By Daniel Roman · Dec 16, 2023

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🎅 Ho Ho Ho Newsies,

A couple of weeks ago I got an email from a subscriber. He struggles with just showing up every week since his newsletter subscriber has not grown as fast as he wanted.

He is not alone.

I get DMs where people are looking for shortcuts to growing their newsletter.

• They do boosts

• They do paid ads

I get it. It sucks at the start when you start your newsletter and you're excited because you think it’s going to grow fast.

Then reality hits.

Here are 3 mind shifts to help you:

1/ Celebrate small wins: Anytime I reach a small milestone with my newsletter I share it with the community on X or the hiiv community. This helps when you look back at where you started and where you are now.

Just a few weeks ago I was at 68 subscribers. Now I am over 200+ subscribers which is wild for me to even think about.

2/ Create for yourself: I think when we start a newsletter we think about what are others creating and what is popular. This is why you see so many AI newsletters atm (yes I had one) but I was not interested after a few weeks of writing about AI.

I pivoted to something else which came to be starting this newsletter. At the start, you might not know what to create which is OK so what I tell you is to write your 5 posts about anything you are interested in.

3/ Avoid Comparing Others: I know this one is very hard, mostly since on social media everyone is sharing their wins. Which is awesome, but when you're comparing yourself to them that sucks.

We have different journeys, trust me I see other creators growing their newsletters way faster than me. But then I remember, I am on my journey and they are on theirs.

I know this one was a bit different but hope it helps you if you are also in the same boat right now.

📈 Newsletter Metrics This Week

_{I want to be transparent and also I think it will be cool to see the weekly growth of a newsletter}

• Open Rate: 58.8%

• Click-Rate: 29.4%

• Subscribers: 244

Almost near the finish line…

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