TLDR: Local newsletters can be a profitable business opportunity with a small subscriber base, but require deep community knowledge, local partnerships, and a focus on monetization and community involvement for significant revenue and potential growth. 00:00 📰 Local newsletters can be profitable with a small subscriber base, as shown by Ryan Sneddon's success with Naptown Scoop, covering local news and events in Annapolis, Maryland. 04:39 📰 Local newsletters are a popular and growing business opportunity, with the speaker aiming to teach others how to start their own and partner with individuals in different cities. 11:41 📰 Running a successful local newsletter business requires knowing the community well, partnering with local "rock stars," and focusing on monetization and community involvement for significant revenue and potential growth. 16:22 📰 Building a local newsletter business can lead to unexpected social connections and opportunities, such as launching campaigns and businesses with a built-in audience in the town. 21:10 📰 Local newsletters with a passionate audience can generate $350k in revenue, have high leverage, and offer opportunities for affiliate marketing, but growth is a challenge without spending on advertising. 26:18 📰 Running a local newsletter business requires constant engagement, attending events, and staying on top of current events to keep the content machine running, with the goal of generating a million or more in revenue. 31:42 📰 The Naptown Scoop newsletter involves sourcing and curating local news, with mistakes in content leading to a necessary correction. 36:28 📰 Leveraging a local newsletter for advertising revenue and potential for additional revenue through events and physical products, with the goal of reaching a million dollars and using the newsletter as a platform for growth and revenue.
My GOODNESS!! Love from East Baltimore!! “Naptownscoop”!!! AA county has been my home for years! Love you guys. Much success!
Such a great episode!
Great interview
TLDR: Local newsletters can be a profitable business opportunity with a small subscriber base, but require deep community knowledge, local partnerships, and a focus on monetization and community involvement for significant revenue and potential growth.
00:00 📰 Local newsletters can be profitable with a small subscriber base, as shown by Ryan Sneddon's success with Naptown Scoop, covering local news and events in Annapolis, Maryland.
04:39 📰 Local newsletters are a popular and growing business opportunity, with the speaker aiming to teach others how to start their own and partner with individuals in different cities.
11:41 📰 Running a successful local newsletter business requires knowing the community well, partnering with local "rock stars," and focusing on monetization and community involvement for significant revenue and potential growth.
16:22 📰 Building a local newsletter business can lead to unexpected social connections and opportunities, such as launching campaigns and businesses with a built-in audience in the town.
21:10 📰 Local newsletters with a passionate audience can generate $350k in revenue, have high leverage, and offer opportunities for affiliate marketing, but growth is a challenge without spending on advertising.
26:18 📰 Running a local newsletter business requires constant engagement, attending events, and staying on top of current events to keep the content machine running, with the goal of generating a million or more in revenue.
31:42 📰 The Naptown Scoop newsletter involves sourcing and curating local news, with mistakes in content leading to a necessary correction.
36:28 📰 Leveraging a local newsletter for advertising revenue and potential for additional revenue through events and physical products, with the goal of reaching a million dollars and using the newsletter as a platform for growth and revenue.
Damn. Thank you AI..
About to launch mine!
awesome, good luck with the launch!
Hi Josie
Did you launch?? I just launched mine. Let’s talk,if that’s okay.
U want to help me start? I’m in a great town for it? How can I connect
I just launched mine. Let’s talk,if that’s okay.
Now I’m wondering how many cities have this nickname. I assumed Indianapolis til I saw Annapolis