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week 14: bringing jared to life
focus on building channels
Martin Bjørn
April 06, 2025
Dear board, first of all - thanks for making the time.
This has been a week with a lot of long-term work being done, both on the front- and back end of the business.
Frederik is working on moving/restructuring our databases to increase speed and possibilities for developing the news feed.
Bringing life to Jared
I’ve been spending some launching a YouTube channel bringing Jared to life.
My experiment; is to post 1 video + 5 shorts every day for all of April, and see if it can drive any traffic to the website.
I’m currently working on two shows (that’ll improve from day to day):
Today’s Biggest News (biggest story in business of today):
and
Jared’s 1-Minute Market Update:
What do you think of AI-Jared hosting the YouTube show?
Remember to subscribe to the YouTube channel for short updates on what’s happening in the business world. Subscribe here.
Everything right now is about creating great content and using it to build sustainable channels that can drive traffic to the website, and ultimately users.
Beside YouTube, I also post the biggest news + link to our YouTube videos in our Reddit Community daily.
Either of these activities is gonna give us a ton of users overnight - obviously.
It’s a long-term play, that will hopefully prove valuable over time.
If you have any feedback or recommendations, please let me know.
Our numbers this week
Due to the above, we haven’t seen any growth this week. We have a net loss of three users which is not surprising.
We’re grinding to improve the product, and build channels - but we are currently in a phase of long-term/behind-the-scenes plays, that will not drive immediate growth.
Total active users | 160 | 🔽 01.84% |
Net new subscribers | -3 | |
Revenue | 0$ |
New record for emails delivered again.
Emails delivered | 1.117 | 🔼 01.55% |
Unique opens | 598 | 🔼 09.72% |
Unique open rate | 53.54% | 🔼 03.99% |
Unique clicks | 55 | 🔽 15.38% |
Open rate is back above 50% which is great.
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Looking Ahead
Keeping our heads down, shipping updates, and building channels.
I’ll share the ups and downs, our numbers, and our plans with you every week this year.
As mentioned, I’m always open to feedback, suggestions or just connecting.
PS. Go sign up for Jared at getjared.ai - and if you know anyone who could benefit from this service, please forward this email to them.
Thanks for being part of this journey,
Martin Bjørn
Co-Founder & CEO, Jared