PLUS: don’t start your next landing page/email from a blank screen
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I’ve just added a new resource to the Growth In Reverse Pro membership ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/5qum7890o7f7hn65zn4f6h9rkr587bk5o8g47xrzngvg2koldw6k2vqqr7gr9d33m8g544x29g57vvglz2005km678ogr29ek00vk5ezw94k5dz46p65l7kk37psrqmm2/x0hph3ue5lkxxxfgul/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL3Byby8= ) - and it could save you hours of searching, guessing, and rewriting.
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* And more
Every swipe file includes both the original example and a practical template you can replicate.
And because inspiration is only useful when you can actually find it, the entire library is filterable. Choose the type of example you need and get straight to the good stuff - without endless scrolling.
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As I find more examples while reverse-engineering the growth stories of top creators, I’ll continue adding them to the library.
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🤿 They got 2800 subscribers in 23 days.
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ADHD Weasel didn't publish their first Substack newsletter until February 7th, 2025.
Now less than 18 months later, they have...
→ 36,000 free subscribers→ 830 paid subscribers→ $100K in subscription revenue→ 288,000 followers on Threads.
There's another extra fun thing they did: they launched a quiz as a lead magnet after hearing my talk at New Media Summit in February (you can watch that talk here ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/5qum7890o7f7hn65zn4f6h9rkr587bk5o8g47xrzngvg2koldw6k2vqqr7gr9d33m8g544x29g57vvglz2005km678ogr29ek00vk5ezw94k5dz46p65l7kk37psrqmm2/kkhmh2unk3z44raku7/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1heDRfS1Z0YTJDNA== )).
The quiz they launched managed to get them another 2,800 subscribers in around 3 weeks.
We had Esteban Perez, cofounder of ADHD Weasel on our podcast to tell us the whole story. Let's get into how they did it.
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1. The Failed App Pivot
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Esteban and his cofounder didn't start with a newsletter. They started with an app to help eliminate food waste.
But it failed. Nobody downloaded it. Except people with ADHD. So they did more digging.
Turns out there was a whole niche audience they had tapped into: late-diagnosed ADHDers.
What I love about this discovery is the path they took to get there. Esteban and his cofounder didn't just look at the data and make a decision. They actually got on calls with more than 200 people over 6 months.
That's how the ADHD Weasel newsletter was born. Not out of guessing, but out of first-party research.
(This is just like what Sam Vander Wielen told us when she came on our podcast. She's held calls with over 1,000 people to figure out exactly what they need. That's why she can have multiple six-figure product launches per year.)
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2. The Quiz As a Lead Magnet
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Esteban and his cofounder were at New Media Summit in February. So was I.
As I was sharing onstage the stories of Charlie Dice & Milly Tamati - and how they both had exploded their newsletter growth with a quiz as a lead magnet - Esteban was in the audience taking notes. And he couldn't stop thinking about it.
Less than two weeks after seeing my talk, they launched the Weasel Quiz ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/5qum7890o7f7hn65zn4f6h9rkr587bk5o8g47xrzngvg2koldw6k2vqqr7gr9d33m8g544x29g57vvglz2005km678ogr29ek00vk5ezw94k5dz46p65l7kk37psrqmm2/58hvh8ugrz3llxi7u4/aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWFzZWwtcXVpei52ZXJjZWwuYXBwLw== ).
They used Threads to drive organic sign-ups and Meta ads to drive paid growth. And it worked really, really well. In fact, Esteban sent me a whole report with all the numbers.
* from 17 subs/day to → 125/day average
* 308 daily subs (peak day)
* ~2,800 subs in 23 days from quiz
The bonus to using a quiz as a lead magnet is you get first-party data. The Weasel Quiz groups subscribers into 6 categories. So Esteban created segments to customize the onboarding experience for each.
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3. The Tool Stack To $100k+ in Revenue
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ADHD Weasel lives on Substack. So customization and segmentation isn't really possible.
So Esteban first uploads all the quiz data (including email addresses) into a beehiiv. Esteban said they use beehiiv more as a marketing tool than an ESP. All the appropriate tags and segmentation are saved there.
Then all the email addresses get uploaded twice a week into Substack. And right now it's a 100% manual process. Which begged the question: why not just use beehiiv as your ESP?
The short answer: they started on Substack and run all the paid subscriptions through it. With around 830 paid subscribers (at $15/mo or $150/year), they are reluctant to make a hasty switch.
Still, Esteban feels the pain of paying Substack "16%" of their revenue and feels the tension of using two ESPs.
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4. The content engine behind 4-8M monthly views on Threads
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"We post about 110 times per week on Threads."
Me and Dylan both nearly choked when Esteban told us that. Posting once per day is hard enough. Posting 12-15 times per day is wild!
But it works! To the tune of over 288k Threads followers and anywhere between 3-8M monthly impressions.
We had to know how they manage that kind of content schedule. Esteban broke it down for us.
There are 4 things that make it work:
* They conduct a weekly analysis with Claude on their posts that "worked" and those that flopped
* They clip and save viral post frameworks throughout the week they see working for others
* They use a tool called Publer where they batch out and schedule all their content for the week every Monday
* They wait out Threads' link penalty: the CTA never goes in the first pos - it drops 10-30 minutes later once the algorithm's already decided the post is worth showing people
We actually broke down Esteban's whole content machine in more depth and detail right here: The 36k Subscriber Content Machine ↗ ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/5qum7890o7f7hn65zn4f6h9rkr587bk5o8g47xrzngvg2koldw6k2vqqr7gr9d33m8g544x29g57vvglz2005km678ogr29ek00vk5ezw94k5dz46p65l7kk37psrqmm2/25h2h9u3kelnnwa8u4/aHR0cHM6Ly9jaGVuZWxsLm5vdGlvbi5zaXRlL1RoZS1Db250ZW50LU1hY2hpbmUtVGhhdC1Ecm92ZS0zNmstU3Vicy0zYTU4NDliYmIyZjg4MGQwOTQxZmQ1MmE2NjNmMGJjMw== )
(it's 100% free for you as a subscriber)
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5. The New High Value Channel That's Surprised Them
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Threads is their main social media channel. But Esteban told us they've increased their focus on another platform...
Substack Notes.
It seems obvious since they already run ADHD Weasel on Substack. But they only just started using it in earnest. And Esteban has already seen some impressive results.
The subscribers they get from Notes are actually more valuable than those from Threads.
His hypothesis is that since these subscribers are already in the Substack ecosystem, they're way more likely to convert to a paid subscription. And it's proving to be the case. He told us that one Substack Notes subscriber is worth 10x a Threads subscriber.
So despite Threads driving more subs, Notes is driving more value.
We get even further in the weeds with all of this in our conversation with Esteban.
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⏪ The strategy (and mistakes) behind building a $500k/year membership
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Jay Clouse is someone who knows memberships and how to build community the right way. He's consulted with some big names in the space, like Pat Flynn and Ali Abdaal - and in 2022 he launched his own private community.
Now, 4.5 years later...
* his membership has over 340 members
* and it drives nearly $500k in annual revenue
We had Jay on the Growth In Reverse Podcast to hear his biggest lessons (and mistakes) from running his own membership, how it's evolved and so much more, including:
* The metric more important than growth
* Why bigger isn't always better
* How using scarcity in your marketing can backfire
* How scaling too fast can put a community's culture at risk
Are you running your own membership community - or thinking about starting one? Hit reply and let me know!
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I’ve just added a new resource to the Growth In Reverse Pro membership ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/4zuzg2vo37uehpx0np7bxh63p3gzxi4nek849gr6mr8qlelepkkl7gxw2ppp93ppx49r6nz8479m8lro4m9g7gd2loqvnm98d44wnrq0qnk4gwv4506pdqgp60ltwe00p/x0hph3ue5lkxxxfgul/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL3Byby8= ) - and it could save you hours of searching, guessing, and rewriting.
It’s called The Swipe Files: a growing, searchable library of proven marketing examples you can study - and templates you can make your own.
Inside, you’ll find standout examples of:
* Landing pages
* Sales pages
* Welcome emails
* Thank-you pages
* Media kits
* Re-engagement emails
* And more
Every swipe file includes both the original example and a practical template you can replicate.
And because inspiration is only useful when you can actually find it, the entire library is filterable. Choose the type of example you need and get straight to the good stuff - without endless scrolling.
Best of all, this is only the beginning.
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🤿 They got 2800 subscribers in 23 days.
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ADHD Weasel didn't publish their first Substack newsletter until February 7th, 2025.
Now less than 18 months later, they have...
→ 36,000 free subscribers→ 830 paid subscribers→ $100K in subscription revenue→ 288,000 followers on Threads.
There's another extra fun thing they did: they launched a quiz as a lead magnet after hearing my talk at New Media Summit in February (you can watch that talk here ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/4zuzg2vo37uehpx0np7bxh63p3gzxi4nek849gr6mr8qlelepkkl7gxw2ppp93ppx49r6nz8479m8lro4m9g7gd2loqvnm98d44wnrq0qnk4gwv4506pdqgp60ltwe00p/kkhmh2unk3z44raku7/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1heDRfS1Z0YTJDNA== )).
The quiz they launched managed to get them another 2,800 subscribers in around 3 weeks.
We had Esteban Perez, cofounder of ADHD Weasel on our podcast to tell us the whole story. Let's get into how they did it.
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1. The Failed App Pivot
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Esteban and his cofounder didn't start with a newsletter. They started with an app to help eliminate food waste.
But it failed. Nobody downloaded it. Except people with ADHD. So they did more digging.
Turns out there was a whole niche audience they had tapped into: late-diagnosed ADHDers.
What I love about this discovery is the path they took to get there. Esteban and his cofounder didn't just look at the data and make a decision. They actually got on calls with more than 200 people over 6 months.
That's how the ADHD Weasel newsletter was born. Not out of guessing, but out of first-party research.
(This is just like what Sam Vander Wielen told us when she came on our podcast. She's held calls with over 1,000 people to figure out exactly what they need. That's why she can have multiple six-figure product launches per year.)
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2. The Quiz As a Lead Magnet
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Esteban and his cofounder were at New Media Summit in February. So was I.
As I was sharing onstage the stories of Charlie Dice & Milly Tamati - and how they both had exploded their newsletter growth with a quiz as a lead magnet - Esteban was in the audience taking notes. And he couldn't stop thinking about it.
Less than two weeks after seeing my talk, they launched the Weasel Quiz ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/4zuzg2vo37uehpx0np7bxh63p3gzxi4nek849gr6mr8qlelepkkl7gxw2ppp93ppx49r6nz8479m8lro4m9g7gd2loqvnm98d44wnrq0qnk4gwv4506pdqgp60ltwe00p/58hvh8ugrz3llxi7u4/aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWFzZWwtcXVpei52ZXJjZWwuYXBwLw== ).
They used Threads to drive organic sign-ups and Meta ads to drive paid growth. And it worked really, really well. In fact, Esteban sent me a whole report with all the numbers.
* from 17 subs/day to → 125/day average
* 308 daily subs (peak day)
* ~2,800 subs in 23 days from quiz
The bonus to using a quiz as a lead magnet is you get first-party data. The Weasel Quiz groups subscribers into 6 categories. So Esteban created segments to customize the onboarding experience for each.
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3. The Tool Stack To $100k+ in Revenue
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ADHD Weasel lives on Substack. So customization and segmentation isn't really possible.
So Esteban first uploads all the quiz data (including email addresses) into a beehiiv. Esteban said they use beehiiv more as a marketing tool than an ESP. All the appropriate tags and segmentation are saved there.
Then all the email addresses get uploaded twice a week into Substack. And right now it's a 100% manual process. Which begged the question: why not just use beehiiv as your ESP?
The short answer: they started on Substack and run all the paid subscriptions through it. With around 830 paid subscribers (at $15/mo or $150/year), they are reluctant to make a hasty switch.
Still, Esteban feels the pain of paying Substack "16%" of their revenue and feels the tension of using two ESPs.
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4. The content engine behind 4-8M monthly views on Threads
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"We post about 110 times per week on Threads."
Me and Dylan both nearly choked when Esteban told us that. Posting once per day is hard enough. Posting 12-15 times per day is wild!
But it works! To the tune of over 288k Threads followers and anywhere between 3-8M monthly impressions.
We had to know how they manage that kind of content schedule. Esteban broke it down for us.
There are 4 things that make it work:
* They conduct a weekly analysis with Claude on their posts that "worked" and those that flopped
* They clip and save viral post frameworks throughout the week they see working for others
* They use a tool called Publer where they batch out and schedule all their content for the week every Monday
* They wait out Threads' link penalty: the CTA never goes in the first pos - it drops 10-30 minutes later once the algorithm's already decided the post is worth showing people
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(it's 100% free for you as a subscriber)
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5. The New High Value Channel That's Surprised Them
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Threads is their main social media channel. But Esteban told us they've increased their focus on another platform...
Substack Notes.
It seems obvious since they already run ADHD Weasel on Substack. But they only just started using it in earnest. And Esteban has already seen some impressive results.
The subscribers they get from Notes are actually more valuable than those from Threads.
His hypothesis is that since these subscribers are already in the Substack ecosystem, they're way more likely to convert to a paid subscription. And it's proving to be the case. He told us that one Substack Notes subscriber is worth 10x a Threads subscriber.
So despite Threads driving more subs, Notes is driving more value.
We get even further in the weeds with all of this in our conversation with Esteban.
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Jay Clouse is someone who knows memberships and how to build community the right way. He's consulted with some big names in the space, like Pat Flynn and Ali Abdaal - and in 2022 he launched his own private community.
Now, 4.5 years later...
* his membership has over 340 members
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We had Jay on the Growth In Reverse Podcast to hear his biggest lessons (and mistakes) from running his own membership, how it's evolved and so much more, including:
* The metric more important than growth
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He had no audience in 2021.
But just 3 years later, he had over 300k followers and 105k email subscribers ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/38ugdmer3dfkh2e5x9qsrh45nex7qb3n2084z5pr78x8w32lom63wxddpz8pgoqqk08n445wg8nzxx8lrw99n3k6z028pwgv399x3nvrmg43nor46e6nlz33qzeb5dgg7/l2heh6ulmmpmdlhgu0/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL2Fha2FzaC1ndXB0YS8= ).
He's been able to turn that audience into $624k annual recurring revenue with his paid newsletter (that's a conservative estimate).
I wrote the full deep dive on how he hit that 100k email subscriber number, and we got to chat with him afterwards to confirm a few things.
We get into:
1. Optimizing for the internal share. Aakash realized a lot of his paying subscribers were coming from one source. So he doubled down and focused on optimizing for those people to share it with friends. You've gotta see this, it's brilliant.
2. Creator collabs. Coming together with other creators can be really impactful, as well as make your life a little easier. Aakash seems to be doing this more and more, and there is likely a good reason behind it.
3. Reverse engineering success. You know I love this one. Figuring out how other creators have built their newsletter and finding a way to replicate that is smart - and it clearly worked for Aakash as well.
And so much more.
Aakash now has over 230k email subscribers, but this week's deep dive shares the growth levers that got him to his first 100k - which for most of us is the more important story to follow.
How did he do it? You can read the full story in this week's deep dive ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/38ugdmer3dfkh2e5x9qsrh45nex7qb3n2084z5pr78x8w32lom63wxddpz8pgoqqk08n445wg8nzxx8lrw99n3k6z028pwgv399x3nvrmg43nor46e6nlz33qzeb5dgg7/l2heh6ulmmpmdlhgu0/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL2Fha2FzaC1ndXB0YS8= ).
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Jay Clouse is someone who knows memberships and how to build community the right way. He's consulted with some big names in the space, like Pat Flynn and Ali Abdaal - and in 2022 he launched his own private community.
Now, 4.5 years later...
* his membership has over 340 members
* and it drives nearly $500k in annual revenue
We had Jay on the Growth In Reverse Podcast to hear his biggest lessons (and mistakes) from running his own membership, how it's evolved and so much more, including:
* The metric more important than growth
* Why bigger isn't always better
* How using scarcity in your marketing can backfire
* How scaling too fast can put a community's culture at risk
Are you running your own membership community - or thinking about starting one? Hit reply and let me know!
-->Listen to the episode ↗ ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/38ugdmer3dfkh2e5x9qsrh45nex7qb3n2084z5pr78x8w32lom63wxddpz8pgoqqk08n445wg8nzxx8lrw99n3k6z028pwgv399x3nvrmg43nor46e6nlz33qzeb5dgg7/m2h7h6u366x6lmuluq/aHR0cHM6Ly9vcGVuLnNwb3RpZnkuY29tL3Nob3cvNWpWalg2UlVFRnkzdmxmcjhSR3hsRg== )
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I hope you have a great week!
Chenell
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He had no audience in 2021.
But just 3 years later, he had over 300k followers and 105k email subscribers ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmu3x0eg2ksmhn8mqvoi6h8d0q79vc5w0l95xnpdrp978080oll8kn62moooxzoo65xpdwv95kxr98pe5rxnkn4m8e73wrx94552wp7q7wl5n235gqdo47nodq8t7roo5/l2heh6ulmmpmdlhgu0/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL2Fha2FzaC1ndXB0YS8= ).
He's been able to turn that audience into $624k annual recurring revenue with his paid newsletter (that's a conservative estimate).
I wrote the full deep dive on how he hit that 100k email subscriber number, and we got to chat with him afterwards to confirm a few things.
