baby's first interlude

our inaugural look behind the scenes

this interlude is the first of its kind! this will focus less on the music and more on the newsletter at large. i’ll sporadically share these peaks behind the curtain on what makes Run It Back flow. hope you enjoy :)

huge shoutout to Ryan for getting us in the holiday mood last week! hope everyone had a happy holidays. we had a lil friends get-together with Chinese food and hours of Catan 🙏

as far Run It Back goes, we are finally migrated over to Substack. i feel like this right now:

ok maybe not that dramatic lmao

what’s happened since i made the Substack announcement?

1. migrated all 223 of y’all to Substack

2. moved the domain from Squarespace

3. edited the new site as much as i could

and it feels good tbh! things are a bit smoother on the backend for me now. the only major things missing besides email customization is the ability to resend emails to those that’ve unopened + edit the sitemap as i like

i’m hoping i’m able to maintain the ~65% open rate as well, which is pretty great in terms of newsletter open rates. shoutout to y’all!

also, all the old newsletters from Mailchimp have gone into the ether. no easy way to import them all. i figured i can always reissue some of my favs every now and then :)

other than that, it feels good to be on a free platform where i don’t have to sweat the small stuff. i’m hoping people engage in the comments and new folks find what we have here

in terms of growth, i’d love to do some collabs with other newsletter writers in the near future. holla at me if you’re interested! i’m manifesting 🙏

i appreciate all y’all for being part of this journey with me. until the next interlude ❤️‍🔥

- claudio / claud / @offballscreen