If you have read my last email, you are already aware of the situation. If you haven’t read it, you can read it now. Link
After thinking a lot about this topic and discussing about it with a few of my friends and some working professionals, I have decided that I will running a newsletter but not like this one. This newsletter has 8705 subscribers at the time of writing this email. I got an average of 3.5k views on any post I publish. But i don’t feel the happiness in writing this newsletter. When we were a just at 2k subs, i used to get appreciation, I used to get feedback. I also made little money by taking accepting a few sponsorships. Today, it has grown almost 4x but it didn’t give me a good feeling, Now, it feels like a burden to run this newsletter. I accept it’s 99% my mistake, i had not been consistent, the newsletter has been dead for sometimes months. I accept my mistakes and i will try not to repeat that. I had always loved content writing and I still do. Here’s what i am planning to do -
I am moving the entire active audience to Beehiive. It’s a newsletter platform that i had been following from the time when it was underrated. I had always wanted to run my newsletter on Beehiiv because they have so amazing UI, features, and a lot of cool stuff + they care about their audience. I never did it earlier because most of the cool features are in their paid plan and i run a free newsletter, so it’s a risky bet. But i had taken this bet today.
While i just came to know that i can’t use their native feature for managing paid subscription as they use stripe for payment and stripe doesn’t support Indian companies much. So, I will need to manage the payments manually, but it’s ok, I can do that. I am very lucky that i have access to stripe legally while running a legal company although there are lot of restrictions. I will accept all payments on stripe link and will update the info on beehiiv, so their will be slight delays in getting access to our new newsletter. It can take up to 12 hours in it.
I am introducing two tiers -
Paid Subscription
A 2$/month plan for people who want to read our exclusive paid content. Their will be 3-4 posts per week for these subscibers. I post will be weekly updates but it will be in much better format and a few other posts delivering knowledge about OSINT and a few other skills that will be helpful for a professional working in OSINT.
Free Subscription
A 1$/year plan for people who wants to get just weekly updates just like this newsletter but that will be consistent and regular. Although, it’s 1$/year, it’s almost a negligible amount. I won’t become rich by charging 1$ per year but it will keep my email list spam free. I want a subscriber list with a highly engaged audience. I will prefer to have just 100subscribers with 90 people reading it rather than a newsletter with 8.6subs and 3.5k reads but 0 appreciation. I want to keep that newsletter spam free and only want people who are serious. Also, if any readers of that newsletter stays inactive for more than a month, he/she will be automatically unsubscribed by automation. They will be given reminder too. In case, they wanted to rejoin again, they can just email to hi@osintupdates.com and they will be added again for free.
If you are thinking about it being a scam because i am charging a 1$ amount, i request you to kindly unsubscribe from this newsletter. It’s not worth it to read my content if I haven’t earned even that much of respect.
As of today, i have wrote three posts in that newsletter for paid subscribers. For the free subscribers, the newsletter will be active from 1st may.
Join Paid Subscription - https://buy.stripe.com/6oU4gB35L53I44I2gDfUQ06
Join Free Subscription - https://buy.stripe.com/14AdRb0XD0NsfNq9J5fUQ07
Pay via Paypal or Wise - dheerajyadavmandlana@gmail.com
Clarification About Ads
There will be a few ads in the newsletter. They will be from legit companies. If you click on them and explore their website, i will get a little bit commission for referring them some traffic. If you like anything, you can give it a try. If you don’t like it, just visit the website once and explore it once and then just close it. The revenue made from this will help me in paying for the beehiiv’s paid subscription. Rest, it’s your choice.
What about this newsletter?
I will just be writing one monthly round up post in this newsletter on the last day of each month.
That’s it for this newsletter.
If you want to unsubscribe from this newsletter, feel free to do so. I don’t mind. I don’t want to chase the numbers, i want to chase the impact.
Have a Good Day.
Thanks to all those lovely people who helped me in coming up with this solution.
I am thankful to everyone who have been a subscriber to this newsletter, but that journey now ends here.
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