Resources for Newsletter Business Builders

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Launching your newsletter is the easy part. Now comes the real work: Starting to build a loyal audience for your newsletter. Let’s talk about the next steps. Now that you’ve launched your newsletters and started publishing, you’re probably starting to ask two big questions: How do I grow my audience and get my first 1,000 or 5,000 readers?

Your landing page might be the most overlooked part of your growth strategy. Here’s why: Most newsletters don’t put much thought into it, They end up with a page that converts ~20%-30% of visitors to subscribers, With a few simple tweaks, your landing page conversion rates can be over 50%

Do you send emails somewhat regularly? Then this will be useful for you. Learn everything we know from sending well over 2M emails with an average open rate of 47.6% in the last 6 weeks before writing this.

Daniel Murray runs Marketing Millennials – a newsletter and podcast focused on marketing for the new age. And he knows his stuff. Daniel has been able to grow multiple digital properties FAST: His LinkedIn page has over 100k followers, The Marketing Millennials, LinkedIn page has over 600k followers, The email list has 92k subscribers. All of this growth has happened since he began posting on his personal LinkedIn in December of 2019.

Patrick Trousdale started The Daily Upside in 2019 after working in investment banking at Guggenheim. Patrick saw the success Morning Brew and The Hustle had with newsletters that produced business, finance and entrepreneurial news for younger audiences. He started The Daily Upside with the idea there was space for a newsletter that catered more to investors as a lens instead of general business and finance. Currently at 850K subscribers.

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Growing a newsletter is hard. But with my course you can learn how to grow your list faster. I've got over 8,000 subscribers in 2 years so you are getting lessons from someone with lots of experience.

I've made thousands from selling newsletter adverts over the past few years and $2750 from ads in February 2023. I have 9,000 subscribers but I make more than newsletter publishers with twice that. How? Because I focus on monetizing. I will teach you how to make money from your newsletter without any sales experience whatsoever.

In just 30 days, she reached 10,000 subscribers. At 8 months, that number grew to over 50,000. Within 12 months, the newsletter hit 100,000 subscribers. And just when you think that level of growth can’t continue, in just 3 years, it’s now at a staggering 250,000.

Thinking about creating a newsletter, but not sure where to start? Here’s a checklist to help you get your newsletter off the ground.

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This post provides words phrases to help you come up with a creative newsletter name for your business, along with real examples of clever newsletters from all over the internet.

Abhi has built a systematic, well-organized system for managing his marketing, content creation, and monetization. As a result, the Psychology of Marketing newsletter he launched last year is growing at a steady pace, capturing the attention of both readers and sponsors.

Do you want to come up with a catchy newsletter name that generates thousands of subscribers? Here are some formulas, tips, and examples to help you.

Do you have what it takes to write a newsletter for an entire year without hitting 1,000 subscribers? That’s how Packy McCormick started out. While he has a large audience now, that first year was super slow growth. Eventually, things started to click. 1 year later he hit 50k. 8 months after that he hit 100k. And now, the Not Boring community has over 183k people and brings in more than $3 million per year.

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I’m Yolanda Edwards, the founder of Yolo Journal, which is a travel lifestyle media brand I launched three years ago. I’ve been in the magazine business for 25 years–mostly at Conde Nast with a brief stint at Martha Stewart–and when I lost my job, I decided I wanted to create a magazine concept that I thought was missing in the market.

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Harry Dry, built his 130k-person newsletter audience in around 3.5 years, using some of the smartest content distribution strategies I’ve ever seen. If you’ve been in the online space for a bit, you’ve probably heard of MarketingExamples.com.

Starting and growing Web3 Daily to 20,000 subscribers and $50K revenue.

Today’s email is all about how to grow your newsletter with Instagram. Organically and with IG ads. I've seen 3 newsletters drive 100k+ subscribers organically with Instagram. Many more grow to 10k+ just with IG!

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I've analyzed over 100 opt-in pages for newsletters in tech, business, and marketing. Together, they have over 29 million subscribers. In this report, you'll find what they have in common so that you can steal that for your own opt-in page.

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How would you like to make millions of dollars per year from a newsletter that only takes around 30 minutes a day to write? And what if you could run this business without needing a huge team to manage (and pay)? That’s like an introvert’s dream…and that’s exactly what Dan Ni of the TLDR Newsletter has built.

Keep reading to learn: Pivoting newsletter content and branding (and managing the following friction), Using your business + career to power a standalone newsletter, Strategies to increase subscribers and engagements

Are you struggling to get your first 1000 newsletter subscribers? I’ll show you 80 ways to find them.

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How do you get almost 60k subscribers in under 3 years when you have no audience? That's what Ali Abouelatta has done with his incredible newsletter called First 1000.

I wrote 205 newsletters in 2020 and will write 160+ this year. Here are the best things I've learned...

After one year of a free newsletter, and now six months into paid, this thing is for real: 750 paid subscribers, 15,000 free subscribers, $300k ARR (before fees). For anyone thinking about launching a newsletter, some early learnings in the thread below👇

In December 2020 I was hanging out with my family at a cabin in the mountains brainstorming what a local newsletter for Boise could look like. I’ve been a fan of what Andrew Wilkinson has done with Capital Daily for Victoria, BC and I love Boise at least as much as he loves Victoria.

Can you imagine being able to build a business that brings in over $500k in less than 3 years? And do that with around 60k subscribers? That’s exactly what Dru Riley has done with Trends.vc.

My flagship product that I run is Alpha Letter. Alpha Letter is an investment newsletter that is focused on finding small out of favored value stocks that typical Wall Street hedge funds can’t or won’t touch.