We get into:
1. Optimizing for the internal share. Aakash realized a lot of his paying subscribers were coming from one source. So he doubled down and focused on optimizing for those people to share it with friends. You've gotta see this, it's brilliant.
2. Creator collabs. Coming together with other creators can be really impactful, as well as make your life a little easier. Aakash seems to be doing this more and more, and there is likely a good reason behind it.
3. Reverse engineering success. You know I love this one. Figuring out how other creators have built their newsletter and finding a way to replicate that is smart - and it clearly worked for Aakash as well.
And so much more.
Aakash now has over 230k email subscribers, but this week's deep dive shares the growth levers that got him to his first 100k - which for most of us is the more important story to follow.
How did he do it? You can read the full story in this week's deep dive ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmu3x0eg2ksmhn8mqvoi6h8d0q79vc5w0l95xnpdrp978080oll8kn62moooxzoo65xpdwv95kxr98pe5rxnkn4m8e73wrx94552wp7q7wl5n235gqdo47nodq8t7roo5/l2heh6ulmmpmdlhgu0/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL2Fha2FzaC1ndXB0YS8= ).
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
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⏪ The strategy (and mistakes) behind builidng a $500k/year membership
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Jay Clouse is someone who knows memberships and how to build community the right way. He's consulted with some big names in the space, like Pat Flynn and Ali Abdaal - and in 2022 he launched his own private community.
Now, 4.5 years later...
* his membership has over 340 members
* and it drives nearly $500k in annual revenue
We had Jay on the Growth In Reverse Podcast to hear his biggest lessons (and mistakes) from running his own membership, how it's evolved and so much more, including:
* The metric more important than growth
* Why bigger isn't always better
* How using scarcity in your marketing can backfire
* How scaling too fast can put a community's culture at risk
Are you running your own membership community - or thinking about starting one? Hit reply and let me know!
-->Listen to the episode ↗ ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmu3x0eg2ksmhn8mqvoi6h8d0q79vc5w0l95xnpdrp978080oll8kn62moooxzoo65xpdwv95kxr98pe5rxnkn4m8e73wrx94552wp7q7wl5n235gqdo47nodq8t7roo5/m2h7h6u366x6lmuluq/aHR0cHM6Ly9vcGVuLnNwb3RpZnkuY29tL3Nob3cvNWpWalg2UlVFRnkzdmxmcjhSR3hsRg== )
Listen to the episode ↗ ( https://open.spotify.com/show/5jVjX6RUEFy3vlfr8RGxlF )
I hope you have a great week!
Chenell
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KitHere are the 3 biggest lessons he shared - and a HUGE mistake
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🤿 Jay built a 340-member community that earns close to $500k/year. Here's what he told us.
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Jay Clouse is someone who knows memberships and how to build community the right way.
Pat Flynn even contracted Jay Clouse to help him develop and grow the SPI Community.
Then in 2021, Jay was winding down his work with Pat. After building communities for years, Jay felt like something was missing from his life. So he launched the Creator Companion Club in early 2022.
It was a private community with a paid membership. It had a 200-member cap, and one price tier around $1000/year.
Fun fact: I was one of the early members of the Creative Companion Club.
Now, 4.5 years later...
* the Creator Companion Club is called The Lab
* the 200-member cap is gone
* there are 3 membership tiers
* there are over 340 members
* and it drives nearly $500k in annual revenue
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3 Membership Lessons From Jay
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Lesson #1 - The Most Important Metric Isn't Growth
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Of course Jay cares about growing his membership. But I won't bury the lede: he cares a lot more about retention.
Jay told us:
"I really care about retention more than anything else. When somebody discontinues their membership, like, I do feel it sort of personally." Jay Clouse
And it makes sense. High retention is a strong signal members are getting value from the community. Churn is a signal of the opposite. That's likely why it hurts Jay personally.
So what does Jay do to keep his retention rate high?
Personal Welcome Calls. Every new member schedules a 20-minute call with Jay directly. He says it helps him learn about members, improves mastermind matching, and lets him make better introductions. It doesn't scale. But Jay said he'll do it as long as he can.
Mastermind Groups. Jay noticed retention goes up noticeably when members are in an active mastermind group. It's one of his strongest retention levers. But it comes with the trade-off of those members engaging less in the broader community.
Offline Events. Jay had just wrapped up The Lab's 2nd annual "The Lab Offline" event in Boise - it was Awesome! While it comes with a cost, it does wonders for retention. For members who aren't "forum people", the annual in-person event is enough on its own to justify renewing.
The Onboarding Sequence. The Lab's current onboarding experience does 3 things: 1) shortens the course so new members can finish it in the same session they signed up 2) directs them to the private podcast feed so they stay connected form anywhere 3) uses DM automations to personalize their experience.
Engagement Monitoring. Jay's team tracks internal "risk scores" based on member activity and flags people who go quiet.
Lesson #2 - Bigger Isn't Always Better
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Jay had a 200-member cap on The Lab a few years.
But he removed it when he realized 200 members is not enough to create meaningful density.
"Communities benefit from diversity, but they also benefit from some level of sameness."Jay Clouse
Here's what Jay means.
At 200 members, Jay couldn't guarantee enough of the right people in the same niche, on the same platform, or even in the same city.
So he thinks about density in three ways:
* Niche density — enough members in the same content niche to have genuinely useful peer conversations
* Platform density — enough people focused on the same platform to share what's actually working right now
* Geographic density — enough members in the same region to host local events without Jay having to be there
Jay didn't eliminate the 200-member cap to because he wanted to 10x growth. Instead, he understood that having 50 members focused on growing on Instagram was a lot better than only having 18. Density is valuable.
Lesson #3 - Scarcity Marketing Can Backfire
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When The Lab still had a membership cap, Jay leveraged scarcity to drum up more members.
One February, as The Lab approached the 200-member cap, Jay notified his audience on social media and email that "only XX spots are left" to join The Lab.
Every time someone else joined, he would update that number.
The urgency was real, the FOMO was real, and it worked. The Lab had its highest revenue month to date.
Then February came around the following year - and it was his highest-ever month of churn ever...
The members who joined because of the cap countdown had mostly joined because of the urgency and scarcity. They weren't properly nurtured. They jumped from the top-of-funnel right down to the bottom where they made a hasty decision to buy.
And when renewal time came, many of them cancelled their membership.
Jay's takeaway:
"The strongest marketing levers sometimes are not exactly what people actually need." Jay Clouse
Damn. That's a tough but important lesson to learn.
Jay shared a lot more in our chat, including:
* What to think through before launching a membership (and the design mistake that burns most people)
* The "mid-boarding" gap that kills retention in a lot of memberships
* Why mastermind groups increase renewal rates but decrease community-wide engagement
* Why offline events are a retention tool, not a growth tool - and how to do them on a budget
* How scaling too fast can put a community's culture at risk
I'd love to hear what your biggest takeaway from this chat with Jay was.Are you running your own membership community - or thinking about starting one? Hit reply and let me know!
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🎙️ 17 Proven Ways to Grow and Monetize Your Online Business
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We talked through 17 real examples from other newsletter owners and creators, grouped into 3 buckets:
* Growing your list
* Keeping subscribers engaged
* Turning subscribers into paying customers
A common theme in this episode is tapping into other people’s audiences, often on social media, in a way that’s tasteful and tactful instead of spammy - because, who wants that?? :)
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I hope you have a great week!
Chenell
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chenell@growthinreverse.com7/5/2026
KitHere are the 3 biggest lessons he shared - and a HUGE mistake
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🤿 Jay built a 340-member community that earns close to $500k/year. Here's what he told us.
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Jay Clouse is someone who knows memberships and how to build community the right way.
Pat Flynn even contracted Jay Clouse to help him develop and grow the SPI Community.
Then in 2021, Jay was winding down his work with Pat. After building communities for years, Jay felt like something was missing from his life. So he launched the Creator Companion Club in early 2022.
It was a private community with a paid membership. It had a 200-member cap, and one price tier around $1000/year.
Fun fact: I was one of the early members of the Creative Companion Club.
Now, 4.5 years later...
* the Creator Companion Club is called The Lab
* the 200-member cap is gone
* there are 3 membership tiers
* there are over 340 members
* and it drives nearly $500k in annual revenue
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3 Membership Lessons From Jay
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Lesson #1 - The Most Important Metric Isn't Growth
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Of course Jay cares about growing his membership. But I won't bury the lede: he cares a lot more about retention.
Jay told us:
"I really care about retention more than anything else. When somebody discontinues their membership, like, I do feel it sort of personally." Jay Clouse
And it makes sense. High retention is a strong signal members are getting value from the community. Churn is a signal of the opposite. That's likely why it hurts Jay personally.
So what does Jay do to keep his retention rate high?
Personal Welcome Calls. Every new member schedules a 20-minute call with Jay directly. He says it helps him learn about members, improves mastermind matching, and lets him make better introductions. It doesn't scale. But Jay said he'll do it as long as he can.
Mastermind Groups. Jay noticed retention goes up noticeably when members are in an active mastermind group. It's one of his strongest retention levers. But it comes with the trade-off of those members engaging less in the broader community.
Offline Events. Jay had just wrapped up The Lab's 2nd annual "The Lab Offline" event in Boise - it was Awesome! While it comes with a cost, it does wonders for retention. For members who aren't "forum people", the annual in-person event is enough on its own to justify renewing.
The Onboarding Sequence. The Lab's current onboarding experience does 3 things: 1) shortens the course so new members can finish it in the same session they signed up 2) directs them to the private podcast feed so they stay connected form anywhere 3) uses DM automations to personalize their experience.
Engagement Monitoring. Jay's team tracks internal "risk scores" based on member activity and flags people who go quiet.
Lesson #2 - Bigger Isn't Always Better
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Jay had a 200-member cap on The Lab a few years.
But he removed it when he realized 200 members is not enough to create meaningful density.
"Communities benefit from diversity, but they also benefit from some level of sameness."Jay Clouse
Here's what Jay means.
At 200 members, Jay couldn't guarantee enough of the right people in the same niche, on the same platform, or even in the same city.
So he thinks about density in three ways:
* Niche density — enough members in the same content niche to have genuinely useful peer conversations
* Platform density — enough people focused on the same platform to share what's actually working right now
* Geographic density — enough members in the same region to host local events without Jay having to be there
Jay didn't eliminate the 200-member cap to because he wanted to 10x growth. Instead, he understood that having 50 members focused on growing on Instagram was a lot better than only having 18. Density is valuable.
Lesson #3 - Scarcity Marketing Can Backfire
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When The Lab still had a membership cap, Jay leveraged scarcity to drum up more members.
One February, as The Lab approached the 200-member cap, Jay notified his audience on social media and email that "only XX spots are left" to join The Lab.
Every time someone else joined, he would update that number.
The urgency was real, the FOMO was real, and it worked. The Lab had its highest revenue month to date.
Then February came around the following year - and it was his highest-ever month of churn ever...
The members who joined because of the cap countdown had mostly joined because of the urgency and scarcity. They weren't properly nurtured. They jumped from the top-of-funnel right down to the bottom where they made a hasty decision to buy.
And when renewal time came, many of them cancelled their membership.
Jay's takeaway:
"The strongest marketing levers sometimes are not exactly what people actually need." Jay Clouse
Damn. That's a tough but important lesson to learn.
Jay shared a lot more in our chat, including:
* What to think through before launching a membership (and the design mistake that burns most people)
* The "mid-boarding" gap that kills retention in a lot of memberships
* Why mastermind groups increase renewal rates but decrease community-wide engagement
* Why offline events are a retention tool, not a growth tool - and how to do them on a budget
* How scaling too fast can put a community's culture at risk
I'd love to hear what your biggest takeaway from this chat with Jay was.Are you running your own membership community - or thinking about starting one? Hit reply and let me know!
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🎙️ 17 Proven Ways to Grow and Monetize Your Online Business
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I hope you have a great week!
Chenell
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Happy Sunday!
Do you have 67 seconds to help me out? I want to help you grow and monetize your audience.
But, I have way too many ideas, and I want to make sure I'm actually helping you and not just throwing spaghetti at a wall and hoping you like it.
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In 2017, the co-founders of 1440 sent their very first daily email - to a whopping 78 readers.
Today, 1440 is approaching 5 million subscribers (4.7m to be more exact). The company earns over $1 million in revenue per employee ,with 25 employees. And now they're expanding beyond newsletters. 1440 is building "Pinterest for knowledge" (more on that below!)
I had the pleasure of interviewing Tim Huelskamp, cofounder & CEO of 1440, during a live recording ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkupv02wxvt5hl4zd3dtrh8opnmlvi8zwxne2dp6mnlnv8w40758vloop2np30rrkxnzeedv3nz2lln46vggz8k52xwnpv3q8ggl8zq673e8z06e595z4288r29t9xee4/p8hehqu4wzmkkebru3/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb2RjYXN0Lmdyb3d0aGlucmV2ZXJzZS5jb20vZXBpc29kZXMvdGltLWh1ZWxza2FtcA== ) in NYC for The Newsletter Conference.
In classic Growth In Reverse fashion, I brought out the 1440 growth chart onstage and Tim dove into how their team has grown their list over the last 9 years.
Tim shared some other powerful insights from his experience growing a newsletter business. He shared:
* Why they spent the first 7–8 months focused entirely on product before touching growth
* Their decision to remove images entirely from their emails
* The "Washing Machine" growth tactic: how the team got scrappy building their list with no budget
* How studying advertising greats like Ogilvy and Hopkins helped shape 1440's FB ad strategy
* A discovery that tripled their sponsor revenue without adding any new advertisers
* How they charge ~$100k in advertising per email send - and advertisers keep coming back, some for 6-7 years
Tim also told me and the audience how 1440 is expanding beyond "just" a newsletter with what they're calling 1440 Topics.
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1440 Topics: If Pinterest and Reddit had a Content Baby
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I love how 1440 is thinking about content beyond the inbox. Tim said:
"One of our principles is swing for the fences. It's like, how do you take this audience of curious people, know what they love, and then go really big?"
The "big swing" Tim's referencing is their new Topics deep dives.
The signal was strong: 1440's audience was telling them they wanted more information on topics like venture capital, CRISPR, 410Ks, and executive orders.
So they listened. Tim's team built out information verticals like Business, Health, Science (etc) - then they researched topics in those niches and published deep dives. This is Insanely Valuable Content done right.
And it's working.
The entire ad inventory for the Business & Finance vertical is sold out for the rest of the year - and it was bought by one financial services company!
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The 1440 Growth Story
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We touch on growth, Topics and a lot more in this 31-minute chat in front of a live audience.
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I'd love to hear what your biggest takeaway from this chat was. I had so many ideas rattling around in my brain after this chat, I hope it gets your brain rattling too.
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I hope you have a great week!
Chenell
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Happy Sunday!
Do you have 67 seconds to help me out? I want to help you grow and monetize your audience.
But, I have way too many ideas, and I want to make sure I'm actually helping you and not just throwing spaghetti at a wall and hoping you like it.
So, I want to get your feedback.
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....and save me a lot of spaghetti. 🍝
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⏪ They sent their first email to 78 people. Now 4.7 million get their daily emails.
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In 2017, the co-founders of 1440 sent their very first daily email - to a whopping 78 readers.
Today, 1440 is approaching 5 million subscribers (4.7m to be more exact). The company earns over $1 million in revenue per employee ,with 25 employees. And now they're expanding beyond newsletters. 1440 is building "Pinterest for knowledge" (more on that below!)
I had the pleasure of interviewing Tim Huelskamp, cofounder & CEO of 1440, during a live recording ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/0vugq3wxodt9h937odoalhv7q6grxfgrk6vgmwd5ldv30k0kq6604wo9xqqqmzqqogmd5rpvg4mlv0d8glmw4wex0832rlmvegg9rd373r6gw92gn75qe3wq570b7eqqk/p8hehqu4wzmkkebru3/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb2RjYXN0Lmdyb3d0aGlucmV2ZXJzZS5jb20vZXBpc29kZXMvdGltLWh1ZWxza2FtcA== ) in NYC for The Newsletter Conference.
In classic Growth In Reverse fashion, I brought out the 1440 growth chart onstage and Tim dove into how their team has grown their list over the last 9 years.
Tim shared some other powerful insights from his experience growing a newsletter business. He shared:
* Why they spent the first 7–8 months focused entirely on product before touching growth
* Their decision to remove images entirely from their emails
* The "Washing Machine" growth tactic: how the team got scrappy building their list with no budget
* How studying advertising greats like Ogilvy and Hopkins helped shape 1440's FB ad strategy
* A discovery that tripled their sponsor revenue without adding any new advertisers
* How they charge ~$100k in advertising per email send - and advertisers keep coming back, some for 6-7 years
Tim also told me and the audience how 1440 is expanding beyond "just" a newsletter with what they're calling 1440 Topics.
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1440 Topics: If Pinterest and Reddit had a Content Baby
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I love how 1440 is thinking about content beyond the inbox. Tim said:
"One of our principles is swing for the fences. It's like, how do you take this audience of curious people, know what they love, and then go really big?"
The "big swing" Tim's referencing is their new Topics deep dives.
The signal was strong: 1440's audience was telling them they wanted more information on topics like venture capital, CRISPR, 410Ks, and executive orders.
So they listened. Tim's team built out information verticals like Business, Health, Science (etc) - then they researched topics in those niches and published deep dives. This is Insanely Valuable Content done right.
