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This is GC⚡ #101 — your Swiss Army Knife for newsletter success

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

​Josh Spector is launching Inbox To Invoice coaching program​
​One of the greats in the newsletter game has put together a coaching program for anyone who wants to turn newsletter subscribers into paying clients. It's application based, so if this interests you—get your application in soon!

​New year, new strategy?​
​Sara was feeling stuck with her newsletter. So she booked a 1-hour newsletter strategy session with me. Here's how our session helped her:

Sara Loretta 🔥🤘🏼 @thesaraloretta Confession: I've been feeling a little stuck on how to grow/improve my newsletter for 2023. So I booked a 1hr strategy call with @growthcurrency. Here's how it went 👇🏼 December 28th 2022 4 Retweets 59 Likes

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[GC Editorial]​
How to set newsletter (or any) goals you'll actually hit.

Goal overwhelm is real — so make it simple.

Whether it’s the start of a new year (like… right now) or a new project, most of us have set lofty, ambitious—even audacious—goals.

Guilty? Me too.

But how often do we actually hit those goals? If you’re anything like me, the answer is a resounding “never.” Why not? Well, I’m usually drunk on optimism & ignorance — clueless to the amount of work (and resilience) required.

For Growth Currency⚡, I knew things had to be different if I wanted success. So when I started my newsletter 2 years ago, I set one long-term goal & one “ongoing” goal:

1. Long-term goal = publish 100 newsletter editions before I quit.
2. “Ongoing” goal = publish every week, no matter what.

These were goals that strictly required my action to achieve them.

Last week, I published my 100th weekly edition, accomplishing both goals I set 2 years ago (🙌). I’ve been reflecting on why they worked.

I think I know why.

And if you suck at setting goals, this might help you too...

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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

⚡ Polar Habits by Merott Movahedi & Jesse Andersen

My Take: Success at a new creative venture (like starting a newsletter) requires strong habits—and steady momentum—to get you there. My friends Merott & Jesse have launched Polar Habits to help you build habits with a habit tracking system that works with momentum rather than streaks. It's the new year, so there's no better time to foster a new habit stack and build momentum.

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GROW YOUR NEWSLETTER

⚡ How I Gained 2,124 (Active) Email List Subscribers in a Year by Maliha

My Take: Maliha shares 9 tips that helped her grow. I love this article because she's taken the time create quality, actionable content—NOT fluff. She goes deep on...

• Creating 'freebies' (ie. lead magnets)
• Creating an onboarding "welcome" series (including a great example of one of hers)
• Driving traffic to your sign-up page (using SEO and.... something I hadn't considered)
• and more...

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IMPROVE YOUR NEWSLETTER

⚡ Why You Shouldn’t Resend to Subscribers Who Didn’t Open by Tyler Denk

My Take: I like this contrarian take. I have—as advised by other pros—always "resent to unopens" since I was able with ConvertKit. I've recommended others do it. But Tyler makes a strong case why you shouldn't. What do you think?

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MONETIZE YOUR NEWSLETTER

⚡ How 1 tweet led to $1500 in revenue (and counting) for work I was already doing by Matt Ragland

My Take: Matt lays out how he lands newsletter sponsors—and uses an automated system to book them in. It doesn't have to be complicated.

Matt Ragland @mattragland How 1 tweet led to $1500 in revenue (and counting) for work I was already doing pic.twitter.com/0b2KdcjHHQ September 24th 2022 3 Retweets 28 Likes

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

I hope your New Year's Eve was a memorable one.

I spent the evening with my wife and kids, enjoying some snacks, drinks, and watching Glass Onion (sans kids).

It was pretty perfect. I hope yours was too.

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

#1: I’ve grown my newsletter to 36,121 readers in 6 months. My step-by-step process by Nathan Baugh
#2: How my newsletter went from aimless hobby to media business by Growth Currency⚡
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Dylan

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