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200 Subscribers in a day

I launched my newsletter https://thedailycoding.com yesterday.

And, boy it's been overwhelming. My plan was to only share it with friends and family and post a small write up on LinkedIn.

It picked up so well that friends without my solicitation started sharing on their Instagram stories. This surprisingly resulted into the snowball effect and I was able to drew a lot of audience.

I also posted in certain small communities that I am active in. In fact, the whole idea was born out of finding various materials to prepare for interviews and these communities were able to relate my newsletter well.

I'm aware that these 200+ subscribers that I've got are from my 1st and 2nd connections. I would like to break the cycle and expand into other groups.

I'm looking for someone who can hunt me on product hunt as I'm new to the game and I would love some help on it.

on September 16, 2020
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    Congrats on the progress!

    I can hunt you on Product Hunt. I don't have a huge following but I've posted a few products before, here's my profile: https://www.producthunt.com/@aluxian

    Let me know.

    -Alex

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    Hi Sharjeel, this is a cool newsletter. I'd like to add it to my list of newsletters and blogs here: https://newsletter-eight.vercel.app/

    Do you have an RSS feed for it?

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    The nice thing about connections is that they have friends and they have friends and they have friends...viral growth can be really powerful IMO. Congrats on your success.

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      Thanks a lot! What advice would you give to expand to other networks?

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        hit up facebook groups and basically post where your audience is hanging out. Fb groups and reddit have been my biggest traffic sources. russell brunson's books are good at breaking this down. I just hit 10,000 subscribers on my newsletter.

        find a couple working traffic sources and double down on them. experiment and move fast to acquire as many subscribers as possible. momentum is very important if you're already getting traction

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          Thanks for advice. What's your newsletter name?

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            it's a music newsletter available on my website vocalpresets.com

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              I'm a bit curious on posting on subreddits. Doesn't most of the popular subreddits have policies against posting self-promoting content?

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                yes. the idea is to not post self-promoting content. disguise the content as an article or something that drives value and fits the policies.

                Creativity is key homie