And it's working.
The entire ad inventory for the Business & Finance vertical is sold out for the rest of the year - and it was bought by one financial services company!
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The 1440 Growth Story
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We touch on growth, Topics and a lot more in this 31-minute chat in front of a live audience.
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Getting retrieved by AI search is not the same as getting cited
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Your page can rank #1 and still get skipped when an AI system picks which sources to cite.
The gap lives between the prompt, the fan-out (one prompt becomes a dozen sub-queries), and the page that actually lands in the final answer.
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⏪ He built a successful 45-person business. Then fired himself. Twice.
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Steve Kamb started NerdFitness.com in 2009 and grew it into a 7-figure business while leading a 45-person team.
Then he burned out. Hard.
He didn't want to lead a big team, so he demoted himself from CEO to Marketing Manager. But he was still miserable.
So he did something pretty drastic: He fired himself from his own business.
NerdFitness.com is still a successful business - but the big difference is Steve is not running it. He's not even involved in any of the day-to-day.
Instead, he's doing something that actually fills him up. He became an author and just released his second book.
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How To Try Again
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We had Steve on the podcast and he shared with us a helpful framework straight out of his book for how anyone can rebound from burnout.
Steve calls it the PACT framework. It stands for Pause-Accept-Change-Try.
How does it work, exactly?
Taking Steve's own experience as an example - first he had to Pause and realize what he was doing wasn't working. Steve calls this the "how to not make things worse" phase. Everything he'd been doing for years wasn't making anything better - he was more miserable than ever.
Steve couldn't work his way out of burnout. So he paused.
Then he had to Accept he wasn't cut out to be a CEO or a manager. He also had to accept he loved writing despite it not being a "normal" career path. In his book, Steve explains "why 'normal' isn't normal, and that's normal."
The next steps in Steve's formula are Change and Try.
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A few things I can't stop thinking about after our chat with Steve:
* Why "all or nothing" thinking rarely works - and what to do instead
* Don't ask "is the juice worth the squeeze?" - instead ask "do you even like juice?" So good.
* The trap of chasing the wrong kind of success and how to find the right kind
This episode is a little different than our usual. But I think it's a really important topic for creators to hear.
PS - We hung out with Steve in Boise last week and I can honestly say he's the right guy to be talking about this stuff.
(Steve's shirt is the best.)
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I hope you have a great week!
Chenell
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🤿 He built a successful 45-person business. Then fired himself. Twice.
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Getting retrieved by AI search is not the same as getting cited
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⏪ He built a successful 45-person business. Then fired himself. Twice.
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Steve Kamb started NerdFitness.com in 2009 and grew it into a 7-figure business while leading a 45-person team.
Then he burned out. Hard.
He didn't want to lead a big team, so he demoted himself from CEO to Marketing Manager. But he was still miserable.
So he did something pretty drastic: He fired himself from his own business.
NerdFitness.com is still a successful business - but the big difference is Steve is not running it. He's not even involved in any of the day-to-day.
Instead, he's doing something that actually fills him up. He became an author and just released his second book.
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How To Try Again
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We had Steve on the podcast and he shared with us a helpful framework straight out of his book for how anyone can rebound from burnout.
Steve calls it the PACT framework. It stands for Pause-Accept-Change-Try.
How does it work, exactly?
Taking Steve's own experience as an example - first he had to Pause and realize what he was doing wasn't working. Steve calls this the "how to not make things worse" phase. Everything he'd been doing for years wasn't making anything better - he was more miserable than ever.
Steve couldn't work his way out of burnout. So he paused.
Then he had to Accept he wasn't cut out to be a CEO or a manager. He also had to accept he loved writing despite it not being a "normal" career path. In his book, Steve explains "why 'normal' isn't normal, and that's normal."
The next steps in Steve's formula are Change and Try.
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A few things I can't stop thinking about after our chat with Steve:
* Why "all or nothing" thinking rarely works - and what to do instead
* Don't ask "is the juice worth the squeeze?" - instead ask "do you even like juice?" So good.
* The trap of chasing the wrong kind of success and how to find the right kind
This episode is a little different than our usual. But I think it's a really important topic for creators to hear.
PS - We hung out with Steve in Boise last week and I can honestly say he's the right guy to be talking about this stuff.
(Steve's shirt is the best.)
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I hope you have a great week!
Chenell
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🤿 He built a successful 45-person business. Then fired himself. Twice.
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Happy Monday!
You might have noticed that this email is a day late. I'm writing this from a flight to Boise that I got on as a standby passenger. I was supposed to get to Boise yesterday afternoon, ahead of day 1 of Jay Clouse's Offline Event (a pre-Craft + Commerce event with his Lab community).
But the universe had other plans. I flew into the Dallas airport yesterday around 9:45am, and had a long 3 hour connection. I was prepared for it, though.
Then a quick storm rolled through, and that flight got delayed another 2 hours. No big deal, I can manage.
Then the cancellation email came - due to the storm, it was cancelled. There are only 2 flights out to Boise each day, but thankfully I got rebooked on the 8pm one.
...until that got cancelled too.
I went to the customer service line, and there were at least 75 people ahead of me.
Luckily, I found out that another Lab member, Josh, was also in Dallas going through the same situation. And he was an American Airlines member with access to the lounge, where they had more agents helping people rebook flights, with much shorter lines.
I asked Josh if he could bring a guest in, and thankfully that worked out. A big shoutout to Josh for being so kind!
Long story short, I got rebooked through to Seattle to head to Boise the next morning - and then watched those flights get delayed and delayed, and then cancelled at 8:30pm.
I had been at the airport from 9:30am, a solid 11 hours. I was beat - mentally and physically.
I got a hotel, spent the night in Dallas, and headed back to the airport at 7am to try and get on a standby flight to Boise.
It was a fun day to say the least, but I learned a few things (aside from not booking flights that connect through Dallas again) that are directly related to building a creator business and newsletter:
1. Ask for specific help. I'm notoriously bad at this one, but if I hadn't asked Josh to see if he could get me into the lounge, I would have been waiting around a lot longer.
While there, if I hadn't come to the gate agent with a potential solution to the problem first (connecting through Seattle), they might have said "we don't have any more flights to Boise left" and I'd be out of luck. But since I gave her specific alternatives, it was much easier for her to find a solution.
People are much more likely to help when you ask for something specific.
2. You get what you give. This one came after watching some guy start screaming at a gate agent once the Seattle flight got cancelled. Expletives, blaming - it was pretty bad. After that encounter she said "For all of you waiting in line - if you come up here yelling, I'm going to yell right back."
This ended up being the same very kind woman one who helped rebook me on the last seat out to Boise today. I have so much respect for those folks, who are ultimately problem solvers for people going through some of the worst parts of their day. I'm not sure I'd be able to do that job.
After all, they are human and just want to be treated with respect and kindness. If you give that out first, it's much more likely to be reciprocated.
3. We're all just doing our best. From gate agents, to flight attendants, to the new parents of a crying 2 month old I had the pleasure of sitting next to on this flight - we're all just doing the best we can given the situation. Give people grace.
If someone's not responding to you right away, forgets to do something, or makes a mistake - try and put yourself in their shoes.
You'll be grateful you showed some grace when it's your turn to mess up.
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And she did a $400K launch barely 2 months before.
We got her back on the show to pull apart exactly how it worked - the ads, the webinar, the show-up tactics, all of it.
A few things I can't stop thinking about:
* She spent $24K on Facebook ads to make half a million. That's about $3.50 per webinar lead.
* She replies to hundreds of registrants with personal videos - and often refuses to answer their actual question. (The reason why is the whole trick.)
* One ad she filmed while sitting on her office floor, brought in thousands of signups. She almost didn't tell us what the strategy was.
And 11,000 people registered. When they crashed her Zoom room, one setting she almost didn't include saved the entire launch.
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🤿 11 unexpected hours in the airport...
chenell@growthinreverse.com6/8/2026
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Happy Monday!
You might have noticed that this email is a day late. I'm writing this from a flight to Boise that I got on as a standby passenger. I was supposed to get to Boise yesterday afternoon, ahead of day 1 of Jay Clouse's Offline Event (a pre-Craft + Commerce event with his Lab community).
But the universe had other plans. I flew into the Dallas airport yesterday around 9:45am, and had a long 3 hour connection. I was prepared for it, though.
Then a quick storm rolled through, and that flight got delayed another 2 hours. No big deal, I can manage.
Then the cancellation email came - due to the storm, it was cancelled. There are only 2 flights out to Boise each day, but thankfully I got rebooked on the 8pm one.
...until that got cancelled too.
I went to the customer service line, and there were at least 75 people ahead of me.
Luckily, I found out that another Lab member, Josh, was also in Dallas going through the same situation. And he was an American Airlines member with access to the lounge, where they had more agents helping people rebook flights, with much shorter lines.
I asked Josh if he could bring a guest in, and thankfully that worked out. A big shoutout to Josh for being so kind!
Long story short, I got rebooked through to Seattle to head to Boise the next morning - and then watched those flights get delayed and delayed, and then cancelled at 8:30pm.
I had been at the airport from 9:30am, a solid 11 hours. I was beat - mentally and physically.
I got a hotel, spent the night in Dallas, and headed back to the airport at 7am to try and get on a standby flight to Boise.
It was a fun day to say the least, but I learned a few things (aside from not booking flights that connect through Dallas again) that are directly related to building a creator business and newsletter:
1. Ask for specific help. I'm notoriously bad at this one, but if I hadn't asked Josh to see if he could get me into the lounge, I would have been waiting around a lot longer.
While there, if I hadn't come to the gate agent with a potential solution to the problem first (connecting through Seattle), they might have said "we don't have any more flights to Boise left" and I'd be out of luck. But since I gave her specific alternatives, it was much easier for her to find a solution.
People are much more likely to help when you ask for something specific.
2. You get what you give. This one came after watching some guy start screaming at a gate agent once the Seattle flight got cancelled. Expletives, blaming - it was pretty bad. After that encounter she said "For all of you waiting in line - if you come up here yelling, I'm going to yell right back."
This ended up being the same very kind woman one who helped rebook me on the last seat out to Boise today. I have so much respect for those folks, who are ultimately problem solvers for people going through some of the worst parts of their day. I'm not sure I'd be able to do that job.
After all, they are human and just want to be treated with respect and kindness. If you give that out first, it's much more likely to be reciprocated.
3. We're all just doing our best. From gate agents, to flight attendants, to the new parents of a crying 2 month old I had the pleasure of sitting next to on this flight - we're all just doing the best we can given the situation. Give people grace.
If someone's not responding to you right away, forgets to do something, or makes a mistake - try and put yourself in their shoes.
You'll be grateful you showed some grace when it's your turn to mess up.
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Sam Vander Wielen just did a 4-day, $500,000 launch.
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And she did a $400K launch barely 2 months before.
We got her back on the show to pull apart exactly how it worked - the ads, the webinar, the show-up tactics, all of it.
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* She spent $24K on Facebook ads to make half a million. That's about $3.50 per webinar lead.
* She replies to hundreds of registrants with personal videos - and often refuses to answer their actual question. (The reason why is the whole trick.)
* One ad she filmed while sitting on her office floor, brought in thousands of signups. She almost didn't tell us what the strategy was.
And 11,000 people registered. When they crashed her Zoom room, one setting she almost didn't include saved the entire launch.
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Happy Sunday,
I was in New York this past week for The Newsletter Conference. It was great to get to hang with other newsletter people and nerd out about email.
I got to interview Tim Huelskamp, founder of 1440, on stage and wow - Tim is just a great guy. Super smart, very open to sharing numbers, and has built an incredible business. We took a selfie backstage after our fun conversation.
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Visibility tools tell you where your brand stands in AI search. None tell you what to do about it. AirOps does.
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30 Days of Growth: Week 4
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We're 24 days into 30 Days of Growth ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/27uqlk6drlcoh8zw654u3hg9pqwrvi0xvr7on9zdg7e7q0v623l0qe55zn7zm2ww4r7xoo9qm7xnee76dqppx04lnrv7zqmk0ppe0xkd3mo0x2dol8lx6n00wn8bnxwwd/e0hph0u7gp3n65t7/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tLzMwLWRheXMtb2YtZ3Jvd3RoLw== ), and I wanted to use today to recap what we've shared so far. Think of it like a well-deserved break for reading and potentially implementing what you've learned.
People seem to be enjoying these even more than last year's series, so if you missed any of them, now's a great time to check them out.
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Day 19: The Website Pop-Up That Adds 50 Subscribers a Day
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Day 20: Simplify to Grow Faster
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Your funnel isn’t broken. It’s just getting in the way.Read it now → ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/27uqlk6drlcoh8zw654u3hg9pqwrvi0xvr7on9zdg7e7q0v623l0qe55zn7zm2ww4r7xoo9qm7xnee76dqppx04lnrv7zqmk0ppe0xkd3mo0x2dol8lx6n00wn8bnxwwd/p8hehqu403w7mour/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL2RhdmUtZ2VyaGFyZHQtc2ltcGxpZnkv )
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Day 21: The Low-Lift Written Event That Added 500+ Subscribers in a Week
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How a 5-day content library brought in hundreds of new readers.Read it now → ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/27uqlk6drlcoh8zw654u3hg9pqwrvi0xvr7on9zdg7e7q0v623l0qe55zn7zm2ww4r7xoo9qm7xnee76dqppx04lnrv7zqmk0ppe0xkd3mo0x2dol8lx6n00wn8bnxwwd/x0hph3ue6rv7o6ug/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL3dyaXR0ZW4tZXZlbnQtbWVtYmVydmF1bHQv )
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Day 22: The Google Doc That Turns Readers Into Collaborators
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How sharing a rough draft with your email list builds insane loyalty among subscribers.Read it now → ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/27uqlk6drlcoh8zw654u3hg9pqwrvi0xvr7on9zdg7e7q0v623l0qe55zn7zm2ww4r7xoo9qm7xnee76dqppx04lnrv7zqmk0ppe0xkd3mo0x2dol8lx6n00wn8bnxwwd/6qhehoulgk82z8h9/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL2p1c3Rpbi1qYWNrc29uLWdvb2dsZS1kb2Mv )
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Day 23: The 5 Subject Line Patterns Hiding in 6 Months of Broadcast Data
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This 5-minute analysis on his own stats replaced every generic subject line tip he’d ever read.Read it now → ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/27uqlk6drlcoh8zw654u3hg9pqwrvi0xvr7on9zdg7e7q0v623l0qe55zn7zm2ww4r7xoo9qm7xnee76dqppx04lnrv7zqmk0ppe0xkd3mo0x2dol8lx6n00wn8bnxwwd/kkhmh2unqd09rkfk/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL2Rhbi1jdW1iZXJsYW5kLXN1YmplY3QtbGluZXMv )
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Day 24: The 4-Week Sending Cycle That Boosts Opens & Clicks by Double Digits
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How sending to fewer subscribers helps more of your list actually see your emails. Read it now → ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/27uqlk6drlcoh8zw654u3hg9pqwrvi0xvr7on9zdg7e7q0v623l0qe55zn7zm2ww4r7xoo9qm7xnee76dqppx04lnrv7zqmk0ppe0xkd3mo0x2dol8lx6n00wn8bnxwwd/58hvh8ug8vd9q6t7/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL21hdHQtNC13ZWVrLWN5Y2xlLw== )
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Happy Sunday,
I was in New York this past week for The Newsletter Conference. It was great to get to hang with other newsletter people and nerd out about email.
I got to interview Tim Huelskamp, founder of 1440, on stage and wow - Tim is just a great guy. Super smart, very open to sharing numbers, and has built an incredible business. We took a selfie backstage after our fun conversation.
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It was also super fun to get to hang out with Nathan May, who I'm running thePersonal IPO Summit ( https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/wvu6532ld4sghkp6nzxa7hndm69e5cm27kgmownz5ng4e7e7rkkelw9vqrrroprr9monz23gmlo5genxm5owlw6qex4025og6mmv2n4d42kmwv0m8dzr64wrzdei6zood/m2h7h6u3pg6nvmtl/aHR0cHM6Ly9wZXJzb25hbGlwb3N1bW1pdC5jb20vP3JlZj1ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2U= ) with in early June. We've got a pretty stacked lineup and are excited to share it with you.
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Visibility tools tell you where your brand stands in AI search. None tell you what to do about it. AirOps does.
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People seem to be enjoying these even more than last year's series, so if you missed any of them, now's a great time to check them out.
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Day 22: The Google Doc That Turns Readers Into Collaborators
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May 8, 2026
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before and knew the format was a winner.
4. All Healthy sent every signup a custom welcome email. Every
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referencing Gretchen, the challenge, and the Bingo card, which
set clear expectations.
5. He let the newsletters do the work. The people signed up to
the campaign got a dedicated section inside an All Healthy
edition with the artwork, the explanation, and a “Get Your Free
Bingo Card” button. Gretchen ran something similar from her side.
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Why It Works
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The Bingo card works on a longer timeline than a normal lead
magnet. It gives subscribers something to do for an entire year,
so the magnet doubles as a retention loop. Every time someone
crosses off a square, they remember which newsletter sent it.
Borrowing credibility from Gretchen Rubin changes how new
subscribers feel about All Healthy. They’re joining a project
that someone they trust is endorsing. That in turn increases the
trust in All Healthy and the chance they’ll open the next email.
