Substack is at a cross-roads...

📮 What’s happening in newsletters?

• ❌ Casey Newton’s thoughts on Substack allowing and monetizing Nazi content.

• 🐝 beehiiv’s 2024 State of Email Newsletters is a banger

  • ⏪️ And check out last week’s State of Newsletters in 2023 by InboxReads

• 📈 Chenell of Growth In Reverse breaks down the insane growth of Jade Bonacolta. 370k followers while holding down a full-time job.

• 🤖 This has been on my mind for a hot minute. Open rates are bullshit but what about click rates? 63% could be bots.

• 📊 beehiiv’s premium dashboard is out and it’s pretty great

• 📰 The Assist has a pretty remarkable subscriber welcome flow. Sign up and check it out. Tons of learnings there on how to sneak in monetization early in the subscriber life cycle.

🔥 What’s happening in the community?

• Sign up to upcoming events and watch replays of past events, including the 2024 strategic newsletter planning call we had this week here

• Paul asked what the Beehiiv community is like, followed by an interesting conversation on the different types of operators that exist

• Do you run post-subscribe surveys? NandoCaralt started a great conversation on the topic

• Find out how to get your applications to affiliate sites like Shareasale approved here

• Are you using AI for your newsletter yet? Beyond ChatGPT as a writer’s helper, Jenns Lennartson recommends Dalle3 to make great looking visuals

We love all of you! See you all next week :)

See you in the Discord,
- Geraldine & Arthur