✈️ How Sam Browne Grew His Audience 100X in 1 Year

Welcome to First Class Founders, your favorite destination to learn proven strategies to grow your online business.

Today, we’re joined by Sam Browne, a serial entrepreneur and creator who grew his following 100X from 500 to 50,000 in just 1 year. 🤯

How did he do it?

I speak to Sam about a wide variety of things:

• 📈 500 to 50,000 Followers in 1 Year

• 💵 Sales Framework: Hook, Line, Sinker

• 🙌🏻 How Sam Grew his LinkedIn Followers

• 💪🏼 Power of Resilience as an Entrepreneur

• 🪝 How to Create the Perfect Content Hook

Jetsetters, let’s get down to business!

💬 Question of the Week

🎛 Metrics Dashboard

I'm building First Class Founders in public. Each week, I share my numbers exclusively through subscribers of this newsletter only.

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Podcast:

• 90-Day Downloads: 6,571

• 30-Day Downloads: 2,318

• 7-Day Downloads: 486

👍🏻 Recommendation: Best AI tool for podcasters? I use and recommend Castmagic for show notes, transcripts, and excerpts.

Newsletter:

• Subscribers: 2,846

• Open Rate: 37.2%

• Click Rate: 5.1%

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✈️ Travel Further With Me

Here are 3 ways I can help you:

1. Join First Class Founders Membership:

   • Unlock early access to new episodes each week

   • Listen to the uncut extended guest interviews that never aired

   • Gain access to a private ad-free podcast with bonus episode segments

2. Get In Front of My Audience:

   • 17k+ Twitter followers

   • 12k+ Podcast subscribers

   • 2,800+ Newsletter subscribers

3. Work with Me:

   • Broader strategies on a particular topic

   • Dig deeper into specific tactics on a topic

💬 Final Word

I changed up the format of this newsletter a bit to keep focus on the podcast episode itself.

I spend a TON of time on each episode and I felt like I was doing a disservice by not highlighting it fully within each week’s newsletter.

As an entrepreneur, you always have to keep experimenting and iterating.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Please hit “reply” and let me know what you think!

One last thing - my friend Jeff Felton has an amazing newsletter specifically about newsletters!

So if you’re a newsletter operator, go subscribe to Jeff’s newsletter!

Thank you all and see you next week.

Yong-Soo Chung — Serial Entrepreneur, Podcaster