How to Grow A Newsletter from Zero to 10K Subscribers [Mental Models & Stories] - a podcast by Aazar Ali Shad
from 2021-07-04T17:01:20
Ali Abouelatta loves early-stage start-up scenes, so he thought about starting a newsletter - First1000
He shared his exact tactics to grow his newsletter in this article and we dived deeper into it.
We discussed:
1:36 - Story in the startup scene and how he started the newsletter.
9:35 - How to improve writing in general if you?
12:30 - How he got his first 10 subscribers
16:10 - His tactics on promoting the newsletter on Twitter & Slack
18:09 - From 1000 to 2000 subscribers, how referral marketing helped him?
21:04 - From 1000 to 10,000 subscribers, what worked and what didn't?
26:00 - People who are starting today, how should they think about starting a newsletter?
28:17 - What does "value" mean in terms of creating content?
30:54 - Rapid fire round
33:45 - My summary and 5 mental models from the conversation with him about newsletter writing and promotion
Key links
- Growing First 1000 (this newsletter) to 10k Subscribers
- Ali's Twitter handle
- His most popular tweet (I love his contrarian way of thinking)
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