Big Ideas:
► He got thousands of subscribers by being active in various communities.
► About 20% of his subscribers come from recommendations on Substack.
► His systematic process for writing great articles.

Justin Welsh shows how to A/B test your landing pages for improved conversions.

Jay Clouse interviews Justin Welsh to get his best advice to grow on social media.

Big Ideas:
► Find the top 30 people on a platform and find out what's working for them.
► Take massive action on those ideas.
► Take notes of what content stops you and gets you to read.
► You build a network by being an interesting person.
► Create a group of friends where you can support each other online.

"If your newsletter is the business… you’re going to have a bad day."

Richard Patey responds to Scott Oldford's article on why newsletters are a bad business model.

Scott runs more than 20 newsletters and is refocusing his newsletters towards generating lead flow for his businesses.

Richard Patey's reply,

"I feel that newsletter businesses are where websites were back in 2011, i.e. multiples low and few people know how to value them.

But over time they will become far more highly valued than content sites dependent on SEO, and that the number of newsletter businesses will start to compete with the number of websites we see on existing digital asset marketplaces such as Flippa and Empire Flippers."

Arvid Kahl has a great interview with Dickie Bush of the hugely popular Ship30for30 cohort-based writing course.

I love the story of how he got started. It all started with a single Tweet.

Fascinating OpenAI keynote presentation of the next generation of ChatGPT with many examples of what is already possible.

AI is going to change everything for creators.

Kevon Cheung publishes the Public Lab newsletter focused on the benefits of building in public. I'm a huge fan of this approach. Sharing your journey is a great way to build an audience.

Kevon is also a great person to follow on Twitter.

Check out his site! It's beautiful.