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Offer exclusive content to see who's paying attention to your newsletter. 📚 Send an email with a free downloadable guide, a private webinar invite, or early access to a new feature. Mention that...

Use content-based surveys to gauge interest from your newsletter subscribers. 📝 A week or two after someone subscribes, send them a quick survey. Ask about their preferences—what kind of content are...

Set up behavioral triggers to verify engagement with your newsletter subscribers. ⚙️ If a new subscriber clicks on specific links or completes certain actions within the first month, it shows...

Newsletter subscribers can grow cold. It happens. 🥶 Every 3 to 6 months, check who's engaging (opens, clicks). Use automation to tag those who haven't engaged in a month or two. Send them a "We're...

Welcome emails are more than just a "Hey, thanks for signing up." They set the stage for your newsletter. 🎭 Explain what your mailing list is all about. Let subscribers know they can hit "reply"...

Black Friday: The Old Gamer's Dilemma Ah, Black Friday. A sacred holiday for gamers like me—where we stock up on heavily discounted games we’ll never have time to play. Once upon a time, I’d dive...

Backlog: The Black Hole of ideas Is your backlog turning into an ever-expanding universe of forgotten dreams? We all know that mix—a jumble of big ideas and tiny tasks waiting for their day in the...

The Trade-off Between Budgets and Quality ⚖️ In my previous post, I talked about shifting from Estimates to Budgets for feature development 💡. Let's dive deeper. Using a Budget instead of an...

Budgets instead of Estimates Estimating a feature is difficult and is often a guess (or even a lie). An Estimate is for a fixed scope. So, you need to think deeply how to implement the feature,...

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I'm dropping GitVersion. After working with GitVersion for a while, I decided to simplify things. GitVersion is powerful, but it often felt like overkill for my projects. I wanted something that...