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Are LinkedIn newsletters the easiest way to grow your list?
An experiment from Circular Economist, Vojtech Vosecky
4 min read→Sep 21, 2024"Should I publish my newsletter to my blog?"
📬"I’m struggling with having both a blog and a newsletter. Should I do one or both? It seems like it’s doubling
4 min read→Apr 21, 2024Why you should ask your customers why they DIDN'T buy
I was on a run listening to my friends Jeremy Enns and Justin Jackson on their excellent podcast, Podcast Marketing Trends Explained. Jeremy suggested
2 min read→Jan 14, 2024Two underutilized email strategies
Most creators I talk to know they should be using email – but they don't want to commit to publishing a newsletter every
3 min read→Jan 7, 2024The magic of email-based courses
The Wednesday before Thanksgiving was quiet. Nothing on my calendar, nothing on my to-do list, and I had one of those magical sparks
4 min read→Mar 5, 2023Results from my February Email Growth Experiment
On January 22, I announced a month-long experiment to grow the Creator Science newsletter. At that time, Creator Science had 17,310 subscribers
8 min read→Mar 13, 2022How to grow an email newsletter
If there's one hill I will die on, it's that all creators should include email as part of their creative
7 min read→Feb 20, 202211 lessons from five years of writing an email newsletter
I had a little bit of a special milestone this week. Creative Companion, which has been the backbone of my entire business for nearly
6 min read→Jan 28, 2022Lead magnets that actually work
If you've ever tried to build up an email list, you've probably heard advice about creating a "lead magnet&
3 min read→Episodes about Email
Chenell Basilio — The state of email in 2026, growing your list without social media, and new predictions.
This week I'm joined by my good friend Chenell Basilio, creator of Growth in Reverse and one of the most thorough newsletter analysts in the space.
Listen or watch→May 13, 2025What’s going on with Substack?
Dan Koe, Justin Welsh, and I joined Substack in the last couple of weeks.
Listen or watch→Jul 2, 2024Nathan Barry – The risks of ConvertKit’s rebrand (and how I can become a billion dollar creator)
Nathan Barry is the founder and CEO of ConvertKit, one of the largest email marketing platforms on the planet. It powers the newsletters of people like Tim Ferris, Ryan Holiday, Andrew Huberman, and Gretchen Rubin, just to name a few.
Listen or watch→Jun 9, 2023Nathan Barry of ConvertKit — Acquiring SparkLoop and turning email into multiplayer mode with the Creator Network
Nathan Barry is a creator, author, speaker, designer, and the founder of ConvertKit. ConvertKit powers the audiences for creators like Gretchen Rubin, Chris Guillebeau, Pat Flynn, Tim Ferriss, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Tim McGraw.
Listen or watch→May 2, 2023Chenell Basilio – How the best newsletter operators grow to 50K+ subscribers
Chenell is the writer of Growth In Reverse, a weekly newsletter where she reverse engineers how a top creator grew from 0 to 50k+ subscribers.
Listen or watch→Apr 18, 2023Matt McGarry – The man behind email acquisition for The Hustle, Codie Sanchez, Sahil Bloom, and The Milk Road
Matt McGarry is the owner of Growletter, an agency helping some of the biggest newsletters in the world grow. He's helped The Hustle, Codie Sanchez, The Milk Road, and others attract millions of email subscribers.
Listen or watch→Dec 6, 2022Neville Medhora – Making millions with remarkable copywriting
Neville Medhora is the creator of Copywriting Course and SwipeFile.com
Listen or watch→Sep 13, 2022Josh Spector – Driving action with a daily newsletter and providing Transformation for your audience
Josh Spector is a marketing and business consultant who writes For The Interested, a newsletter for creative entrepreneurs with more than 20,000 subscribers.
Listen or watch→Jul 26, 2022Polina Marinova Pompliano – How "The Internet's Biographer" writes great profiles
Polina Pompliano is the author of The Profile, which studies the most successful and interesting people and companies in business, entertainment, tech, sports, and more.