A dedicated section beats a single link. When a partner gives a
full block of their newsletter to your offer, the click-through
math looks completely different from a one-line shout.
Both partners’ audiences care about health. The collaboration
falls flat if Gretchen’s audience isn’t interested in health.
Likewise if Sean’s audience isn’t interested in self-improvement.
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Results
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* All Healthy added 3,000 new subscribers from the campaign over
a few weeks
* New subscribers came through a trusted creator which has
downstream effects on open rates and unsubscribes
* The Bingo card is built to be used throughout 2026, so the lead
magnet keeps re-engaging the list every time someone crosses off
a square
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How You Can Implement It
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Step 1: Pick a partner whose audience already cares about your
topic. The collaboration should feel natural, reader overlap
matters more than audience size.
Step 2: Build the collab around an overall campaign with a start
and end date. A challenge, a milestone, or a seasonal moment all
work.
Step 3: Pick a lead magnet that keeps working after signup,
something the subscriber pulls back up over weeks.
Step 4: Set up a dedicated welcome email for campaign signups.
Reference the partner, the campaign, and set the tone for what’s
coming next. Keep it tied to the thing they signed up for.
Step 5: Push for a dedicated section in the partner’s newsletter.
Offer to write the section yourself or make their work easy. A
single line or footer link gets buried, so the full section is
what moves the numbers.
Step 6: Keep the campaign live in your own newsletter throughout
the campaign. A P.S. line, or a recurring section both work.
People who missed the first issue should still be able to join.
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* Canva or Figma to design the lead magnet
* Your ESP for the email sequence
* A landing page or in-newsletter section to host the
collab/artwork
Creator collaborations work when there’s something real attached
to them.
A campaign with a date, a lead magnet that gets reused, and a
welcome email that ties it together turns “subscribe to my list”
into “join the thing we’re doing this year.”
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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designed to pull replies, train inbox algorithms, and filter out
the people who weren't going to engage anyway.
The result: deliverability climbed from sub-40% to above 90% (as
reported through GlockApps.)
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How Tyler Does It
-----------------
Email 1 gets sent from someone who isn't the founder. The first
email is under 100 words, signed by an executive assistant or
someone who isn't the C-suite. The whole point is to guarantee
inbox placement and pull a reply as fast as possible.
Note: a reply auto-adds your email address as a contact in Gmail
and Yahoo, which basically whitelists you forever.
Email 2 is the actual welcome email. By the time Email 2 arrives,
Email 1 has already pattern-interrupted the typical onboarding
sequence. That means engagement on the welcome (Email 2) itself
tends to be higher than usual.
Email 3 pulls subscribers onto a second channel. Email 3
introduces a secondary channel (ex. LinkedIn, Instagram, or
Twitter).
Email 4 is a new subscriber survey. He asks for content topics
they want, where they found him, and who else they follow. That
last question is the gold (aka voice of customer research). If a
bunch of subs follow the same person, that's where his next
acquisition push goes.
He bookends the flow with referral asks at Emails 5 and 7. The
first one captures subscribers at peak engagement, shortly after
they've opted in.
Email 6 is the scary one. It's a prompt to unsubscribe: "you've
gotten 5 emails, you know what we talk about, here's the
unsubscribe link if this isn't for you." Some people will leave.
The ones who stay become significantly more invested.
Email 7 is another referral ask. This ask is sharper, often tied
to a real incentive like a raffle or gift card, and it lands
harder because Email 6 just filtered for the most committed
subscribers.
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Why It Works
------------
Inbox algorithms treat the first week of a subscription like a
probation period. Replies, contact-adds, opens, and clicks during
this window weigh more than the same signals 3 months in. The 7
emails are basically engineered to generate those signals in
compressed time.
The unsubscribe prompt is the surprising one. Subs who stick
around after being explicitly invited to leave are telling you
they want the content. They open more and complain (mark as spam)
less.
The survey converts strangers into something closer to readers.
People who answer 3 questions about their interests have already
invested 30 seconds, and they engage more with whatever comes
next.
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Results
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* A 300K client list went from sub-40% inbox placement to above
90% reported through a tool called GlockApps
* Replies in the first week effectively whitelist you in Gmail
and Yahoo; Gmail's default setting auto-adds anyone you reply to
as a contact
* The unsubscribe prompt removes passively-disengaged subs early,
before they can drag open rates down and signal to the algorithms
that nobody wants the email
* Survey responses double as voice-of-customer research and
acquisition intel, since the "who else do you follow" question
maps your audience for partnerships and ads
⭐ If you're paying attention, you remember voice of customer
research from both Justin's end-of-email question (
https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/wvu6532ld4sghkprll2s7hnddoo73fm27kgmownz5ng4e7e7rkkelw9vqrrroprr9monz23gmlo5genxm5owlw6qex4025og6mmv2n4d42kmwv0m8dzr64wrzdei6zood/x0hph3ue0vkn8eag/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL2p1c3Rpbi13ZWxzaC1xdWVzdGlvbi8=
) and Sam's video reply (
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).
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How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Add an Email 1 sent from a non-founder or more “casual”
address with a single question that prompts a reply. Keep it
under 100 words. The goal is a real human reply that lands in
your inbox.
Step 2: Move your existing welcome email to Email 2. The pattern
interrupt from Email 1 makes engagement on this one stronger.
Step 3: Add a "follow me here" email at Email 3 that pushes subs
onto a secondary channel. Pick the platform you actually post on
and spend the most time on.
Step 4: Build a short subscriber survey for Email 4. Ask 3 to 5
questions, including "who else do you follow on this topic?"
Step 5: Add a referral request for Email 5 and an even sharper,
incentivized one for Email 7. The early ask captures peak
engagement. The later one captures the most committed subs.
Step 6: Add an honest unsubscribe prompt for Email 6. Make it
sincere. The people who stay are worth more than the ones who
would have ghosted later.
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Tools
-----
* Your ESP (that has email sequence functionality)
* mxtoolbox.com to confirm your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are set up
first
* GlockApps or Inbox Monster to see where your emails actually
land
* Tally (
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) or Typeform for the subscriber survey
The first week of a subscription is the strongest signal you'll
ever send to an inbox provider about your relationship with a new
reader. A polite welcome email kind of wastes that window,
whereas a 7-email flow built around replies, surveys, and an
honest unsubscribe ask is how you build a list that's still
engaging a year down the road.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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Here’s what you will win:
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* 10 referrals: Shoutout in the Growth In Reverse newsletter.
This goes out to 40k subscribers and people tell me they get
quite a few subscribers from this.
* 25 referrals: 5-Minute “Speed” Audit. I will record a 5-minute
video sharing ideas for optimizations and growth for your
newsletter. I charge $799 for the full audits, and this is a
taste of that, for free.
* 50 referrals: 30-Minute Growth Call where we dig into your
newsletter and/or what you’re struggling with and help you get
unstuck.
🔗 Your unique referral link
---------------------------
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🍬 The 7 Emails That Keep You Out of Promotions
chenell@growthinreverse.com5/7/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 15 of the 30 Days of Growth.
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Day 15: Her Video Got 99% of People to Show Up
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And turned over 50% of people into buyers.
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CHENELL BASILIO
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May 6, 2026
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When a subscriber feels like they actually know you, they open
every email, show up for every launch, and tell their friends.
In a perfect world, you can introduce yourself, virtually shake
hands, and thank your new subscriber, by name, for signing up.
That sounds awesome in theory. But how can you build that kind of
connection at scale without burning out?
Sam Vander Wielen (
https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/38uo62pn7wfkh2ld5o5brh4mmprwlt39zlo3pk2wg2or0z0z6ll0ekxmn666pq66x3p2w98o3epgo0243gpkekdn04rv9gpod33m92r5r9l3kmv375w6drk6w50i5dgg7/8ghqh3uonvnoe4il/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2FtdmFuZGVyd2llbGVuLmNvbS9uZXdzbGV0dGVyLz9yZWY9Y2hlbmVsbC0zMGRheXNvZmdyb3d0aA==
) found a way, and the numbers she shared are kind of wild.
Nearly 100% of the people she sent a video back to showed up live
to her webinar - and over 50% of them bought her product.
But you don't need a webinar for this. Let's dig in.
--------------
How Sam Did It
--------------
1. She invites every new signup to ask her one thing. The welcome
email has a casual GIF of her holding her phone and a link so the
subscriber can reply with a quick video or text. She uses a tool
called VideoAsk (
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) to streamline this process.
Sc
2. She keeps the question simple. For her newsletter it’s “What’s
one thing you want me to talk about on Sam’s Sidebar?” That gives
her voice-of-customer research in the subscriber’s exact words
and turns a passive opt-in into a real conversation.
3. She replies personally, by name, with video. For her last live
workshop she sent over 250+ individual video replies. She greets
the person, restates their question, gives the one-line reason it
matters, then tells them where she’ll cover that topic.
4. She asks for a small commitment at the end.“Have you added
this to your calendar? Let me know if I’ll see you live or if
you’ll watch the replay.” That locks them in and gives Sam a
quick read on intent. This is specifically for the webinar, but
you can tailor this to the situation.
5. She looks through the responses for newsletter content. Every
question is voice-of-customer data handed to her for free, so
themes from the inbox become the next few newsletter issues in
her readers’ exact words.
Sounds a little like Justin Welsh's strategy (
https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/38uo62pn7wfkh2ld5o5brh4mmprwlt39zlo3pk2wg2or0z0z6ll0ekxmn666pq66x3p2w98o3epgo0243gpkekdn04rv9gpod33m92r5r9l3kmv375w6drk6w50i5dgg7/m2h7h6u3zpz3gqbl/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL2p1c3Rpbi13ZWxzaC1xdWVzdGlvbi8=
) from yesterday, doesn't it?
------------
Why It Works
------------
Relationships build trust. Once a subscriber has had a real
exchange with you, the dynamic flips and they stop being a random
person on a list.
People who got a personal video showed up to her webinar at near
100% and bought at over 50%. The relationship she built in that
one exchange is what closes the sale.
The long-term play matters too. The people who don’t buy this
round might read the newsletter, listen to the podcast, and stick
around for the next launch. Sam treats every reply as an
investment in a relationship that will pay back over years.
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Results
-------
* 11,000+ signups for her last live workshop
* 250+ personal video replies sent in a single workshop window
* Nearly 100% of that group showed up live
* Over 50% of that group purchased, which means 130+ buyers from
those 250+ personal replies
* The same flow now runs on her newsletter opt-ins, building a
list of people who feel personally connected before Sam has sent
her first issue
------------------------
How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Pick one open-ended question to ask every new subscriber.
“What’s one thing you want me to cover?” works for almost any
creator.
Step 2: Set up VideoAsk (
https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/38uo62pn7wfkh2ld5o5brh4mmprwlt39zlo3pk2wg2or0z0z6ll0ekxmn666pq66x3p2w98o3epgo0243gpkekdn04rv9gpod33m92r5r9l3kmv375w6drk6w50i5dgg7/vqh3hmuor7rox2fw/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL3ZpZGVvYXNrLw==
) so subscribers can reply with a quick video or text. A casual
GIF of you waving beats anything polished.
Step 3: Put the link in your welcome email.
Step 4: Reply personally to every question you can. Use their
name, restate what they asked, and give the one-line reason it
matters. Video first, text if you’re short on time.
Step 5: Point them to where you cover the topic in full and ask
for a small commitment, like adding the workshop, webinar, event,
to their calendar.
Step 6: Pull themes from the responses each week and use them to
plan your next few newsletter issues in your reader’s exact
words.
-----
Tools
-----
* VideoAsk (
https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/38uo62pn7wfkh2ld5o5brh4mmprwlt39zlo3pk2wg2or0z0z6ll0ekxmn666pq66x3p2w98o3epgo0243gpkekdn04rv9gpod33m92r5r9l3kmv375w6drk6w50i5dgg7/vqh3hmuor7rox2fw/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL3ZpZGVvYXNrLw==
) for the async video and text replies (aff link)
* A simple Notion page or doc to log themes from responses
Sam turned her first impressions into a real conversation, and
the people on the other end open every email, trust her
recommendations, and become buyers when the time is right.
The best part is this works at almost any list size.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
P.S. You can follow Sam on Instagram (
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).
P.P.S. Did you know you can get featured in an upcoming edition
of the newsletter and win other prizes? The more you share, the
more you win. 👇
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🎁 Share with friends, win prizes
--------------------------------
You currently have 0 referrals.
Here’s what you will win:
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* 1 referral: Gets you access to the private podcast feed
* 10 referrals: Shoutout in the Growth In Reverse newsletter.
This goes out to 40k subscribers and people tell me they get
quite a few subscribers from this.
* 25 referrals: 5-Minute “Speed” Audit. I will record a 5-minute
video sharing ideas for optimizations and growth for your
newsletter. I charge $799 for the full audits, and this is a
taste of that, for free.
* 50 referrals: 30-Minute Growth Call where we dig into your
newsletter and/or what you’re struggling with and help you get
unstuck.
🔗 Your unique referral link
---------------------------
Each person has a unique link to track referrals.
Here is your unique link:
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Thanks in advance for sharing!
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🍬 Day 15: Her Video Got 99% of People to Show Up
chenell@growthinreverse.com5/6/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 14 of the 30 Days of Growth.
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Day 14: The One Question That Increased His Open Rate by 10%
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How one question leads to 100s of replies and a content calendar
that practically writes itself.
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CHENELL BASILIO
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May 5, 2026
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As your list grows, sometimes the engagement metrics steadily
decline. Justin Welsh saw the same thing happening.
His open rate was stuck around 51% (which is still better than
most), but he knew something was off. So he tried something super
simple, but wildly effective.
At the bottom of every Saturday essay, he started asking readers
1 open-ended question. Something conversational, tied to whatever
he just wrote about.
"What's holding you back from X?" or "What would you add to
this?" The kind of thing you can answer in 2 sentences without
thinking too hard.
Sounds simple, right? But I couldn't believe the results.
Every week he started getting 300 to 500 replies, his open rate
climbed from 51% to 61% over the next few months. And referrals
jumped more than 20%.
-----------------
How Justin Did It
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1. He asks 1 question, every single week. It sits at the very end
of the essay, right where you'd normally put a sign-off. The
question is always open-ended and always tied to the topic of the
essay.
Here’s a recent one:
2. He wants free-form text replies. Justin's going after specific
language (aka voice of customer research). He wants to see how
his readers actually describe their problems in their own words,
with all the weird phrases and hedges and half-rants, the stuff
you can't get from a multiple choice question.
3. He has Claude help him bucket the responses into themes.
Reading 300-500 replies by hand every week is basically a
part-time job, and I don't know any creator with that kind of
time. So Justin has Claude help him curate recurring themes, and
surfaces the questions his audience keeps asking.
What used to be unscalable is now maybe an hour on a Saturday
afternoon.
4. He writes the next essay straight from the themes. This is the
part I love. Justin's editorial calendar is basically whatever
his readers told him they're stuck on this week. His audience is
writing the newsletter with him, they just don't know it.
Or maybe they do now :)
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Why It Works
------------
Relevance is everything in email. When a reader sees your subject
line and feels "oh, this is for me," they open.
Email feedback loops can be slow. You send something, stare at
the open rate 2 days later, guess at why it went up or down, and
tell yourself a story.
Justin's loop is way tighter. He asks, they answer, he writes,
they open. It compounds weekly, and the metrics move with it
(which is probably where the 20% referral bump is hiding too,
because engaged readers share Insanely Valuable Content).
The AI piece is what makes it hold at scale. You can probably
read 20 replies a week and categorize them in your head. 500
would break you. Justin's AI setup scales with his list instead
of buckling under it.
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Results
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* Open rate climbed from 51% to 61% - which at 175k subscribers
is an extra 17,500 people opening the email 🤯
* Referrals are up more than 20%
* 300-500 free-form replies per week as a steady content input -
which has downstream effects of helping deliverability, etc.
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How You Can Implement It
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Step 1: Add an open-ended question at the end of your next
edition. Keep it conversational and tied to the topic. You're
going for a reply, not survey data.
Step 2: Put the question somewhere visible. Last paragraph of the
body, not buried in a footer.
Step 3: Read as many of the replies as possible. You're listening
for language and emotion - for the phrases people keep repeating.
Step 4: Keep a running doc of themes. When the same topic shows
up from 3 different readers, that's probably your next essay.
Step 5: Once the reply volume gets unmanageable, have Claude or
ChatGPT help by surfacing themes for you.
Step 6: Write your next essay directly from the replies. Quote
readers where you can (with permission). They'll spot themselves
in it, and that's where the referrals start.
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Tools
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* Your inbox :)
* Claude or ChatGPT to pull themes at scale
* A simple Notion (
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calendar
Writing about what your readers want sounds obvious. The hard
part is knowing what they actually want, in their own words,
every week. Justin broke that problem down to one question.
When your writing lines up with what your audience cares about,
open rates go up, referrals go up, and growth stops feeling like
you're pushing a boulder uphill.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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Welcome to Day 13 of the 30 Days of Growth.
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Day 13: He Built a Tool to Cut His Newsletter Creation Time in
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How Brandon used audience data to cut down a ton of repetitive
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CHENELL BASILIO
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May 4, 2026 🛸
You can read this article online here (
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Do you know who's actually on your email list?
Not just "how many subscribers," but the real stuff - what they
do for work, how old they are, what income bracket they're in?
