free action plan template
Every Monday morning, I open three tabs, a newsletter draft, a spreadsheet, and whatever action plan I'm pretending will stay tidy this week. Then I hit the same wall most creators hit. The template I downloaded looks fine for a project team, but it falls apart the moment
last touch attribution
44% of marketers still rely on last-touch attribution as their primary model, and last-click usage is still reported at 41% in another 2026 source, even though 76% of B2B marketers now use some form of multi-touch attribution, up from 56% in 2020. For newsletter businesses, that'
monetize email newsletter
The weird part about email newsletter monetization is that it's no longer a side hustle. Beehiiv says publishers sent 28 billion emails and reached more than 255 million unique readers last year, and paid-subscription revenue on its platform climbed from $8 million in 2024 to $19 million
what is beehiiv
beehiiv is an all-in-one newsletter platform built in 2021 by ex-Morning Brew operators that combines sending, a website builder, analytics, referrals, paid subscriptions, and an ad network. If you're trying to decide whether it's worth your list, my blunt answer is that it&
alpha cronbach formula
Everyone loves to paste a Cronbach's alpha number into a survey dashboard and call it “reliability.” I don't do that anymore unless the scale deserves it. With short newsletter polls, segmented onboarding quizzes, and fast feedback forms, the more useful question is often whether alpha belongs
email deliverability consultants
I've watched a perfectly healthy newsletter go sideways for reasons that had nothing to do with subject lines. One week I was staring at a normal-looking list, the next week Gmail started clipping messages, opens sagged, and I wasted two weeks trying to “fix” the copy before
newsletter topics
Reading the same recycled advice about Newsletter Topics gets old fast. I've sent hundreds of emails to tens of thousands of subscribers across beehiiv, Substack, and now LetterBucket. Most of what I found online was vague or just didn't work. So I tested everything myself. Some
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Most advice on an About Me for website page is backward. It tells creators to write the long, soulful origin story first, then tuck the proof and signup link somewhere near the end. That works if the page is a memoir. It fails if the page is meant to earn
Most advice about the best newsletter software is backward. It starts with feature grids, template counts, and generic "all-in-one" claims. I don't care about any of that until I've signed up, pointed a domain, imported a list, sent real campaigns, and tried
Most advice about the best newsletter software is backward. It starts with feature grids, template counts, and generic "all-in-one" claims. I don't care about any of that until I've signed up, pointed a domain, imported a list, sent real campaigns, and tried
Stop letting inactive subscribers go. I've had plenty of weeks where a list looked healthy on paper, then open rates sagged and the “maybe later” pile kept growing. The fix wasn't one generic “we miss you” note. It was matching the bounce back email template to
A use case is how a specific user interacts with a product to reach a specific goal. In statistics, that framing became a core decision tool long before newsletter people borrowed the phrase, and I still use it every week when I compare platforms, flows, and monetization paths. I run
You don't notice newsletter ad sizes until a sponsor sends the wrong file and your clean issue turns into a mess in Gmail. I've had that happen with a banner that looked fine in Figma, then clipped in the inbox, then got forwarded back with a
I've had newsletters stall for boring reasons. The ideas were fine. The issue was usually issue eleven, when the writing got ahead of the system and the system was basically a mood board with an inbox. I've seen that happen in my own projects and in
Most advice on how to improve email deliverability starts in the wrong place. It tells you to write better subject lines, use fewer spammy words, and clean your list. Those things matter, but they're not the main event. In my own newsletters, the inbox moved when I fixed
Your subject lines are probably fine. They're just leaving opens on the table. I've spent years sending newsletter campaigns, moving lists across platforms like LetterBucket, beehiiv, Substack, and Ghost, and the pattern is consistent. The generic advice gets the shape right, but it misses the essential
Everyone loves telling creators to slap ads on a blog and wait. I think that advice is mostly garbage for anyone without huge traffic. I've built blogs that made money, and I've also watched plenty of them stall because the owner treated pageviews like the business.
You've got a list full of readers who say they want “more value,” but that's too vague to help you price a paid tier, line up sponsorships, or decide what to publish next. I use data from surveys to force a sharper answer. I'm
Most newsletter advice treats structure like a cosmetic choice. I don't buy that anymore. After testing digest issues, essays, interviews, alerts, and gated paid formats across LetterBucket, beehiiv, Substack, and Ghost, I've found that format changes engagement and monetization more than send cadence does. I also