How Many Subscribers Do You Think I Can Get for $1,000?

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

I’m running a little Facebook ads experiment next month to grow my newsletter.

Not this one. I mean The Reading Life. The OTHER one :)

I’m only going to be spending $1,000, but I think it could really move the needle for my business. Here’s why:

1. With my newsletter running on Beehiiv, I get paid for each person who signs up to any newsletter I recommend. This is through their “Boost” feature. I don’t think I’ll make my entire $1K back with this - but I could. That’s the crazy part.

2. With my “Welcome” sequence set up, every new subscriber is introduced to my various offerings and programs (while receiving value at the same time), and I know that this Welcome sequence prints money.

So I’m giving myself several ways to win and no way to lose.

Inside my private community, I’ll be breaking down my entire Facebook ads strategy, the results, etc.

But here’s how many clicks Facebook thinks I could get from this campaign:

Now, I tend to be fairly optimistic, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to get 15,000 clicks over 30 days (500×30), and if my landing page converts at 15% (also not unreasonable!), then I’ll gain 2,250 new subscribers to my newsletter, bringing the total up to around 6,000.

Not too bad!

And if 25% of those 2,250 new subscribers sign up to a Boosted newsletter, at my $1.50 referral fee or so I’ll make about $850 (562×$1.50).

Again, not bad!

I mean, that almost pays for the whole thing, and that’s not even including anything that comes from my Welcome sequence.

Inside the Welcome sequence, I lay out a few offers.

There’s the $75/month price of joining The Competitive Advantage community, and I’d only need 13.3 people to join at $75/month to make back my $1,000 investment on ads!

Of course, I’m not going to let 0.3 people join haha. You have to be a WHOLE person to join my private mastermind (no exceptions haha), but you get the idea.

These are crazy times we’re living in, and I’m going to be honest with you.

You’re leaving crazy money on the table by not having a newsletter.

Here, start your newsletter on Beehiiv with my link (they’re one of the top providers in the world) and you can get a 30-day free trial AND 20% OFF for 3 months.

I’m handing you a license to print money.

There are still 11 spots remaining inside The Competitive Advantage community and you can grab one of the last remaining ones here.

If you want my personal help to add between $1-5K/month in monthly recurring revenue to your business, and grow your audience and authority by leaps and bounds at the same time, that’s exactly where you need to be. Join here.

Within My Direct Control:

Read 20 Books | 14 Books Left

Publish 8 New Time Mastery Videos | 8 Videos Left

Publish 29 YouTube Videos | 25 Videos Left

Publish 150 Medium Articles | 129 Articles Left

Completely Update My Social Media | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Patreon Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Newsletter Platforms | Incomplete

Completely Update My Email Welcome Sequence | Almost Finished

Launch Affiliate Program for My Paid Community | Incomplete

Update 20 Patreon Book Notes | 15 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 600 Authors | 574 Authors Left

Not Within My Direct Control:

Get Monetized on YouTube | 3,620 Watch Hours Left (9.5% Complete)

Negotiate 12 Newsletter Partnerships | 11 Partnerships Left

Organize 12 Instagram Collaborations | 10 Collaborations Left

Reach 115,000 Instagram Followers | 5,576 Followers Left

Reach 20,000 Threads Followers | 3,900 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 X Followers | 2,364 Followers Left

Reach 3,000 Medium Followers | 1,112 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 Facebook Followers | 759 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 LinkedIn Followers | 1,284 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 YouTube Subscribers | 8,686 Subscribers Left

Reach 10,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 6,200 Subscribers Left

Reach 1,000 Competitive Advantage Subscribers | 493 Subscribers Left

Reach 50 Competitive Advantage Members | 11 Members Left

Reach 40 Patreon Supporters | 13 Supporters Left

Note: I’ll update follower counts once per week, since it’s such a waste of time to go through all of them every single night. Also, Threads annoyingly doesn’t give exact numbers. Oh well.

Read 5 Books | 4 Books Left

Publish 3 New Time Mastery Videos | 3 Videos Left

Publish 5 YouTube Videos | 4 Videos Left

Publish 25 Medium Articles | 19 Articles Left

Completely Update My Facebook Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My LinkedIn Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Threads Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Medium Profile | Almost Finished

Completely Update My Email Welcome Sequence | Almost Finished

Update 10 Patreon Book Notes | 5 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 250 Authors | 249 Authors Left

Woke Up: 1:00PM

Sleep Quality: 70%

Pages Read: 70

Workout: Rest Day

I’m taking this week off from the gym to sprint towards completing as many of my June goals as possible. I’m not entirely happy about it, but I’ll get some home workouts in at least.

Work Completed:

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 3x on Twitter

Posted 3x on Threads

Posted 2x on Facebook

Posted 2x on LinkedIn

Published/Scheduled 1 Medium Articles

Worked on Next Book Breakdown

Managed My Skool Community

Worked on Updating My Social Media

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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I wasn’t all that happy with how today went, but I DID have some nice wins. For example, I’m really dialing in my revenue strategy for the business and the newsletter’s going to be a big part of it.

YouTube monetization also isn’t too far off, I’ve got some new author deals in the works, cool things I’m working on…it’s exciting!

But hey, it’s 3:56AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

P.S. Whenever you're ready, here are three more ways I can help you:

1. Work with me personally to scale your business past $5K per month and experience the intoxicating freedom of finally being in control of both your time and your income. High-performers only.

2. Become a Premium Member of The Reading Life and enjoy unlimited access to 150+ Premium Book Breakdowns, my complete notes from 1,250+ books, exclusive discounts, monthly donations made on your behalf to an incredible literacy charity, and more!

3. Join The Competitive Advantage, my private business mastermind for creators looking to add at least $1,000/month to their revenue and save at least 20+ hours of productive time each and every week.