The kind of data that helps you write better content and pitch
sponsors more confidently.
Brandon Smithwrick wanted to know this about his newsletter
audience for Content to Commas (
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). Beehiiv gives you a ton of raw data, but there's no clean way
to pull it together into something useful. So when Beehiiv rolled
out their MCP in beta, he built a system to do it himself.
He was able to build an intelligence system that reads his data,
grades every issue, and tells him exactly what's working and who
he's writing to.
Since building that, his writing time dropped from 3 hours to 90
minutes, he discovered an 85.3% retention rate he didn't know
existed, and he learned his audience is 63% female-skewing (with
the professions and income ranges he can now pitch to sponsors).
------------------
How Brandon Did It
------------------
Brandon got access to Beehiiv's MCP (Model Context Protocol). If
you're not sure what that is, it essentially lets you connect a
ton of data into a tool like Claude, that helps you understand
that data better.
1. He connected Claude to Beehiiv's new MCP. The MCP is what lets
Claude pull data straight from his Beehiiv account, no CSV
exports or copy-paste required.
2. He pointed Claude at a new Google Sheet. Claude built him a
dashboard that scores every issue, surfaces audience insights
(like gender, age, profession, geography), and updates itself
each week as new issues go out.
3. He set up a writing workflow next to the analytics. Brandon
dictates his ideas into Notion using Wispr Flow (
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), then he hits a dropdown labeled "Input ready" and like AI
magic, a Claude agent gets to work in the background.
4. The Claude agent is trained on Brandon’s voice. He fed Claude
past issues, his SOPs, and the patterns from the analytics hub,
so it can draft subject lines, titles, and help him create a
newsletter with the audio he's recorded.
5. He promoted himself from writer to Newsletter Editor. Once
Claude pings him in Slack with a finished draft, he reviews,
edits, and polishes. Brandon has gone from writer to editor.
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Why It Works
------------
Half the battle of writing a newsletter is knowing what to write
about. The other half is sitting down and actually doing it.
Brandon's system helps him tackle both.
The intelligence side removes the guessing. He knows what topics
land, what framing works, and who his audience actually is. So
when he sits down to write, he's not starting from "hmm, what
should I talk about this week." He already has a good idea of
what should come next.
The Wispr Flow piece removes the blinking cursor problem. Talking
is probably 3-4x faster than typing for most people, and it gets
you past that "I don't know how to start" feeling. Brandon talks
it out, then uses Claude to clean up the structure. The ideas
stay his.
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Results
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* Newsletter writing time dropped from 3 hours to 90 minutes per
issue, a 50% cut every single week
* Surfaced an 85.3% reader retention rate that he didn't know
what there
* Found that 68% of his subscribers are women with specific
professions, which is useful for sponsor pitches and content
positioning
* Every issue graded 0 to 100 with a rolling 8-issue benchmark
for instant context - his self-updating analytics dashboard that
grades every new issue automatically
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How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Brandon’s nailed the use of AI to both publish quicker and better
analyze metrics. This process is a little more complex than some
of the other levers we’ve shared so far, but the time savings and
in-depth metrics are worth the heavier lift at the onset.
Note: If you don’t use Beehiiv, save this growth lever for when
your ESP releases their MCP. At this rate, it’s a matter of when,
not if.
Step 1: See if your ESP has an MCP built out. Beehiiv's is in
beta, and I'm excited to announce that Kit is releasing theirs in
just 2 weeks.
Step 2: Connect the MCP and Google Sheets to Claude inside
CoWork. Both live under the Connectors menu. (If this is all new
to you, there are TONS of great YouTube videos on this already)
Step 3: Run a prompt to build your analytics sheet. Brandon's
full prompt is in his Notion writeup (
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). Paste your newsletter URL in and let Claude pull and structure
everything.
Step 4: Feed Claude your voice. A short doc with past issues,
notes about your tone, preferences, and your usual structure is
enough for the agent to draft similarly to you.
Step 5: Add a trigger you'll actually use. Brandon's is a Notion
dropdown, but a Slack command or a tagged email works just as
well.
Step 6: Review and edit the drafts Claude hands back. Editing
what's already there is faster than writing from scratch.
🛑 Disclaimer - What I'm not doing is telling you to "automate
your newsletter" with AI. What I am saying is that you can use
these tools to help you inform what to create next (or not), use
a voice mode to do speech to text, and/or then have AI help you
refine that piece with past issues of your voice. I could write a
whole article about the downsides of trying to automate
everything, but for now, I'll say that.
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Tools
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* Claude CoWork
* An MCP (either Beehiiv or Kit)
* Google Sheets
* WisprFlow (
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) for voice-to-text input
Knowing what to write is half the work. Brandon built a system
that helps him answer that question for him every week, so he can
spend his time actually writing instead of guessing.
The data tells him what works. Voice dictation gets it out of his
head fast. And every issue builds on what he learned from the
last one.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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30 Days of Growth: Week 2
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We're in the middle of the 30 Days of Growth (
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Day 8: The 12-Day Giveaway That Added 550+ Subscribers
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How a partner-powered giveaway grew her list and kept readers
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Day 9: How Half Baked Cut Churn by 57%
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Day 10: The Tiny Change That 5x’d His Landing Page Conversions
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Why the submit button might be the highest-leverage element on
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Day 11: The Self-Monetizing Lead Magnet That 8x’d Growth
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Day 12: The Growth Experiment That Found 12,637 Buyers
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How a “science experiment” turned a paid acquisition test into a
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That's it for this one, enjoy your Sunday!
Chenell
PPS - THANK YOU to everyone who has shared this. It takes a ton
of work to put together and we really, really appreciate you
helping it land in more inboxes.
PS - I'm currently running the Broad Street Run, a 10-mile race
through the streets of Philadelphia. Maybe I'll add 2 more on to
the end to make it one mile for every day of 30 Days of Growth so
far?
Just kidding, I'm probably driving the struggle bus as you read
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Day 8: The 12-Day Giveaway That Added 550+ Subscribers
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Day 9: How Half Baked Cut Churn by 57%
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Day 10: The Tiny Change That 5x’d His Landing Page Conversions
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Day 11: The Self-Monetizing Lead Magnet That 8x’d Growth
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Day 12: The Growth Experiment That Found 12,637 Buyers
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Welcome to Day 12 of the 30 Days of Growth.
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How a "science experiment" turned a paid acquisition test into a
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working.
👉 Before you bail out here - you don't have to spend a ton of
money to make this work.
By the end of year one, he had 12,637 engaged subscribers. In
year 2, that list became a business on pace for around $475K in
profit - with no team.
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How Olly Did It
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1. He niched down 2 layers. Plenty of people teach “how to build
an online business,” but few are actively running one at $10M
scale. So Olly niched past “online business” to owners of online
education businesses scaling from 6 to 7 figures.
2. He built a lead magnet that signaled seriousness. Instead of a
5-page checklist, he wrote a 118-page Google doc (
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) called “Anatomy of a $10 Million Online Education Business.”
The doc being 118 pages long also acts as a filter for his target
audience.
3. He spent money to speed up learning. Olly put $19,000 into
paid newsletter sponsorships, ads, a new YouTube channel, and new
social accounts on X and LinkedIn. His thinking was simple:
testing 4 channels in 6 months beats testing 1 per year.
4. He ran a $200 workshop as a buyer test. About 6 months in,
Olly ran a 5-day live workshop called 7-Figure Marketing Stack.
About 150 people purchased it.
5. He got rid of the channels that weren't working. He tracked
every buyer back to the channel that brought them in. Some
sources produced cheap leads and zero buyers, others produced
buyers consistently. With the data on which channels drove
purchases, Olly cut the ones that weren't driving buyers and
doubled down on the winners.
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Why It Works
------------
A big email list is only an asset if the people on it actually
buy. Olly’s whole framework is built around answering that
question as early as possible, so he’s never making bets on
subscribers who’ll never convert.
The 118-page lead magnet does 2 jobs. It filters for the exact
kind of person Olly wanted to attract, and was long enough that
if someone got through it, they were clearly interested.
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Results
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* 12,637 engaged subscribers from $19,000 in spend, which works
out to about $1.50 per engaged subscriber
* An insanely valuable lead magnet that doubles as a
brand-building asset he still gives away today
* Year 2 turned the list into a one-person business on pace for
around $475k in profit, with no team.
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How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Niche down 2 layers. Pick an audience you can describe in
1 sentence, narrower than the obvious category. (Not “online
business owners” but instead "online education businesses scaling
from 6 to 7 figures.")
Step 2: Build a lead magnet that signals seriousness. Give away
something that feels like it belongs in a paid course instead of
a throw-away PDF.
Step 3: Pick 3 or 4 acquisition channels to test. You can spend
money or time - and either works as long as you commit to running
experiments.
Step 4: Run a low-priced offer in the first 90 days. Something
under $200 that delivers real value (like Olly's 7-Figure
Marketing Stack). You’re trying to find buyers in your email
list.
Step 5: Track every buyer back to their original source. You need
to see which channels bring buyers and which bring lurkers.
Step 6: Cut what’s not working and double down on what is. Drop
channels that produce leads without purchases, even if they feel
productive.
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* A simple spreadsheet to map every buyer back to their source
* Zoom (
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) combined with any checkout tool to run a low-priced workshop
This works at any budget. Olly used $19,000 to compress learning,
but he says time works just as well. The real move is running the
buyer test early so you know within 6 months which subscribers
actually pay.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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Education Business (
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🍬 Day 12: The Growth Experiment That Found 12,637 Buyers
chenell@growthinreverse.com5/2/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 11 of the 30 Days of Growth.
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Day 11: The Self-Monetizing Lead Magnet That 8x’d Growth
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Terry Rice built a tool that 8x’d his growth and drove revenue
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April 30, 2026
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A typical lead magnet has one job: get someone’s email.
If the subscriber never buys, books a call, or engages again…
that lead magnet basically did nothing.
Terry Rice (
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) had a better idea.
He built a lead capture tool that makes money even if the
subscriber never converts. And it all started with a simple
question people kept asking him:
“How do you run two businesses, speak professionally, and raise
four kids without burning out?”
So instead of answering it over and over, he built a tool that
shows exactly how he works only ~10 hours per week.
----------------
How Terry Did It
----------------
He used real audience data to find demand. Instead of guessing
what people wanted, Terry used sentiment analysis tools like Grok
to analyze conversations he was having.
This sounds complicated, but he really just took conversations,
emails, and meeting notes and fed them into Grok.
One topic kept surfacing: people were fascinated by how he
managed his time and workload.
This was a clear signal for him to build from.
He built a simple interactive tool. Using no-code platform
Lovable (
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), Terry created an app that shows his weekly workflow, his time
management system, and every tool he uses to stay productive.
It’s essentially a transparent “behind-the-scenes operating
system.”
Check out the tool here (
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)
Every tool is monetized. Each resource inside the app links to an
affiliate partner, including platforms like Kit. So even if
someone never joins his newsletter, never books a call, and never
buys a product, he still earns affiliate income. The lead magnet
pays for itself.
He automated distribution everywhere. Terry turned it into a
frictionless funnel:
* On Instagram, automation tool Stan sends the link automatically
when someone comments or DMs “Stack”
* On LinkedIn, his away messages point people to the tool
* In content, he casually references it when talking about
productivity
The promotion happens naturally because the tool is relevant to
everything he already talks about.
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Why It Works
------------
This tool naturally aligns with his content. Terry talks about
productivity, leverage, and performance. The tool is a natural
extension of that conversation. He’s just posting about his day
and saying: “Want to see how I do it? Here you go.”
It also monetizes attention pretty quick. This can generate
revenue on the first click over to a tool he uses to build this.
And the people who are curious about systems and leverage? Those
are exactly the kind of people who become coaching clients.
The whole thing feels like he’s just being transparent about how
he works. And that’s what makes people trust it enough to click.
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Results
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* 53 new subscribers in 7 days (compared to 5-6 per week prior)
* Affiliate income from his “Tools” section
* Qualified leads for coaching
We’re not claiming virality here, it’s just steady, compounding
growth.
The system worked so well he now teaches it to clients. In a
single 90-minute session, they leave with their own lead capture
tool, a nurture sequence, and 10 social posts with built-in CTAs.
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How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Find your “how do you do that?” question. What do people
constantly ask you about your workflow, results, or systems?
Step 2: Turn the answer into a tool. This could be a checklist,
calculator, resource stack, template library, or interactive
guide. Use Lovable if you want something app-like without code,
or keep it simple with a Notion template or Carrd page.
Step 3: Monetize the ecosystem. Add affiliate links to tools,
software, gear, or resources you already use and recommend.
Step 4: Reference it naturally in content. Don’t force the CTA,
just tie it to stories you’re already telling.
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Tools
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* Lovable (
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) – build the interactive tool (no code)
* Stan – automate Instagram delivery
* Any affiliate platforms for monetization
* Your ESP for nurture sequences
Lead magnets usually cost a lot of time to create and only pay
off if someone eventually buys.
Terry built one that earns every time it’s used.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
P.S. Terry teaches this exact process to clients. Check him out
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🍬 Day 11: His Self-Monetizing Lead Magnet 8x’d Growth
chenell@growthinreverse.com5/1/2026
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Day 10: The Tiny Change That 5x’d His Landing Page Conversions
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Why the submit button might be the highest-leverage element on
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What if you could change one thing on your newsletter landing
page, and get 5x more subscribers?
That’s exactly what happened to Max.
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) runs Marketing Max, a newsletter for marketing operators.
He’s been A/B testing his landing page for years (and tracking
every variant in obsessive detail).
His original landing page converted at 7.56%. And while that’s
not the worst conversion rate I’ve seen, there’s definitely some
room for improvement.
Max thought so too.
So he made one simple tweak to his landing page - and that change
jumped his conversion rate to 37.8%.
That's a 5x increase, on the same page with the same offer.
Here’s what he did.
Max took the 'submit' button and shrunk it, centered it inside
the form, and changed the button word to “Continue.”
And it was that last button text change that took conversion to
37.8%. A 5x jump on the same page, the same traffic, and the same
offer.
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How Max Did It
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1. He treated the ‘submit’ button as a high-leverage element. A
lot of testing energy goes to headlines and lead magnets, but Max
found the button moves the needle more than either of those.
2. He tested 20+ variants on the button copy alone. He’s tried
“submit,” “start now,” “send me the lead magnet,” and “continue”
with an emoji arrow. The plain word “Continue” beat all of them.
3. He shrunk and centered the button. The original was wide and
full-width (see previous image). Making it smaller and centered
inside the text box outperformed the bigger version (see image
below).
4. He runs one variant at a time. Every change is its own test,
so he knows exactly which element moved the needle. That’s how he
can attribute the 5x jump to the button itself.
5. He’s been testing this for 3+ years. Over 200 variants later,
the same form converts at 56.7%, up from the 7.56% he started
with. Compounding small wins is the whole game.
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Why It Works
------------
Visitors are skeptical of any opt-in form. The submit button is
the last thing they read before deciding whether to give you
their email. The word “Continue” feels like a step in a flow
they’re already in, while “Submit” feels like work.
Smaller buttons can also outperform bigger ones because they sit
naturally inside the form. The visitor’s brain reads them as a
quiet UI hint that keeps the flow going.
The volume of testing is what compounds. Any one test might give
a 1.2x or a 1.05x lift; run 200 of those on your most important
page over 3 years and Max ended up with a 7.5x lift overall.
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Results
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* Landing page conversion jumped from 7.56% to 37.8% from one
button test - a 5x lift on the same page, same traffic, same
offer
* After 200+ variant tests over 3 years, the same form now
converts at 56.7%, a 7.5x lift from where he started
* On the paid side, that conversion lift dropped his cost per
subscriber on Meta ads by 80%, which means Max gets 5x the
subscribers from the same ad budget
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How You Can Implement It
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Step 1: Audit your current landing page form. Note the button
copy, the button size, and where it sits in the form. Take a
screenshot of it before you make any changes.
Step 2: Make the button copy your first test. It’s the cheapest
change to ship, and Max’s data says it moves the needle more than
the headline or any other element.
Step 3: Draft 4-5 button variants. “Continue” won for Max, so
include that one, plus a couple takes like “Get my [thing]” or
“Send it.”
Step 4: Run one test at a time for a long enough period where you
can gather data. (Resist the urge to change 3 things at once, you
won’t know what worked.)
Step 5: Track the conversion rate for each test.
Step 6: Keep going. Once button copy is locked, move to button
size, then headline, etc. The compounding only happens if you
keep running tests.
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Tools
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* A landing page tool (bonus if it supports variants)
* A simple spreadsheet to log every test
Changing up the button text worked like really well for Max. It’s
a small change that’s easy enough to test, so it’s worth
experimenting with. Especially if conversion rates improve. Just
make sure you test it properly so you truly know if it’s working.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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🍬 Day 10: This Tiny Change 5x’d Landing Page Conversions
chenell@growthinreverse.com4/30/2026
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Welcome to Day 9 of the 30 Days of Growth.
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Day 9: How Half Baked Cut Churn by 57%
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Why deleting a survey plugged a leaky subscriber bucket.
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We've talked about a bunch of ways to get more subscribers.
People get so focused on seeing that new subscriber count go up
that they ignore one of the healthier growth metrics: retention.
Subscriber retention is less exciting but super important for the
simple fact that….improving it keeps more subscribers on your
list.