I've seen thousands of newsletters sent via beehiiv. Some look incredible, some don't. Here are 14 things you can do to make your newsletter look better👇🏽🧵

Newsletters are hot right now and as of list week, with the launch of Free Smoke, James, Oren, and Colin are all building email lists in different niches. Selfishly, they had to bring Jack Raines of Young Money onto the pod to talk all things writing, building email lists, and developing relationships for distribution. Jack and YMCMB are on a remarkable trajectory right now so he’s the perfect guest for an inaugural email list deep dive on this topic.

I’m the creator of the Chief in the North Newsletter, a Substack publication dedicated to covering the Kansas City Chiefs and the NFL at large. I review and analyze the game film every week and try to unlock the secrets of NFL football for my readers

How do you get 6,000 email subscribers in just 5 months, and keep that momentum going for the next 3 years, growing by over 1,000 every month after?

If you're hoping to grow an email list and monetize it, you've come to the right place. We're going to teach you how to start a newsletter for free. It's much easier than you may think, too. With that said, there is a lot that goes into this. From choosing the right type of newsletter to actually growing your subscriber list and nurturing those valuable relationships. Of course, monetizing that newsletter is an entirely separate story.

Local journalism is coming back in a big way. Here's how to strike out as a local publisher. Traditional newspapers have experienced many challenges due to the rise of the internet. However, local journalism is experiencing a resurgence in the form of email newsletters.

Before word-of-mouth and organic growth take off, it might feel as if you are sending into a void. By teaming up with other newsletter owners, you can grow by talking about each other's newsletters.

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How wild would it be to start an email list one day, and 8 months later wake up with 42k subscribers? For context, that's an average of 5,250 subscribers per month. That's exactly what Nathan Baugh has done with his newsletter "World Builders", which is all about storytelling and business.

Josh Spector is a marketing and business consultant who writes For The Interested, a newsletter for creative entrepreneurs with more than 20,000 subscribers.

I hope you’ll be inspired by the potential of this business model and see an opportunity for something you can build in your preferred industry.

The most effective way to grow your email list is to make *everything* about growing your email list. 8 examples of extreme focus on list growth that most people don't do.

The Generalist is a tech and news publication founded by Mario Gabriele, that started out as a side project, but quickly turned into a full-fledged business making more than $300k per year.

I’ve grown my newsletter to 36,121 readers in 6 months. And ran 0 paid ads. Here’s my step-by-step process for you to steal.

Here's how I got 10k subscribers in the first 100 days of my newsletter.

I stole 9 unconventional newsletter growth strategies from the top creators in the industry. If you are struggling to grow your email list, read this.

We just unveiled our 2022 numbers in our Annual Report and let's just say it's been a wild ride. But, let's not forget the role of Lady Luck in all of this. Here are the 6 lucky breaks we stumbled upon

AWeber, Beehiiv, ConvertKit, Ghost, Mailchimp, or Substack: Which Is The Right ESP For Your Indie Newsletter? There are a lot of email platforms to choose from. Here are six options that are actually worth a closer look.

How To Get Your First 1,000 Newsletter Subscribers In 8 Simple Steps

Here’s what we’ve learned about matching the right newsletter to the right business model.

One of the most underrated ways to grow your newsletter fast, and for free? Cross-promoting in other newsletters! It is simple; you share their newsletter in one of yours, and they do the same in theirs. With commitment and consistency, you will start gaining 100s of new subscribers every week! This template helps you plan and keep on track!

Grow organically with a newsletter referral program. Reward your audience for sharing with friends — and watch your newsletter grow 20-200% faster. It couldn't be easier...

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This report is packed with lessons we’ve learned from growing our own email list to 2m+ readers and millions of dollars in annual revenue. It’s also filled with the wisdom of dozens of other successful newsletter publishers -- from Morning Brew to Axios to AppSumo and more.

At NewsNook, we interview founders/leaders of successful newsletters and share the stories behind their newsletters. The stories provide advice and insights on into starting and building a successful newsletter. Our goal in sharing these stories is to help more people start and grow their newsletters.

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Newsletter directory covering wide range of topics and a weekly newsletter sharing resources for newsletter creators.

Every month, more than 9,000 readers turn to Not a Newsletter to get advice, strategies, and tips to send better newsletters. Join them and start building a better email strategy today!

The weekly newsletter about newsletters for indie creators. Interviews with successful creators about how they start, grow and monetize their newsletters.

How to grow and monetize your newsletter. Learn the exact tactics top newsletters are using. Join 1500+ founders, creators, and operators, for free.

The 4 strategies I’m going to cover below aren’t an exhaustive list of ad pricing strategies. But I hope they’ll give you some ideas about ad pricing and how you can start making the ad dollars rain down.

Do your best work, supported by your subscribers. Substack lets independent writers and podcasters publish directly to their audience and get paid through subscriptions.

If you run a newsletter or want to start one… Come hang out with other smart newsletter people in the best newsletter community you’ll find today. We talk about… Monetizing newsletters, Finding subscribers, Newsletter niches, Newsletter tools

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Monetize your audience. Start monetizing your newsletter, blog, or other content audience in minutes. Run high value affiliate deals, Earn Per Click offers, or sell flat-rate media to advertisers.

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Find Your Next Sponsor. Companies that are sponsoring newsletters right now and the latest in email newsletter publishing & marketing.

Growth Strategies of Top Creators Delivered to Your Inbox. Each week, I reverse engineer how a top creator grew from 0 to 50k+ subscribers. You get the roadmap to replicate their growth – and save 40+ hours of research.

Growth Currency teaches you how to...→ Start a newsletter → Get subscribers → Earn an income. Join 3,000+ readers learning how each week.

Stop wasting time searching for willing cross promotion partners and get a list of newsletters who want to connect with other newsletters. Grow your subscribers together. Without churning out content, feeding the social algorithms or draining your bank account for paid ads.