😎 Summer Lovin' For Your Readers & Revenue

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Why are all your favorite newsletters switching to beehiiv?

It’s because the founding beehiiv team were all early Morning Brew employees who helped scale that newsletter to over 4 million daily subscribers.

Years of trial and error went into building the precise tools, dashboards, and analytics needed to accomplish that. And now every newsletter on beehiiv has access to the same winning formula.

So what exactly does beehiiv offer?

• World-class growth tools like the referral program and recommendation network

• Monetization via the beehiiv Ad Network and premium subscriptions (i.e. beehiiv helps you get paid)

• Seamless content creation with a sleek collaborative editor

• Best-in-class inbox deliverability of 99%

• Oh and it’s the most affordable by a mile…

Take your newsletter to the next level — get started for free.

📰 Industry Roundup

3 Ways To Boost Your Prime Day Revenue This July: Amazon Prime Day 2024 will take place on a yet to be announced date in July (it was July 11-12 in 2023). Prime Day 2023 was the best ever for many publishers due to higher discounts that led to triple digit increases in YoY sales. Since affiliate programs can print money for newsletter creators, and you hopefully know your audience’s targeted tastes, don’t sit this one out. Top publishers are taking specific steps to set new records this Prime Day… Read

Google Ads Come To Newsletters: A beta program has launched offering a Google Ads Manager advertising tag for newsletters. This is in direct response to the impending loss of cookie-based targeting mechanisms, as newsletters are an inherently targeted media channel. If successful, this can make placing Google Ads as easy and ubiquitous as they have been on websites, which can drive meaningful revenue if you are prepared… Read

What Does This Print Revival Mean For Your Newsletter?: There is a mini-resurgence of high quality, super-niche print publications occurring. Publications such as Surfer’s Journal are making almost $3 million annually serving fewer than 30,000 subscribers. While these publications are billed as an anti-digital experience, that doesn’t mean newsletter operators can’t learn from the content and advertising strategies fueling their growth as there are many similarities to newsletters, and they are your new competition for attention… Read

Creator Platform M&A - Should Patreon Buy Substack?: Social media platforms are a tremendous engine for user attention aggregation. While creators provide the content to feed that attention, the social platforms derive the benefit. This article lays out an intriguing business plan for what a combined Patreon / Substack platform could offer creators and the industry… Read

⚒️ Letter Ops

10 Summer Content Ideas to Make Your Newsletter Sizzle: Who doesn’t need a little inspiration during a season when our minds are as often on having fun as they are on newsletter deadlines? These 10 tips will hopefully inspire and accelerate your content production to get you out on the beach sooner… Read

CASE STUDY - 7 Best Content Curation Tactics From The Hustle: With hundreds of thousands of subscribers and a $20+ million exit, The Hustle stands as a shining example of newsletter success. Here are their best content curation practices that helped get them there… Read

CASE STUDY - Vacation Sunscreen’s 50% Open Rate Greases Sales: Seasonal products suffer from infrequent purchase cycles, so Vacation uses stylish and engaging newsletter content in addition to more conventional offers to smooth out annual sales and to also inform other marketing channels… Read

Can Your Newsletter Win The Battle Of Context Over Content?: Done properly, your newsletter should be a trusted context for your subscribers. They have opted in to receive your content and given you an opportunity to earn their trust and build a relationship. Content that is consumed in a trusted context will get more attention than other channels, which is a tremendous asset for your newsletter and a fascinating experiment proves why… Read

🎉 Just For Fun

Our First Shoutout!: Our new referral program has been running for a few weeks and it’s time to recognize our first shoutout, which is to Jamie Northrup’s Minimalist Hustler:

• Minimalist Hustler: This short daily newsletter will help you make more money online without wasting your time. Start your minimalist newsletter in 5 days for free. 

Your newsletter can be featured here just like Minimalist Hustler if you refer 3 subscribers to Newsletter Business! Your current referral reward status is below.

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