Darragh Lucy is the co-founder of Half Baked (
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actively working on right now. In his words, it’s the most
underrated growth metric out there.
Here’s what Darragh and the team noticed.
New subscribers were increasingly churning over the first 30
days. And it correlated with Half Baked’s onboarding flow getting
longer and longer. More questions during onboarding seemed to
lead to more subs leaving within 30 days.
To get to the bottom of it, Darragh and his team ran an
experiment. And what they found was a significant drop in churn.
So what did they do to reduce churn?
Everyone wants first party data, but how many pay attention to
what all those questions do to your readers?
They deleted the onboarding form entirely. The result?
30-day churn on that cohort dropped from around 7% to around 3% –
they cut churn in half (57% to be exact).
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How Half Baked Did It
---------------------
1. They removed every question from the paid-subscriber signup
flow. They scrapped the entire onboarding survey for subscribers
acquired via Meta ads. Yes they lose some valuable first-party
data, but keeping an engaged subscriber is more important.
2. New subscribers are redirected to a thank you page. Now
instead of the onboarding survey, new subscribers go directly to
a thank you page that confirms the signup and gently recommends a
featured product.
source
3. He paid extra attention to the paid acquisition cohort. Half
Baked uses Meta ads for paid growth. But those subscribers are
“colder” than an organic subscriber. So adding extra steps in the
onboarding flow is risky. They’re more likely to lose interest
before they’re truly subscribed.
4. He let the newsletter itself do the segmenting over time.
Instead of asking people to describe themselves on Day 1, Darragh
watches what they engage with across the first few editions.
Their behavior actually gives Half Baked some great insights.
5. Darragh measures 30-day churn separately between paid vs.
organic channels. Acquired subscribers behave differently from
organic, so a single average would have hidden the win.
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Why It Works
------------
Cold traffic from Meta ads is still, well… cold. Someone
interrupted from their feed is a few seconds away from closing
the tab anyway. A short onboarding survey is more likely to push
them over the edge and never come back.
The onboarding form data wasn’t helpful. Behavioral signals
(clicks, replies, opens) tend to do the segmentation job better
than self-reported survey questions.
A quick post-signup experience gets the welcome email out faster.
The all-important welcome email lands while the person still
remembers why they subscribed – and that has downstream effects
on every email after that.
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Results
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* 30-day churn on the Meta ads cohort dropped from ~7% to ~3% –
that’s an extra 40 additional subscribers sticking around for
every 1,000 acquired
* Shorter onboarding correlates with lower 30-day churn across
the board which has positive effects on subscriber LTV
The leaky bucket leaks slower, which compounds over every month
of growth.
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How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Note: If you have an onboarding survey, consider all these steps!
But if you don’t, it’s still a great practice to review and
implement Steps 1, 4, 5, and 6.
Step 1: Pull your 30-day churn number, broken out by acquisition
source if you can. Paid, organic, and referral (i.e.
recommendations) cohorts almost always behave differently.
Step 2: Count every question after the email field on your signup
flow. Be honest about which ones are actually wired up to
automations you use.
Step 3: Cut every question that doesn’t trigger a specific
segment or sequence you’re running today. If it just “might be
useful someday,” it’s tax on a cold subscriber.
Step 4: Redirect new signups directly to a thank you page.
Confirm the signup on that page and remind them to check their
inbox for their first email from you.
Step 5: Add “self-selecting” segmentation into the first 2-3
editions. You can do that by tagging people based on links they
click, or drop in 1 “low friction” question inside the welcome
sequence.
Step 6: Check your churn data after 30 days and compare. Watch
the paid cohort especially.
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Tools
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* Your ESP
* A thank you page
* UTMs or your ESP’s source tracking (so paid and organic show up
in churn reports separately)
Retention is a growth strategy! A signup form that costs you 4
percentage points of churn could be more expensive than your ad
budget.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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🍬 Day 9: This Got 57% More Subscribers to Stick Around
chenell@growthinreverse.com4/29/2026
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Welcome to Day 8 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're still a
little new here, I thought it would be nice to include a little
intro and reminder of what you're reading. :)
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How a partner-powered giveaway grew her list and kept readers
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April 28, 2026
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Giveaways can work. But a single giveaway usually spikes your
list for a day and then it's over. The new subscribers got their
free thing and now they're just sitting there.
What if you could stretch that into a 12-day series where every
day brought a new partner, new prizes, and a new reason for
people to open your email?
That's what Fab Giovanetti did with Alt Marketing School. She
built a partner-powered giveaway series modeled after a 12 Days
of Christmas advent calendar, where each day featured a different
tool, platform, or community offering something free. 1 partner
per day for 12 days.
The result: 550+ new subscribers in 12 days, and her
click-through rate doubled for the 6 months that followed.
--------------
How Fab Did It
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Fab ran hers during the holidays, but the format works anytime. A
"12 days of free tools" series in Q1, a back-to-school version in
September, a new year kickoff in January. The exciting part is
the daily reveal, not necessarily the season.
1. She picked a familiar seasonal hook. Fab is a big believer
that storytelling is the thing that drives reader buy-in. The
more you can take a familiar theme and spice it up, the more
attention it’s likely to get. She took the traditional 12 Days of
Christmas and remixed it with this giveaway to drive excitement.
2. Fab found ideal partners for the giveaways. For each of the 12
days, a different brand offered something free. She got partners
to promote it to their audiences as well - so it was 12 different
brands/creators pointing at the same thing over 2.5 weeks.
3. She mixed up the formats to keep people curious. Some days
were on-demand trainings; others were live events; some were
straight up giveaways. You never knew what was behind the next
door (which is the whole point).
4. She promoted it weeks in advance. She had around 3-4 weeks of
promotion before day 1, with a couple partners teasing it early
as well.
5. She skipped weekends to stretch the runway. 12 weekday
giveaways spread across about 2.5 weeks allowed more time to
build momentum and for latecomers to jump in.
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Why It Works
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There are a few reasons this works. But here are the main ones:
A familiar story & format is easy to opt into. People understand
the advent calendar concept.
The multi-day series creates a curiosity loop each day. "What's
behind today's door?" is the kind of question that brings people
back every day.
The partner cross-promotions layer on top of each other. Each
partner introduces Fab's list to a new audience, and each new
subscriber gets exposed to 11 more partners over the next 2
weeks. That's a lot of warm reach for a low investment.
Existing readers also get a reason to stay engaged. After the
test, Fab kept hearing from people who were sad they'd missed a
specific day. This excitement and engagement around her content
is what helped double her click-throughs for the 6 months that
followed. Readers were trained to expect something worth clicking
on.
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Results
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* 550+ new subscribers, run as a simple advent calendar page on
her site
* CTR doubled for 6 months after the campaign ended
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How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Pick a theme or hook that ties the series together. Fab
used the holidays, but "12 days of free tools for [your
audience]" works any time of year.
Step 2: Line up your partners. Each day = 1 partner + 1 free
thing (a course, a template, a tool credit, a live workshop).
Reach out 6-8 weeks early so everyone has time to prep.
BONUS: Get partners to agree to share the giveaway with their
audiences and email lists.
Step 3: Pick one home for the whole campaign. A landing page
works for v1. To upgrade, host it on a summit platform like
HeySummit (
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Step 4: Promote it 3-4 weeks ahead of launch. Build a waitlist
and tease 1 or 2 partners early so people know what is coming.
Have partners to do the same.
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* A landing page builder (Carrd (
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) (or a Notion page) as a giveaway & online events hub
* Your ESP with tagging to track partner-driven sign-ups and
which days/prizes drove the most subs
* A shared doc (like Google Docs) for partners with deliverables,
due dates, and promo copy
A single giveaway grows your list for a day. A 12-day series with
partners grows your list for 2 weeks and trains your readers to
keep opening for months after.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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🍬 Day 8: The 12-day series that added 550+ subscribers
chenell@growthinreverse.com4/28/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 7 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're still a
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intro and reminder of what you're reading. :)
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April 27, 2026
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You’ve probably seen it before: A creator posts a super
compelling reel on Instagram, and then drops the “comment X to
get my free playbook on [topic]!”
The creator automatically DMs you the landing page link to sign
up, etc. etc.
Magic! Except, it’s a little clunky on the backend.
That standard Instagram growth playbook involves many steps:
* Post something valuable
* Tell people to comment a keyword
* Auto-DM them a link
* Hope they click over to the landing page
* Hope they fill out the form
All of that “hope-ium” is where this strategy falls apart.
A typical landing page converts somewhere around 45-50% (on a
good day). Which means for every 100 people who comment on your
post and get that DM, roughly half of them never make it onto
your list.
And that’s if every single person clicks over (which isn’t
realistic).
Gannon Meyer noticed that drop-off and asked a pretty obvious
question:
What if you just... skipped the landing page entirely?
------------------
How Gannon Does It
------------------
1. He collects the email inside the DM conversation. Instead of
sending a link to an external page, Gannon's Manychat flow asks
for the person's email address directly in the DM thread.
The subscriber types their email, hits send, and they're in.
Bada-bing, bada-boom.
2. He connects Manychat to Kit natively. Kit has a direct
integration with Manychat, so the email address gets passed
straight into a sequence without any Zapier workarounds or manual
exports. The lead magnet delivery and tagging all happen
automatically from there.
3. He tags subscribers. Because each flow is tied to a specific
post or campaign, he can tag every subscriber with exactly where
they came from. That makes segmentation easy later - he knows
which subscribers came from which offer.
Gannon has rolled out the same setup across client accounts on
Instagram, and the conversion numbers hold. Across his own
account and client work, he's consistently seeing 65-70% of
commenters become email subscribers.
------------
Why It Works
------------
Landing pages add friction.
There's a link to click, a new tab to open, a form to fill out.
Every extra step is a chance for someone to get distracted and
drop off.
Not to mention, social platforms hate when you link people out to
other places. With this flow, you’re keeping them inside of the
app.
Typing an email address takes about 5 seconds. The context is
fresh - they just commented because they wanted the thing - so
the motivation is still there.
The Kit-Manychat integration matters too. When the handoff from
comment to email list is natively integrated, there's no delay
and no chance Zapier fails on you (the worst).
-------
Results
-------
* 65-70% conversion rate from comment to email subscriber
* That’s an extra 15-20 subscribers per 100 comments compared to
the old landing page approach
------------------------
How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Set up a Manychat flow triggered by a keyword comment on
an Instagram post. Pick a simple, relevant keyword that matches
what you're offering.
Step 2: Inside the flow, add a step that asks for the person's
email address directly in the DM.
Step 3: Connect Manychat to Kit using the native integration.
Step 4: Set up an email sequence to deliver the lead magnet and
tag the subscriber with the source.
Step 5: Use tags to track which posts and offers are driving the
most subscribers. Over time, that data tells you exactly what to
post more of, and which topics lead to sales from your products,
etc.
-----
Tools
-----
* Manychat - comment automation and DM flows on Instagram
* Kit - email delivery, sequences, and tagging (native Manychat
integration)
Sending someone to a landing page feels like the obvious move.
It's what everyone does. But that’s so 2023. ;)
The fewer steps between "I want this" and "I'm on your list," the
better.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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🍬 Day 7: The Landing Page Killer That Converts at 65-70%
chenell@growthinreverse.com4/27/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 7 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're still a
little new here, I thought it would be nice to include a little
intro and reminder of what you're reading. :)
This is a pop-up newsletter put together by the team at Growth In
Reverse. We've pulled together 30 creators to help give one
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******************************************************
Day 6: The Landing Page Killer That Converts at 65-70%
******************************************************
How adding a low-ticket offer in the welcome flow turned cold
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---------------
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---------------
April 27, 2026
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)
You’ve probably seen it before: A creator posts a super
compelling reel on Instagram, and then drops the “comment X to
get my free playbook on [topic]!”
The creator automatically DMs you the landing page link to sign
up, etc. etc.
Magic! Except, it’s a little clunky on the backend.
That standard Instagram growth playbook involves many steps:
* Post something valuable
* Tell people to comment a keyword
* Auto-DM them a link
* Hope they click over to the landing page
* Hope they fill out the form
All of that “hope-ium” is where this strategy falls apart.
A typical landing page converts somewhere around 45-50% (on a
good day). Which means for every 100 people who comment on your
post and get that DM, roughly half of them never make it onto
your list.
And that’s if every single person clicks over (which isn’t
realistic).
Gannon Meyer noticed that drop-off and asked a pretty obvious
question:
What if you just... skipped the landing page entirely?
------------------
How Gannon Does It
------------------
1. He collects the email inside the DM conversation. Instead of
sending a link to an external page, Gannon's Manychat flow asks
for the person's email address directly in the DM thread.
The subscriber types their email, hits send, and they're in.
Bada-bing, bada-boom.
2. He connects Manychat to Kit natively. Kit has a direct
integration with Manychat, so the email address gets passed
straight into a sequence without any Zapier workarounds or manual
exports. The lead magnet delivery and tagging all happen
automatically from there.
3. He tags subscribers. Because each flow is tied to a specific
post or campaign, he can tag every subscriber with exactly where
they came from. That makes segmentation easy later - he knows
which subscribers came from which offer.
Gannon has rolled out the same setup across client accounts on
Instagram, and the conversion numbers hold. Across his own
account and client work, he's consistently seeing 65-70% of
commenters become email subscribers.
------------
Why It Works
------------
Landing pages add friction.
There's a link to click, a new tab to open, a form to fill out.
Every extra step is a chance for someone to get distracted and
drop off.
Not to mention, social platforms hate when you link people out to
other places. With this flow, you’re keeping them inside of the
app.
Typing an email address takes about 5 seconds. The context is
fresh - they just commented because they wanted the thing - so
the motivation is still there.
The Kit-Manychat integration matters too. When the handoff from
comment to email list is natively integrated, there's no delay
and no chance Zapier fails on you (the worst).
-------
Results
-------
* 65-70% conversion rate from comment to email subscriber
* That’s an extra 15-20 subscribers per 100 comments compared to
the old landing page approach
------------------------
How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Set up a Manychat flow triggered by a keyword comment on
an Instagram post. Pick a simple, relevant keyword that matches
what you're offering.
Step 2: Inside the flow, add a step that asks for the person's
email address directly in the DM.
Step 3: Connect Manychat to Kit using the native integration.
Step 4: Set up an email sequence to deliver the lead magnet and
tag the subscriber with the source.
Step 5: Use tags to track which posts and offers are driving the
most subscribers. Over time, that data tells you exactly what to
post more of, and which topics lead to sales from your products,
etc.
-----
Tools
-----
* Manychat - comment automation and DM flows on Instagram
* Kit - email delivery, sequences, and tagging (native Manychat
integration)
Sending someone to a landing page feels like the obvious move.
It's what everyone does. But that’s so 2023. ;)
The fewer steps between "I want this" and "I'm on your list," the
better.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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video sharing ideas for optimizations and growth for your
newsletter. I charge $799 for the full audits, and this is a
taste of that, for free.
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newsletter and/or what you’re struggling with and help you get
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🍬 Day 7: The Landing Page Killer That Converts at 65-70%
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30 Days of Growth: Week 1
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Welcome to Day 6 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're still a
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How adding a low-ticket offer in the welcome flow turned cold
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April 25, 2026
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When people subscribe, you probably send them a welcome sequence
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even a free guide.
After all, everyone says to give as much value as possible before
ever asking for a sale, right?
Well, Matt Ragland flipped that idea on its head. The fix he
teaches is embarrassingly simple.
He’s tested this exact strategy and has seen it 3x sales for his
clients (he’s worked with some big names like Ryan Holiday, Dan
Go, Michael Hyatt, and Amanda Goetz).
What’s the change?
Well, new subscribers are at their most engaged in the first 7
days.
While most newsletter creators are spending that valuable window
saying “nice to meet you”, Matt is generating sales for his
clients from the welcome sequence.
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1. He picks a product that already “works.” Instead of guessing
what readers want or need, Matt picks a proven product that has
sold well in the past or present. The pitch is easier when the
proof is already there.
2. He keeps the price point low on purpose. $9–$29 is an impulse
purchase. The revenue is nice, but the main goal is turning the
subscriber into a customer. Everything gets easier once they’ve
paid you once.
3. He pitches early. The low-cost offer lands in the first few
welcome emails, not email 12. New subscribers are most engaged in
the first week of signing up.
4. Matt separates buyers from prospects. If someone buys, they’re
nurtured and shown the next offer “up.” If they clicked but
didn’t buy, they get gently re-pitched with fresh angles every
2–3 weeks for a few months.
5. He stacks offers until it lands. The first $29 purchase is
just the first rung of the product ladder. Matt keeps offering
value and next-step products until a subscriber reaches a
solution that best solves their problem.
6. He layers on an onboarding survey for segmentation. A short
survey (and even a “which of these is you?” link in the first
email) tells Matt what the subscriber is actually there for, so
the pitches that follow feel tailored instead of sprayed.
Note: This reminds me of the highly-personalized welcome
sequences (
https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/o8uom8klp6fqh6dqno4uvhqe4pp8zul324wldk8x58wrg2g2v44gpkn07vvvdzvvnld8x3qwlpd5wg8ml5dkpk67gmre35dw6ll038r9r34lk0elo9xv6rkvx9gc98552/wnh2h6uq6wzqp2cl/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL2thdGVseW4td2VsY29tZS1zZXF1ZW5jZS8=
) Katelyn Bourgoin uses.
