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7 Ways You Can Build an Email Audience
My path to my first 1,000 subscribers.
Should you start a newsletter?
A few weeks ago, I met with five people from LinkedIn at a coffee shop. They were asking this question. I was the only one in the group building an email list.
I was telling them that there are so many benefits to starting an email list. It’s a lead list. It’s an audience that loves your content and will buy from you.
Here are seven ways to build your email list (and how I did with my first thousand subscribers).
1. Link Your Newsletter on Medium Articles
Linking your newsletter to your Medium articles is something you should 1000% be doing.
Self-promotion isn’t just necessary. It’s your job to tell people to join your email list. You don’t have to sound like a telemarketer. You only need to sound like yourself.
Here’s an example of how I do at the bottom of my articles.
