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This is GC⚡ #71 — your weekly secret weapon for newsletter growth ⚔️

A special welcome to the 77 newest members of the Growth Currency⚡ newsletter community!

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Consistency is important. But nobody talks about this.

You won’t find an article about 'success in the creator economy' without hearing it:

And for good reason.

Consistency is ultimately one of the most important factors — if not the most important — when it comes to earning income with your creative pursuits. Inconsistent posting & publishing won’t get the attention of algorithms. And it won’t get the attention of humans.

So consistency is important. Without a doubt.

But what if you are consistent.

And you’re consistent for what feels like a long time.

You’ve been posting short content daily, longer content weekly, and engaging non-stop on various platforms — but still not growing an audience as quickly as you hoped, or earning any sort of reliable income — as the Passive Income gurus promised you would be by now.

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GC ⚡ June Growth Experiment 🧪

We launched a lead magnet experiment in May that garnered over 210 new subscribers. We learned a LOT and I broke the whole experiment down right here.

I'm teaming up once again with SparkLoop in June to run another Growth Experiment.

This one is going to feature a new collaborative SparkLoop tool that I believe will change the game for newsletter publishers big and small.
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I'm excited.

We'll break it all down at the end of June and unveil one of their latest newsletter growth tools then!
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Your Growth Currency ⚡ This Week

"Knowledge is the currency of growth."

Carefully curated resources to help you: Start + Grow + Improve + Monetize your newsletter

Let’s get into it!

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START

⚡How I Curate A Weekly Newsletter by Janel Loi

Curating a weekly newsletter is a quick + easy + popular strategy to get started—especially when you don't have a lot your own content to share. This article shares all the process and automations Janel uses to curate interesting weekly links for her BrainPint newsletter.

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GROW

⚡Our Content Strategy To Grow Our Email List To 100k by Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole

So this is insane. For anyone serious about growing and monetizing a newsletter—check. this. out. This shouldn't be free. ​
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GROW (Bonus!)

⚡The Newsletter Booster by Josh Spector

Grow your newsletter in 5 minutes a day, or less—with The Newsletter Booster. This 60-minute course runs through 30 different tactics you can implement into your every day to grow your subscriber list.

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IMPROVE

⚡ How To Run a Re-Engagement Email Campaign in 5 Steps by Emily Wong @ Paved.com

I wrote about the one thing worse than an unsubscribe a few weeks back—the dreaded cold subscriber.

This article by Emily at Paved has some swipe-worthy examples of re-engagemnt campaigns you need to check out. Remember—your email list will shrink a bit, but your open rates and click rates will improve. These are the important metrics, my friends.

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MONETIZE

⚡ How To Make Millions by Writing Online with Sam Parr of the Hustle via IndieHackers Podcast

This episode was the first time I heard how Sam built The Hustle. At the 30:00 mark, he lays out exactly what he'd do to grow a newsletter business starting today. Get out your pen and notepad. Take notes.

His big word of warning: Don't start a Substack newsletter. "I don't think they do a good job. I think they can do great, but I don't think they do great at the moment."

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

Sometimes it's diamonds. Other times it's coal. You tell me:

I'm now 71 newsletter editions into this journey—and I've never had a website. 😬

Yet, I managed to grow this newsletter to over 1,700 of you amazing readers. But... I now need some internet real estate.

So this week, I soft-launched growthcurrency.net.

This is V1 of what I hope will be an ever-evolving and robust website. I've already received some amazing feedback (thanks Will!) on how to improve & optimize it.

My main point here: you don't need a fancy website to get started with a newsletter.

Stop planning, start publishing.

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And in case you missed it, here are last week's TWO most popular links:

#1: Tips for Starting a Curated Newsletter by Jessica Williams
#2: 7 Things I learned from sending 52 Issues of a Weekly Newsletter by Friday Digest
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Other Growth Currency⚡ Resources:
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→ The 1KS Roadmap: A Free Course To Your First 1,000 Subscribers​
→ The Ultimate Creator Database of Awesomeness​
→ How To Start, Grow, and Optimize a Thriving Newsletter Community​
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Peace and platonic love,

Dylan

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