Sam Parr: Newsletters are overhyped treadmills and vastly more competitive now
Sam Parr · How I Live On $25,000/Month In New York City · Sep 29, 2023 · at 17:46
Sam Parr, who built and sold the email newsletter business The Hustle to HubSpot, shares his perspective on the current state of independent newsletter publishing.
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“I think starting a newsletter is really popular right now. Most people don't realize it is a treadmill. It is very challenging to create new content, just like this podcast. It's hard. This is a hard job. I like it because I think I'm good at it, or I'm decent. But it is very challenging. Any type of content business, very, very, very, very hard to do for like two or three years. And newsletter, the newsletter space, significantly different than when I started. It is way more competitive, way more challenging. So I think that is a bit overhyped.”
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