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How to Start Your First Newsletter in Less Than 10 Hours
A realistic step-by-step plan you’ll actually follow.
If you want to:
- Build credibility, authority, and an audience online
- Reliably monetize your skills and passion
- Or make a living by creating content, you need an email list.
While content creation itself can be considered an unreliable career option, owning an email list can lead to a sustainable business and freedom.
Without an email list, creators and experts have to rely on external platforms. You need to trust that the platforms you’re using will continue to exist and lead to the results you want.
Even though that’s the ideal scenario, it’s not always what reality looks like. As creatives, we need to anticipate changes, even if we don’t want them.
The online world is changing fast, and we have to expect platforms to change too. With an email list, navigating those changes is much easier because you have more control.
Over the last three years, I slowly fell in love with email marketing for various reasons:
- A newsletter allows you to build a strong relationship with your audience. Social media is loud and crowded, but our email…
