The Journey of an Email Copywriter

[Wizza134]

Day 53

Finished the welcome email but having a bit of a problem with Beehiivs formatting which is making it look a bit weird on mobile so I'm planning on fixing that tomorrow. I'm going to share my newsletter in the discords share your newsletter chat and publish my first post to get it ready and sent by Saturday.

I'm really studying the format of other newsletters to make sure it's in a format that makes it easy for the readers to read and enjoy.

 

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[Wizza134]

Day 54

Finished editing the welcome email and interacted with the discord today. I posted my newsletter in the share your newsletter discord today. I'm going to continue posting on Twitter and implementing strategies to grow and reach my audience.

 

[Wizza134]

Day 55

Got some feedback on my newsletter from the NewsletterDiscord today. I'm going to make sure my newsletter landing page is more clear and more enticing to potential subscribers.

 

[constant]

Day 55

Got some feedback on my newsletter from the NewsletterDiscord today. I'm going to make sure my newsletter landing page is more clear and more enticing to potential subscribers.

It's very nice to see your daily consistent action. Keep going!

 

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[Wizza134]

Day 56

I spent some time in the newsletter Discord and interacted with some of their Twitter accounts. But I changed my one-line description to something that would fit my newsletter more. Maybe I was overthinking it but it took me quite a while to find one that works best for me.

I continued writing my first post which should be released Sunday.

I need to post on Twitter more I did one post and just went ghost for a couple of days. So I need to make sure I just take like 5 minutes out of my day and just write a quick post.

 

[Andy Black]

Day 56

I spent some time in the newsletter Discord and interacted with some of their Twitter accounts. But I changed my one-line description to something that would fit my newsletter more. Maybe I was overthinking it but it took me quite a while to find one that works best for me.

I continued writing my first post which should be released Sunday.

I need to post on Twitter more I did one post and just went ghost for a couple of days. So I need to make sure I just take like 5 minutes out of my day and just write a quick post.

Spend more time commenting than posting.

 

[O1i]

Day 56

I need to post on Twitter more I did one post and just went ghost for a couple of days. So I need to make sure I just take like 5 minutes out of my day and just write a quick post.

damn keep going with your consistency, i realy enjoy it to follow you.

i see that you want to grow on twitter, i can recommend you to watch this video from george ten:

Everything I know about Twitter growth

www.awesomescreenshot.com

he is a very successfull twitter "copywriter" with 140k follower.

you will find this valueable for sure.

Spend more time commenting than posting.

good advice.

 

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[Andy Black]

"Who already has your clients?" (Jay Abraham)

Step 1 as a service provider is to make friends, build relationships, and create win-wins.

One good relationship could blow up your business.

Case in point: I connected years ago with a guy building a Facebook Ads agency. We had a few chats and went our separate ways. We reconnected more recently and he's brought 8 new Google Ads clients to me in the last 7 days.

If you're on Twitter then the most immediate benefit is you can connect with people. Follow them, comment on their tweets, end up in DM, end up collaborating. That will bring results waaay faster than trying to post to get engagement, build an audience, and then sell to that audience.

 

[Wizza134]

"Who already has your clients?" (Jay Abraham)

Step 1 as a service provider is to make friends, build relationships, and create win-wins.

One good relationship could blow up your business.

Case in point: I connected years ago with a guy building a Facebook Ads agency. We had a few chats and went our separate ways. We reconnected more recently and he's brought 8 new Google Ads clients to me in the last 7 days.

If you're on Twitter then the most immediate benefit is you can connect with people. Follow them, comment on their tweets, end up in DM, end up collaborating. That will bring results waaay faster than trying to post to get engagement, build an audience, and then sell to that audience.

WOW, that's insane 8 clients in 7 days from a good relationship. Yeah, I'll make sure to comment more and try to build real connections instead of just posting.

I was considering posting more because everything I read about newsletter growth connected to growing a social media platform. So I'll put my main focus on building new relationships and interacting with the community.

 

[Wizza134]

damn keep going with your consistency, i realy enjoy it to follow you.

i see that you want to grow on twitter, i can recommend you to watch this video from george ten:

Everything I know about Twitter growth

www.awesomescreenshot.com

he is a very successfull twitter "copywriter" with 140k follower.

you will find this valueable for sure.



good advice.

Thank you man I appreciate it. This will 100% help me out when I do post more.

