Mayor Email Success
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Sam Parr shares a story about how he successfully got a meeting with his local mayor through a simple email.
"I moved to this new city called Westport Connecticut, it's a 35,000 person town. I've been reading all these books about biographies of politicians lately, and I thought I don't really know anything about politics, I'm going to see if getting involved was even interesting.
So I just emailed the mayor, which I didn't know if that was a thing or not, but I just found her email and emailed her. I said 'In a small circle of the internet, a very tiny corner, I'm a little bit popular and I'm not sure what that means to you, if anything, but I'm just trying to make myself look a little bit important to you and I would love to hang out and introduce myself with no agenda.'
That's all I said and she said 'absolutely.' I don't have a plan yet, but I just thought it was interesting. I think local politics are a really interesting way to actually have real impact. I didn't know that you could email a mayor and they would reply, but they did."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.