Sam Parr is the CEO of The Hustle – a daily newsletter that delivers the latest and trending topics to young millennials. Originally a sub-product of Sam Parr’s Hustle Con, an annual business conference, The Hustle has rapidly become one of the fastest growing newsletters in USA. They grew from 0 to 100K daily subscribers in 10 months!
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Title — “Look what you did, you little jerk…”
But things are not always so bright and shiny:
“One month it’ll be shitty. I’ll be working six days a week and nothing is working. You’re like: ‘This is horrible. I hate this. I want to quit.’ (…) It feels like it’s not working more often than it feels like it’s working.”
In the interview we discuss practical tactics that Sam uses regarding growth, virality, early acquistion, monetization, funding, cold emailing, meeting own expectations and more!
What is the recipe for The Hustle’s growth? What type of articles are shared the most? What is the current monthly reach of TheHustle.co? How did Sam and his co-founder know that the conversational tone is the right to catch a large audience? What did Sam learn from his roommate matching company? Why did he hate to work there after it got acquired? How does he select the writers and chooses the topics for the platform? How is he monetizing it?
Watch the interview and learn how to hustle!
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Check out some highlights from the interview:
“One of our philosophies is that if everyone is going this way, then we should go this way. We noticed that a lot of the websites that we would read – like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg – are super dry. They don’t converse like you and I converse.”
“For the first two weeks, every time a sale came in, I was like ‘Holly shit! It’s working.’”
“Some speakers who I emailed for the first time never responded to me or said no, so the second time I would continue emailing them; for example a speaker from this year (Otis Chandler from Good Reads), I’ve been emailing for two years.”
“You just understand what emotions trigger sharing. We’ve got data and insights, so we write trying to get that type of emotions.”
“There is 80M millennials in America. 40M of them are college educated. I want to have 40M come to the website everyday.”
“I like doing whatever I want and don’t like to be told what to do. If I can prove that our pirate ship can sail on its own, then any money we have is a little bit of wind in our sails, as opposed to someone telling us what to do.”
“What I’ve learned was even when you hit the goals that you want to hit, it’s only satisfying for a minute.”
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