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How to Get 100 More Newsletter Subscribers This Weekend (Even if You Have 0)
Turn existing content and a few DMs into your first 100 subscribers.
Welcome To The Orbit Marketing Newsletter 🪐
This Week We’re Diving Into:
📧 How To Get 100 More Subscribers by Monday: A step-by-step 3-day plan to grow your list.
💼 Build a 24/7 LinkedIn Lead Magnet: Kevin Stratvert’s guide for a lead-generating LinkedIn profile.
Read time: 4 minutes
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Tutorial: How to Get Your First 100 Email Subscribers This Weekend
Everyone talks about scaling to thousands of readers, but nobody tells you how to go from nothing to something (ie, 0 - 100 subscribers).
Your first 100 subscribers are the hardest to get. They're also the most important.
Here's a practical roadmap to hit your first 100 subscribers in a weekend.
🛠 Friday Night: Start Simple
Start with a landing page so simple there’s nowhere else to click: clear headline, 1-sentence value-proposition, email capture form, subscribe button.
Add social proof (“7 people joined tonight”) and switch on referrals. Day 1, done.
📲 Saturday Morning: Activate Your Warm Circle
Now it’s time to tap your existing network. Not with a mass email. With 25 personalized direct messages asking your warm contacts to subscribe.
Next, screenshot your landing page hero and post it to LinkedIn and X.
Justin Welsh, from The Saturday Solopreneur, pulled his first 37 subs in 24 hours from one LinkedIn post.
🧠 Saturday Afternoon: Borrow Other People’s Audiences
This is where the real acceleration happens.
Comment ladder: Find 10 posts from niche creators in your space. Leave thoughtful replies. Add a soft CTA like “link in bio if helpful.”
Community drop: Offer a free resource in three relevant groups on Slack, Facebook, or Reddit.
Go live: Host a 15-minute LinkedIn Audio or X Spaces session. Topic: one tip, one story, one Q&A. Pin your sign-up link.
The goal: turn strangers into subscribers by being helpful in spaces they already trust.
📄 Sunday Morning: Quick-Win Lead Magnet
Take an existing doc (maybe a checklist, a Notion template, or a short playbook) and turn it into a 1-page PDF.
Gate it behind your opt-in form. Then tease the takeaway in a new social post.
Email your Saturday subs with the PDF and a simple ask: “Know one person who’d find this useful? Forward this to them.”
This is how you turn 20 into 40.
🎁 Sunday Afternoon: Flash Giveaway
Create urgency around your referral program to maximize Sunday's sharing potential.
Turn on Beehiiv's milestone email. Make the reward specific and time-sensitive.
"Refer 3 friends today, get my [lead magnet]."
Push to social with a countdown. "Giveaway closes in 8 hours."
Urgency lifts share rates because people hate missing out on limited-time offers.
📊 Sunday Night: Lock It In
Before you celebrate, set up systems to maintain growth beyond the weekend.
Check which channel drove more than 40% of your subscribers.
Double down on what worked next week. If LinkedIn crushed it, create more LinkedIn content. If communities delivered, find more communities.
Schedule your first value email for Monday at 9 a.m. Keep new readers warm with something immediately useful. Remind the Sunday night signups why they subscribed.
Be sure to document what worked. You'll want to repeat this sprint when you're ready to scale to 500.
How to Turn Your LinkedIn Into a Lead Magnet
LinkedIn expert Kevin Stratvert walks you through transforming your outdated LinkedIn profile into a 24/7 lead magnet that attracts clients and opportunities on autopilot.
In this episode, you'll learn:
🖼️ The Image Upgrade: How to create a professional headshot using just your phone and AI, plus how to craft a banner image that shows personality and expertise.
📝 The Three-Part Headline Formula: Stop listing just your job title. Learn the simple formula that makes viewers stop scrolling and engage with your profile.
🎯 The Results-Only Experience Section: Transform boring job descriptions into achievement showcases by following a simple structure: Role + Company + Measurable Outcome (with specific numbers).
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