This would be illegal in the EU, and for good reason. If "spamming everyone who's ever emailed you" is a thing to learn from, I'm out. No. No, no, no, no, no. Bad. No.
I would think extremely badly of "a friend" who did this to me. It's why I'm proud that my own email newsletter (15,500 subscribers) has grown by positive, non-spammy means.
Really great advice. I started The Business Inquirer - a newsletter highlighting interesting businesses for sale and how I would grow them. https://thebusinessinquirer.substack.com
Codie, this is great. Inspired by your post, I scraped the list of my LinkedIn connections and emailed most of them. 30 signups at 4% conversion rate, and some really good convos emerging from this, with a few not even related to the newsletter.
Like an ex-uni friend who works at a boutique fund and wanted to pick my brains on his IT investments. We have not spoken in 11 years, and probably would not have spoken if I didn't send that email.
I too was concerned about people complaining about spam (although I know everyone I emailed personally, and most I have worked with, so they know me from a good professional side). None of those materialized and I now have execs of large corporates reading my newsletter.
Great post. Imperfect action ≥ perfect inaction. Love these results, too! Great motivation to do a blast to my own contacts to try to cull some of them into my existing list. Thanks, y'all!
How do you not overwhelm your email list? I like to work on a lot of things and want my friends/family to join. How often do you hit up your email list to have them join your ventures?
Love the idea! Started my account, wrote my first post. Just gotta name my newsletter.
How did you come up with Grow-Getters?
This would be illegal in the EU, and for good reason. If "spamming everyone who's ever emailed you" is a thing to learn from, I'm out. No. No, no, no, no, no. Bad. No.
I would think extremely badly of "a friend" who did this to me. It's why I'm proud that my own email newsletter (15,500 subscribers) has grown by positive, non-spammy means.
Nice article, thanks for the pointers! Have been consistently writing over here: paulkeefe.substack.com
This has been a great platform!
Really great advice. I started The Business Inquirer - a newsletter highlighting interesting businesses for sale and how I would grow them. https://thebusinessinquirer.substack.com
Codie, this is great. Inspired by your post, I scraped the list of my LinkedIn connections and emailed most of them. 30 signups at 4% conversion rate, and some really good convos emerging from this, with a few not even related to the newsletter.
Like an ex-uni friend who works at a boutique fund and wanted to pick my brains on his IT investments. We have not spoken in 11 years, and probably would not have spoken if I didn't send that email.
I too was concerned about people complaining about spam (although I know everyone I emailed personally, and most I have worked with, so they know me from a good professional side). None of those materialized and I now have execs of large corporates reading my newsletter.
Do > overthink - glad I read this.
Great post. Imperfect action ≥ perfect inaction. Love these results, too! Great motivation to do a blast to my own contacts to try to cull some of them into my existing list. Thanks, y'all!
Thanks - keen to follow this great content. My stuckpoint; identifying the differences (and purposes) of blog posts v newsletter. Thanks!
Love this post. Started up fancymouth.com
How do you not overwhelm your email list? I like to work on a lot of things and want my friends/family to join. How often do you hit up your email list to have them join your ventures?
QUESTIONS!:
Did you do any pre-filtering for people who might think it's weird / been too long to hear from you?
Did you get any worries about spam — might you have done something like http://mailshake.com/ to drip feed this instead?
Any followups for unopens?
For not opting them in, did you send them the substack link or just say "reply back and I can add you" and then you'd manually type in their list?
Also been thinking about a referral system ala sendfox but feels funny to do with a personal brand, are y'all investing in this?
Love this. Just subscribed, can't wait for more! :)
This is so cool! Can't wait to see what you guys are able to do with this. 📈
Love the Gmail idea! Thank you!
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