From: Calvin from Simplero <calvin@simplero.com>
Subject: News from Simplero: Partner program, Little Fears, and the Inner Work of Entrepreneurship

Dear Lovely Simplerista,

Thank you for being here!

Someone asked me last week whether I was on my way away from Simplero, because I mentioned that I wanted to get back to teaching spirituality to entrepreneurs. Let me make it clear: I'm not. I'm here. I'm more committed to Simplero than ever. But so often, what is needed to grow something to the next level is different from what took it to this level. In this case, I believe what's needed to take Simplero to the next level is for me to be more visible and to step back into my role as a spiritual teacher and healer, a role that's clearly part of my life purpose.

I'm doing it because it's the right thing for Simplero's growth and for my own growth.

I've been on this path for many years now, have completely transformed my life, and have consistently been checking off one big dream and milestone after another. I feel it's my obligation to share what I've learned with the people who most need it.

The work I do as a mentor comes down to two things: It's about living your purpose, and about spending as much effort on the inner work as on the outer work. I believe we create our worlds from the inside-out. By raising our consciousness and our internal state, we start to create that in our outer world. Without that inner shift, no amount of outer work is going to make a real difference. With that inner shift, the outer work doesn't even feel like work at all.

With that in mind, I would like to ask you a favor. I want to understand the types of questions you're struggling with, that would really make a difference in your life to learn about.

Please go here and answer a few simple questions.

Thank you so much! Your response really matter to me.

Facing the Little Fears

I think there's big big value in facing our little fears. Facing the little fears sets us up to facing the big fears. And besides, we're faced with itsy bitsy tiny little fears all day long, and if we don't get it the habit of tackling them, we start rusting. It's like that old story about "the wolf you feed". The more you feed the fear by heeding it, the more it can grow. The more you feed your soul by following your intuition and letting the fear do what it wants, the more your soul and intuition grows.

Yesterday was a great example of that. I'm in San Francisco, and was visiting with my friends. I didn't have any specific plans. He wanted to go surfing. I had a bunch of work that I "needed" to catch up on. Needed in quotation marks, because I did in fact NOT need to catch up on anything in particular, but being all caught up all the time is one of the things my fear tells me to do. So instead, I chose to let my laptop stay at home and go surfing with him. Normally I'd at least have brought it along, "just in case", but I knew better.

At first, I wasn't sure if I was going to get in the water. The waves looked big, I've only tried surfing once before, and the weather was pretty cold, and the water too. (It's so interesting how I always end up freezing more in San Francisco in 55 degrees than I do in New York when it's 30 or even colder.) But I decided - again - to be bigger than my fears, and to go surfing despite them. Turned out I was perfectly warm in Ari's amazing wetsuit, and I was perfectly comfortable in the waves. I didn't get up to standing, but I did catch a few waves, before running out of juice (surfing is hard!).

All this to say, I had a super fun experience and a good time with a friend, because I didn't honor the little fear. And I've now fed the courageous wolf once more.

Which wolf are you feeding?

New Features in Simplero

Triggers now come with a bunch of new options. You can post to a Webhook URL, you can send SMS or email to someone, and even subscribe/unsubscribe people in MailChimp. We also have more events to trigger those triggers, so there's now more control over what happens when.

Affiliate programs can now have a delayed payment schedule, so that the commission earned is only eligible to be paid out after x number of days. This is good to allow for time to handle any refunds, before you pay your affiliates their share.

I've also fixed an issue with Facebook caching old information (headline, description, image) about landing pages. Even though Facebook's own debugging tool is broken, I think I found a way to work around the brokenness.

I've added the ability to customize the header and button color in your notification emails (eg. login information, confirming a subscription), so now the emails we send on behalf of you can be more on-brand for you. It's under Settings > Colors and graphics (which used to be labeled "Your public site", a label that stopped being accurate a while ago. Let me know if you have a better name, because It's also fonts and advanced tracking options, for example.)

And we've officially launched our US partner program, also known is an affiliate program, so now you can make a little extra buck (or a lot) by recommending the software you love and doing great things for your friends. Read here for all the details.

We had to switch our currency conversion service, because Google was starting to shut us out. Bummer.

Purchases have a new Transaction view under Charges & Payments, alongside with the Statement view I added a few weeks ago. This makes it easier to see the underlying credit card transactions in-place.

The custom affiliate link generator on the page for one affiliate was upgraded, and now also made available to your affiliates so they can make their now custom affiliate links if they so desire.

Random Links from around the Interwebs

Here's a blog post about the importance of play for children to learn (and I suspect adults, too), and how much we're restricting that because of fear and political correctness, to the detriment of all.

Love this daily routines of famous creative people overview from my friends at Podio.

The Invasion of America is a fascinating visualization of how Europeans took over about 6% of the world's land mass in a pretty short amount of time. Enterprising folks, them people.

Have a wonderful week. Lots of love and fun and fear-overcoming to you.

-Calvin