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Huzzah, Mark! Love that your little space is growing!

Definitely revisit publishing frequency as it's a fine balance between your ability to put out valuable, relevant content versus being in people's inboxes too often. Burning out and losing readers is a double whammy.

On that note, I would love to talk to you sometime. Let me know if a 20-minute call could be squeezed somewhere in your December schedule!

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Congrats! And thanks for the bit about open rate -- I keep forgetting to check what a "good" rate is, though I understand it varies by publication rate and (probably) number of subscribers.

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Dec 1, 2022Liked by Mark Dykeman

Congrats Mark! And, I’ve always been so impressed that you manage 4 editions a week! So, so much work! I’ll still be very impressed with 3!

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Congratulations on seven successful months of not just building an interesting newsletter, but also fostering a lovely community of readers! & appreciate your transparency with numbers -- always helpful to see as well.

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I really enjoy these updates, Mark - congratulations on such an amazing seven months! And LOL - I'm raising my latest cuppa to you right now (well, it's mid-elevenses time over here, so I've timed my reading of this post perfectly!). 🤣

What a great thing that your middle name's Andrew! Couldn't wait to reach the footnotes to establish whether the letter M. A. D. represent your actual initials. Yay that they do! 🎩

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Thank you, Mark! I always appreciate these peeks behind the curtain, and it’s wonderful to see how you’ve methodically built a lively community. Great to see the process become the product.

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