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AS Adam Schafer On Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)

“To this day, the email marketing, which I thought was dead, is responsible for about 40% of MAPS Fitness Products revenue every single month, which is hundreds of thousands of dollars every single month that I thought was dead. I was naive and for the first two years did not build an email list. It's the biggest regret or mistake that Mind Pump ever made.”

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing) · October 2026

“To this day, the email marketing, which I thought was dead, is responsible for about 40% of MAPS Fitness Products revenue every single month, which is hundreds of thousands of dollars every single month that I thought was dead. I was naive and for the first two years did not build an email list. It's the biggest regret or mistake that Mind Pump ever made.” — Adam Schafer, Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)

Context

Asked about podcast and email audiences versus social followers, Schafer admits he once thought social media had replaced email marketing, and gives his own account of what that mistake cost.

Transcript

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing) Around 1:05:43 into the episode
Adam Schafer

Yes.

Hala Taha

…you've basically created with your audience. So I think that's just so super cool. My question for you is: you've got this podcast, you've got social, you guys have an incredible email list. I heard you say that your podcast and email subscribers are way more valuable than your social followers.

Adam Schafer

Oh, by far. Wow. We could shut off. We can, when we, we tested this back when Sal got kicked off. So this was about two years ago, or right, it was right in the heart, like right in the thick of the COVID stuff that was going on. And Sal sometimes can say stuff politically. And at that time, that was a very dangerous thing to do. Social media and he has the I don't give a shit attitude and so do all of us. So we're like, go for it. Say what you want to say. And he was removed. So he was kicked off of Facebook or Facebook and Instagram multiple times. And we had our best revenue run at that time. And so we didn't feel an ounce of that. And he had the biggest Instagram page. He had the most engagement. So he had the most powerful Instagram out of all of us at that time. And he was completely removed off of it for six months, eight months, something like that. And we continued to scale during that entire time. And so it was, it really made us realize that these assets are good and are powerful and a tool, but they're not necessary for us because we had a very strong foundation from the podcast, from the email list, from building these…

Hala Taha

Yeah, I love email so much. I'm like obsessed with writing newsletters and I just feel like it's such a great tool. I think it has like 30 times more ROI than social media. So

Adam Schafer

much more. I think

Hala Taha

that you're smart. Just a comment. I relate to, you know, audio being so much different to YouTube because YouTube, every video is sort of like its own thing. Like it could go off by itself. People can find a random video. And so they're not your fans. And so they're a lot meaner in the comments.…

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