⚡Choosing the Best Newsletter Platform for YOU, 15 Newsletter Growth Tips

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This is Growth Currency⚡ #64 — your weekly dose of newsletter fairy dust 🧚✨

A special welcome to the 30 newest members of the Growth Currency⚡ newsletter community, including Stephen, Jamie, Vanessa, Sarah, Kristen, Nuveen, Ramses, Mike and Louis—to name a few!

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The Best Email Service Providers (ESPs) for Newsletters—and for YOU

You finally decided start a newsletter. Fireworks!

But now you need to make another choice: which platform to publish on?

Yes. That’s right. The never-ending platform debate. And chances are it’s only going to get more debate-y as time goes on.

So many options — so much paralysis.

​Substack?
​Revue?
​ConvertKit?
​MailChimp?
What about Beehive? That’s the new kid on the block…

We have a lot of options. And those choices are a double-edged sword: you’ll eventually pick one — but it’ll take way longer than when you had MailChimp as the only robust + free option.

Food for thought:

⚡ Dylan is Writing a Newsletter for Creators 💙💛 @growthcurrency Most people worry about which newsletter platform to choose more than the content they're going to create. Imagine delaying writing because you can't find the right pen. The "perfect" newsletter platform is the one that gets you started. April 16th 2022 1 Retweets 23 Likes

This is a meaty article. I didn't want to fill this entire newsletter with it.

👇 Check out where I break down the Benefits + Limitations for each of the above ESPs

​Breaking down the Top 5 ESPs for YOU»​
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YOUR GROWTH CURRENCY ⚡ THIS WEEK

"Knowledge is the currency of growth."
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⚡ 15 Newsletter Growth Tips: How I Grew #SEOFOMO from +1K to 17K Subscribers within 2 Years by Aleyda Solis
​Aleyda lays out in dazzling detail the 15 ways she grew her newsletter over 2 years.

Some of my favorite tips:​
​→ “Soft-Promote” The Newsletter: Refer to it from your Online Presence and Activity
→ Cross-Promote and Refer from other Similar or Complementary Publications or Platforms
→ Run Newsletter Giveaways

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⚡How 7-Figure Newsletters Make Money by Ethan Brooks (of The Hustle) [🧵]
​Ethan works at Trends (by The Hustle) so his insight here is HIGH value.

Ethan Brooks @damn_ethan "How 7-Figure Newsletters Make Money" For the last few weeks, I've been doing this talk, based on 6+ months of dedicated research. Time to see if it translates well to Twitter. For your viewing pleasure...🧵 pic.twitter.com/LkrZQbNSZq April 13th 2021 263 Retweets 1,840 Likes

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⚡Namelix — A free AI-powered business (or newsletter 😉) name generator. This tool spits out a bunch of options, and includes a logo too! Another tool recommendation from inside the CCC (mentioned above).

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⚡How To Collect 700+ Emails Via Twitter DMs by Alex Garcia
​Are you using Twitter DMs as an new subscriber acquisition channel? Yannick is the Founder of Hypefury (aff). He created a feature within Hypefury that allowed him to:

• Send 1000 DMs
• Capture 700 emails
• Gain 200+ followers

Yannick did all this in a total of 12 seconds 🤯

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⚡ Creative Companion Club by Jay Clouse
Creative Companion Club (CCC) is where casual creators go to become professional creators. I've joined a LOT of online communities (both free & paid), and I'm more convinced every day that nobody is better at building a valuable community than Jay Clouse. I'm a proud member and affiliate :) Get access to Jay and the high-quality creators he pulls into his orbit, along with creator sprints, workshops, Hot Seat 1-on-1's and more.

​Go pro with Jay as your guide »​

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I appreciate you. Just wanted you to know that.

I mentioned last week right here about a newsletter referral program through SparkLoop. I've been chatting with their team. Got something cooking. Announcement next week 😉

And here's your chance to help decide the referral rewards. So what's something you'd want?
→ A free guide or template?
→ A shout-out in the newsletter?
→ A 30-minute coaching call?
→ A Growth Currency-branded [insert item]?

I'm all ears!

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Hit reply and let me know why — I answer every one :) Or DM me on Twitter!

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

#1: 10 Changes I Made to get 2,ooo subscribers in *6 months* by Justin Moore [🧵]
​#2: What is the secret to writing high-performing content online? with Nicolas Cole (via Copyblogger)​
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Other Growth Currency⚡ Resources:

→ The Ultimate Creator Database of Awesomeness​
→ How To Start, Grow, and Optimize a Thriving Newsletter Community​
→ Advertise in this newsletter​

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​Come Back Alive​ || Ukrainian Red Cross || Voices of Children​ || Ukraine-Russia Twitter List (h/t Noah Smith)

Peace and platonic love,

Dylan

PS: What's your favorite Twitter account?