Real Estate Investing Newsletter is now Live!
by Chris PowerFor the past few weeks, I have been working on an aggregate-style weekly newsletter for Real Estate Investing. I am a part-time Real Estate Investor myself, and I had a really good idea for a newsletter in a market that is lacking good aggregate newsletters.
I'm a Software Engineer by trade, and I love many of the newsletters that a lot of languages/technologies have. Most of these tech newsletters are aggregate style -- they pull information from submissions, twitter feeds, blogs, etc... and display them in a nice digestible format every so often. I thought this was a great idea for a weekly Real Estate Investing newsletter, so I decided to build something similar for myself.
After a couple weeks of work, I finally have some interesting code that generates a lot of content for this newsletter. Every week, this is how it works:
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I have a handful of scripts that pull information from around the web. Right now it currently gather information from:
- Reddit's API for /r/landlord and /r/propertymanagement subreddits
- Multiple blogs that have interesting content on Real Estate Investing and Property Management.
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These scripts run, and generate a massive HTML document. I take this HTML document and copy + paste it to my wordpress site as a new blog post
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I ALSO copy+paste this information to a new MailChimp campaign, so my newsletter subscribers get this information right to their inbox every week.
Finally, This site is now live (https://theweeklydigs.com), and I'm generating interesting content every week! It has been fun so far, and I'm looking forward to improving things. For one, I'd love to write more scripts to parse twitter hashtags.
So far this has been a fun journey and I'm interested to see how this turns out!
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Very nice idea and great combination of existing resources into something that creates value. Bravo!
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Dope idea, Chris! Would you mind connecting? I'm working on a project within the real estate investing side. Would love to hear your feedback.
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oh for sure!
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What's the best way to reach you? I can be reached at: [email protected] :)
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Hi there,
It's great to hear that you're putting your software engineering skills to use in building a weekly newsletter for real estate investing! It sounds like you have a good system in place for gathering content from multiple sources and publishing it in an easy-to-digest format for your subscribers.
One suggestion I have is to consider automating the process of publishing the newsletter content to your WordPress site and MailChimp campaign. Instead of manually copying and pasting the HTML document every week, you could use a tool like Zapier or IFTTT to automate this process.
For example, you could set up a Zap that triggers when your scripts generate a new HTML document. The Zap could then automatically create a new blog post on your WordPress site with the content from the HTML document, and also create a new MailChimp campaign with the same content to send to your subscribers.
This would save you time and effort in the long run, and also reduce the potential for errors when copying and pasting the content manually. It would also make it easier to scale your newsletter in the future if you decide to add more sources of content or increase the frequency of your newsletter.
Overall, it sounds like you're off to a great start with your newsletter, and I wish you the best of luck with it!
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I signed up :)
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Just signed up!
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