How to Grow a Newsletter First Business

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The other cool thing about Facebook is you can invite your friends to like a page. So now you're collecting people not only as friends, but in a Facebook group where you can reshare every new issue or different segments and stuff. One of the things we do with our rewards that I don't see other newsletters doing is we go to brands in the space and we say, Hey, will you be one of our tiers? Right? We have another brand doing one at 50 and then Selkirk again, I think it like a thousand referrals. They just give people a paddle for life, which is one paddle a year for the, like essentially the rest of their life.

How did Thomas Shields go from writing a small pickleball newsletter with nothing more than a MailChimp account, a “shitty” website, and a few Facebook subscribers to creating a comprehensive sports channel where 50% of its partners are inbound advertisers?

By getting scrappy.

Thomas talks with Daniel about the importance of just getting out there and doing it rather than worrying about your brand’s initial traction, how to grow a newsletter audience, and why content volume is more critical to your success than anything else.

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0:00 Intro

3:02 Getting Into Newsletters

4:35 Growing an Audience

10:38 Monetizing

12:07 Cold Calling Brands

13:06 Creating Content

17:02 Recycling Content

19:09 Packaging Sponsorship

21:17 A Hill to Die On

28:30 Predicting What Posts Well

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