1000 Twitter Followers, 300 Email Subscribers
by Karl HughesThis week, I crossed the 1000 Twitter follower mark, and gained my 300th email subscriber.
My growth strategy has been pretty simple:
- Follow targeted accounts on Twitter
- DM people who follow back telling them about the email
As I shoot for my first major milestone of 500 email subscribers, I'm starting to experiment with cold email campaigns to conference speakers. If these continue to work like the first one did, it should be a consistent way to gain ~100 subscribers/month.
#marketing
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Interesting. Has it taken a year to get to this stage?
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I had about 100 subscribers and 0 Twitter followers in December, 2018. Before that, I had built an MVP with Zapier and Mailchimp, but wasn't really promoting it aggressively.
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Good job on the Twitter front, not so easy to get followers these days.
Do you have an idea of where it's heading? I assume it's tech conferences you are catering for? (It's not explicit on the website).
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For Twitter, I agree. I've tried this strategy with other accounts and it hasn't worked nearly as well.
At this point, I'm focused on tech conferences because that's the area I know best, but it could certainly grow beyond that. Ultimately, I'd like CFP Land to be a resource for everything people need to start and improve as conference speakers.
Once the audience is large enough (~1000 email subscribers), I'll start working on partnerships and sponsorships with events.
Still have a long way to go!
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I'm starting to look into the DM subscriptions Twitter offers. However, this targeted follow tactic does in fact work. I've used It on many of my startup projects and personal account. I got up to 5k in just 6 months doing some targeting following on and off.
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Thanks the dm strategy is interesting 🙌🏻
All the best with your endeavors 📈🔥🔥-
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Thanks!
I was really looking for things that could be mostly or fully automated, so when I started using https://phantombuster.com a lot of things got easier.
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Nice 👌🏻 I'll check it out. TY
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that dm tactic is smart :)