------------
Why It Works
------------
A low-cost early pitch reframes the whole relationship. Instead
of “free newsletter writer you might unsubscribe from,” you show
up as “business that sells things that help.” That framing
carries through every email after it.
The $9–$29 threshold also does real selection work. A paying
customer, even at $19, is a fundamentally different asset than a
free subscriber. They bought once making them more likely to do
it again.
And the long-tail math is the part that gets missed. A $29
purchase that turns into a $2,000 consulting retainer nine months
later is the whole point. The welcome sequence is the top of a
funnel that ends in high-ticket work.
-------
Results
-------
* The Welcome Sequence Pitch tripled sales compared to the
classic “educate first, sell later” flow (tested across multiple
businesses and client lists)
* Customers who bought a low-ticket offer showed a measurable
lift in interest for high-ticket offers downstream
* Turned the welcome sequence from a nurture asset into a revenue
engine that runs on autopilot for each new subscriber
* Shortened the path from “just subscribed” to “$2,000–3,000
retainer client” by giving the subscriber an early, low-risk way
to say yes
------------------------
How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Pick a low-ticket product you already know performs based
on sales data and reviews. Better not to build anything new for
this.
Step 2: Rewrite your welcome sequence so the pitch for that
product lands in the first 2–3 emails, not the last 2–3.
Step 4: Build 2 engagement-based automations. One for buyers and
one for clickers who didn’t buy, and nurture accordingly.
Step 5: Add a short onboarding quiz or a “which of these is you?”
link in the welcome email so you can segment pitches by what
subscribers actually want.
Step 6: Track two numbers: welcome-sequence purchase rate, and
the rate at which those buyers convert to a higher-ticket offer
within 6–9 months. Those are the levers.
-----
Tools
-----
* Your ESP (with sequence & automation features)
* A commerce platform for checkout (Kit Commerce, Stripe, etc)
The welcome sequence is the highest-intent window your list will
ever have with a subscriber. Spending that attention on free tips
or “best of” content instead of a low-ticket offer could be
leaving the earliest path to your high-ticket work on the table.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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🍬 Day 6: This Welcome Sequence Pitch Tripled Sales
chenell@growthinreverse.com4/25/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 6 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're still a
little new here, I thought it would be nice to include a little
intro and reminder of what you're reading. :)
This is a pop-up newsletter put together by the team at Growth In
Reverse. We've pulled together 30 creators to help give one
actionable way you can either grow or improve your email list.
👉 Don't want the daily emails? Switch to weekly here. (
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Day 6: The Welcome Sequence Pitch That Tripled Sales
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How adding a low-ticket offer in the welcome flow turned cold
subscribers into high-ticket clients.
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CHENELL BASILIO
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April 25, 2026
You can read this article online here (
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)
When people subscribe, you probably send them a welcome sequence
filled with your best content, your most helpful tips, and maybe
even a free guide.
After all, everyone says to give as much value as possible before
ever asking for a sale, right?
Well, Matt Ragland flipped that idea on its head. The fix he
teaches is embarrassingly simple.
He’s tested this exact strategy and has seen it 3x sales for his
clients (he’s worked with some big names like Ryan Holiday, Dan
Go, Michael Hyatt, and Amanda Goetz).
What’s the change?
Well, new subscribers are at their most engaged in the first 7
days.
While most newsletter creators are spending that valuable window
saying “nice to meet you”, Matt is generating sales for his
clients from the welcome sequence.
----------------
How Matt Does It
----------------
1. He picks a product that already “works.” Instead of guessing
what readers want or need, Matt picks a proven product that has
sold well in the past or present. The pitch is easier when the
proof is already there.
2. He keeps the price point low on purpose. $9–$29 is an impulse
purchase. The revenue is nice, but the main goal is turning the
subscriber into a customer. Everything gets easier once they’ve
paid you once.
3. He pitches early. The low-cost offer lands in the first few
welcome emails, not email 12. New subscribers are most engaged in
the first week of signing up.
4. Matt separates buyers from prospects. If someone buys, they’re
nurtured and shown the next offer “up.” If they clicked but
didn’t buy, they get gently re-pitched with fresh angles every
2–3 weeks for a few months.
5. He stacks offers until it lands. The first $29 purchase is
just the first rung of the product ladder. Matt keeps offering
value and next-step products until a subscriber reaches a
solution that best solves their problem.
6. He layers on an onboarding survey for segmentation. A short
survey (and even a “which of these is you?” link in the first
email) tells Matt what the subscriber is actually there for, so
the pitches that follow feel tailored instead of sprayed.
Note: This reminds me of the highly-personalized welcome
sequences (
https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/wvuwkn709kbghk604grt7hnd6eek0smqne3x7do48393zmnkgvrmz966o73o5gppwe3qxxdz53q7993k4z22qmwr7en3oz50m229mq04v5xmqg4xrlrqk7mmp7li6zood/wnh2h6uq6wzqp2cl/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL2thdGVseW4td2VsY29tZS1zZXF1ZW5jZS8=
) Katelyn Bourgoin uses.
------------
Why It Works
------------
A low-cost early pitch reframes the whole relationship. Instead
of “free newsletter writer you might unsubscribe from,” you show
up as “business that sells things that help.” That framing
carries through every email after it.
The $9–$29 threshold also does real selection work. A paying
customer, even at $19, is a fundamentally different asset than a
free subscriber. They bought once making them more likely to do
it again.
And the long-tail math is the part that gets missed. A $29
purchase that turns into a $2,000 consulting retainer nine months
later is the whole point. The welcome sequence is the top of a
funnel that ends in high-ticket work.
-------
Results
-------
* The Welcome Sequence Pitch tripled sales compared to the
classic “educate first, sell later” flow (tested across multiple
businesses and client lists)
* Customers who bought a low-ticket offer showed a measurable
lift in interest for high-ticket offers downstream
* Turned the welcome sequence from a nurture asset into a revenue
engine that runs on autopilot for each new subscriber
* Shortened the path from “just subscribed” to “$2,000–3,000
retainer client” by giving the subscriber an early, low-risk way
to say yes
------------------------
How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Pick a low-ticket product you already know performs based
on sales data and reviews. Better not to build anything new for
this.
Step 2: Rewrite your welcome sequence so the pitch for that
product lands in the first 2–3 emails, not the last 2–3.
Step 4: Build 2 engagement-based automations. One for buyers and
one for clickers who didn’t buy, and nurture accordingly.
Step 5: Add a short onboarding quiz or a “which of these is you?”
link in the welcome email so you can segment pitches by what
subscribers actually want.
Step 6: Track two numbers: welcome-sequence purchase rate, and
the rate at which those buyers convert to a higher-ticket offer
within 6–9 months. Those are the levers.
-----
Tools
-----
* Your ESP (with sequence & automation features)
* A commerce platform for checkout (Kit Commerce, Stripe, etc)
The welcome sequence is the highest-intent window your list will
ever have with a subscriber. Spending that attention on free tips
or “best of” content instead of a low-ticket offer could be
leaving the earliest path to your high-ticket work on the table.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
P.S. You can follow Matt on LinkedIn (
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* 25 referrals: 5-Minute “Speed” Audit. I will record a 5-minute
video sharing ideas for optimizations and growth for your
newsletter. I charge $799 for the full audits, and this is a
taste of that, for free.
* 50 referrals: 30-Minute Growth Call where we dig into your
newsletter and/or what you’re struggling with and help you get
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🍬 Day 6: This Welcome Sequence Pitch Tripled Sales
chenell@growthinreverse.com4/25/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 5 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're still a
little new here, I thought it would be nice to include a little
intro and reminder of what you're reading. :)
This is a pop-up newsletter put together by the team at Growth In
Reverse. We've pulled together 30 creators to help give one
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Day 5: The Quiz That 7x'd Their Growth
**************************************
How this ADHD newsletter added 1,439 subscribers in the first
week.
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CHENELL BASILIO
---------------
April 24, 2026
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)
Lead magnets are having a resurgence, but not in the traditional
way you might be thinking.
Trading a free guide for an email can work, but it's getting a
little overdone, and people are becoming numb to these repeated
CTAs.
It feels harder to drive growth with those. So how can you stand
out?
Esteban Perez and Ammaar Khan run The ADHD Weasel (
https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/8kuwpeo3dpboh2nm904ikhkorl9kkio6ex5ld20n35v5goek4mzogvpp0d5074wwqx56ll2g756dvv5kng996oqzdxe50g78o99vo68nm7lo64nlzrz6kdoowdrbzv992/58hvh8ug2mg9m6b7/aHR0cDovL2FkaGR3ZWFzZWwuY29t
), a newsletter for late-diagnosed ADHD adults. And they were
feeling this, too.
They had a whopping 250k+ Threads followers, and were promoting 4
lead magnets to them. But even with that huge audience, they were
only getting ~17 signups a day.
Not bad. But not the growth they were looking for.
Then they heard my talk in Austin this past February where I
shared how a few people were seeing great results with a quiz,
and they decided to swap out their lead magnets and try that
instead.
And it worked. Really, really well.
After launching their quiz, they drove 1,439 new subscribers in a
single week. For context, that's how many they used to get in a
quarter.
Since that "peak" week, they're still bringing in around 875
subscribers per week.
----------------------
How ADHD Weasel Did It
----------------------
1. They built a quiz around 6 specific ADHD types. Each "type"
describes a different way ADHD shows up in adult life, and
readers recognize themselves almost immediately.
2. They gated the results. The quiz only takes a few minutes, but
once a reader completes it, they're prompted with a form to enter
their email address to get the results.
3. They push the quiz data directly into Beehiiv. When someone
finishes the quiz, their subscriber record gets tagged with their
results and quiz answers to help with segmentation.
4. They send most of their social traffic to the quiz.They
promote the quiz via Threads where they have over 250k followers.
The quiz converts better than any other Threads CTAs they've
tried. They are also experimenting with Meta ads pointing to the
quiz as well.
------------
Why It Works
------------
There are a few reasons this quiz strategy works so well:
It's not yet overdone. So many creators are giving away freebies
in the form of a PDF or checklist, whereas a quiz will stand out
because it gives more personalized results.
Readers want their results. They invested time to answer the quiz
questions, so they are bought in to see the results at the end
and will be more likely to enter their email.
Segmentation lets them personalize future emails. Esteban and
Ammaar already know every quiz-taker’s type and their answers, so
they know exactly which back issues would land for which reader.
-------
Results
-------
* Daily subscribers went from ~17/day to ~125/day which is ~7x
their previous baseline
* 1,439 new subs in one week, which is what they used to get per
quarter
* They lowered their CPL with Meta ads to $0.51, compared to a
$3-$8 benchmark
* The Weasel Quiz drives ~88% of all new subscribers, replacing
their old acquisition strategy entirely
------------------------
How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Build a short quiz (5-7 questions) that leads subscribers
to self-select into one of your audience segments.
Step 2: Gate the results. Make sure the reader has to enter their
email address to see the results on the "next page" or in their
inbox.
Step 3: Push quiz answers and results into your ESP with the
email address so you can tag or segment them later on.
Step 4: Point your main organic channel(s) at the quiz instead of
your homepage or newsletter sign-up page.
Step 5: Build a segmented welcome sequence. You now have segments
and data helping you craft a more personalized and relevant email
sequence. You can take a look at what Katelyn did here (
https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/8kuwpeo3dpboh2nm904ikhkorl9kkio6ex5ld20n35v5goek4mzogvpp0d5074wwqx56ll2g756dvv5kng996oqzdxe50g78o99vo68nm7lo64nlzrz6kdoowdrbzv992/25h2h9u3w23o2qs8/aHR0cHM6Ly9ncm93dGhpbnJldmVyc2UuY29tL2thdGVseW4td2VsY29tZS1zZXF1ZW5jZS8=
).
-----
Tools
-----
* A quiz tool like Interact (
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) (Ammaar & Esteban built theirs with Claude Code & Vercel)
* Your ESP to save the data to subscriber records
Quizzes are great for readers and for newsletter creators. For
readers, they're more personalized and give them custom results.
For creators, they drive lots of engagement, are easy to promote,
and capture first-party data you can use to improve your readers'
experience with your newsletter - and help you make more money in
the long run.
For more examples around great quizzes, check out Milly's quiz
breakdown here (
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).
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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🍬 Day 5: This added 1,439 subscribers in the first week.
chenell@growthinreverse.com4/24/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 5 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're still a
little new here, I thought it would be nice to include a little
intro and reminder of what you're reading. :)
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Day 5: The Quiz That 7x'd Their Growth
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How this ADHD newsletter added 1,439 subscribers in the first
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April 24, 2026
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Lead magnets are having a resurgence, but not in the traditional
way you might be thinking.
Trading a free guide for an email can work, but it's getting a
little overdone, and people are becoming numb to these repeated
CTAs.
It feels harder to drive growth with those. So how can you stand
out?
Esteban Perez and Ammaar Khan run The ADHD Weasel (
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), a newsletter for late-diagnosed ADHD adults. And they were
feeling this, too.
They had a whopping 250k+ Threads followers, and were promoting 4
lead magnets to them. But even with that huge audience, they were
only getting ~17 signups a day.
Not bad. But not the growth they were looking for.
Then they heard my talk in Austin this past February where I
shared how a few people were seeing great results with a quiz,
and they decided to swap out their lead magnets and try that
instead.
And it worked. Really, really well.
After launching their quiz, they drove 1,439 new subscribers in a
single week. For context, that's how many they used to get in a
quarter.
Since that "peak" week, they're still bringing in around 875
subscribers per week.
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How ADHD Weasel Did It
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1. They built a quiz around 6 specific ADHD types. Each "type"
describes a different way ADHD shows up in adult life, and
readers recognize themselves almost immediately.
2. They gated the results. The quiz only takes a few minutes, but
once a reader completes it, they're prompted with a form to enter
their email address to get the results.
3. They push the quiz data directly into Beehiiv. When someone
finishes the quiz, their subscriber record gets tagged with their
results and quiz answers to help with segmentation.
4. They send most of their social traffic to the quiz.They
promote the quiz via Threads where they have over 250k followers.
The quiz converts better than any other Threads CTAs they've
tried. They are also experimenting with Meta ads pointing to the
quiz as well.
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Why It Works
------------
There are a few reasons this quiz strategy works so well:
It's not yet overdone. So many creators are giving away freebies
in the form of a PDF or checklist, whereas a quiz will stand out
because it gives more personalized results.
Readers want their results. They invested time to answer the quiz
questions, so they are bought in to see the results at the end
and will be more likely to enter their email.
Segmentation lets them personalize future emails. Esteban and
Ammaar already know every quiz-taker’s type and their answers, so
they know exactly which back issues would land for which reader.
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Results
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* Daily subscribers went from ~17/day to ~125/day which is ~7x
their previous baseline
* 1,439 new subs in one week, which is what they used to get per
quarter
* They lowered their CPL with Meta ads to $0.51, compared to a
$3-$8 benchmark
* The Weasel Quiz drives ~88% of all new subscribers, replacing
their old acquisition strategy entirely
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How You Can Implement It
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Step 1: Build a short quiz (5-7 questions) that leads subscribers
to self-select into one of your audience segments.
Step 2: Gate the results. Make sure the reader has to enter their
email address to see the results on the "next page" or in their
inbox.
Step 3: Push quiz answers and results into your ESP with the
email address so you can tag or segment them later on.
Step 4: Point your main organic channel(s) at the quiz instead of
your homepage or newsletter sign-up page.
Step 5: Build a segmented welcome sequence. You now have segments
and data helping you craft a more personalized and relevant email
sequence. You can take a look at what Katelyn did here (
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* A quiz tool like Interact (
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) (Ammaar & Esteban built theirs with Claude Code & Vercel)
* Your ESP to save the data to subscriber records
Quizzes are great for readers and for newsletter creators. For
readers, they're more personalized and give them custom results.
For creators, they drive lots of engagement, are easy to promote,
and capture first-party data you can use to improve your readers'
experience with your newsletter - and help you make more money in
the long run.
For more examples around great quizzes, check out Milly's quiz
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See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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chenell@growthinreverse.com4/24/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 4 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're all new
here, I thought it would be nice to include a little intro and
reminder of what you're reading. :)
This is a pop-up newsletter put together by the team at Growth In
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The Milestone Giveaway That Got Her to 30k Subscribers
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How Aleyda generated over 1,500 quality subscribers in 7 weeks.
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April 23, 2026
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)
Giveaways have a reputation problem.
A lot of them bring in the wrong people. The immediate results
look great because of the rapid list growth.
But after sending a few emails, things change. Open rates drop, a
bunch of people unsubscribe, and the math stops working.
The good news is it there is a better way.
Aleyda Solis runs SEOFOMO (
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), a weekly newsletter about SEO with 40,000 subscribers. And
she's figured out how to run giveaways that attract the right
subscribers.
When Aleyda's email list was sitting at 28.5k, she wanted to push
past 30k faster than normal growth would get her there.
So she ran a giveaway. Entry required you to be a SEOFOMO
subscriber first, then referring other SEOs to the list to earn
entries.
She announced it on October 1st. By November 19th, she’d crossed
30k and announced the winner.
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How Aleyda Did It
-----------------
1. She tied the giveaway to a specific subscriber milestone. The
whole campaign was framed around getting SEOFOMO to 30k. That
turned it into something her audience actually rooted for. Many
of them had been reading for years and want to see the list hit
the number.
source
2. She picked prizes her audience wants. She included SEO tools
and resources, the exact things her readers are already paying
for (and complaining about on Twitter). When SEOs are the
audience, SEO software is the obvious prize to give away.
