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92%
imported subscribers kept
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Banned on Substack, Reddit and Etsy in month one — for offering free promotion

Alexander Belyanin · tinyfound

Alexander Belyanin launched tinyfound, a newsletter of founders' first-customer stories, and spent month one offering people free write-ups of their own stories. The result: 5 new subscribers, banned four times on Reddit, banned on Substack, temporarily on Etsy — and Gmail started marking his emails as spam.

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