Hi Friend,

Alright the time is here, the creator tools are launching closed beta TOMORROW, ARGH!

Thanks again for continuing to be a part of the Story City journey and supporting and sharing this launch. You're honestly the best.

I figured I'd give you a heads up about what my roll-out plan was for the week so you'd know what was coming, and what we were trying to push when (we're so super grateful for your support so I wanted to take up as little of your time as possible on the promotion side of things).

Okay here we are:

• Tues CAN/ Weds Aust: You'll get your email with your account information to get into the creator tools as well as resources, and demos to help you with any future creations. Please do have a poke around and see what's possible (and we'd love to see you at one of the online sessions later this month).

• Weds CAN/ Thurs Aust: We'd really appreciate you sharing the platform with any creators or groups in your network who you think would like to come play with the beta tools and create things before we publicly launch in March. We think you're awesome, so if they're in your network then we'd like to work with them to help them build their careers (while we build a platform to benefit them!). So in this email we'll give you some words and sizzle reel videos to either share directly with people or on your social media.

• Thurs CAN/ Fri Aust: As well as launching the new creator beta tools, the brand new Story City app is going live for users across the world (Do re-download it from the app store, it's sooooo pretty! It's also how you test your stories in draft mode). We're asking everyone to push out a social media blast that day to a) let users know about the new app and b) urge them to do the story YOU helped create. If all of us share it on the same day the social algorithms should pick it up and push it much further and to more people outside our networks than if we just tried to do it ourselves.

• March: In March when we make the beta tools publicly available to everyone, we'll share some words for a short social post for everyone again to post on the same day to try and build that visibility outside of our networks.

Any questions do let me know! Otherwise, thanks once again and chat soon!

Warmly,

Em