“For most newsletter operators, the earning potential is life-changing” — I added this particular signup form tool two days ago and have already made $34. My friend Jamie Northrup - Minimalist Hustler made over $900 in January. It’s not a scam. It’s working. Best of all? It’s free. …

It dawned on me. Sponsorships and partnerships will be creative gold in 2023 and beyond. The era of ads is over. Companies rather advertise with popular creators than create traditional ads. Ads won’t ever cease to exist, but we’re headed to a collaborative advertisement future. And this is brilliant for…

Should you switch from Gumroad? — Gumroad is dead, haven’t you heard? While looking for alternatives, you might have stumbled upon a service with the freaking awesome name Lemon Squeezy. It’s a strong Gumroad competitor that offers similar features, lower fees, widely available payouts, and much more. Let’s dive in! Why not Gumroad? I used to be a huge…

An ever-growing email list is a good thing, isn’t it? — It is. In fact, growing an email list might be the most important thing a writer can do at the beginning of his or her online journey. It’s free to grow, you can take it with you from platform to platform, from service to service. Hell, you can even bypass…

And it’s Gumroad’s strongest competitor — I love Gumroad. But there is a strong competitor. And it’s even more capable in several areas. You can use that tool to build a complete website, a shop, a landing page, and a newsletter. All for free. Wait and see! Before I’ll tell you about this other platform, a…

Gumroad is much more than a digital sales platform — Gumroad is a Juggernaut. It’s primarily a platform to sell digital products. If you’ve been on Medium long enough, you’ve undoubtedly seen Gumroad products. Many writers pick Gumroad as their selling platform of choice. I do too. What few people know, however, is what else you can do with and…

You’re a writer. You need an email list. If you simply write a newsletter, it’s easy. Choose Substack or Revue. If you want more, like email automations, marketing functionality, and integrations, you need something like ConvertKit. That gets expensive. Here are my favorite alternatives for ConvertKit (contains affiliate links, marked…

Write a newsletter, get paid through ads — Huge news in the world of online writing. Newsletter and email marketing pros should be jumping up and down right now. Substack is already going back to the drawing board. What has happened? ConvertKit introduced a game-changing new feature Silently, ConvertKit has been running a pilot project with multiple big-name newsletter creators for a few months…

Not ConvertKit, MailChimp, or Substack — Everybody’s telling you about ConvertKit. For good reason, it’s a feature-rich and marketing-optimized email tool. It’s right up there with Substack or Mailchimp in terms of popularity and user base. That being said, ConvertKit has notable downsides: the free plan is quite limited, especially in terms of automation with is…

And what that is — Imagine you’re raking in thousands of views from thousands of subscribers every day and making quite a few $$$ per month. And then, you get banned from the service. That’s what happened to me. This makes three things clear: Be safe! Have multiple income streams. Use multiple platforms and most…

It’s not for marketing, it’s for writing and growing a loyal reader base — Over the last few weeks, I’ve been hunting down the perfect newsletter platform for me. Surprisingly, I settled on the one I thought I wasn’t going to use. It has paid off. Here’s how and why. The ones I’ve tried Let’s quickly have a look at the platforms I’ve tried in the past few…

Sometimes, I’m just dumb. Because I can’t see the obvious. This is what happened when I started collecting email addresses without really knowing it. Here’s the story. Late last year, I designed a few app icon packs for iOS. After unsuccessfully trying to sell them on Gumroad, I decided to…

A real-life example of growing an email list while earning money for it — Email marketing is everywhere. “You need a newsletter”. On Twitter, Dylan from growthcurrency.net stated: “Don’t start a blog. Start a newsletter.” Medium offers a subscribe button to build an email list, Twitter integrated newsletters directly into user profiles via Revue, Substack went through the roof, and even LinkedIn started a…

It’s powerful and free — Sick of the same old recommendations for newsletter platforms like Substack, ConvertKit, MailChimp, or Revue. Keep reading, I bet you haven’t heard of this next tool when it comes to building your email list. You might, however, have heard or already used it in other contexts. Understanding a concept I’m a little slow…

“You need a newsletter” — basically every creator out there. I agree. You don’t need a newsletter to write a newsletter, though. You want a newsletter to grow a platform-independent audience that you can “take” with you from one platform to the next. Moreover, you might gather subscribers in multiple…

Why do you need an email list? The most significant reason: Your own audience. Take your readers with you from platform to platform. What if Medium dies tomorrow, what if you get banned from your most-used platform? Take your readers with you! …

First world problems — Sign up for my newsletter. Come on, that’s so lame. That’s not a CTA (or call-to-action as we non-fancy millennials used to call it). That’s a recipe for disaster. Everyone and their mother is telling you (and me) to build an email list. Haven’t you heard? Email marketing is back…

Step by step — I’ve been on Medium for almost 1.5 years now. This isn’t a long time by any means. Compared to my 14+ years of blogging experience, it’s nothing. Yet, these last 1.5 years have been the most successful and fun times ever as an online writer. I went from 0 to…

Grow your audience elsewhere — Revue is a newsletter platform by Twitter. I’ve used it in the past. Now, I write on Substack. I still value Revue for its Twitter integration, mainly the profile card with subscribe button.