[HN Gopher] Advice for Newsletter-ers
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       Advice for Newsletter-ers
        
       Author : headalgorithm
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2020-11-26 17:12 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | petercooper wrote:
       | Newsletters have been my main business for ten years (starting in
       | an era everyone thought they were "old hat" and wouldn't work
       | again) and baking in the flexibility to take a break that Robin
       | talks about here is a _great_ idea.
       | 
       | I've found the pressure of having customers (and therefore money
       | to refund) has kept me going every week, but I've seen _so many_
       | people burn out with a fixed schedule and give up on newsletters
       | that would have thrived if they 'd given themselves room to
       | breathe.
       | 
       | This advice suits podcasting and blogging too, but seasons and
       | irregularity respectively are more naturally baked into those
       | formats.
        
       | etherio wrote:
       | Wow this is super interesting.
       | 
       | I had never thought of the idea of building your content around
       | "seasons" but I do think it'd probably be an important motivator.
       | 
       | This idea could also be generalized to blog posts.
       | 
       | I'm just not sure what you'd structure your seasons around
       | though.
        
       | bamazizi wrote:
       | Subscription fatigue
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       | Newsletter fatigue
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       | Notification fatigue
       | 
       | Social media mentions, pings and ... fatigue
       | 
       | It's real folks! I'm might not be the only one, but I went on a
       | rampage a while ago and unsubscribed from 90% of #$%^ that
       | arrived at my mailbox and cut the cord on many subscription
       | services (software apps, tv apps, sport apps, music app,
       | newsletters, patreon, and others) ... now my credit credit
       | statement is only a few lines!
        
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