After the B&B fumble, I went back to my list and kept sending warm emails. Another one of them landed, a local travel agency. We jumped on a call. We talked for long about our city and a mix of other things. While speaking, I understood one pain
Finally reached 800+ subscribers. Feels the right time to actually make some money. I started from the obvious place: my own list. I filtered out the personal addresses, did a bit of research on each, and started sending warm personalized emails. I've received some replies. One of them
For a few weeks, I was sending five newsletters a week. Five. Every weekday, like clockwork. I had convinced myself this was the right move. More sends means more ad slots. More ad slots means more revenue. More revenue means sustainable business. Bulletproof logic...right? Reality, as usual, had other
One morning I woke up to a notification from Facebook. "You can't send messages for 7 days." Great. Just what I needed while trying to grow a newsletter from zero. The irony? I was finally making progress. But let's rewind a bit. The Post
So here's where we left off: zero subscribers, a bunch of rejected Facebook posts, and a half-baked newsletter that even I wouldn't read. Time to rebuild. Properly this time. I decided to approach this like a solo entrepreneur should: automation first, human touch second. The logic
“From zero?” “Yeah.” “Like… from nothing?” That’s how From Zero, Linkin Park’s latest album, opens. It’s their first release since the band reunited, welcoming Emily Armstrong as the new lead singer. That’s also how my journey (and, I suspect, most local newsletter journeys) begins. From zero.