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My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

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Re: My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

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Post by ryangilbert »

lawgimenez wrote: post #29
ryangilbert wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! Do you have a personal favorite?

I remember I liked Gavin Nelson’s workspace. It was so minimal for a designer his caliber. I enjoyed Alex Cornell’s too. If I may suggest, it would be cool to include screenshots of their workspace on both desktop and phone. But may be that is too much to ask from them. Anyway thank you for creating a refreshing newsletter!

Both great spaces!

That's a good suggestion... I'll see if I can include that a bit going forward.

Re: My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

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Post by cjrp »

ryangilbert wrote: post #13
ativzzz wrote: post #9

How do you reach out to people to get them to be on your newsletter? I imagine now that you have a following it's easier, but what motivates people to actually say "yes", especially when you were starting out? And somewhat related because you don't do this, but for newsletters that are more "news aggregator" types that collect various blog posts/info, do they typically reach out to the authors before including the li…

Early on it was all Twitter DMs. I would DM handfuls of designers, developers, founders, etc each day. Once I had a few published spaces this became easier as I could quickly link to an example of what I was looking for. Nowadays, it's mostly inbound requests to be featured. Every time I send a new edition out I get 1-2 requests from readers to be featured as well. This has led to the current backlog of 70+ spaces th…

Supply and demand, time to start charging people to be featured ;)

Re: My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

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Post by heffer »

stevesearer wrote: post #30

Fellow workspace design publisher here ( https://officesnapshots.com ) – Nice work! I started a home office site ~13 years ago and wasn't able to ever make it happen so I am glad to hear that someone has cracked the code.

If it's any consolation I used your site at the beginning of the pandemic to get a photo from our office to use as a virtual background. You know, back when virtual backgrounds were new and it was still funny to fool people into thinking you're in the office (which was closed).

Re: My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

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Post by ryangilbert »

cjrp wrote: post #32
ryangilbert wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Early on it was all Twitter DMs. I would DM handfuls of designers, developers, founders, etc each day. Once I had a few published spaces this became easier as I could quickly link to an example of what I was looking for. Nowadays, it's mostly inbound requests to be featured. Every time I send a new edition out I get 1-2 requests from readers to be featured as well. This has led to the current backlog of 70+ spaces th…

Supply and demand, time to start charging people to be featured ;)

Haha thought about doing that for offices/companies that are hiring!

Haven't fully thought out how that would look but it's definitely interesting...

Re: My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

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Post by ryangilbert »

5350-uiop-1130 wrote: post #36

people are paying $250 per month for a newsletter about wfh desk setups? not to be jest but i did understand correctly...?

Sponsors are paying $250 to get their message in front of 7,000+ subscribers who are interested in wfh desk content.

The individual readers subscribe for free.

Re: My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

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Post by keiferski »

Kudos!

Although it's an entirely different type of content/business, this reminds me of Humans of New York. [1] There seems to be a broad desire for simple, consistent content about the lives of everyday people. I think it may be a reaction to the increasing unreality of most larger media outlets, which have become very contrived and overly-optimized.

If I were looking to start a newsletter, I would pick a similar everyday topic.

1. https://www.humansofnewyork.com

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