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Best practices

How an End-of-Year Survey Can Improve Your Newsletter Strategy

Feedback is an email marketer’s best friend. Here’s how “Your Daily Dose of Nonprofit” used a survey to make changes to their newsletter strategy this year.

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Best practices

How to Set Up a Reactivation Campaign to Win Back Inactive Email Subscribers

A reactivation campaign should be a part of any good email strategy. Here’s how to run one correctly.

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Case Studies

How Three Successful Newsletters Used Beehiiv to Grow Strategically — And How You Can, Too

Using Beehiiv’s advanced dashboards, you can get the data you need to make the decisions that matter.

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Indie newsletters

How to Start Monetizing Your Indie Newsletter

How do you know when it’s time to start monetizing? And what are the different ways newsletters like yours monetize? Let’s talk through some options.

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Indie newsletters

How to Get Your First 5,000 Readers and Engage With Your Audience

Launching your newsletter is the easy part. Now comes the real work: Starting to build a loyal audience for your newsletter. Let’s talk about the next steps.

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Ask a Deliverability Expert

Ask a Deliverability Expert: What’s a Blocklist, and Why Should I Care About Them?

Blocklists help keep inboxes safe from spammers. Here are some simple steps to make sure you never end up on one.

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Not a Newsletter

Not a Newsletter: March 2023

Welcome to the March edition of Not a Newsletter, a monthly, semi-comprehensive, Google Doc-based guide to sending better emails! I’m Dan, the founder of Inbox Collective, an email consultancy, and the former Director of Newsletters at The New Yorker and BuzzFeed. Every month, I update this doc with email news, tips, and ideas. Sign up […]

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Indie newsletters

Every Good Newsletter Needs an Exit Plan. Here Are Four Paths to Consider.

You can sell your newsletter, keep it going as a side project, hand it over to someone new, or shut it down entirely. Let’s talk through all four options.

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Newsletter monetization

How a French Newsletter Turned a Fun Outro Into €60,000 in Book Sales

A dedicated relationship with readers paid off, literally, when the French newsletter Bulletin created and sold a book based on a section of their newsletter.

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FWD Progress

Nonrival Makes Forecasting More Fun

The newsletter asks readers to make predictions and shows them how they measure up.