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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.

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Newsletter success stories

What I’ve Learned From Five Years of Evil Witches

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.

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Indie newsletters

How Hanna Raskin Built a James Beard Award-Winning Newsletter

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.

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Indie newsletters

“A surprising gift”: How A.J. Daulerio Turned the Worst Time in His Life Into Something Beautiful

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.

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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

How a French Newsletter Turned a Fun Outro Into €60,000 in Book Sales

A dedicated relationship with readers paid off, literally, when the French newsletter Bulletin created and sold a book based on a section of their newsletter.

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Best practices

30 Ideas to Improve Your Newsletter This Year

Want to take your newsletter to the next level in 2023? Here are 30 tips to try.

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FWD Progress

Digging Into ‘Dirt,’ a Digital Entertainment Newsletter

While paid newsletter tiers are common, Dirt is among the first to finance its operations through NFT sales. 

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Newsletter success stories

Launching a Paid Newsletter Gave Me the Freedom to Say ‘No’

Opening up a paid option was, without a doubt, the most significant decision I’ve yet made in my writing career.