Looking for advice on newsletter / growth
Hello everyone - for context... I'm in tech sales & believe it or not X is a big community for tech sales specifically. So about a year ago as I was breaking into tech sales I started an X account and started posting a ton.... long story short is a starting getting a ton of traction & have people DMing me all the time asking for advice, tips, etc...
While this was going on I realized all I was doing was basically free consulting.. posting tons of value on X & getting quite literally nothing for it... so at the beginning of 2026 this year I started a newsletter to at least start a funnel / collect emails for all the time & value I was giving.
I've posted a weekly article on Beehiiv since the first week of February & officially just hit 50 subscribers completely organically & all from X. Zero promotions or anything... just giving value & having people go to my page, click my newsletter link, & subscribe... all organically.
This is great, but growth is slow & long term i'd love to start being able to monetize (not any time soon, but long term thinking)
I would love some feedback on my page / articles you can check it out here: https://rooktorep.beehiiv.com/
What are the best practices to grow naturally outside of X? Reddit is very hard because you can't promote....I'm hearing some things about facebook groups? Any other tips on how to grow or on my newsletter is appreciated. Thanks.