I’m subscribed to several dozen daily newsletters.
Reading most of them is a chore.
In part, that’s cause they all come from Agora or Agora-like companies.
And they either deal with stock tips and gold rush advice…
Or health information about diseases I haven’t heard of, at least yet. (Macular degeneration, when you arrive, I will be ready.)
I slog through these emails each day because email marketing is my job.
But among these dull but important emails, there are a few email newsletters, which arrive daily or even multiple times a day, that I actually open up and read with some personal interest. Here they are:
#1. Simon Black
“America is going to shit and you better have a plan B for when it happens”
That’s the summary of International Man, run by Simon Black.
The thing is, Simon writes interesting emails. There’s always some little history lesson, written as a simple story. I find myself intrigued and educated.
Word to the wise: Simon’s subject lines are pretty dull and too matter-of-fact. Try opening up his emails even if the subject line doesn’t catch your attention.
#2. Newsmax
I mentioned Newsmax a few days ago.
It’s a giant newsletter about news from a conservative standpoint.
All of the stories in Newsmax will get your blood pressure up, whether you vote left, right, or not at all.
Plus, you will get links to some of the most shameless sales letters running on the Internet right now.
#3. Ben Settle
Ben settle didn’t invent daily emails. But he did a lot to make them popular.
He did this by being surprising and polarizing.
Even after many years of reading Ben’s emails, I still open and read them each day.
#4. James Altucher
I only started reading James Altucher several months ago.
He is multimillionaire former hedge fund manager and failed entrepreneur.
He writes long blog posts that get sent as emails as well.
His emails are personal, funny, and interesting.
But James also seems to be backed by some Agora company.
So the interesting and personal stuff that he writes is interspersed with cutthroat sales copy for getting rich off marijuana penny stocks. Just so ya know.
#5. That’s actually it. The above 4 are the only daily newsletters I enjoy reading.
But while preparing to write this email, I typed “daily emails” into Google. And I subscribed to a bunch of newsletters I had never heard of before:
– Uptown Messenger (about where to buy drugs in New York City?)
– the Skimm (possibly about the milk industry)
– PRSUIT (of missing vowels)
– Londonist (about things to do in London, where I don’t live)
– and something called “A Season of Grief,” which apparently sends you inspiring daily emails to help you cope with a death in the family
I can’t wait. I’ll keep you updated. But before you go, there’s one more:
#6. Your recommendation.
Do you follow any newsletters (daily or not) that you actually enjoy reading? (Besides mine, of course.)
If you do, please let me know.
This is not just an engagement tactic. I’m planning on putting together a weekly (not daily) newsletter about email marketing soon.
So you’d be helping me out. And I’d give you due credit in the first edition of that upcoming newsletter.
Just click here, and if you’ve got a hit tip for me, send me the juice.