PinnedMember-onlyHow To Make Your First Newsletter DollarsWithout a big list or by selling ads. — Don’t kid yourself. Monetization is the point of a newsletter — either indirectly or directly. Your newsletter’s goal is to drive you revenue. Some newsletters drive users to a SaaS (Software as a Service) website, or product page on Amazon or Gumroad (indirectly). …Affiliate Marketing6 min read
PinnedMember-onlyThe Top 5 Email Newsletter Platforms — and the one you should choose.(This post contains an affiliate link or two. I only promote links to products I use + love OR I know are quality products.) You did it. You finally decided to start a newsletter. Fireworks! But now you need to make another choice: what platform should I publish on? …Newsletter10 min read
PinnedMember-onlyDon’t Start A Blog. Start A Newsletter.I love Twitter. Why? I saw someone tweet about starting a blog and thought, “why don’t they start a newsletter instead?” So I tweeted it out. The tweet went mini-viral with some excellent engagement (take a scroll through the replies). …Email Newsletters4 min read
5 days agoMember-onlyWhat’s the point of a newsletter? It’s this.It all boils down to one thing. — I like to see the responses I get when I tweet things like this: But Ara challenged me. Wasn’t expecting that tbh. After some thought, I replied to Ara: Great question. From a consumption standpoint: to be informed, educated, entertained or to purchase. …Newsletter5 min read
Jul 26Member-only12 things I learned growing my newsletter to 2k subscribers in 18 months.“These are not the growth hacks you were looking for.” — The timing was crazy. Right before I sent out the 77th weekly edition of my Growth Currency newsletter — I hit 2,000 subscribers. It was fitting, too: my first edition went out January 19th, 2021. And hit 2,000 on July 18th, 2022 — 18 months to the day (basically). What…Email Newsletters5 min read
Jul 1Member-onlyDon’t let this newsletter bottleneck hold you back. Use these 5 ideas to overcome it today.Last week I tweeted out a simple question. The most common theme in the replies? “Choosing a niche.” Is a niche helpful when starting a newsletter? It sure is. 100%. …Niche4 min read
Jun 29Member-onlyTo go paid or NOT to go paid?Just because you can charge for your newsletter—does it mean you should? — It feels like every day I wake up… — check my email — and another newsletter publishing platform is offering paid newsletter options. It has literally never been easier to charge for your newsletter content. But should you? Starting a paid newsletter or pivoting to one is tempting for a…Newsletter6 min read
Jun 23Member-onlyHow To Get Your Shit Read OnlineWant people to actually read your work? Then try this. — It’s hard enough to get people’s attention online. And it’s even harder to keep it. There are a few very simple — but effective — elements you should incorporate into your writing to keep your readers’ attention. And I wouldn’t know these if it weren’t for Nicolas Cole of Ship…Writing Tips4 min read
Jun 22Member-onlyHow To Curate a Successful NewsletterAnd how I’ve successfully curated mine for the past 17 months. — I wanted to start a newsletter. So I signed up for a Substack account in September 2020. I knew the value in starting a newsletter and growing an email list. But days went by and I didn’t published anything. Then weeks. Then months. January 2021 rolled around. Still no newsletter… …Newsletter6 min read
Jun 19Member-onlyHow To Get Lucky on PurposeGetting lucky has very little to do with luck. — “Again?!? You’ve got horseshoes up your butt!” My brother won everything when we were growing up. Well, not everything — but that’s how it felt. Every time we’d go to the grocery store, he’d crank the candy vending machines and candy would come out. …Content Marketing3 min read
