seobraving
Registered Member
- Oct 1, 2021
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Hello Fellas,
After years and years of looking for this section, I (finally) decided to build something.
For years, I tried to make something online, forums, blogs, and sites, (failed at almost everything). I am not a talkative, good person, My idea for writing this post is to keep pushing myself.
For now, I will be very simple:
Make a Beehive account
draw the branding
Actually, I'm still looking for a cybersecurity job. It's been my dream since I got my first computer in 2005. I worked in a LAN house for a month, then bought an old computer, which broke two months later after I deleted a random system32 file. (LOL)
After learning how to fix that, I realized it could be a valuable learning experience. I then started my studies. Honestly, at that time, I didn’t even have money to pay for internet (internet in my country was very poor and expensive).
Even though I had no money, I had a wireless connection without internet. I learned how to discover all the Wi-Fi networks around my house and found many ways to get better internet access. I learned a lot about wireless protocols, MikroTik, and various networking systems. And you know the rest of the story.
How do I find a good email list without being an influencer?
Beehiv account created
Branding created
I spent months trying to figure out how to get good lists that would click on the links in my newsletter.
I’ve tried testing Twitter, but without a good account, it's nearly impossible to collect emails, even if I post every day.
Then I decided to create 2 Twitter accounts and 2 LinkedIn accounts. I’m growing them by adding people, commenting, and sharing posts.
On LinkedIn, I can collect emails from my followers, who are all from my target niche. I believe these emails will be valuable for my newsletter list.
2. Back to the history
After realizing that I can be a good Computer guy, I started as an IT graduate in Networks. 1 semester later, I was able to get an internship in my university This internship paid 75% of my graduate (lol)
But mental health is crucial, and I never realized how important it is to address it when studying and working in IT (or any field). If you struggle with anxiety and poor focus, and your mind constantly drifts, staying focused can be incredibly challenging.
I tried to finish my degree for many years, and after 6 years, I finally completed it. During that time, I worked at various companies for short periods and spent many years reading everything I could about cybersecurity. I created accounts on numerous forums, most of which no longer exist today.
read a lot of books, learning a lot of malware reversing techniques, a lot of methodologies , understand any nomenclature...but never get a cybersecurity job, just got random jobs like IT support, infrastructure cable, Networking in general anyway..
Selling myself to companies was always a thorn in my side.
My Personal Struggles
I found a great old domain, started a blog, set it up on Google, and post periodically. However, it’s growing as slowly as my cybersecurity career. I was able to get an AWS Startup Account (1K USD I lost after 6 month
) and applied for a SNS account. With that, my goal is to build this newsletter from scratch. However, my anxiety and focus issues are challenging, so I’ll try to go slow and use Beehive for now. My goal is to transition to something else in the future.
START POINT
July: 3 subscribes
Linkedin Email Extractor
I’ve already extracted 1,000 emails from my followers. My plan is to add them to my Free Beehive Account(2.5k limit) , send out a daily newsletter, track who opens the emails, remove those who don’t, and keep going.
have some automation running on LinkedIn, and my goal is to keep collecting fresh profiles every day. I then cross these profiles using OSINT methods to find different emails from my target niche.
3. Back to the history
After so many attempts, I realized that I lack the capacity to get a job in the field I dreaming to, even though I have many skills. However, I struggle to selling this in interviews and find it difficult to continue my studies in the way the job market demands.
have a 9-to-5 job that I’m not happy with, so when I’m at home, I need to manage my time carefully if I want to continue living in this country. With just 2 or 3 hours a day to focus on this project, I’ve started learning how to automate as many daily tasks as possible.
How I Curate News and Manage My Newsletter?
like I said in my history I spent too much time just thinking after in fact do something, after test many options I found Notion as a perfect dashboard to collect the news and select which one should go to the newsletter.
My Simple Infrastructure Setup
To ensure I don't need to read site by site, I created some Python code to extract feeds and post them into my Notion dashboard. The idea is simple: wake up 1 hour early every day, and then all the fresh news will be on my Notion panel
I start using gogle colab to learn how to do the python code then in the next chapter I found github actions the best way to run without use my machine and work greats
The best thing here, guys, is that the Notion API is completely free, unlike other services I tested before, and GitHub Actions is also free
Challenges Encountered in the Process
Even with this process, I still waste time (30-50 min a day ) selecting the best news to post in my newsletter. I’ve created sections like Vulnerability (news about 0-day exploits, advanced threats, malware reports, legislation, etc.) to organize the content.
I solve this spending this time studying how IA and Agents work, I found some solutions but very expensive to use then I found the great solution
CrewAi + GroqApi for FREE
After understanding how this new world works, it opened a big door in my mind. I love the idea of saving 20-40 minutes by understanding how AI for productivity works.
Now, I can use Groq and a powerful model (LLaMA3-70B-8192) to perform tasks such as categorizing content, making comments on LinkedIn, or posting our newsletter on social media.
The Roadmap Ahead
1. Make daily newsletter or 3x week (still decide)
2. Make a podcast for subscribe capture
3 .Keep growth my Linkedin account (I try to open new one but after 24h I lost them I have just 2 with more then 4 years of use)
4. Found a new ways to make my audience
5. Make networking (this is the hard part for me)
6. Improve myself on my interviews
7. 2.5k subscribe with 40% open rate
8. Make weekly report here
Final Reflections
So, guys, I really spent a lot of time writing this post to keep myself motivated on this project. I hope you like it, and I apologize if I talked too much. Any feedback is welcome, and I hope to find some answers to my questions here. by now.
After years and years of looking for this section, I (finally) decided to build something.
For years, I tried to make something online, forums, blogs, and sites, (failed at almost everything). I am not a talkative, good person, My idea for writing this post is to keep pushing myself.
