WE DID IT! Well, we kind of did it this week.
Our newsletter is gaining ever-increasing traction, and the reviews remain strong.
Recently, an MSNBC journalist told me he reads and watches the embedded videos in our newsletter, “Egberto Off The Record,” all the time. “Egberto, you are a truth teller,” he said before we started our interview. While I ensure that the news and opinions I impart are always fact-based and corroborative, it is reaffirming when one's work is recognized.
The most significant measure, however, is you, the audience at large. And guess what? This week, I crossed 10,000 followers and 8,800+ free subscribers. Our newsletter grows in followers and free subscribers daily. It is shared often, and the online viewership online continues to explode. We are making a difference.
The one place we have underperformed is getting more paid subscribers. As of today, we have 106 paid subscribers. This newsletter subsidizes and leverages all our multimedia platforms, where we distribute the progressive message in every format to combat the misinformation that the Right and their backing plutocracy pay for. We are the last line of defense as the mainstream media seems unable to go beyond false equivalence and unwarranted balance.
The hours spent hosting two daily talk shows, researching, lining up guests, processing videos, podcasts, articles, blogs, and books are long — 16-hour days, 7 days a week. And our staff is a grand total of one, me! I hope to grow our subscriber base to pay a part-time editor, a multimedia poster, and a video processor. That will come when we approach a few thousand paid subscribers.
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