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What You Need To Know

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⚡ Dylan Redekop || Newsletter Strategist 💙💛 @growthcurrency Newsletter tip of the day (if you have Revue): • export your subscriber list asap • export your published content (if desired) • start a @ConvertKit / @beehiiv / etc account • send an update to your subs via Revue letting them know your plans and what to expect. November 4th 2022 4 Retweets 28 Likes

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Answering your Newsletter Questions: GC⚡ AMA

You have questions. I have some answers.

I only “niched down” to focus on newsletters in April 2022.

It’s been 7 whole months.

But niching down to focus on this topic was the best thing I have done for my newsletter. It’s helped me…

→ focus my content
→ grow the newsletter
→ position my brand as a bit of a “Newsletter Guy”

All huge wins I was struggling with before finding my niche. But it’s also 10x’d the amount of questions I get about newsletters!

So I want to answer some of those questions here. Let’s dive in!

tl;dr — I answer the following questions:

1. What growth strategies are you trying?
2. What social media platforms — that aren’t Twitter or LinkedIn — should I promote my newsletter on?
3. Can you share more on promoting/growing a list?
4. How do you convince your boss — who hates getting email — of the value a newsletter can bring to your business?
5. How can I generate ideas for newsletter content?
6. Can you write a full-fledged edition (article) about paid newsletters?
7. How do you find newsletter sponsors without using platforms like Paved or Swapstack?
8. How important is subscriber count?
9. What do you do when writing seems like a chore?
10. What’s the best way of connecting new subscribers with your ‘greatest hits’?

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

"Knowledge is the currency of growth."

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START YOUR NEWSLETTER

⚡ 10 tips to dissolve that newsletter writing dread by Sasha Sullivan

My take: "Newsletter writing dread" can happen. You're always not "on fire" to write up a new edition every day/week/month. But you need to keep writing and publishing to hit your newsletter goals.

I like Sasha's approach, and especially these points:

→ Don’t be afraid to go rogue and personal.
→ Decide on the cadence that works for you.
→ Break down your newsletter into chunks.
→ Get some accountability support.

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GROW YOUR NEWSLETTER

⚡ Database of [Newsletter] Growth Strategies by @yun_dev1 (via Twitter)

My Take: Whoa. This is pretty epic. This Twitter account shared this Airtable database on Twitter and tagged myself and a few other newsletter operators this past week—and it's LOADED.

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IMPROVE YOUR NEWSLETTER

⚡ Is your newsletter working? 5 Questions to help you figure it out by Josh Spector

My Take: This quick article asks you 5 core questions to determine if your newsletter is on the right track. The very first question is the most important—and many will struggle to easily answer it.

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MONETIZE YOUR NEWSLETTER

⚡ You don't need a huge email list to make money. Here's how to monetize a list of less than 1k by Jeff Felton

My Take: Jeff nails this thread. He's approaching this with more of an email marketing approach, but still very much applicable to the newsletter space (remember, newsletters and email marketing are not the same thing).

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⚡ Dylan Redekop || Newsletter Strategist 💙💛 @growthcurrency Whoa. This is only 24 images from 100+ AI-generated images of me. Pretty interesting tech 🙌 pic.twitter.com/qMfkOROyrT November 7th 2022 0 Retweets 4 Likes

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