💎 Hidden Gems of the Week

🤑 Learn how Helen Guo turned her newsletter into a 6 figure business. (link)

🏢 Learn how Jay Clouse mixes his newsletter with his business. (link)

✋ 5 Helpful Lessons I Learned While Growing My Newsletter. (link)

🏅 How Morning Blitz reached 50k subscribers in 4 years. (link)

🫂 Readers, Not Subscribers? (link)

☀️ Good Morning Newsies,

I asked on X what holds back creators from starting a newsletter.

And here were some of the common answers that fellow creators answered with.

• Consistency

• Starting

• Growth

• Time

• Fear

These are all valid points that can hold you back from starting a daily or weekly newsletter.

1. Consistency: Not being able to come up with great content as Kyle mentioned. This stops most creators from ever starting a newsletter or continuing to write their newsletter. They worry that their content might not be good enough or they think it’s already out there so why bother creating it?

2.  Starting: Mentioned by Tai, I know I had a bit of a battle in my mind telling myself I would start tomorrow. Tomorrow came and I would repeat it repeatedly, I was procrastinating if you want to start a newsletter… start now. As said by Tai it gets easier after you do.

3. Fear: You can mix this in with starting. But also fear of what others might think, or fear of not being not being good enough to write. Matthew shared some great pointers as well.

4. Time: Saying to oneself that you don’t have time to write a newsletter. Not having time to provide the value that you want to provide to your potential subscribers.

5. Growth: You are probably worried, that your newsletter is not growing enough so you stop the newsletter since you believe that it won’t be anything. Indeed, it might not but what if the next email you send out is the one that blows up?

But also want to share how you can overcome the setbacks.

1. Consistency: Don’t worry if the content you writing is not “new” Most content out there is not. Your content will suck at first but if you don’t start you won’t get any better.

2. Starting: Start today, enough said.

3. Fear: Honestly no one really will remember what you wrote in your newsletter. So don’t worry about what people will think of your newsletter.

4. Time: Block out 15 minutes a day to write a rough draft. And 2 days before publishing go in and edit for the final draft.

5. Growth: Growing anything takes time, but don’t stop if you see your newsletter growing slowly. You just never know who might be reading.

Thank you to the creators who responded to the tweet. To help make today's email happen.

I know it’s a bit different, this week’s newsletter. LMK what you thought.

📈 Newsletter Metrics This Week

_{I want to be transparent and also I think it will be cool to see the weekly growth of a newsletter}

• Open Rate: 159

• Click-Rate: 58.2%

• Subscribers: 18.5%

Almost near the finish line…

🐦 Tweet of the Week