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Hey, this looks kind of nice actually. But why hide the content behind an email sign-up, why not also provide an RSS feed, or at least the latest 1-3 send-outs?
by mstade 7y ago
Hey, this looks kind of nice actually. But why hide the content behind an email sign-up, why not also provide an RSS feed, or at least the latest 1-3 send-outs? If you hadn't provided that link to the latest e-mail I would've brushed it off entirely and not given it a moments more thought. But you did provide that link, and I found the content relevant and interesting, and even dove deeper into a couple of the articles.
The content in this one e-mail is pretty good, but before I sign up I'd like to see more. But also it's not clear to me that I'm your customer, because reading your post here it sounds like your customer isn't the consumer of these feeds but actually the producers? I'm not one of them, so why do you care about my e-mail address, other than to sell to your actual customers down the line?
- atestu 7y agoHi, fair question! The main reason I'm starting this newsletter is to start conversations with people about this data, which is why I want people's emails. Right now I'm hoping people are enticed enough to put their email address to check it out. I might be wrong about that and I might add a link to the latest email on the home page in the future to see if signups improved. I have no intention of selling those emails. My goal is to start a Saas platform based on this data. A very small number of subscribers will hopefully become clients. The rest can just enjoy the newsletter and help me get the word out if they feel like it.
- chabad360 7y agofrom what the OP says, it seems that this would eventually be a paid service (with a free newsletter) for people (maybe journalists) to easily find quotes/tidbits so that they can... well, do whatever they'd like with that information. I don't think the OP is gonna sell your email.