[HN Gopher] Advice for Newsletter-ers ___________________________________________________________________ Advice for Newsletter-ers Author : headalgorithm Score : 11 points Date : 2020-11-26 17:12 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.robinsloan.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.robinsloan.com) | 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 | | Newsletter fatigue | | 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! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-11-26 23:00 UTC)