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๐๏ธ Happy Saturday
This week, we get to deep dive into how to get readers to refer your newsletter, by making this one simple change that takes less than 5 minutes.
Ready?
Letโs go
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๐ค This newsletter is making bank. (fun fact itโs a local newsletter in my city.) (link)
๐๏ธ If you want to get featured in this section, share the newsletter and get your newsletter shared.
DEEP DIVE
Do this Instead
A few days ago I saw this tweet.
And it got me thinking about my referral setup for The Newsie.
Before I had it set up where if you share the newsletter 5 times you can submit your newsletter to get it shared on the weekly newsletter.
But it would take a while for you to get a quick win, so I switched it from 5 referrals to just 1.
Why?
First I want you to share the newsletter with someone and refer the newsletter to just one person and you get a win. Without having to share it 5 times before you get a win.
Second how many of us know 5 - 10 people to share the newsletter with? (Would love to see the stats from Morning Brew)
Iโm not the only one that does this.
Some of the big newsletters have a referral system where they just need the reader to share once to unlock the freebie for referring someone.
๐๏ธ I need your help. What do you want to see more from the newsletter?

STATS
Newsletter Metrics
I want to be transparent and also I think it will be cool to see the weekly growth of a newsletter
Open Rate: 65.9%
Click-Rate: 15.9%
Subscribers: 322
Whenever you are ready, here is how I can help:
A free 15-minute consulting call to see how we can grow your newsletter.
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