Thread by @Harris_Bryan

Economics of a daily newsletter run on sponsorships:

- 118,000 subscribers
- 36% open and 8% click
- $1,000 per email
- Run by @tldrdan

That’s a $350k+ year business run by 1 person with nearly no infrastructure cost.

Intrigued?

5 markets you could do this in...

1. Politics

Daily email with national political news, Hugh profile state and local elections and fact finding of popular stories

2. Online Marketing

Daly email highlighting really good email and ad campaigns found on Facebook, TV, print and other digital platforms.

3. Real Estate Investing

Daily email highlighting good deals you’ve found across country, new tools or update to tools you’ve found and industry updates.

4. Homeschooling

Daily email highlighting that help me be a better homeschool parent. New curriculum, strategy and top posts from Facebook groups.

Help me not feel alone, keep me up to date on industry news and give me new ideas to do my job better.

5. Parenting

Daily newsletter that makes me feel better as a parent. Light hearted. Funny memes. 1 simple tip that doesn’t feel like work. Crazy parent of the day. One gadget. One activity idea my kids can do themselves.

👉🏻How to do it w/ $0:

Phase 1: First 250 subs

- Pick topic
- Write 10 newsletters
- Are they good?
- Invite everyone you know to join
- 1:1 invite to 1000+ ppl
- Stat sending daily email
- 1 affiliate link per email

Time: 7 days

Phase 2: 1,000 subs

- Find 10 active watering holes
- blogs, communities etc
- Source info for emails
- Befriend owner
- Participate
- Partner & do features to group
- ex: guest post, fb lives
- Become a contributor
- Repeat 100x
- Cull to top 10%

Time: 3-6 mos

Phase 3: 10,000 subs

- Keep writing daily
- Deeper partnerships w/ top groups
- Ex: column, monthly workshop
- Run topical giveaway 4x per year
- Hone writing
- Perfect word of mouth
- Get top influencers to talk about

Time: 12-18 months

A few notes:

- Monetize with affiliate links day 1
- Hustle sponsors quick
- wanderingaimfully.com/how-to-get-spo…
- Make a course at 10k subs
- Link it in every email
- Promo it 2x per year
- Host webinar for it monthly

You can do $10k months < year with $0 and this plan☝️

Note: Check out @tldrdan ‘s newsletter sponsorship page for more details on his setup.

tldrnewsletter.com/sponsor

@sachitgupta how would you improve this sponsorship setup?