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The Eight Types of Emails

There are all sorts of emails you might send readers, from newsletters to transactional messages. Here’s how to incorporate all of these into your email strategy.

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Understanding Five Different Ad Pricing Models

There’s no one right way to price the ads in your newsletter. Here are five different ways to set your prices and help you to maximize your ad revenue.

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How, When, and Where to Engage With Your Newsletter Community

Should you reply to readers? Should you engage with them in a comment thread or a digital community? Six newsletter writers explained how they handle reader engagement.

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17 Tactics to Engage New Paid Subscribers, Members, Donors, or Customers

That first time a reader chooses to support your work is just the start of your relationship with them. Here’s how to keep those supporters coming back again and again.

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What I Learned About Newsletters in 2024

From send-time optimization to newsletter growth to new launches, here’s what I learned this year about sending great emails.

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What I Wish I’d Known Before Launching My Newsletter

From experimentation to monetization to growth, here’s the advice 25 newsletter operators wish they’d gotten at the very start.

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How the 1/5/10 Strategy Can Improve Your Daily Newsletter

Writing a daily or weekly newsletter? This strategy can help you design a better newsletter for your readers.

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Want To Grow Your Audience? Start By Talking To Them

Newsletters like The Hustle use subscriber interviews to gather deep insights to improve their newsletter. Here’s how they do it.

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How I Named My Newsletter

We asked more than a dozen newsletter operators how they named their newsletter — and why. Here’s what they told us.

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How to Diagnose an Unexpected Drop in Open Rates and Engagement

If your open rates or click rates drop, there might be a deliverability problem that needs fixing. Yanna-Torry Aspraki explains how to identify the issue.