CommunitiesDidn't work
- 5
- new subscribers
- 92%
- imported subscribers kept
- 30
- days
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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