For now, I will be very simple:
Make a Beehive account
draw the branding
- Name
- Logo
- Header
- Newsletter Format (section, categories )
Actually, I'm still looking for a cybersecurity job. It's been my dream since I got my first computer in 2005. I worked in a LAN house for a month, then bought an old computer, which broke two months later after I deleted a random system32 file. (LOL)
After learning how to fix that, I realized it could be a valuable learning experience. I then started my studies. Honestly, at that time, I didn’t even have money to pay for internet (internet in my country was very poor and expensive).
Even though I had no money, I had a wireless connection without internet. I learned how to discover all the Wi-Fi networks around my house and found many ways to get better internet access. I learned a lot about wireless protocols, MikroTik, and various networking systems. And you know the rest of the story.
How do I find a good email list without being an influencer?
Beehiv account created
Branding created
I spent months trying to figure out how to get good lists that would click on the links in my newsletter.
I’ve tried testing Twitter, but without a good account, it's nearly impossible to collect emails, even if I post every day.
Then I decided to create 2 Twitter accounts and 2 LinkedIn accounts. I’m growing them by adding people, commenting, and sharing posts.
On LinkedIn, I can collect emails from my followers, who are all from my target niche. I believe these emails will be valuable for my newsletter list.
2. Back to the history
After realizing that I can be a good Computer guy, I started as an IT graduate in Networks. 1 semester later, I was able to get an internship in my university This internship paid 75% of my graduate (lol)
But mental health is crucial, and I never realized how important it is to address it when studying and working in IT (or any field). If you struggle with anxiety and poor focus, and your mind constantly drifts, staying focused can be incredibly challenging.
I tried to finish my degree for many years, and after 6 years, I finally completed it. During that time, I worked at various companies for short periods and spent many years reading everything I could about cybersecurity. I created accounts on numerous forums, most of which no longer exist today.
read a lot of books, learning a lot of malware reversing techniques, a lot of methodologies , understand any nomenclature...but never get a cybersecurity job, just got random jobs like IT support, infrastructure cable, Networking in general anyway..
Selling myself to companies was always a thorn in my side.
My Personal Struggles
I found a great old domain, started a blog, set it up on Google, and post periodically. However, it’s growing as slowly as my cybersecurity career. I was able to get an AWS Startup Account (1K USD I lost after 6 month
) and applied for a SNS account. With that, my goal is to build this newsletter from scratch. However, my anxiety and focus issues are challenging, so I’ll try to go slow and use Beehive for now. My goal is to transition to something else in the future.START POINT
July: 3 subscribes
Linkedin Email Extractor
I’ve already extracted 1,000 emails from my followers. My plan is to add them to my Free Beehive Account(2.5k limit) , send out a daily newsletter, track who opens the emails, remove those who don’t, and keep going.
have some automation running on LinkedIn, and my goal is to keep collecting fresh profiles every day. I then cross these profiles using OSINT methods to find different emails from my target niche.
3. Back to the history
After so many attempts, I realized that I lack the capacity to get a job in the field I dreaming to, even though I have many skills. However, I struggle to selling this in interviews and find it difficult to continue my studies in the way the job market demands.
After years of attempts, I decided to leave my country and try everything again elsewhere. Hahaha, 6 years later, I'm back to pursuing my dream and looking for a job. My goal with this project is personal branding and networking. In the future, I want to monetize it by inserting ads, using Amazon affiliate links, and so on. For now, I'm focusing on making daily posts a habit.
have a 9-to-5 job that I’m not happy with, so when I’m at home, I need to manage my time carefully if I want to continue living in this country. With just 2 or 3 hours a day to focus on this project, I’ve started learning how to automate as many daily tasks as possible.
How I Curate News and Manage My Newsletter?
like I said in my history I spent too much time just thinking after in fact do something, after test many options I found Notion as a perfect dashboard to collect the news and select which one should go to the newsletter.
My Simple Infrastructure Setup
To ensure I don't need to read site by site, I created some Python code to extract feeds and post them into my Notion dashboard. The idea is simple: wake up 1 hour early every day, and then all the fresh news will be on my Notion panel
I start using gogle colab to learn how to do the python code then in the next chapter I found github actions the best way to run without use my machine and work greats
The best thing here, guys, is that the Notion API is completely free, unlike other services I tested before, and GitHub Actions is also free
Challenges Encountered in the Process
Even with this process, I still waste time (30-50 min a day ) selecting the best news to post in my newsletter. I’ve created sections like Vulnerability (news about 0-day exploits, advanced threats, malware reports, legislation, etc.) to organize the content.
I solve this spending this time studying how IA and Agents work, I found some solutions but very expensive to use then I found the great solution
CrewAi + GroqApi for FREE
After understanding how this new world works, it opened a big door in my mind. I love the idea of saving 20-40 minutes by understanding how AI for productivity works.
Now, I can use Groq and a powerful model (LLaMA3-70B-8192) to perform tasks such as categorizing content, making comments on LinkedIn, or posting our newsletter on social media.
The Roadmap Ahead
1. Make daily newsletter or 3x week (still decide)
2. Make a podcast for subscribe capture
3 .Keep growth my Linkedin account (I try to open new one but after 24h I lost them I have just 2 with more then 4 years of use)
4. Found a new ways to make my audience
5. Make networking (this is the hard part for me)
6. Improve myself on my interviews
7. 2.5k subscribe with 40% open rate
8. Make weekly report here
Final Reflections
So, guys, I really spent a lot of time writing this post to keep myself motivated on this project. I hope you like it, and I apologize if I talked too much. Any feedback is welcome, and I hope to find some answers to my questions here. by now.
