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Newsletter creators can learn a lot about growth, monetisation and engagement from other kinds of content creators. For example, here are 5 things you can steal from Youtube/Twitch creators...

Learn how Morning Brew acquired new subs with this Twitter thread by Austin Rief.

Austin Rief tells us exactly how Morning Brew got their first 10k subscribers. Spoiler alert: It's not what you would expect.

Deciding what rewards to offer for referrals can be tough. Luckily, Sparkloop created a library full of ideas.

Sam Parr never set out to launch a media company. A few years ago, he was fresh from selling a company he had founded and was looking for something else to do. He decided to recruit about a dozen entrepreneurs as speakers and hosted an event he...

I heard Packy McCormick was using referrals to grow his substack, so we set up a working session to dive into the program. The result is this video which goes into lots of details. Please subscribe on YouTube. I put a timed transcript below, along...

I launched The Average Joe in May 2020, an investing newsletter that explains the impact of financial news, analyzes investing tends and breaks down complex concepts in a light and conversational tone. Our emails are sent out twice per week...

One of my very best friends is in the process of learning how to build an email list from scratch. It’s for his newsletter The Backbeat, where he sends out one email once a week sharing newly released songs and interesting tidbits and happenings...

How do you go from 1,000 subscribers to 10,000 subscribers? After researching for this post, reading blog after blog, I found only vague “do FB ads” advice. Totally useless to small publishers. I wanted to know: EXACTLY how much it costs to...

Since starting TLDR (a tech newsletter targeted towards the kind of people who read Hacker News, Slashdot, Indie Hackers etc.) in August of 2018, I've been growing it steadily with a combination of forum posting, paid ads, word of mouth referral...

Discover how Morning Brew built an empire of millions of newsletter subscribers thanks to top quality content and great user retention strategies...

Today we have Louis Nicholls. I’ve known him on twitter for quite some time now and I have to say he’s an amazing founder and newsletter creator. Louis runs two newsletters. Sales For Founders, which is a newsletter but also an in-depth course as...

How do you get your first 100 signups? How do you grow your mailing list from there? What are your best tips and tricks for growth? This thread is for writers to share ideas and insights. Go at it...

Great email subject lines are like big red boxes on Christmas morning with giant white ribbons tied around them in bows — they beg to be opened...

Everyone who signs up for Montague Street Media’s newsletter, Newspackr, gets a welcome email from me with two questions: 1) Do you have a newsletter/blog/media site? 2) What’s your biggest challenge? The top answer to #2, by a country mile, is...

I was browsing Product Hunt last week and realised that they have a category dedicated to newsletters. And it’s a pretty popular one, too: the top product on that list has close to 20,000 upvotes...

In this post you’re going to learn exactly how to build an email list using a proven system we’ve tested across hundreds of industries and types of businesses...

I joined Morning Brew in 2017, back when our daily newsletter had a modest 100,000 subscribers. Since then, our audience has grown to 1.5 million — in just 18 months. I wanted to share how we did it — both to tell our story, but also because we’ve...