How I Got 20+ New Email Subscribers in a Week as a Brand New Blogger

Growing an email list is easier than you think.

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I launched my blog on November 1. Although I’m not selling anything yet, I decided I’d start an email list right from the start.

As we all know, the money is in the list.

Since then, my list has grown to 44 subscribers — 21 of which signed up in a single week (December 10 to 15). Here’s a screenshot I took back then:

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At first, I was genuinely puzzled by this.

With a DA of zero and just over a dozen blog posts, the traffic was surely not coming from Google.

My LinkedIn and Twitter accounts are on standby.

I’m yet to crack the code to consistent Pinterest traffic.

And I was barely writing on Medium.

The only remaining possibility was Quora. I put my detective coat on and set out to investigate.

So, let’s take a look at my (small) growth on Quora and the anatomy of the one answer that got me 21 email subscribers in a week.