Community Digest Dec 8th 2023

Community Digest - Newsletter Blueprint

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

📢 Announcements

• On this month’s virtual meetup, we discussed newsletters, monetization, and what motivates us to keep writing and sending (hint: it’s not always scale & profits!)… we promise to record the next one!

• Tonnnnnnns more content coming in January/February in the Newsletter Blueprint Discord community! Frankly, this issue would have been longer but it’s my birthday and the holidays have been crushing.

🔥 Last Week

• Substack is pivoting to video? What?

• What’s the market for selling/acquiring small newsletters?

• … I guess we’ll find out… Jens launched a marketplace for small newsletters! Also, he’s a king in ChatGPT images.

• Patrick got some fantastic feedback on a premium feature he’s thinking about launching for his Better Gift Coach newsletter

• Geraldine listed most of the platforms where to list a newsletter for sale

• Wooooo updates to paid newsletters on 🐝 beehiiv!

• Arthur (weird writing about myself in third person) thinks too much time is being spent on tools for operators and not enough time on educating would-be advertisers

  • case in point…

• Sponsy partner network is out!

• Christian launched Sunday Money. Newsletters truly are his drug

• What would you ask someone that has successfully built & sold a newsletter?

• Stephan Kaag is toying with the idea of launching a Trello style board for managing a sponsorship pipeline

Now you’re all caught up!

See you in the Discord,
- Geraldine & Arthur

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