Anyone have some pro tips for building a newsletter audience?
Hey everyone,
I've just launched my first newsletter (ideas.to), and I'm very excited about it! I'd love to hear from some of the more experienced folk: do you have any tips for reaching and growing an audience? How do you engage with people without being too spammy? Any solid tips to help me avoid making some common mistakes?
Thanks for the advice 🙏🏼
I would focus on creating valuable things you give away for free until you build a reputation (and even then!)
I created two free guides to help people get dev jobs and learn how to code and grew my email list to 5000 people in a few months. One guide took my weekends and nights for a few weeks and the other was just built off my Twitter threads and blog posts in a much cuter package. People want to know what you can do for them first.
I definitely recommend @dvassallo's Twitter course as well to learn how to use Twitter to build an audience. This was very helpful to me in building my audience from almost nothing to 37k followers.
Agreed. Create valuable resources and then promote them. Just make sure you are actually promoting them to help your audience. You'll know whether you're helping or spamming and they will too.
I listened to this podcast the other day:https://www.sidehustlenation.com/how-to-grow-and-monetize-an-email-newsletter/
She has some good thoughts on growing a newsletter.
Thanks Nick, great advice. Thanks for the podcast -- will listen today :)
Hey thanks for the good advice, I appreciate that. I do have a few things I've been thinking about publishing for free, so maybe I'll prioritise that first. The newsletter I created is actually free, and was intended to be a way of giving value -- but perhaps it's better to start smaller?
I'll also check out Daniel's course -- I've been following him for a while on Twitter but haven't seen the course yet. Thanks!
I'm also a newbie in this space and currently working on Virtual Mojito
I usually follow a consistent approach. Curate content -> Distribute -> Repurpose on social media to attract new audience.
Seems like a great newsletter. Subscribed!
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