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19 Great Newsletter Landing Pages You Can Learn From

A well-built landing page can help you grow your newsletter faster. Here are landing page best practices to utilize and great examples to borrow from.

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Best practices

What Are Email Platforms Doing to Make Emails More Accessible?

The need for accessibility accommodations is growing, and ESPs are adding new features to meet that need. So what features are rolling out? And how are newsletter operators taking advantage of these features?

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Ask a Deliverability Expert: Should I Use a Custom IP Address?

A custom IP address could help with deliverability — but only if you’re growing fast and sending to a high volume of emails every month. Here’s how to decide if it’s the right move for you.

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Best practices

Three Questions Everyone Should Ask in a Survey

Every newsletter should incorporate audience feedback into their strategy. Here’s what to ask in a survey to make sure you’re building the right newsletter for your readers.

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Newsletter monetization

How I Sold $12,500 in eBooks From My Newsletter

You don’t need to have a huge newsletter audience to successfully monetize. Here’s how Notes from a Hired Pen leveraged a small newsletter list into big sales.

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Ask a Deliverability Expert: How Do I Get Off a Spamhaus Blocklist?

If your domain’s been blocklisted, you won’t be able to get your newsletter to readers. But why might your domain end up on a blocklist? And how do you get off of one? Let’s get your questions answered.

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Indie newsletters

Come For the Newsletter, Stay For the Discord: Why Some Newsletters Have Private Communities for Their Subscribers.

Building a community through Discord or Slack could be a way to deepen engagement with readers and drive additional revenue. But it comes with a lot of work — and some potential headaches.

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Indie newsletters

These 5 Newsletters Took A Break From Publishing. Here’s How They Did It.

Newsletter writers are increasingly taking time off to grow their families, recharge with a vacation, or cope with burnout. Here’s what you can learn from those who’ve taken a break from writing their newsletter.

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Indie newsletters

Burnt Toast Allowed Virginia Sole-Smith To Quit Her Day Job. Here’s How She Did It.

Over the past seven years, Virginia Sole-Smith’s grown Burnt Toast into a product that brings in six figures annually. Here’s what she’s learned about deciding what content to paywall, what kind of perks to give away to paying subscribers, and why her reader surveys are designed to get feedback from superfans.

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Case Studies

How Moby Built a Million-Dollar Ad Strategy With The Help of Who Sponsors Stuff

Moby never set out to build an ad business around their newsletter. But with 250,000 subscribers — and some help from Who Sponsors Stuff — they’ve created a 7-figure ad strategy. Here’s what others can learn from their story.