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.
Tag: Learnings from indie newsletters
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.
Tangle, a daily newsletter that goes in-depth on one big news topic per day, now has 100,000 readers and more than 16,000 paying members. Founder Isaac Saul explains how he built it.
Here are the questions you’ll want to ask — and answers you’ll need — to improve your newsletter strategy.
In 2015, Bergum left a career in finance, moved to Istanbul, and started a food blog. A decade later, he publishes two newsletters in two languages — with four different revenue streams. Here’s how he manages it all.
Operate in all four growth quadrants. Use AI for productivity, not creativity. And 23 other rules that any newsletter operator needs to follow.
How three newsletter operators on Beehiiv — Zain Kahn of Superhuman, Quinn Emmett of Important, Not Important, and Pete Huang of The Neuron — reached the six-figure milestone, and what you can do to get there, too.
Email can be an incredible tool for driving readers to support your work or buy something. Here’s how top newsletters convince readers to pull out a credit card and take the next step.
On the challenges of producing a newsletter from India, the value of keeping communities small, the double-edged sword of audience surveys, and how to do more for yourself by doing less.
CJ Chilvers has been creating newsletters since 1987. Here’s what he’s learned along the way.