💡 How Frank started a newsletter with Mailbrew in 30 minutes & Substack's core growth loop

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1. Build a Twitter list. I always start with a Twitter list. I make a new list on a subject and start adding people I know to this list. The Twitter search algorithm looks at the title and description of your list to suggest accounts with a similar username or text in the bio.
2. The interface of the Twitter list shows the bio. When there are URL's in this, I open these in the background in new tabs for later inspection.
3. I add as many accounts as I like and save the list. Now it's time to build the newsletter.
4. In Mailbrew I add the new Twitter list. I always use the option "Most popular" which is based on likes and retweets. This ensures I get relevant tweets in the newsletter. Based on the length of the final newsletter I play around with the max number of tweets and max tweets per user.
5. Next up I add relevant Subreddits. I want to keep this Notion newsletter as clean as possible, so I just add the Notion subreddit. I could go for productivity or notetaking subreddits but I figured this would fill up the newsletter with to much noise instead of valid signals.
6. I check the open tabs on the websites from the Twitter bio's to see if there are RSS feeds I can add. I have to say, in this particular space, it is a missed opportunity. There are not a lot of feeds on the sites. RSS is still out there and it doesn't take much weight to your site to add one. It can bring extra traffic without extra costs.
7. Next up are Youtube videos. I knew Notion users are avid explainers on Youtube so it didn't take long to find a couple of the biggest channels who also post regularly. I added 5 channels for now. It feels a bit much to me, so I will just have to monitor this how it plays out in the newsletter itself. If the Youtube videos outbalance the other news sources I have to review it and perhaps change the number of Youtube feeds.
8. The last step, I add today's date and a small introduction for the newsletter.
9. I send a preview to myself to see how it looks, save the configuration and I'm done!
10. There is no step 10!

P.S If you want a personal newsletter curated from different sites, you can use MailBrew for it. Plus it provides an inbox for all the subscribed stuff. 

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Think about it like gardening. A garden can "appear" organically, or it can be cultivated.

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Hi guys. It's very difficult to issue a newsletter every weekday. And some of you also requested to make it a weekly newsletter. So I am limiting it to thrice a week every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 

Meanwhile, you can Buy me a coffee if you are not broke.

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