Nick Gray: Exporting LinkedIn contacts to Revue is a grey-hat growth tactic
Nick Gray · EP 407: 10,000+ $50 Museum Tour Tickets Sold with Nick Gray of Museum Hack · Sep 4, 2016 · at 16:54
Nick Gray, founder of Museum Hack, shares a growth and distribution tactic for building personal email newsletters using contact exports from LinkedIn.
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“You can go to LinkedIn, export all your contacts, dump them into Review, and send them a newsletter of cool stuff, questionable whether that's legal.”
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