Listen or watch→Jul 19, 2022Justin Welsh – How a LinkedIn legend expanded into Twitter and Email
Justin Welsh has 150,000 followers on Twitter, 250,000 followers on LinkedIn, more than 35,000 subscribers to his email newsletter, and has earned more than $2M as a solo creator.
Listen or watch→Jul 5, 2022Chanti Zak – How (and why) you should be using quizzes
Chanti Zak is a quiz funnel strategist and growth coach for online business owners, change-makers, and brands.
Listen or watch→May 31, 2022Daphne Gomez – Leaning into rapid growth and finding rapid growth on Instagram
Daphne Gomez is the creator of Teacher Career Coach. She is a former teacher turned instructional designer, podcaster, and career coach.
Listen or watch→May 17, 2022Sam Parr – from The Hustle to one of the top podcasts on the planet with My First Million
Sam Parr is the co-host of My First Million and the founder of The Hustle. My First Million is one of the top business podcasts on the planet, generating more than 1 million downloads per month.
Listen or watch→May 10, 2022Tiago Forte – How Building a Second Brain went from public rant to thriving cohort-based course
Tiago Forte is the creator of Building a Second Brain. Tiago has spent more than 10 years researching and personally experimenting with a new way of organizing our digital lives and improving our productivity as creative professionals.
Listen or watch→Mar 8, 2022Ann Handley – How to make your voice a differentiator in your work
Ann Handley is a writer, digital marketing pioneer, and author of the Wall Street Journal bestsellers Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content and co-author of Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Custome
Listen or watch→Mar 1, 2022Codie Sanchez – Growing a newsletter by dominating social media (in just over 2 years)!
Codie Sanchez is a reformed journalist, turned institutional investor to cannabis investor and advisor, to now Founder of Contrarian Thinking and Cofounder of Unconventional Acquisitions. She helps people think critically, and cashflow unconventionally while allocating to what she calls "sweaty & bo
Listen or watch→Jan 11, 2022Dan Runcie – From business school to music industry insider by covering the business of hip hop
Dan Runcie is the founder of Trapital, a media company covering the business of hip hop.
Listen or watch→Nov 9, 2021Dru Riley – 45,000+ email subscribers in less than 2 years
Dru Riley is the creator of Trends.vc, which has more than 45,000 subscribers and 1,000 Pro members.
Listen or watch→Sep 21, 2021Taylor Schulte – Creating a winning content marketing strategy for a professional services business
Taylor Schulte is the founder of Define Financial, which manages over $120 million in assets and specializes in retirement & tax planning for people over age 50.
Listen or watch→Jun 8, 2021Brennan Dunn – Combining personalization and automation for next-level email marketing
Brennan Dunn is the creator of Double Your Freelancing, RightMessage, and Mastering ConvertKit.
Listen or watch→Dec 8, 2020Matt Ragland – Becoming a full time YouTube creator after 10 years of side hustling
Matt Ragland is an independent creator. His YouTube channel showcases videos on the Bullet Journal process, productivity, and time management.
Listen or watch→Oct 13, 2020Khe Hy – Leaving Wall Street success to find fulfillment and start an email newsletter
Khe Hy is the creator of RadReads, a weekly newsletter covering how to live an intentional life. He's also the creator of notion.courses, a set of courses to supercharge your productivity through the tool, Notion.
Listen or watch→May 5, 2020Val Geisler – Email, imposter syndrome, and trading the corporate ladder for a spiral staircase
Val Geisler is the founder and CEO (that's Chief Email Officer) of Fix My Churn. She focuses on email copywriting for DTC and SaaS companies to help them better retain their customers.
Listen or watch→Apr 14, 2020Ash Ambirge – Humble beginnings, the Middle Finger moment, setbacks, and the unexpected impact Rihanna had on her life
Ash Ambirge is an internet entrepreneur, creative writer, speaker, and advocate for women being brave and doing disobedient things with their careers and their lives.
Listen or watch→Mar 31, 2020James Clear – Habits, research, and how to create A+ work from a New York Times best selling author
James Clear is a personal development keynote speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits. His book sold over 1 million copies in its first 12 months and received a ton of critical acclaim.
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