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Newsletter sponsorship sales, handled · Lancaster, PA

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Newsletter Sponsored

We find the local businesses that should be sponsoring you, verify every email, and run the outreach. Replies land in your dashboard.

$250 setup · $300/mo · Month-to-month

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★ Guaranteed ★
45-Day Promise
Sponsor or Refund
The Problem

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.

Engraving of a newsletter operator buried under unanswered lettersthe sponsorship problem

Sponsorship sales is a second full-time job

Finding prospects, verifying contacts, writing outreach, following up for months. It's the highest-leverage work you never get to. So we do it for you.

Hand it off →
What we do

The Workings

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Outreach list
I

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

Prospecting
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Automated campaigns
II

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

Outreach
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Personal dashboard
III

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.

Replies
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Dedicated domains
IV

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.

Deliverability
Dispatches

Your 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
SentGood replies
Cold outreach14 need action
Booked meetings
Customers
Archive
Marco Silvestrimarco@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 Estatedana@holtre.com · 4h
Booked you for Thursday at 2pm. Looking forward to it.
Jen Park · Park Dentaljen@parkdental.com · 1d
Worth a chat. I run two locations in Squirrel Hill. What's the typical investment?
Tom · Allegheny Paintingtom@alleghenypaint.com · 1d
Not right now, thanks. Reach back out in the fall maybe.
Our leads

We Don't Buy Lists.
We Make Them.

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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.

The schedule

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, building to 20 sends/day per inbox across 6 inboxes (~120/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.

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The warm-up
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The full send
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A note from the founder

“This is the same system I built for my own newsletter. We did ~$6,000 in sponsorship revenue in our first 3 months.”

— Collin D. · The Lancaster Ledger · Lancaster, PA

Terms & rates

Pricing

One-time setup
$250 once

Domains, inboxes, scraper, sequences, warmup, go-live.

Monthly · total
$300/mo

Everything you need to keep the system running. First monthly charge 21 days after setup, then every 30 days.

$250 charged at signup. First $300/mo charge lands 21 days later (after domain warmup). Month-to-month, cancel anytime.

★ Guaranteed ★
45-Day Promise
Sponsor or Full Refund
Land a sponsor in your first 45 days or your $250 setup fee and first $300 month come back to you.
If the system doesn't land you at least one sponsor in the first 45 days after go-live, your setup fee and first month are refunded, or credited to your account for future invoices. Your choice. No fine print, no quibbles.
Start now →

Secured by Stripe · 45-day money-back guarantee · cancel anytime

White-glove service (optional add-on). We run the campaigns, sell the sponsorships, and close the deals ourselves. Priced separately, in addition to the $250 setup + $300/mo. Contact for pricing.
The math

What 120 Emails a Day
Actually Looks Like

Emails sent per weekday~120
Emails sent per month~2,400
New businesses contacted per month~1,600–1,900
Expected warm replies (conservative, 1%)16–19 / mo
Who it's for

Built for Operators Who
Want Their Nights Back

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01

Local newsletters

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

Sponsors: home services, restaurants, real estate, healthcare, and 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

Questions

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 land in your dashboard's action inbox. 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.

How does billing work?

You're charged the $250 setup fee at signup. The first $300/mo charge lands 21 days later. That gap covers the warmup and ramp window, so you're not paying the monthly fee while we're still bringing the system online. After that, $300 hits every 30 days. Month-to-month, cancel anytime.

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, your $250 setup fee and first $300 month are refunded, or credited to your account for future invoices. Your choice, 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.

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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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