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I am curious to know if you're able to get any traction with this. There are a ton of newsletters out there that are free. The value in newsletters, as I understand it, is in building a large list and then getting the advertising dollars. Very targeted marketing yields better revenue opportunities. Serious question for you to answer: Why would I pay for your newsletter over a free alternative?

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because the newsletter isn't cluttered with ads or other stuff, doesn't have too much text (I'm not copy-pasting content) and has a 30 day trial period (you can find out for yourself whether you like it or not, without spending a dime).

But the content that you link to will still have ads. Good luck, but I don't see why I would pay $15 a month for this when I could go to any of the many tech aggregation sites click on their top 20 links and read the first paragraph to see if I want to read more.

Unless you have superior content, do you believe that's compelling enough? I don't like ads, but I wouldn't pay for an ad-free version of google search (or gmail for that matter).

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