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How would you grow this newsletter?

Hi,

I've been writing this product management newsletter for the last few months. It's sitting at about 200 subs. Would love to hear any advice on how you would go about growing it.

Here's the most recent post: https://tadhg.substack.com/p/product-vision

Thanks

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    Agree. I think having 200 subs with 6 articles is a good number. We're also on the same page. Currently, we have 80+ subs from our community and still finding a way to increase it.

    What I've done so far is to post 1/3 of the article on LinkedIn and redirect them to our page (to increase more traffic), cold email course creators to feature their courses, and write a course review for them.

    You can also list your newsletter in https://www.letterhunt.co, databases for newsletters on the web. Haven't done it yet as I'm still writing more content.

    Hope it helps. Here's our newsletter if you're curious: https://cohortland.com

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    I think part of the growth challenge is that your topic is still too broad. I'd get insanely narrow, as niche as possible, and then look for growth opportunities https://ghost.org/resources/first-1000-email-subscribers/

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    I’m still trying to figure out how to get one sub 😒.

    Logically, the way you did to get your 200 subs, if it’s repeatable and scalable double down on it.

    And I also want to learn how you got them, and It can be helpful for me as well.

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    200 subs at this point is good progress IMO, so congrats on that.

    From what I've read about it you should probably Tweet much more frequently, like 1-3 times/day to grow your following. Post to IH more frequently. Write your newsletter a little more frequently. How often do you post to LI & Red?

    On Twitter, maybe it would help to also use Revue to collect emails as you can then prominently/easily display it on your profile.

    You can apply to IH for a newsletter "Series" at https://www.indiehackers.com/contribute

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    What have you tried so far?

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      LinkedIn and Reddit are the only 2 things I've tried really. A bit of Twitter. LinkedIn has been by far the best. At least 70% of subs have come from there

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