{"id":1012,"date":"2025-08-28T06:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinemarketingclassroom.com\/blog\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:43:08","slug":"one-year-later-huge-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinemarketingclassroom.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/28\/one-year-later-huge-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"One year later&#8230; (HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1012\" class=\"elementor elementor-1012\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-95f5749 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"95f5749\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6478eef elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6478eef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last week I was in Chicago with my team for our quarterly planning session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We were in the middle of planning, looking at our growth numbers, when someone mentioned it had been <\/span><b>exactly one year<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> since we launched <\/span><b><i>Online Marketing Classroom<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had to pause for a second.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A full year already?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s been incredible to watch what we&#8217;ve built together.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thousands of people have learned new strategies, tools, and automations every single week. The feedback has been amazing, and honestly, even better than we expected when we first hit &#8220;publish&#8221; on that very first article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just to give you a sense of what we&#8217;ve covered together this year:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinemarketingclassroom.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/16\/our-top-5-ai-tools-for-2025-the-ones-we-use-recommend-right-now\/\"><b>Our Top 5 AI Tools for 2025<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; The ones we actually use (not just the trendy ones everyone talks about)&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinemarketingclassroom.com\/case-study.html\"><b>Complete Case Study<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Millions in sales, 3,368 reviews from this ONE product\u2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinemarketingclassroom.com\/downloads\/get-more-leads-v3.pdf\"><b>Get More Leads Guide<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Our step-by-step guide to getting leads for CHEAP\u2026&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that&#8217;s just scratching the surface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But here&#8217;s the thing&#8230;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we were celebrating this one-year milestone in Chicago, we realized we wanted to take things to the next level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve decided to launch a <\/span><b>BRAND NEW weekly newsletter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every Monday (starting Aug. 25th), you&#8217;ll get curated strategies, tools, and insights directly from my team and I.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will be<\/span><b><i> my personal take<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on what&#8217;s actually worth your time, what fits into proven frameworks, and what you should ignore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think of it as your weekly dose of &#8220;<\/span><b>real talk<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; from someone who&#8217;s been in the trenches for 20+ years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it gets even better\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first, we planned for this to be a paid newsletter at $20 per month. That\u2019s how much value you\u2019ll be getting. But for now, we\u2019ve decided to <\/span><b>launch it to you for FREE<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(This will likely change in the future)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So great news &#8211; you&#8217;re automatically grandfathered into this for free!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"horimg alignright wp-image-1029 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/onlinemarketingclassroom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image1-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlinemarketingclassroom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image1-4.png 1200w, https:\/\/onlinemarketingclassroom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image1-4-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/onlinemarketingclassroom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image1-4-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/onlinemarketingclassroom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image1-4-768x256.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><br><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to give away ALL the details just yet. You\u2019ll see EVERYTHING in Monday\u2019s first issue.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consider this message as a little \u201cheads up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks for an amazing first year. Here&#8217;s to making year two even better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talk soon,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aidan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">P.S. &#8211; If there&#8217;s anything specific you&#8217;d like me to cover in the new newsletter, just hit reply and let me know. <\/span><b>We read every message. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And while you\u2019re here, make sure to check out all the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinemarketingclassroom.com\/resources.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">resources we have for you right here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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