What a newsletter actually needs to be

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💎 Hidden Gems of the Week

🔎 I grew my newsletter from 0 to 10,000+ subscribers with a 59% open rate and 23% CTR… in 6 months. (link)

🔎 I got featured in Newsletter Creator last week! (link)

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🔎 How Instagram creators are bringing their followers to Substack. (link)

🔎 Meet Jenny Hoyos who solved Youtube Shorts…I know it’s not “email” content but if you are trying to grow your YouTube channel to funnel your subscribers to your newsletter, check out the video. (link)

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☀️ Good Morning Newsies,

What a newsletter actually needs to be…

Many of us probably have had these problems in our newsletters.

• Make sure every issue provides value.

• Make sure every curated link from the week is amazing.

I know I do, every week I want to make sure every email I send out on Saturdays is value-packed.

Which is good, not saying that it’s bad. But sometimes, that can make you the creator of the newsletter a bit burned out and stressed out that you might want to stop writing your newsletter.

If your newsletter is not the main thing in your business, then you should not stress about it, but if it is go right ahead and stress as much as you want.

But I think we forget what it actually needs to be and that is fun for us to write every week.

Sure you want to provide the best value in every email, but if you're not having fun, then what is the point?

📈 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: 59.0%

• Click-Rate: 21.5%

• Subscribers: 136

Almost near the finish line…

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🎉 You did it!

See you next week!

Daniel