We asked more than 20 newsletter operators for the advice they wish they’d gotten. From content strategy to growth best practices, here’s what they told us.
Tag: Learnings from indie newsletters
The Hustle and Morning Brew built the blueprint for how to make a successful independent newsletter. So who better to teach others the playbook than the people who created it?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Want to sell more subscriptions? Advisorator’s Jared Newman discovered one tactic that worked for his newsletter: Giving away more content.
After five years, I’m shifting from a monthly Google Doc to a weekly email newsletter. Here’s how I made the decision — and what’s next for readers like you.