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Vol. I · No. 01Lancaster AI GuyLancaster, PA

Get your newsletter sponsored

Turn your newsletter into a sponsorship machine.

★ Guaranteed ★
45-Day Promise
Sponsor or Refund
Click Here To Get Sponsored

Sponsorship sales is where newsletters die.

You built the newsletter. You write every issue. You grew subscribers. And now the part that actually makes money (calling local businesses to sponsor you) never happens because it takes forever.

THE WORKINGS
What we do
Prospecting
I

Personalized outreach list.

We search the internet for the local businesses most likely to sponsor your newsletter. Each email address is verified before we send.

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Outreach
II

Automated campaigns.

We keep them on the outreach list until they become a sponsor or they tell you they're not interested. We follow up as their business changes and as your subscriber base grows. If they're not interested day 1, that doesn't mean they won't be interested in 6 months.

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Replies
III

Personalized dashboard.

A personalized dashboard so you can track all outbound, all replies, all warm leads, and all no's in one place — so you don't forget anybody.

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Deliverability
IV

Dedicated domains.

Outbound runs on two cold-email domains we register in your name. The domain your readers trust never touches outreach. If something ever burns, it burns somewhere disposable.

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DISPATCHES

Dashboard

portal.lancasteraiguy.com / pittsburgh-pulse

Pittsburgh Pulse · Action inbox

last sync 2 min ago
3,247
Leads
1,812
Sent
68
Replies
3.8%
Reply rate
14
Interested
5
Booked
Last 30 days
Sent Good replies
Cold outreach 14 need action
Booked meetings
Customers
Archive
Marco Silvestri marco@marcosbistro.com · 2h
Yes, interested. Can you send the rate sheet and last 3 issues? We were thinking about doing something in May…
Dana Holt — Holt Real Estate dana@holtre.com · 4h
Booked you for Thursday at 2pm. Looking forward to it.
Jen Park — Park Dental jen@parkdental.com · 1d
Worth a chat. I run two locations in Squirrel Hill — what's the typical investment?
Tom — Allegheny Painting tom@alleghenypaint.com · 1d
Not right now, thanks. Reach back out in the fall maybe.

We don't buy lists. We make them.

We build a cold outreach list personalized to your business.

Apollo / ZoomInfo / Lusha

The usual
  • Bought lists every other agency is also emailing
  • Generic SaaS prospecting contacts
  • Stale data refreshed annually
  • No local-newsletter relevance
  • High bounce rates from over-emailed contacts

Lancaster AI Guy

Our way
  • Our lists are created specifically for your business
  • Local businesses that genuinely belong as sponsors
  • Verified before every single send
  • Hand-tuned categories per newsletter's market
  • Bounce rate stays low because the data starts clean

We're a small operator helping other small operators. The lead lists we build for you only exist because we built them, for you.

What happens after you sign up.

Step 1Day 0

Domains purchased.

We register 2 sending domains in your name and set everything up. The domains stay yours, used only for this.

Step 2Day 1–14

Warm-up.

We warm the new domains up slowly to build sender reputation. No outreach goes out yet. The scraper runs in the background, collecting and verifying leads.

Step 3Day 14

First sends.

Campaigns activate. Outreach starts ramping daily — ~20 sends/day per domain, building to 30/day per domain (~60/day total).

Step 4Day 21+

Full send.

Replies start landing in your action inbox. You decide what to do with each one. Everything else runs itself.

Step 5Month 1+

Long-tail nurture.

Anyone who didn't reply gets check-ins at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months. Businesses change. Budgets change. We keep going until they say stop.

FOUNDER NOTE

The Same system I built for my own newsletter.

“I implemented this for “The Lancaster Ledger.” We filled every sponsor slot and pulled in around $2,500 in revenue in our first two and a half months, before we even crossed 3,000 subscribers.

— Collin Dawkins · founder, The Lancaster Ledger · Lancaster, PA

TERMS & RATES

Pricing

One-time setup

$250one time
Domains, inboxes, scraper, sequences, warmup, go-live.

Monthly · total

$300/ mo
Everything you need to keep the system running.
Month-to-month. Cancel anytime.
★ Guaranteed ★
45-Day Promise
Sponsor or Full Refund
The promise
Land a sponsor in your first 45 days or I refund every dollar you've paid.
Setup fee, monthly fees, all of it. No fine print, no quibbles. If the system doesn't land you at least one sponsor in the first 45 days after go-live, you get a full refund.
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Secured by Stripe · 45-day money-back guarantee · cancel anytime

White-glove service. We run the automated campaigns, sell the sponsorships, and close the deals ourselves. Contact for pricing.
The math

What 180 emails a day actually looks like.

Emails sent per day~180
Emails sent per month~3,600
New businesses contacted per month~2,400–2,800
Expected warm replies (conservative, 1%)24–28 / mo
Who it's for

Built for newsletter operators who want their nights back.

01

Local newsletters

0–100,000 subscribers, anywhere in the country.

Sponsors: home services, restaurants, real estate, healthcare, retail — the businesses your readers already spend money with.
02

Print newsletters & local news

Independent print publications and local news outlets.

Sponsors: Same playbook, applied to the businesses that would pay to reach your print or digital readership.
03

Vertical newsletters

Niche audiences — industry-specific or interest-based.

Sponsors: industry-specific brands willing to pay a premium to reach a hard-to-find audience.
CORRESPONDENCE

FAQ

Will this hurt my newsletter's sender reputation?

No — we send from 2 dedicated cold-email domains, never from your newsletter domain. If a cold domain ever gets flagged, your subscribers don't even know it exists.

What if I already use Beehiiv / Substack / Mailchimp?

Great. We work perfectly with all of those and do not replace them.

What if I don't have a Calendly?

We'll set one up with you, or use whatever booking link / form / email-back flow you already use.

Who does the prospect actually reply to?

You. Replies hit your inbox directly (and our dashboard). You decide whether to call them or close the loop in email.

Why don't you just buy lists from Apollo or ZoomInfo?

Those lists are bought and resold to every agency in the country — the same contacts are getting hammered by 40 other people, bounce rates are high, and almost none of them are local businesses that would actually sponsor a newsletter. We build the lists ourselves from Google Maps, Yelp, and Chamber directories, verify every email before it sends, and the result is what you'd expect: lower bounces, real reply rates, and prospects who are genuinely a fit. It works.

What if it doesn't work?

If we don't land you at least one sponsor in the first 45 days after we go live, you get a full refund. Setup fee, monthly charges, all of it. No quibbles. If it does work and you keep going, the subscription is month-to-month. No contract, cancel anytime.

Can you do this for a non-newsletter business?

Yes. It works for actual physical papers, for any kind of email list (not just newsletters), and for pretty much anybody doing B2B who needs a steady flow of warm conversations. Book a call or email collin@lancasteraiguy.com and we'll talk through your specifics.

Have questions? Email me.

Send a quick note about your newsletter and your market. I'll write back and we can figure out whether this is a fit.

Email Collin →

Backed by the 45-day money-back guarantee.

collin@lancasteraiguy.com

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