 

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[Wizza134]

Day 57

I spent the day commenting on Twitter posts and writing my first newsletter post.

I will say writing this is a very fun and interesting experience.

It forces me to think a bit deeper as I'm writing and find why I enjoy it and how it can help my readers.

 

[Wizza134]

Day 58

Today I spent some more time on Twitter interacting with people. From commenting and liking posts I've gotten three followers. I was a bit surprised to see that people followed me just by commenting and liking a couple of posts. I'm going to continue being friendly and active on Twitter with people.

I finished writing up the content for my first newsletter post I just need to get the formatting right.

 

[Wizza134]

Day 59

Going to be sending my first newsletter post out in the afternoon. It's not the best but it's a start I can only get better from here.

I spent the day in the Discord newsletter and on Twitter. I made sure to interact with more people on Twitter and I now have about 5 followers on Twitter.

 

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[Andy Black]

Day 59

Going to be sending my first newsletter post out in the afternoon. It's not the best but it's a start I can only get better from here.

I spent the day in the Discord newsletter and on Twitter. I made sure to interact with more people on Twitter and I now have about 5 followers on Twitter.

Consider posting weekly updates here, and focusing your energy in newsletter/copywriting communities, as well as growing your own newsletter.

If you had to make a sale this week then what would you do?

 

[Wizza134]

Consider posting weekly updates here, and focusing your energy in newsletter/copywriting communities, as well as growing your own newsletter.

Yeah, I was considering posting weekly posts after I saw the value/post ratio. I'll make sure to focus on newsletter/copywriting communities and being a peer in these groups as I grow my newsletter.

If you had to make a sale this week then what would you do?

That's a good question if I had to make a sale this week what would I do? I honestly don't know what I would do I'm still sending out cold emails. I'm still Interacting with people in groups. I think it would be to send out more cold emails and try ending up in someone Dms from the groups I participate in.

 

[Wizza134]

Some of the things I did last week
- Comment more on Twitter
- spend time in the Kajabi group
- Sent out more Cold Emails
- Spend time in the newsletter Discord
- Read 25% of the art and business of online writing by Nicolas Cole
- Sent out my 2nd newsletter issue

 

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[Wizza134]

Some of the things I did last week
- Spent time in the Kajabi group
- Sent Cold DMs
- Spent time in the newsletter Discord
- Almost done with the art and business of online writing by Nicolas Cole
- Sent out my 3rd newsletter issue

 

[Andy Black]

Some of the things I did last week
- Spent time in the Kajabi group
- Sent Cold DMs
- Spent time in the newsletter Discord
- Almost done with the art and business of online writing by Nicolas Cole
- Sent out my 3rd newsletter issue

Any closer to creating content for people, free or paid?

 

[Wizza134]

Any closer to creating content for people, free or paid?

Yeah I'm getting closer I need to put more work into Twitter but so far it's just publishing my newsletter as free content. I talked to another content creator on Twitter whos growing his Twitter pretty rapidly and he gave me some tips for growth and a gum road pdf he put together.

I am also thinking of changing my newsletter because in the art and business of online writing, he mentions being in your own category. I am not in my own category I made my newsletter knowing I'm in the same category as someone else.

 

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[Wizza134]

Some of the things I did last week
- Sent Cold DMs
- Spent time in the newsletter Discord
- 80% done with the art and business of online writing by Nicolas Cole
- Sent out my 4th newsletter issue
- Got 2 more subscribers to my newsletter


Plans for next week
Cold DM
Cold Email
Be active in groups
Message family friend/Past client and ask if they need help with anything

Thoughts

I was thinking a lot about what I can do to get a client right now and the easiest and best thing to do was ask my past client/ family friend. It will most likely not be email marketing and most likely either web design, Google ads, or Facebook ads. But I'm happy to help them out with whatever problem that may be.

I'm starting to pull away a bit from making an email marketing agency that helps ecom brands and instead be a marketing agency that helps local businesses/people with Facebook ads or Google ads.

I plan to still continue my newsletter because I've learned that I really like the newsletter business model. I just need to focus even more on growing and creating more.

 

[Andy Black]

Message family friend/Past client and ask if they need help with anything

Ask everyone you've ever done work with if they know anyone who needs help with XYZ.

HOT! - When your back's against the wall...

