Welcome to the latest edition of Creator Collab House. I’m your host, Simon Owens. For those who don’t know me, I write a media industry newsletter you should definitely check out. Today’s featured creator is Ernie Smith, the writer behind the popular and offbeat newsletter
Thanks for doing this, Ernie! Really interesting to see that you have a full-time job and publish your newsletter (I do the same). Any suggestions/tips on how to juggle both? Have you come up with any strategies/approaches for working around the demands of your day job to get your newsletter issues done? Love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks for doing this, Ernie! Really interesting to see that you have a full-time job and publish your newsletter (I do the same). Any suggestions/tips on how to juggle both? Have you come up with any strategies/approaches for working around the demands of your day job to get your newsletter issues done? Love to hear your thoughts.
Can you expand a little on syndication and how exactly do you get to push your stories to places like Vice or Motherboard?
Can you tell me about a few of the times where you saw huge jumps in subscribers all at once and what triggered those jumps?