Welcome to Trends, a weekly newsletter with the zestiest business trends and actionable insights for entrepreneurs. Summary Great Margins: Newsletters are a simple yet profitable business (e.g., Ben Thompson’s Stratechery is estimated to gross between $6-7m.) Ads or Subs: Core newsletter business models include ad-supported (The Skimm, Morning Brew) and subscription-based (Stratechery, 2PM) Newsletter Media … Read more
Whether you’re in your first marketing job (congrats, btw) or your 15th, you know that there are approximately 43,827 marketing-related newsletters all vying for your email address. Let me rescue you from the overwhelm: I subscribed to several dozen marketing newsletters, talked to friends across different industries, scoured the internet, and pestered a great many … Read more
If you’ve been publishing LinkedIn posts regularly but want to find ways to level up your content on the platform, this article is for you. A LinkedIn newsletter is similar to an email newsletter, but it’s distributed directly through LinkedIn to your network. This functionality allows you to share valuable insights, updates, and content consistently … Read more
The year 2023 has been a year of massive growth for LinkedIn Newsletters. If we do a year-over-year comparison, we will see that the subscriptions have become triple this year. This evolution in the Newsletters has significantly contributed to the growth of the overall subscription of the LinkedIn platform. Today, this platform has more than … Read more
You’ve made your LinkedIn account, you’ve posted a couple of thought-provoking pieces, and now you’re wondering what your next step is. Sure, you can add another article post to your page, but with minimal followers, it feels a little hollow. “How, oh great LinkedIn gods, can I gain a larger audience?” you cry, sinking to … Read more
LinkedIn has announced several new features to improve the newsletter experience for creators and readers. These updates come as LinkedIn has seen newsletters grow exponentially in popularity over the past year. LinkedIn states in its announcement: “Newsletter readership has tripled over the past year, now with more than 1.3 million daily readers.” LinkedIn is rolling … Read more
An ongoing issue with Google’s Gmail is disrupting the normal functioning of email newsletter services. The issue is causing many emails to be redirected to subscribers’ spam folders instead of their primary inboxes. This problem came to light at Search Engine Journal in early June when our email newsletter open rates nosedived from our usual … Read more
Dave grew his newsletter traffic by 2.5x using one simple (and fast) tactic. Here’s how. 👇 Dave Anderson is a senior technology leader with a diverse background. He spent 12 years at Amazon, leading organizations as a general manager and technology director. Then he became CTO at Bezos Academy, a non-profit organization founded by Jeff … Read more
If you scroll through your email inbox, there’s a good chance you’re subscribed to some kind of newsletter. And while plenty of those subscriptions may be for companies and brands, there’s recently been a surge in the popularity of individual newsletters. Substack, a platform dedicated to free and paid email newsletters, received over 24.57 million … Read more
You probably check your email every day, whether for work or personal reasons, and so do millions of other people. As a result, newsletters are an excellent vehicle for reaching an audience, whether you have a brand or you’re trying to build one. And in a day and age where almost anything can have a … Read more
