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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.

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Indie newsletters

How Giving Away More Content for Free Helped Me Get — and Convert — More Subscribers

Want to sell more subscriptions? Advisorator’s Jared Newman discovered one tactic that worked for his newsletter: Giving away more content.

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Indie newsletters

How Plan Cash Turned a Newsletter Into a Platform For Financial Literacy

In 2021, Léa Lejeune co-founded Plan Cash, a French-language newsletter to help women invest better. Now they’re offering paid training courses, 1-to-1 financial consulting — and even taking on investments for Plan Cash itself.

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Indie newsletters

How Hanna Raskin Built a James Beard Award-Winning Newsletter

The Food Section brings independent coverage of Southern restaurants and food culture to inboxes. Publisher Hanna Raskin explains how she built the newsletter, grown her paying audience, and launched new editorial partnerships.

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Indie newsletters

“A surprising gift”: How A.J. Daulerio Turned the Worst Time in His Life Into Something Beautiful

A.J. Daulerio survived the Hulk Hogan trial, the blog bubble, and bankruptcy. We talked to him about his current project, The Small Bow, and how he’s built a newsletter and a digital community to support others going through hard times.

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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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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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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.