Here’s a counterintuitive strategy that skyrockets your reply rate and turns your silent subscribers into engaged responders: Leaving yourself open to criticism. It might just be the secret sauce your newsletter needs.
Tag: Growth opportunities for indie newsletters
António Tadeia and Pit Gottschalk have covered football in their home countries for decades. Now, they use indie newsletters to build their own audiences and bring in revenue.
No matter what type of newsletter you work on or what your goals are, everyone’s struggles are pretty similar. Here’s the advice I give to help solve your biggest newsletter problems.
The Borowitz Report was founded in 2001 but only launched a paid newsletter offering in March 2024. Now it’s got tens of thousands of paying subscribers. Here’s why Andy Borowitz’s readers keep following — and supporting — him.
Claire’s been building a successful newsletter, Evil Witches, since 2018. It’s grown into a product with nearly 1,000 paying subscribers. But Claire felt stuck with her newsletter. So Claire and Dan talked through a few options. Here’s their conversation — and what Claire did next with Evil Witches.
There are so many great ways to grow your list, but the best newsletter operators don’t just pick a handful of tactics. They operate in four different growth quadrants: Owned, earned, algorithmic, and paid. Here’s how you can use these strategies, too.
Operate in all four growth quadrants. Use AI for productivity, not creativity. And 23 other rules that any newsletter operator needs to follow.
Here are the tools you need to help you build, grow, analyze, and monetize a successful newsletter.
At age 19, a first-time founder based in the Philippines launched a newsletter about business and tech. Two years later, it’s one of the top resources in the region.
The Star can quickly add 10,000+ emails on a list by promoting new newsletters to their existing readers. Their director of newsletters explains how they’ve built that growth strategy.