When your back's against the wall... Someone gave me this advice a few years ago and it's got me out of a bind quite a few times since. On one occasion I was 2 days away from our mortgage payment and looking at an empty warchest. This advice helped. The advice? Start sending hand crafted...

www.thefastlaneforum.com

 

[Mattoniy]

Some of the things I did last week
- Sent Cold DMs
- Spent time in the newsletter Discord
- 80% done with the art and business of online writing by Nicolas Cole
- Sent out my 4th newsletter issue
- Got 2 more subscribers to my newsletter


Plans for next week
Cold DM
Cold Email
Be active in groups
Message family friend/Past client and ask if they need help with anything

Thoughts

I was thinking a lot about what I can do to get a client right now and the easiest and best thing to do was ask my past client/ family friend. It will most likely not be email marketing and most likely either web design, Google ads, or Facebook ads. But I'm happy to help them out with whatever problem that may be.

I'm starting to pull away a bit from making an email marketing agency that helps ecom brands and instead be a marketing agency that helps local businesses/people with Facebook ads or Google ads.

I plan to still continue my newsletter because I've learned that I really like the newsletter business model. I just need to focus even more on growing and creating more.

Hey, this is a really interesting thread.

As a brand owner I can tell you that newsletters are incredibly important, maybe you could expand your service to growing mailing lists as well. I know how hard that can be and it's a skill heavily sort after! How do you market your services? Have you considered a website and using keyword ads to get clients/leads?

Matt

 

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[Wizza134]

Hey, this is a really interesting thread.

As a brand owner I can tell you that newsletters are incredibly important, maybe you could expand your service to growing mailing lists as well. I know how hard that can be and it's a skill heavily sort after! How do you market your services? Have you considered a website and using keyword ads to get clients/leads?

Matt

No, I've never considered a website and using ads to get clients or leads. I was mostly trying to be active in communities and cold emailing and Cold Dming to get leads.

Growing newsletters is a heavily sort after skillset.

I watched this

View: https://youtu.be/lyNk_KnuICc
a while back and this guy made an agency for growing other newsletters.

 

[Wizza134]

Ask everyone you've ever done work with if they know anyone who needs help with XYZ.

HOT! - When your back's against the wall...

When your back's against the wall... Someone gave me this advice a few years ago and it's got me out of a bind quite a few times since. On one occasion I was 2 days away from our mortgage payment and looking at an empty warchest. This advice helped. The advice? Start sending hand crafted...

www.thefastlaneforum.com

I was thinking of this exact thread as I came to my realization.

 

[Wizza134]

Some of the things I did last week
- Sent Cold DMs
- Spent time in the newsletter Discord
-Messaged my past client if they need any help with anything


Plans for next week
Cold Email
Be active in newsletter group
Talk to past client/family friend about what they need help with.

Thoughts

So I messaged my past client and she said to go over and we can talk about what they need help with so I'm excited about that. Other than that school took up a lot of my time during the week. Closing in on finals so the workload has just been increasing more and more.

 

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[Wizza134]

Some of the things I did last week
- Sent Cold DMs
- Sent Cold Emails
- Spent time in the newsletter Discord
-talked to my past client
- talked to possible leads
- started making a website

Plans for next week
Cold Email
Cold Dm
Finish website

Thoughts

So after talking with my past client she came to the conclusion that they need a website eventually and they'll go to me for it but they don't want the website to start being made now. They are scared that they may get much more business than they can handle.

I got a couple of leads from Cold emails and Cold DMs. One of them I lost because I wasn't proactive enough, and another I lost because I don't have a website. So I thought I might as well make a quick website to look more professional to the business owners I'm contacting.

 

[Andy Black]

They are scared that they may get much more business than they can handle.

Lol... what a dumb thing to be scared of. You just put filters in place to reduce lead flow but increase quality. Or you just turn it off.

I often tell prospects and clients that "Overthinking is the art of solving problems you don't have."

 

[Wizza134]

Lol... what a dumb thing to be scared of. You just put filters in place to reduce lead flow but increase quality. Or you just turn it off.

I often tell prospects and clients that "Overthinking is the art of solving problems you don't have."

Right, it's more her husband that's concerned about it than her. But his fear about it is insanely high so I just left it alone. I ended it by saying whenever you're ready to start shoot me a text and I'll help you if I have the time.

 

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[Andy Black]

Right, it's more her husband that's concerned about it than her. But his fear about it is insanely high so I just left it alone. I ended it by saying whenever you're ready to start shoot me a text and I'll help you if I have the time.

Nice. Pay attention to red flags and back out politely.