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How I Built A Free Email Course — and Gained 210+ Subscribers in under 30 days.

Dylan R.
8 min readMay 31, 2022

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I ran an experiment this past month.

Louis and the team at SparkLoop were kind enough to sponsor this Growth Currency experiment.

The goal was to launch and promote a lead magnet to drive subscriber growth.

I decided to create an email course: The 1KS Roadmap — Free course to getting your first 1,000 newsletter subscribers.

The aforementioned email course…

Why?

I wanted to create something that would resonate with my newsletter readers — present and future.

And getting them used to seeing “Dylan @ Growth Currency⚡” in their inboxes wasn’t going to hurt, either.

Mostly — I wanted to create a lead magnet that would align seamlessly with my newsletter content.

After all, the whole point of creating a lead magnet is to acquire a new subscriber. If your lead magnet isn’t relevant to your content, you’re doing everyone a disservice.

So here’s how I did it.

STEP 1: Created the Notion Doc

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Dylan R.
Dylan R.

Written by Dylan R.

Teaching you how to start + grow + monetize a newsletter — as I share how I’m doing it. https://www.growthcurrency.net

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