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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Okay, so, so help me understand what that looks like. I'm on NoCSDegree.com right now. Where can I find some of the sponsored content?
A Sure, um, if you, so, Basically, there's, like, over, there's about a hundred articles on the website so far, so if you scroll down, um, there will be Yeah, there's, I think, the latest one that I did was with Flatiron School. So I've done, I've had sponsored content with Flatiron School and Makers Academy in London. So one of the, yeah, the recent one with Flatiron School was someone that did their cybersecurity course. So that was, I think, uh, Joanne Pacek. I hope I'm getting their name right. And yeah, they did, um, a course They served in the U.S. Army, and then, um, after that, they learned cybersecurity at Flatiron School, and now they're working on a job in that area. So it's really a good way to show these.
AI assessment note: “if you scroll down, um, there will be Yeah, there's, I think, the latest one”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q give you a bunch of traffic. I get that. There's a sort of art and science to ranking high on Hacker News. We're not going to try and reverse engineer that because it really is sort of art plus science. We can reverse engineer though the flow once those hits hits your website. So if 30,000 people hit your website from Hacker News, where do you put the email opt-in?
A Yeah. Um, so it's like front and center, right? The start of the website and the header. So I think having that's really important. I would say that I use, uh, exit and pop-up, which is a really good idea, but I think a lot of people intuitively now are a little bit, you know, against pop-ups, and I'd say that's true if they're, like, straight away, but an analogy I heard from Harry Dry, who does a great marketing website, is kind of like, If you go into a museum and someone goes up to you straight away and says, hey, can you give 10 bucks to support the museum? You're probably not going to do that. But if you've had a really good time at the museum, and you're leaving, and someone says, hey, you had a good time, can you support this place? You're more likely to. So basically my pop-up is one that when someone's about to leave the website, then I say, hey.
AI assessment note: “front and center, right? The start of the website and the header.”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Yeah. And walk me through, I mean, getting your first 4000 subscribers on a newsletter is not easy. How did you get your first hundred?
A Um, I did really well with, um, my launch. I launched on Product Hunt and got, I guess, in the top five or so. I got, but the biggest thing was I launched on Hacker News. And I didn't have any profile there or any kind of, you know, yeah, any like big kind of following or backing there, but everyone really loved it, and it stayed top of Hacker News for like a day, so that got like, I can't remember how much it was exactly, but something like 30,000 hits, um, got loads of people emailing me in on day one just to Like tell me about their story of being self taught developers. So that's cool. So I had lots of content straight away. So yeah, I guess having a really good launch outs and also just being really active on Twitter and just promoting the newsletter, you know, all the time at the end. You know, every article and whenever I'm talking to people on podcasts like this one, I guess.
AI assessment note: “I launched on Product Hunt and got, I guess, in the top five or so.”
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D 4 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.60
Q So how are you sort of hustling your way to make sure you sort of couple your expenses and do anything you can to generate cash now so you can build a bigger business in the future?
A Sure. Um, well, I actually just spoke to a few founders this week, so I've had some really good advice from people, so basically, um, I'm gonna be, yeah, I'm gonna be, at the moment, there's a lot of content on the website, but I'm gonna be directing people more towards products, um, but really it's a case of I'll do, I'll research lots of people on LinkedIn. I'll do lots of cold emails. I'll reach out to people on Twitter, which is my biggest social media channel by far. So I guess it's really a case of just reaching out to people and building relationships. And luckily, lots of people like no CS three, and they see that there's lots of cool interviews there. There's lots of people that have really transformed their lives and gone from say, working as a waitress, working as a developer. So yeah, there's lots of positive stories, so I guess it's quite a good start for talking to people and building these kind of relationships.
AI assessment note: “I'll research lots of people on LinkedIn. I'll do lots of cold emails.”
