Day 11: Growing my email newsletter to 1,000 subscribers 🏆 Win: Hit 140 subs! - my newsletter Mail Zing just got 3 new subscribers outside my circle 🙌 - Gained clarity on my newsletter theme/purpose - Updated cheerlead strategy on X/LI

Still far from my goal... But small wins are worth celebrating too🎉

BIG REASON why startup founders should start a newsletter: You'll have a pool of people who: - loves your work - admires your story - follows your footsteps ...who ALSO likely to be your future customers 🚀

Got an email from a subscriber!🙌 This made me realized: ✅People notice your work (even it feels like no one’s watching) ✅Showing up consistently will never betray you ✅Sometimes the best feedback comes from 1 person (your target audience)

This is how Half Baked newsletter built a reader-first newsletter structure: ❇️Knowing their newsletter’s main job ❇️Picking a clear theme/content focus ❇️Defining must-have content pieces ❇️Creating & naming sections ❇️Adding simple branding touches ❇️Testing & tweaking

After 1 unsubscribe, finally got new subscribers yesterday. The past few weeks had been tough: ✳️ a lot of self-doubt creeps in ✳️ experiencing slow growth on subscriber count ✳️ got 1 unsubscribe But not giving up.

Found this documentary style youtube video/channel with the same quality as Netflix's. The youtube documentary niche competition is getting higher and higher.

Netflix-style documentaries on YouTube are getting sharper! I just studied a channel taht adapts a storytelling pattern like this: Childhood > early career > big break > conflict > legacy Just like how top netflix docu does it.

I noticed 2 ways how youtube creators use a script: • as a guide • as a book (reading everything in it) In anyway, having a good & goal-oriented script is an upgrade to the video's overall value.