How Erik Hoel Went From Professor to Newsletter Creator with 40,000 Subscribers - Growth in Reverse
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How Erik Hoel Went From Professor to Newsletter Creator with 40,000 Subscribers - Growth in Reverse
By shifting from his own goals (getting clients) to serving musicians with a specific problem at scale (Remember: people follow you because you are useful), Noa transformed his struggling practice into a thriving business serving an audience of over 50,000 subscribers.
nathanbarry.com • The Audience Shortcut: How the Right People Paying Attention Changes Everything
Enter Substack. Substack, by eschewing the marketing communications (MarCom) market entirely, and focusing on writers people actually wanted to read, reversed the perceptions of the technology. Instead of trying to scam people into giving you “permission” to send them emails, Substack said, why not charge them to subscribe.
Ribbon Farm • A Text Renaissance
Yglesias’s newsletter, “Slow Boring,” has a readership that includes more than six thousand paid subscribers, and he is making twenty-seven thousand dollars a month
Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
when we first started @readwise, all i did for the first summer was write personalized cold emails to anyone who'd expressed pain around their Kindle highlights online
it was grueling, rejection-laden work, but in July 2017 we celebrated our first "best day ever":
the inimitable @craigmod on... See more