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May 25
Hello world, Here’s a video of me hitting milk cartons: Here’s a pic of Tycho: And here’s a voice memo: The padding can be a little tight around audio files… And here’s a PDF: 336ebae4 A2e7 465a Ba29 9b5fbfe8f553 62.6KB ∙ PDF file Download
Let’s see how it shakes out!
Yem joining Substack
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Oct 7
I'm excited to share that we're joining the Substack team! We'll be continuing the Yem mission and building products that help with audience and revenue growth. Check out the post below on what we’ve been up to recently and some of our upcoming plans. On Substack Substack’s most powerful feature is growth Substack makes money only when writers make money, which means we have a very strong incentive to help writers grow their revenue. Happily, we’re now in a position where Substa...
Yem Jam (Vol. 16)
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Mar 8
Welcome to another Yem Jam, a summary of progress, learnings, and ideas as we build Yem. March 1st marked Yem's first birthday. 🎂 🎉 We launched our first growth product three months ago. For those new to Yem or the newsletter, we help paid newsletters automate their email marketing. The goal of Yem's emails is to convert free subs to paid and prevent cancels. Nothing fancy, but we're seeing solid results — here’s where we are today:
Our customers include 38 paid newsletters wi...
Yem Jam (Vol. 15)
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Dec 12
Welcome to another Yem Jam, a summary of progress, learnings, and ideas as we build Yem. This will be the last update of 2021 — we look forward to seeing you next year, and thank you for being part of the journey. 🙏 🔨 Product update We’re now working with a dozen paid newsletters and continue to have a solid impact, driving an average lift of +7.4% in subscription revenue. We're maintaining our impact into the 2nd and 3rd months for longer-tenured customers. Below is a chart showing re...
Yem Jam (Vol. 14)
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Nov 7
Hey team, Welcome to another Yem Jam, a summary of progress, learnings, and ideas as we build Yem. We continue to see solid results with our personalized messaging product (more details below). We are actively onboarding newsletters from our waitlist. If you're operating a paid newsletter, we would be thrilled to help grow your revenue. If you know anyone operating a paid newsletter, we would appreciate if you share this note with them. To sign-up for a 1-month trial, feel free to reply ...
Yem Jam (Vol. 13)
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Oct 4
Team, Welcome to another Yem Jam, a summary of progress, learnings, and ideas as we build Yem. In this jam, we cover performance of our automated lifecycle product and next steps. Let’s dive in! 💌 Automated lifecycle messaging for creators Lifecycle messaging is often the most cost-effective channel to drive growth. In particular, email remains one of the best channels to create value. At Crunchyroll, we used email to onboard new users and convert free users to paid subscribers. We improved ...
Yem Jam (Vol. 12)
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Sep 6
Team, I hope everyone is having a lovely Labor Day weekend! It's been a while since we spoke. As a reminder (and welcome to those that are new), Yem Jam is a weekly summary of progress, learnings, and ideas as we build Yem. Let’s dive in! Yem's raison d'être During the past month, we've been working on refining Yem's story. Here's the latest: Larger media companies can provide many benefits that are less accessible to individual creators. One benefit is a growth tea...
Yem Jam (Vol. 11)
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Aug 8
Hey team, We moved past two big milestones this week: We were able to bring our customer's Substack data into our database without any human intervention. We sent our first notification without any human intervention. A round of applause (👏 🙌 🙏) for our development team. The first bullet is foundational to any data-driven product we want to build. The second bullet is a proof of concept for the initial product offering we want to launch (let’s call this our “MVP”). The piping is set up —...
Yem Jam (Vol. 10)
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Aug 2
Hey team, Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. As we build Yem's initial product offering, we're thinking more about our ideal customer. Our mission is to help creators, many of whom are solopreneurs or manage a small team. It can be a lean operation, which is part of the opportunity. We want to give creators the superpowers of a 20-person team. But compared to a true B2B sales channel, there may be some challenges. Last week, we talked about our goal of a $100,000 ARR run rate wi...
Yem Jam (Vol. 9)
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Jul 26
Hey team, Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. 🌞 🍉 As some of our long-time readers know, our team spends quite a bit of time doing the following each week: downloading data from a few different sources cleaning and molding the data to make it useful preparing weekly performance notes creating and executing growth tests We're making progress on automating the work above, especially the first two bullets. To an increasing degree, data is flowing into a structured database without much huma...
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