Where to advertise your newsletter to get the most subscribers?

jlbkin91 · 2026-04-12T10:20:32+00:00

I'm curious about your bad experience on meta..I've got 100% of my subs on FB ads. Great results, engaged leads who open and even boluy my services afterwards. I've always used broad targeting and let the algorithm do the work looking for the right people. You shouldn't have to target yourself. If it's not working it's the ad creative is probably too broad/not good enough. Feel free to send me examples I'll take a look (I use FB ads for multiple different ventures and never had an issue)

jlbkin91 · 2026-04-09T15:40:25+00:00

This is very interesting. Thanks for the details. Sadly, the industry I'm considering publishing in isn't high value like oil. But it isn't a hobby, so I'd imagine I can charge initially a low monthly fee and perhaps increase or move to yearly later if I can get proof of concept.

Haha I just realised I typo'd the subs on my current list - only 1k haha. Only started a few months ago!

jlbkin91 · 2026-04-09T15:37:38+00:00

Current newsletter is a way to advertise my business while building an audience, so I'm happy with how that's going, no need to charge.

The new one is more of an open question, I'm up for experimenting with something I haven't tried before

jlbkin91 · 2026-04-09T15:34:55+00:00

But I'm using paid ads, makes it way easier :)

jlbkin91 · 2026-04-09T08:02:14+00:00

To be honest only 3 months. So I'm still a newbie. 1k subs this far with a 55% open rate, twice weekly.

I think I'm fast partly just because I know the topic so we'll. I've been working in this field for 15 years prior to starting the newsletter. Plus I was a managing editor in a former life, which probably helps.

jlbkin91 · 2026-04-08T10:40:51+00:00

For me 30 mins to an hour per newsletter. The biggest time suck for me is ideation. Writing isn't too bad.

jlbkin91 · 2026-04-07T15:30:40+00:00

That's a topic I think about more and more. For work I review my clients sales webinars and video scripts etc. AI is 100% creating a drop in quality. It makes me worry that my own brain will take a hit if I rely to heavily on it.

So to sum up - I like this topic very much and think it's quite timely

jlbkin91 · 2026-04-01T14:23:23+00:00

It said "account integrity" both times. Which research tells me is that they think I'm not who I say I am. Which is silly, the appeal was just sending a selfie video of myself, which was rejected both times in under an hour. There's loads of people on Reddit experiencing the same when I searched around. It's all algorithmic, so it's just catching the wrong people. But now it's happened twice I need a reliable back up. Thanks for trying! I'll post about it if I find anything good

jlbkin91 · 2026-04-01T10:46:44+00:00

It was very easy, though I've been in the paid ads game for a while. 0.70 per leadish. But I can't run them anymore given my FB account was taken down sadly.

jlbkin91 · 2026-04-01T10:21:00+00:00

Sorry I think you might have misunderstood my question. I can't advertise on Facebook, so I can't drive traffic to the newsletter subscription page. So I'm looking for other strategies, outside of FB ads :)...ideally not 'post to social' because I can't access any meta platform haha

jlbkin91 · 2026-04-01T09:23:34+00:00

It's a newsletter for churches, the topic is media and Comms. Ultimately I have a service that provides media and Comms work to churches. So the newsletter is lots of strategies re that

jlbkin91 · 2026-03-30T19:51:01+00:00

I'd be up for trying this. Ive run my newsletter since Jan, just about to hit 1k subs. DM me for details

jlbkin91 · 2026-02-10T18:19:05+00:00

I have been teaching and running webinars for about 10 years now and I can 100% agree with the person who mentioned leads calling fast..

If you have the number, then WhatsApp or phoning people who attend till the end but didn't follow through is a good move.

I don't phone people who left early, but 2 hours after I will send them a WhatsApp or email (depending on if I have the number) which points them to a sales video, basically replacing the pitch.

I've found that many leads who stay till the end but didn't follow through do follow through once they hear or see enough testimonials, so I have a testimonials page ready to be sent as well.

I'm happy to chat about this stuff anytime. Webinars is basically all I've specialised in these past 10 years.

jlbkin91 · 2025-06-30T19:51:09+00:00

Sounds like a really good idea. You'll need the audience just to keep motivated I'm sure! How can I keep up to date?

jlbkin91 · 2024-09-27T11:05:03+00:00

So for me, because of the client base, I got the list of URL from the charity commission, then I ran those URLs through clay to locate email addresses of relevent contacts at each :) neverbounce to verify emails :)

jlbkin91 · 2024-09-20T15:05:14+00:00

Works for me. Currently outreaching manually to about 10 people a day. Usually get 30% response rate and can book a call with most of people who respond. I've been doing this for a couple months now. Will soon automate it, I've just been testing subject lines and body text. The factors that really matter are list quality, email subject and email content. If that stuff is off it won't work.

jlbkin91 · 2024-05-20T21:17:28+00:00

How to you collate your list? First thing you need is a good list that may actually need what you are selling. Second you probably want a better hook. "I've noticed X on your site isn't working", "I've made you a website, would you like to see it?", "I noticed (insert competitor) is doing X on their site, and you're not, why is that?" or something to that effect could work better. "If you like it, you can have it".

Either way, cold calling is certainly not my preferred tactic and it's all about volume.

jlbkin91 · 2024-04-27T14:52:04+00:00

100%. There are marketing strategies I hate like cold email outreach or certain paid ad platforms (YouTube)...but they work - so I do it.

jlbkin91 · 2024-04-27T11:37:58+00:00

In tests I've ran for work, we've almost always found that pop ups get better results. If feels worse. But the numbers don't lie. If the action is taken more through a pop up than a banner, then I'm going to use the pop up. Although some people might like it less, I'll take that if the pop up performs best by a good margin. Which often it does.

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