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The International Inbox

How Amanda Cua Built BackScoop, Southeast Asia’s Go-To Tech 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.

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The International Inbox

Finding Sanity While Building a Newsletter: A Conversation With Indian Creator Tanmoy Goswami

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.

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Indie newsletters

Burnt Toast Allowed Virginia Sole-Smith To Quit Her Day Job. Here’s How She Did It.

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.

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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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Newsletter success stories

Inside Brazil’s Growing Indie Newsletter Economy

Gaía Passarelli’s Tá Todo Mundo Tentando newsletter is growing — and it’s one of several successful independent newsletters in Brazil.

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Newsletter monetization

The Five Types of Indie Newsletter Business Models

Here’s what we’ve learned about matching the right newsletter to the right business model.