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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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Case Studies

The Rise of the $100k Newsletter Operator

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.

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Newsletter monetization

11 Things Smart Newsletters Do to Convert Readers to Supporters and Customers

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.

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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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Newsletter monetization

How I Sold $12,500 in eBooks From My Newsletter

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.

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Indie newsletters

Come For the Newsletter, Stay For the Discord: Why Some Newsletters Have Private Communities for Their Subscribers.

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.

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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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Case Studies

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.