a single source, nothing corroborates it
Spend an hour a day on long personal emails
Cold outreach to people who already publish for your audience works as a daily habit rather than a campaign. One founder read the blogs in his market for an hour a day and wrote long personal mails to their authors; almost every one was ignored. The single blogger who replied taught him the industry, linked to him and supplied product designs, which is the whole return on months of effort.
The method
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Run cold outreach as a daily hour of long, personal, hand-written emails to people who already publish for your audience, and count on a single reply being worth the whole campaign.
What it returned
Zue spent an hour a day reading wedding blogs and emailing the bloggers; nearly all ignored him, but the one who replied taught him the industry, gave him backlinks from her site, and supplied place card designs
Sources
- Using Coding Skills to Make Passive IncomeCory Zue · coryzue.com · The transcript · 2025-01-14
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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