newsletter growth hacking
Most newsletter growth advice starts in the wrong place. It starts with tactics, then hopes the list quality takes care of itself. That's backwards. I've watched cheap subscribers arrive fast, ignore the emails, and drag the whole monetization model down, which is why I now treat
newsletter growth
You can publish good issues for months and still feel stuck. I've watched newsletters pick up a few hundred subscribers from a launch burst, then flatten because the operator kept chasing traffic while ignoring the people already on the list. That's usually when the work starts,
newsletter benefits
I sent my first newsletter to 37 people and half of them weren't even warm leads. One subscriber replied within 10 minutes and asked a question I'd been avoiding on the website for months. That was the moment I stopped treating email like a side project.
referral program
You've already got the hard part, a newsletter people open. The annoying part is turning that attention into a loop that brings in the right readers without cheapening the list. I've tested referral setups across beehiiv, Substack, Ghost, and LetterBucket, and the fix usually wasn'
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
Learn how to grow your newsletter, increase subscribers, improve email engagement and monetize your audience with practical strategies for creators
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&
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
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
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
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