#2499 - Q&A: “Help! Mailchimp rejected my newsletter…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Struggling with an email service provider that kicked you to the curb? This episode dives into alternatives and strategies for keeping your email marketing game strong, even when your primary tool bails on you.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, side-leslers, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | This is episode 2, 499, |
| 0:16.0 | the penultimate episode before 2,500 days in a row. |
| 0:20.0 | That would be tomorrow, day 2,500, 2,500 consecutive days since we started the |
| 0:25.2 | podcast. We haven't missed a day. I'm so thankful for our amazing community and |
| 0:29.7 | I'll say a little bit more about that tomorrow. For now of course here's an episode, here's a |
| 0:33.6 | question. Let me see if we can be helpful to somebody out there. Now you probably heard |
| 0:37.1 | me say from time to time that a mailing list is one of the most valuable assets |
| 0:41.1 | for any business or side hustle. I feel like it's so important in |
| 0:45.3 | the days of social media, the age of social media where there's all these streaming |
| 0:49.4 | platforms and such. You know those are cool but with any kind of social media, you're always |
| 0:54.6 | dependent on that platform. |
| 0:56.4 | And that platform can change its algorithm. |
| 0:58.4 | As we all know, that platform can go out of business, which happens. |
| 1:02.1 | That platform can change everything, but with email |
| 1:04.3 | marketing of course people are on your list. I mean there's some issues there too but the |
| 1:09.0 | issues are fewer than they are with other platforms. So what happens when the tool you use for email marketing, |
| 1:15.7 | perhaps MailChimp in this case, and this is just the example of our listener, |
| 1:20.3 | turns around and says, hey, we don't want your business. |
| 1:23.2 | Okay, so this happens from time to time. |
| 1:25.2 | It actually happened to a caller from Australia. |
| 1:27.2 | She's going to tell us more about it. |
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