding day!

Chris Humphrey's avatar

You hit the jackpot, Mike!

I love you and your bride took this path. You paid a little more, made deals to offset the price and got priceless moments in return.

I'd love to see a Sketchnote of your wedding day!

Mike Rohde's avatar

His name is Tim Evans: https://timevans.com

Todd Takes Pictures's avatar

My brain is broken. I see that URL and my first thought is “Oh, I wonder what time vans are?”

Mike Searles's avatar

Hahaha! I share your broken brain. I used to be into the world of domaining. Buying and selling domain names. It's something we were conscious of when registering new domains. Imagine, for example, if you were a comedian and your name was Harry Sexton. Your great idea for a business name is, Funny Sexton. That'd work on the business card - until the URL...

funnysexton . com

The eye sees what it sees 😄

Todd Takes Pictures's avatar

I remember those days. I was never seriously into it, but I've probably had a couple dozen domain names over the years. Ahhh, the innocent times of exact match domain names. I once made about $500 a month from a domain PlainBlackHoodie, with exactly two blog posts, and some affiliate linked banner ads. If only it was still so easy. 😎

Mike Searles's avatar

Very clever!

*rushes to check on availability of LittleBlackNumber 😀

Mike Rohde's avatar

That was fun! Love live power swaps!