1 year of shipping the newsie

🗓️ Happy Saturday.

It’s already been 1 freaking year.

Let’s start this week’s issue…

PICKS OF THE WEEK

Bookmarks of the Week

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22 lessons learned from some of the top newsletter creators.

8 Lessons I am learning from Justin Welsh on building my email-based course.

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DEEP DIVE

Deep Dive

Can’t believe it’s been 1 year…

• 365 days

• 52 weeks

• 8760 hours

• 525600 minutes

• Over 12 template re-designs

That’s a lot of time thinking about the newsletter and sending it out at 10:01 am EST every Saturday.

This newsletter all started from a video I watched on YouTube by Ali Abdaal. The rest is what you call history.

Lessons learned since starting a newsletter.

• The importance of being consistent

• You're gonna mess up and that is OK

• Have a system for your content

• Don’t try every shiny tool

• If it works keep at it

• Ask for feedback

STATS

Newsletter Metrics

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• Open Rate: 64.8%

• Click-Rate: 18.7%

• Subscribers: 326

TWEET

The Tweet