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This is GC⚡ #76 — your secret weapon for newsletter growth ⚔️

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What's happening this week?

🚀 The 1KS Roadmap Relaunch!
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Amplifying Diversity in the Creator Economy

(Sorry, not my usual newsletter-focused programming this week — but for a very good reason...)

Every week I do my best to share the best content to help you start, grow, improve, and monetize your newsletter.

Last week, I was looking through my saved content—and it dawned on me the vast majority of my saved links and bookmarked tweets are…from white dudes. 😒

Which got me thinking about the kind of content I’m curating and sharing with you.

Because there is AMAZING content being created from all corners of the globe, from all walks of life.

And I want to share & feature it all—especially the content relevant to this newsletter!

So I tweeted it out:

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⚡ Dylan is Writing a Newsletter for Creators 💙💛 @growthcurrency I try to feature a diverse group of creators in my newsletter. But it's still predominantly white men 😔 I'd love more diversity! So who's crushing the newsletter, email marketing, or copywriting space and is NOT a white dude? Hit me with your best follow 👇 July 6th 2022 2 Retweets 45 Likes

There were so many amazing replies recommending a bunch of diverse creators that I started a Twitter list to keep track of every single one mentioned.

In place of my regular Growth Currency START | GROW | IMPROVE | MONETIZE links section, I want to feature a few right here, right now.
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⚡ Emily Wong is the content lead at Paved blog and writes their weekly newsletter. I learn a ton about newsletter monetization from her well-written pieces and stellar curation.

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⚡ Aleyda Solis writes the popular #SEOFOMO newsletter, and this piece on 15 newsletter growth tips is fantastic.

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⚡ Sushil Ganesh writes the Heal With Sushil newsletter. He’s also a podcaster, comedian, and paints beautiful pieces of art. I really admire what he's doing, creating art in all shapes and sizes.

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⚡ Jessica Williams writes the #jesspicks newsletter where she writes and curates content about side hustles, self care, and business. And here’s one of her awesome free resources: Tips for Starting A Curated Newsletter.

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⚡ Abhishek Shah co-authors the Water Cooler Newsletter. If you run a project or creative venture of your own, The Water Cooler newsletter will be right up your alley. In less than 5 minutes every week, you'll receive 1 marketing breakdown and 3 dead-simple ways you can apply the same tactics to your work.

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⚡ Ann Handley is just awesome. I love her unique writing voice and style. She writes the fortnightly newsletter aptly named Total Annarchy. Her free How To Newsletter guide is an epic place to start your newsletter journey.

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⚡ Niharikaa Kaur Sodhi is a successful Medium blogger and content creator. Her article about how she’s rapidly grown her email list was both inspiring and helpful (paywall possible).

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⚡ Nithur M created the Hypergraphia Chrome app. Hypergraphia helps you create a writing habit by tracking your daily word count and visualizing your streak. Here's a short video to see it in action.

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⚡ Kim Doyal writes #FtheHustle newsletter and co-writes the DeliverIt newsletter. Both stellar newsletters—the former helping content creators build profitable businesses while *enjoying* the journey. The latter is an experimental newsletter laying out newsletter growth tactics each week.

Who'd We Miss?

There are WAY more epic creators representing diverse backgrounds than the ones I just listed.

Follow the Twitter list I've curated if you'd like—and feel free to reply to this email or my tweet above with any creators in the marketing, newsletter, and content space that I've missed!

Thank you for reading, supporting, and being here. Please show these well-deserving creators your support!🙏
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And in case you missed it, here are last week's TWO most popular links:

#1: Don’t let a missing niche hold you back. Here are 5 ideas you can use today by Dylan Redekop
#2: How I Got My First 2000 Subscribers by John Bardos
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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 Substack Newsletter​
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