Email List growth

I have a decent website, I’ve done the mailerlite dance, I have an automation of 3 well-crafted emails, and a yummy cookie for subscribing.

I launched it to my social media accounts of over 1000 (600 personal connections, about 300author connections) and still only got 11 subscribes.

Where do you find subscribers when you’ve “promoted” everywhere you should have? Do I just keep promoting every time I post a newsletter? Will people search me? I’m unpublished but trying to grow for publication in the next year.

I’ve heard Thomas say it’s totally realistic to get 1000-3000 subscribers before publication, but that seems so far off to me…where do they come from? haha!

Feel free to post relevant Author Media podcasts I might have missed!

THANK YOU!