5 Lessons From Hitting 150K Subscribers

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* “Growth takes twice as long as you think and is twice as hard. The biggest advantage you can give yourself is to devote as much of your energy, resources and focus to the actual content itself rather than the sugar high of piling up big follower and subscriber numbers that are likely more quantity than quality.”

The Rebooting • Slow growth

Brian Sholis added

I’m in the game of building a long-term, sustainable, audience-first education brand. Which is the business that most educators want to be in. With a niche education business, I think you have a different set of opportunities. The big opportunity you have on the table is your relationship with your audience. Students tend to gravitate to people.

Olly Richards • Case Study: Anatomy of a $10M Online Education Business

anyone who makes stuff on the Internet knows that Web2.0 is over. The Discord’s general consensus is that for many, growth is flat. Reach on social platforms is harder than ever to achieve. And it’s pretty much pointless to promote work from one platform to another. Either because nobody clicks on links anymore, or links out to other destinations a... See more

andrea added

From Audience, not Algorithm: https://www.thejaymo.net/2023/08/27/301-2329-audience-not-algorithm/

There seem to be two main lessons to learn here: if you want to build educational content, turn it into a community; if you want to build an online community, start with educational content.

Jonathan Hillis • Come for the course, stay for the community

sari added

When I was just getting started, I looked at attention as my friend.

I wrote content every day before I even had a business, just to find my voice.

I started on LinkedIn.

I shared my thoughts & observations about building a SaaS unicorn as the CRO.

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Kevin Van Boxstael added

Justin Welsh’s start creating his 7.5 milion $ revenue business as a one-man-business ( writer/creator )

One lesson learned building Behance to a community of 35M+ highly opinionated creative people: you don’t own a network, you are the steward of a network.

Scott Belsky • 9 Forecasts for the Near Future, With Implications

sari added

There’s always a next step, and the higher you climb, it doesn’t necessarily get easier. For the creators who are just getting started: Enjoy your five subscribers. That’s a dinner table. Forget more people—what are you going to bring to the table?

On Writing and Sharing Every Week

Ben Cuan added

That next endeavor that you launch, whether it’s creating handcrafted products for the farmers market, starting a new coffee shop, if you share your story and give people a way to follow your journey, they will. Some will buy your products, others will tell their friends, and still more will cheer you on.

An audience is actually easier to build than... See more

nathanbarry.com • The Ladders of Wealth Creation: A Step-by-Step Roadmap to Building Wealth

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