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10 tactics to grow your newsletter to 50,000 subscribers (steal these):
Deliver Value Weekly

Every week I give 1 free business growth tip in my newsletter.

Examples:

• 3 Tips For Building An Online Community Of 1 Million Raving Fans
• 10 Audience Growth Tools I Used to Grow Herb to 14+ Million
• 8 Steps For Finding (& Nailing) Your Vision
Be Consistent

If you fail at consistency, no growth hacks can save you.

Publish at the same time, same day, every single week.

Build a weekly ritual for your audience.

@mrsharma is a master of ritual building:

Associates his newsletter with a refreshing drink every send
Implement a Referral Engine

This has been the biggest growth channel for me.

It helped Morning Brew grow to 3M subscribers.

I use @beehiiv for this.

Have a gift you give people at each of these milestones (steal mine for inspiration):
Have Valuable Milestones:

• 1 Referral: Content Creation Cheat Code Playbook
• 5 Referrals: Find Your Calling Shortcuts + 50% off my course
• 10 Referrals: Vision Board Template worth $399
• 20 Referrals: How to Create a Content Strategy + 80% off my course
Grow via Recommendations

Recommendations are a cheat code for growth.

• Increase newsletter growth by 33%
• Build strong relationships with other writers
• Gain high-value audience (high open rates and retention)

@beehiiv lets you set this up in ~2 minutes
Find and Execute Newsletter Swaps

The highest converting marketing channel for newsletters?

Other newsletters.

• DM other newsletter writers
• Share your list size, topic areas, interests
• Share example results of past swaps (# of clicks, new subs etc.)
Publish on Socials

How I made my first $100k online:

• Published content 2x per day
• Created a newsletter
• Asked brands if they wanted to be featured
• Closed 5 brands at $5k per month for 12 months

The first step → being consistent with content

Here's how:
Write 2 Threads/Week

Threads = The best free sources for impressions on the internet

1. Write Daily - Consistency is key
2. Copywriting is King - Write like you speak
3. Nail Your Hooks - 80% of success is the first sentence
LinkedIn Carousels 2x a week

Remix your content from Twitter to LinkedIn:

1. Turn on Creator Mode on LinkedIn
3. Post LinkedIn Carousels Weds and Thurs
4. Grow a loyal audience
Perfect Your CTA

Don't let your social content go to waste.

A perfect CTA includes:

• Social proof (how many readers do you have)
• What's the immediate value (ie. 1 actionable tip for online businesses)
• Why it's a no-brainer (it's free!)
Want to build a profitable community?

I will give away a (free) Profitable Community Playbook in 48 hours.

Join 40,000+ founders who will receive it 👇

www.mattgray.xyz/newsletter
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