Community Digest Nov 16th 2023

Community Digest - Newsletter Blueprint

Hello hello! Here’s your digest of the last 7 days in the community 👇

📢 Announcements

• Paul made an important announcement about a change in the community.

• Arthur and Geraldine made another announcement as well.

• Members were asked about their thoughts and ideas on the community, and there’s still time to give yours.

🔥 Last Week

• Is anyone incorporating the holidays in their upcoming issues? Rusty is.

• ThomasD sent his final email on his StoryBehind newsletter.

• Matt Brown is using a different business model for his newsletter, selling institutional subscriptions to universities.

• Kat is continuing to grow Newsletter Giants with over 200 screenshots of newsletters in there, all categorized.

• A reminder about the awesome Resources for Newsletter Business Builders was sent out.

• JasonLBaptist is building a microapp as a premium subscriber feature.

• NGB is working on integration of ChatGPT chatbot and Sparkloop Upscribe, and got it to work.

• StartupCharlie is actively looking for newsletters swaps.

• Paul shared a sponsorship opp for anyone with US business owner audience.

• Alun just joined and wrote a post on the three aspects of being successful with newsletters in this market.

• NGB let us know that SparkLoop is now paying weekly.

🏆 Wins

• Kody’s wife just gave birth to their third baby.

• Nando Caralt got over 20,000 subscribers.

• Leo Piccioli relaunched a free email course from Mailerchimp to Beehiiv, and got 700 subscribers with a 50% open rate.

📅 Events

• Arthur is hosting a call on Meta Ads for Newsletters. It’s this coming Tuesday 12pm ET, you can sign up for free. AMA style.

• We’re having an in-person meetup on Wednesday Nov 29th at 6pm in midtown Manhattan. Register for free here.

Now you’re all caught up!

See you in the Discord,
- Arthur and Geraldine

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