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.
Tag: Revenue opportunities for Indie newsletters
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.
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.
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.
I launched my newsletter, Evil Witches, in 2018. Here’s what I’ve learned about building an audience, identifying the right strategy for your newsletter, and being your own boss.
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.
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.