Over 80 Subscribers - but did not reach my goal.

After some abstinence over the last two months, I am back with another update regarding Creativerly. For those of you who do not know what Creativerly is, here a short introduction:

Creativerly is a weekly digest about tools & resources, which boost your creativity and productivity. Combined with useful insights, articles, and learnings from the fields of design and tech, this newsletter was built for the creative community in mind.

I started the newsletter back in February 2019 and set myself the goal to reach 100 subscribers within a year. So 12 months later I am currently sitting on 86 subscribers. Therefore I have slightly missed my goal. Nevertheless, I am proud of how this project grew and evolved into a side-project I really enjoy working on. I know where I have made my mistakes, as I did not focus 100% on subscriber acquisition. Sometimes work and life is taking over, and months passed by without getting any new subscriber.

In November 2019 I decided to focus more on some ways to gain attraction for the newsletter and therefore also find new subscribers. I engaged with the design community on Reddit, Twitter, and LinkedIn. I posted useful comments on different topics and whenever it fitted I left a plug for my newsletter. I also reached out to some people after commenting on their posts. This was time-consuming but it brought in 30 subscribers within three weeks. Also, I got featured in InboxReads and InboxStash. I also wrote blog posts about Creativerly on my private blog which created some traffic to Creativerly's website. It really felt good to see that finally, a side-project of mine is doing well.

So I did not reach my goal within 12 months but I am still very motivated to keep pushing this project, as I think it is evolving into something really good a lot of creative mind could profit from.