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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3227 - Q&A: “Why won’t TikTok followers join my newsletter?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

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

0:19.0

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0:21.1

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0:26.7

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0:31.2

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0:37.2

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0:39.7

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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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