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🗓️ 1 November 2025
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TikTok, Snap, and Instagram fame is fun, but e-mail tends to pay the bills. Today we lay out the follower-to-inbox conversion math, including the moment a list becomes non-negotiable.
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| 0:00.0 | If you ever shop online, which, let's be real, who doesn't, you already understand how important |
| 0:05.6 | customer reviews are. You know this as a consumer, right? You always check the reviews before you buy |
| 0:10.1 | something and your customers are checking reviews as well. That's why if you run an e-commerce |
| 0:14.7 | business, reviews have an enormous impact on your business and you want to level up your business |
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| 0:37.2 | and use code hustle. No credit card or |
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| 0:48.2 | Lemonada. |
| 0:52.9 | One of the things you notice if you've been online for a while is that each social |
| 1:01.7 | platform or really any kind of platform at all, like anywhere where people are commenting |
| 1:06.6 | or engaging or watching or posting, they each have their own kind of behavior. And it doesn't |
| 1:13.3 | work very well if you decide, oh, this is the behavior that I want to have, you know, from one |
| 1:18.5 | platform and I want to apply it somewhere else. There's this like shared language and sense of |
| 1:22.8 | expectation of how people do things. And this relates to today's listener question, which, by the way, |
| 1:28.7 | welcome to Saitosol School. Thanks for tuning in. She is building a pretty big platform on TikTok. |
| 1:34.4 | She's got 200,000 followers. And she's trying to encourage these followers to join her newsletter. |
| 1:40.3 | And it's a challenge. Like a lot of them do not want to join the email opt-in. |
| 1:45.2 | Now, the email opt-in is really valuable, and she knows this. |
| 1:47.9 | That's why she wants to bring them over. |
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