Bobby Powers
@bobbypowers
1M+ views | Bylines in Fast Company, The Startup, etc. | Read 70+ books/year & write about Leadership, Books, & Productivity | Visit me at BobbyPowers.com
Seattle, WA
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Your first 500 subscribers are going to be the people who are just naturally invested in you, your friends and your mom. So you should make your newsletter an extension of yourself and bring it up all the time when you're talking to people in your circles.
Then at the end of the day, after you've bonded and had a normal human social exchange, you can say, “Yo, I have a newsletter. I write about X, Y, and Z. I would love to know what you think about it.”
The second tactic I stumbled upon was borrowing, or being exposed, to other people's audiences. I think this is the most effective one.
I loved Ann Friedman's newsletter . She had this huge subscriber base, mostly women, and her newsletter is tied to current events and news as well. I feel like that's my audience. And she does this thing where she’ll place classified ads on her newsletter. It costs $50 to write a 140-character line about why you should subscribe to Deez Links and put the link in there. So that went out in her newsletter and I got 70 subscribers from doing this