Lenny Rachitksy makes millions of dollars a year with his paid newsletter. He left Airbnb in 2019, thinking he was going to build a startup. But after writing an article on Medium that went semi-viral, a friend convinced him he needed to keep writing instead. Here’s how he went from having no email list, to … Read more
Jesse Anderson has a full-time job as a web developer, but that didn’t stop him from building an email list of over 57,000 people in 25 months. Jesse has tried all kinds of platforms to grow his audience. And it’s led to a lot of followers: And these have led to his newsletter, Extra Focus, … Read more
Dickie Bush is one of the most prolific writers on the internet. He went from having no following in January 2020, to over 326k followers today in March of 2023. But he didn’t just hit the ground running. Quite the opposite. For the first 9 months, he was seeing almost no traction and was writing … Read more
Daphne Gomez is a former teacher turned entrepreneur. After dealing with extreme stress from being a teacher, she now helps other educators leave the classroom and find less stressful roles with her company called Teacher Career Coach. Helping teachers leave the classroom is a hard topic to cover, one that most people don’t want to … Read more
Daniel Murray runs Marketing Millennials – a newsletter and podcast focused on marketing for the new age. And he knows his stuff. Daniel has been able to grow multiple digital properties FAST: All of this growth has happened since he began posting on his personal LinkedIn in December of 2019. Football Player Turned Marketer Daniel … Read more
Pat Walls launched Starter Story in late 2017 and has grown the site to a mind-boggling 1.6 million visitors per month, and over $1 million annually. Starter Story is a content site that primarily has interviews with founders of successful businesses. These run the gamut of e-commerce, SaaS, newsletters, and more. Each interview includes revenue … Read more
Justin Welsh is a master of short-form content. He’s built an audience of over 360k people on LinkedIn in 3.5 years. He’s quickly approaching that same number in just 16 months on Twitter. And he’s grown his newsletter to over 77,000 people in just 12 months. How Justin Welsh Makes Money Justin has quite a … Read more
In just 30 days, Codie Sanchez built the Contrarian Thinking newsletter to over 10,000 subscribers. At 8 months, that number grew to over 50,000. Within 12 months, the newsletter hit 100,000 subscribers. And just when you think that level of growth can’t continue, in just 3 years she grew it to over 250k. How Contrarian … Read more
Do you have what it takes to write a newsletter for an entire year without hitting 1,000 subscribers? That’s how Packy McCormick started out. While he has a large audience now, that first year was super slow growth. Eventually, things started to click. 1 year later he hit 50k. 8 months after that he hit … Read more
Harry Dry, built his 130k-person newsletter audience in around 3.5 years, using some of the smartest content distribution strategies I’ve ever seen. If you’ve been in the online space for a bit, you’ve probably heard of MarketingExamples.com. The craziest part is that while it’s certainly not easy to do, it’s not even that complex. And … Read more