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[GC & Industry News & Announcements]
What You Need To Know

beehiiv introduces unsubscribe forms and automation updates
Yet another feature update from one of the fastest-growing newsletter businesses.

Substack releases "State of SEO on Substack"
One major claim in this post: "Your [Substack] post pages now get 60% more subscriptions from search than they did this time last year—no plug-ins required."

Need a catalyst for your newsletter?
Kieran wanted to scale his newsletter in 2023. He booked a 60-minute newsletter strategy call with me to get some direction:

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[GC Editorial]
7 Newsletter Mistakes—and how to fix them TODAY

On a podcast recently, the host asked me an often-overlooked question about newsletters:

What are some of the basic strategic errors that newsletter writers commit at early stages?

I came up with a few mistakes I’ve made — and a few I’ve seen others make:

Your newsletter is too hard to find
Trying to be active on every platform
Having an ineffective Welcome Email
Forgetting about a monetization strategy
Writing a newsletter for everyone
Expecting big bucks & quick results
Not promoting your newsletter enough — or at all

Now we have our diagnosis, let’s prescribe some fixes.

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[GC Curated: Start + Grow + Improve + Monetize your newsletter]
Your Growth Currency ⚡ This Week

"Knowledge is the currency of growth."

START YOUR NEWSLETTER

⚡ How to Launch Your Indie Newsletter by Dan O'Shinsky

My Take: Dan's put together a detailed 10-step checklist to launching your indie newsletter.

GROW YOUR NEWSLETTER

⚡ How Arvid Kahl grew his newsletter to 7,600 subscribers & $3000/mo revenue by Ciler Demiralp

My Take: Arvid's grown his newsletter to over 7k subscribers. And his most impactful growth strategy is FREE. Take notes ;)

IMPROVE YOUR NEWSLETTER

⚡ Rebranding a newsletter (to 38k subs) by Darwin Binesh

My Take: Loaded article! You’ll learn:

Pivoting newsletter content and branding (and managing the following friction)
Using your business + career to power a standalone newsletter
Strategies to increase subscribers and engagements”

MONETIZE YOUR NEWSLETTER

⚡ 9 tip jar examples to inspire you to set up your own by Marijana Kay

My Take: A simple, effective way to start monetizing your newsletter—and one of the first ways I monetized my newsletter with a few $5 tips :)

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Thanks for making it to the end—I try and save some personal ramblings for this space.

Writing well is *kind of* an important skill.

And likely the most important newsletter skill.

Which is why I recently picked up Ann Handley's new & revised edition of her popular Everybody Writes (get your copy here with my referral link).

I couldn't make it through the introduction without sharing an instant gem on Twitter:

⚡ Dylan Redekop || Newsletter Strategist 💙💛

@growthcurrency

Ann Handley is a writing & marketing legend.
So I obviously grabbed her new "Everybody Writes (New & Improved)" book.
What a find.
I've ONLY read the intro and already discovered this absolute gem:  pic.twitter.com/iyGabwunkY