3. She required an action to enter. Subscribers had to opt in,
then refer other folks to the list to earn more entries.
4. She used the newsletter itself as the distribution. The
announcement went out in the October 1st edition, and she kept
mentioning it for about 7 weeks until the goal was hit on
November 19th.
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Why It Works
------------
Existing subscribers are a great way to bring in subscribers who
look like your current ones. A person who got forwarded SEOFOMO
by their manager or fellow SEO is already a match for the
content.
The milestone framing turned the giveaway into a team goal.
Aleyda framed as “help us get there,” and that kind of framing
travels way better in DMs and Slack channels than “help me win a
prize.”
The prize was a filter. An Amazon gift card or MacBook would have
pulled in anyone. But you don't want "anyone" to subscribe.
Instead, a prize pool full of SEO tools pulled in the exact right
audience.
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Results
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* The newsletter grew from 28.5k to 30k+ subscribers in ~7 weeks
- which works out to 215 new subscribers per week from one
giveaway
* New subscribers came mostly through referrals from existing
readers making them more likely to be long-term subscribers.
* In 2020, Aleyda ran a similar SEOFOMO 5k Challenge and used
much of the same playbook with to help her hit the 5k milestone
* Both giveaways turned the newsletter itself into a growth
channel, which a lot of creators leave on the table
------------------------
How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Pick a subscriber milestone just above where you are now
(ex: 2,500 or 20,000 subscribers). Making it about 5-10% past
your current number is a solid starting point. It should feel
ambitious but reachable.
Step 2: Source and organize prizes your niche actually wants.
Tools, courses, books, or credits from brands your readers
already follow. If you have to explain why the prize is valuable,
it’s probably the wrong prize.
Step 3: Build a simple opt-in page where existing subscribers can
join the giveaway and get a referral link.
Step 4: Announce it in your newsletter and keep the update in
every issue until the milestone hits or until the giveaway ends.
A sidebar callout or P.S. line is enough.
Step 5: Reach out to the brands providing prizes and ask if
they’ll share the giveaway to their audiences too. Many will, as
it's great free exposure for them since the audience is aligned.
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Tools
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* Your ESP for opting into the giveaway
* Beehiiv’s (
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) referral tool or SparkLoop (
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) to track who referred who
* Your email list and P.S. line (the biggest lever)
* A landing page for the giveaway announcement
Round-number milestones are an excuse to run a campaign your
readers actually want to be part of. They turn an awkward
“subscribe please” ask into a shared goal, which makes people way
more willing to hit “Forward”.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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P.P.S. Did you know you can get featured in an upcoming edition
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* 25 referrals: 5-Minute “Speed” Audit. I will record a 5-minute
video sharing ideas for optimizations and growth for your
newsletter. I charge $799 for the full audits, and this is a
taste of that, for free.
* 50 referrals: 30-Minute Growth Call where we dig into your
newsletter and/or what you’re struggling with and help you get
unstuck.
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🍬 Day 4: She added 1,500 subscribers in 49 days
chenell@growthinreverse.com4/23/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 4 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're all new
here, I thought it would be nice to include a little intro and
reminder of what you're reading. :)
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Giveaways have a reputation problem.
A lot of them bring in the wrong people. The immediate results
look great because of the rapid list growth.
But after sending a few emails, things change. Open rates drop, a
bunch of people unsubscribe, and the math stops working.
The good news is it there is a better way.
Aleyda Solis runs SEOFOMO (
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she's figured out how to run giveaways that attract the right
subscribers.
When Aleyda's email list was sitting at 28.5k, she wanted to push
past 30k faster than normal growth would get her there.
So she ran a giveaway. Entry required you to be a SEOFOMO
subscriber first, then referring other SEOs to the list to earn
entries.
She announced it on October 1st. By November 19th, she’d crossed
30k and announced the winner.
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How Aleyda Did It
-----------------
1. She tied the giveaway to a specific subscriber milestone. The
whole campaign was framed around getting SEOFOMO to 30k. That
turned it into something her audience actually rooted for. Many
of them had been reading for years and want to see the list hit
the number.
source
2. She picked prizes her audience wants. She included SEO tools
and resources, the exact things her readers are already paying
for (and complaining about on Twitter). When SEOs are the
audience, SEO software is the obvious prize to give away.
3. She required an action to enter. Subscribers had to opt in,
then refer other folks to the list to earn more entries.
4. She used the newsletter itself as the distribution. The
announcement went out in the October 1st edition, and she kept
mentioning it for about 7 weeks until the goal was hit on
November 19th.
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Why It Works
------------
Existing subscribers are a great way to bring in subscribers who
look like your current ones. A person who got forwarded SEOFOMO
by their manager or fellow SEO is already a match for the
content.
The milestone framing turned the giveaway into a team goal.
Aleyda framed as “help us get there,” and that kind of framing
travels way better in DMs and Slack channels than “help me win a
prize.”
The prize was a filter. An Amazon gift card or MacBook would have
pulled in anyone. But you don't want "anyone" to subscribe.
Instead, a prize pool full of SEO tools pulled in the exact right
audience.
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Results
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* The newsletter grew from 28.5k to 30k+ subscribers in ~7 weeks
- which works out to 215 new subscribers per week from one
giveaway
* New subscribers came mostly through referrals from existing
readers making them more likely to be long-term subscribers.
* In 2020, Aleyda ran a similar SEOFOMO 5k Challenge and used
much of the same playbook with to help her hit the 5k milestone
* Both giveaways turned the newsletter itself into a growth
channel, which a lot of creators leave on the table
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How You Can Implement It
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Step 1: Pick a subscriber milestone just above where you are now
(ex: 2,500 or 20,000 subscribers). Making it about 5-10% past
your current number is a solid starting point. It should feel
ambitious but reachable.
Step 2: Source and organize prizes your niche actually wants.
Tools, courses, books, or credits from brands your readers
already follow. If you have to explain why the prize is valuable,
it’s probably the wrong prize.
Step 3: Build a simple opt-in page where existing subscribers can
join the giveaway and get a referral link.
Step 4: Announce it in your newsletter and keep the update in
every issue until the milestone hits or until the giveaway ends.
A sidebar callout or P.S. line is enough.
Step 5: Reach out to the brands providing prizes and ask if
they’ll share the giveaway to their audiences too. Many will, as
it's great free exposure for them since the audience is aligned.
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Tools
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* Your ESP for opting into the giveaway
* Beehiiv’s (
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) to track who referred who
* Your email list and P.S. line (the biggest lever)
* A landing page for the giveaway announcement
Round-number milestones are an excuse to run a campaign your
readers actually want to be part of. They turn an awkward
“subscribe please” ask into a shared goal, which makes people way
more willing to hit “Forward”.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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P.P.S. Did you know you can get featured in an upcoming edition
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more you win. 👇
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Here’s what you will win:
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* 25 referrals: 5-Minute “Speed” Audit. I will record a 5-minute
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🍬 Day 4: She added 1,500 subscribers in 49 days
chenell@growthinreverse.com4/23/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 3 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're all new
here, I thought it would be nice to include a little intro and
reminder of what you're reading. :)
This is a pop-up newsletter put together by the team at Growth In
Reverse. We've pulled together 30 creators to help give one
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The 7-Figure Email List With Less Than 4,000 Subscribers
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Being a guest on the right podcasts built a small list that
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April 22, 2026
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There's a version of list-building that looks like a numbers
game. Run more ads, post more on LinkedIn, hope the algorithm
likes you today.
And it works, kind of.
But the subscribers you pull in that way might not ever get to
know you.
So what's the alternative?
Dustin Riechmann (
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) has a small email list (
He grew it through a very specific approach to podcast guesting.
One that brings in subscribers who are already warm before they
ever hit your opt-in page.
Almost every subscriber came from a long-form podcast interview.
By the time someone hits his welcome email, they've already spent
45-60 minutes listening to him talk about the thing he's an
expert in.
They're basically a warm lead right away.
------------------
How Dustin Does It
------------------
Well, Dustin made podcasting his entire growth strategy. And that
focus by itself is useful, but here is how he finds the right
podcasts to get on.
1. He targets "shoulder topic" podcasts instead of direct
competitors. Rather than guesting on shows that cover his exact
niche, Dustin looks for podcasts serving an adjacent audience.
People who'd benefit from his expertise but aren't already
drowning in information about it.
For example, if you're a relationship coach, you don't pitch
other relationship podcasts where the host already covers your
exact lane. You pitch a podcast for first-time parents (who are
stressed and need communication help), or a personal finance show
(where couples fight about money).
2. He looks for a content gap to fill for that host. The host
gets an episode they couldn't have recorded themselves, which
makes Dustin easier to book. His new subscribers show up already
seeing him as the specialized expert on that topic.
3. He screens podcasts against 3 basic criteria before pitching:
* The show has to do guest interviews
* It has to have published something in the last 30 days
* It has to clear a size bar (usually 100+ ratings on Apple
Podcasts)
4. He uses the interview itself to warm the subscriber. A
long-form podcast conversation builds real trust over 30 to 60
minutes. By the time a listener hits Dustin's landing page,
they're far more likely to know, like, and trust him.
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Why It Works
------------
Podcast listeners are a different kind of audience. They've
chosen to spend an hour with a guest. That's a level of attention
you really can't buy with an ad.
The "shoulder topic" angle matters because it positions you as a
specialist in a room full of generalists. On a direct-competitor
show, you're 1 of 50 similar guests the audience has heard. On a
shoulder show, you're the only person in that lane, which makes
you memorable and makes the host want to have you back.
The result is a subscriber who self-selected. They heard your
story, liked it, and went out of their way to sign up. That is an
incredibly warm subscriber. And it's a very different quality of
subscriber from someone who clicked 'Subscribe' on a
recommendation widget.
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Results
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* 4,000 email subscribers on the list
* Average of $285 revenue per subscriber per year which is
roughly 5x to 10x what most creators see
* 7 figures in annual revenue from that small-but-engaged
audience
* Subscribers arrive pre-warmed, which has downstream effects on
open rates, click rates, and conversions
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How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Pick 2-3 shoulder topics adjacent to what you teach.
Write down the audience you'd serve on each one.
Step 2: Build a list of 20-30 podcasts in those shoulder topics.
Use the 3 filters: guest interviews, updated in the last 30 days,
100+ Apple Podcasts ratings.
Step 3: Write a short pitch that names the content gap you fill.
Tell the host what their audience would get from having you on
that they can't get from the host alone.
Step 4: Set up a dedicated landing page for each podcast, or at
least for your top few. A URL like yoursite.com/[podcast-name]
works great.
Step 5: Drop your CTA into the interview where it comes
naturally. Tie it to something you discussed on the show so it
feels like part of the conversation.
Step 6: Track subscribers by source so you know which shows
actually convert.
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Tools
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* A simple spreadsheet or Notion database to track target shows
* Listen Notes for research
* A landing page builder (Carrd (
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Dustin's list is probably a lot smaller than the general
perception of a "successful" newsletter's audience. But the
quality of those subscribers is so high that the math works out
completely differently.
A small list of people who genuinely trust you is worth more than
a big list of people who barely remember signing up.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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🍬 Day 3: The 7-Figure Email List With < 4,000 Subscribers
chenell@growthinreverse.com4/22/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 3 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're all new
here, I thought it would be nice to include a little intro and
reminder of what you're reading. :)
This is a pop-up newsletter put together by the team at Growth In
Reverse. We've pulled together 30 creators to help give one
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The 7-Figure Email List With Less Than 4,000 Subscribers
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Being a guest on the right podcasts built a small list that
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CHENELL BASILIO
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April 22, 2026
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)
There's a version of list-building that looks like a numbers
game. Run more ads, post more on LinkedIn, hope the algorithm
likes you today.
And it works, kind of.
But the subscribers you pull in that way might not ever get to
know you.
So what's the alternative?
Dustin Riechmann (
https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/n4ur30p8v3tvhx0p2z7b6h64px0e6a3ekv7md0q9l75723kp8zr325xxqd7qo8nn6v7emm02o7ed557p92gge36rdvk7q2ow3gg53ew9zom3e89mr4repd33nd4be6nn4/kkhmh2unv90wovik/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlua2VkaW4uY29tL2luL2R1c3RpbnJpZWNobWFubi8=
) has a small email list (
He grew it through a very specific approach to podcast guesting.
One that brings in subscribers who are already warm before they
ever hit your opt-in page.
Almost every subscriber came from a long-form podcast interview.
By the time someone hits his welcome email, they've already spent
45-60 minutes listening to him talk about the thing he's an
expert in.
They're basically a warm lead right away.
------------------
How Dustin Does It
------------------
Well, Dustin made podcasting his entire growth strategy. And that
focus by itself is useful, but here is how he finds the right
podcasts to get on.
1. He targets "shoulder topic" podcasts instead of direct
competitors. Rather than guesting on shows that cover his exact
niche, Dustin looks for podcasts serving an adjacent audience.
People who'd benefit from his expertise but aren't already
drowning in information about it.
For example, if you're a relationship coach, you don't pitch
other relationship podcasts where the host already covers your
exact lane. You pitch a podcast for first-time parents (who are
stressed and need communication help), or a personal finance show
(where couples fight about money).
2. He looks for a content gap to fill for that host. The host
gets an episode they couldn't have recorded themselves, which
makes Dustin easier to book. His new subscribers show up already
seeing him as the specialized expert on that topic.
3. He screens podcasts against 3 basic criteria before pitching:
* The show has to do guest interviews
* It has to have published something in the last 30 days
* It has to clear a size bar (usually 100+ ratings on Apple
Podcasts)
4. He uses the interview itself to warm the subscriber. A
long-form podcast conversation builds real trust over 30 to 60
minutes. By the time a listener hits Dustin's landing page,
they're far more likely to know, like, and trust him.
------------
Why It Works
------------
Podcast listeners are a different kind of audience. They've
chosen to spend an hour with a guest. That's a level of attention
you really can't buy with an ad.
The "shoulder topic" angle matters because it positions you as a
specialist in a room full of generalists. On a direct-competitor
show, you're 1 of 50 similar guests the audience has heard. On a
shoulder show, you're the only person in that lane, which makes
you memorable and makes the host want to have you back.
The result is a subscriber who self-selected. They heard your
story, liked it, and went out of their way to sign up. That is an
incredibly warm subscriber. And it's a very different quality of
subscriber from someone who clicked 'Subscribe' on a
recommendation widget.
-------
Results
-------
* 4,000 email subscribers on the list
* Average of $285 revenue per subscriber per year which is
roughly 5x to 10x what most creators see
* 7 figures in annual revenue from that small-but-engaged
audience
* Subscribers arrive pre-warmed, which has downstream effects on
open rates, click rates, and conversions
------------------------
How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Pick 2-3 shoulder topics adjacent to what you teach.
Write down the audience you'd serve on each one.
Step 2: Build a list of 20-30 podcasts in those shoulder topics.
Use the 3 filters: guest interviews, updated in the last 30 days,
100+ Apple Podcasts ratings.
Step 3: Write a short pitch that names the content gap you fill.
Tell the host what their audience would get from having you on
that they can't get from the host alone.
Step 4: Set up a dedicated landing page for each podcast, or at
least for your top few. A URL like yoursite.com/[podcast-name]
works great.
Step 5: Drop your CTA into the interview where it comes
naturally. Tie it to something you discussed on the show so it
feels like part of the conversation.
Step 6: Track subscribers by source so you know which shows
actually convert.
-----
Tools
-----
* A simple spreadsheet or Notion database to track target shows
* Listen Notes for research
* A landing page builder (Carrd (
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), Kit, your website) for episode-specific opt-ins
Dustin's list is probably a lot smaller than the general
perception of a "successful" newsletter's audience. But the
quality of those subscribers is so high that the math works out
completely differently.
A small list of people who genuinely trust you is worth more than
a big list of people who barely remember signing up.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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🍬 Day 3: The 7-Figure Email List With < 4,000 Subscribers
chenell@growthinreverse.com4/22/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 2 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're all new
here, I thought it would be nice to include a little intro and
reminder of what you're reading. :)
This is a pop-up newsletter put together by the team at Growth In
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The Welcome Sequence That Doubled Her Digital Product Sales
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How asking 1 question at signup doubled her product sales in 90
days.
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CHENELL BASILIO
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April 21, 2026
Think about the last newsletter you signed up for. You probably
got a generic welcome email, maybe a quick pitch, and then you
were dropped into the regular newsletter cadence just like
everyone else.
Katelyn Bourgoin thinks that’s a missed opportunity.
And after seeing what she's built, I have to agree.
Katelyn runs Why We Buy (
https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/xmuk8np597t6hp00273a5h2e70g33ag3zxrg40m56mr2vzvzoxxvl0kpdooo4wookg4m538rgl46rvm9g640l0qdv927364rqggp3m2e23xg0p7gne5oq20o5evbdwkk0/owhkhwuwd70nz3fq/aHR0cHM6Ly9sZWFybndoeXdlYnV5LmNvbS8=
), a newsletter about buyer psychology with about 63,000
subscribers. And she’s on a mission to hit $2 million in revenue
while, in her words, “getting lazier.”
The biggest lever so far? A personalized welcome sequence that
asks new subscribers what they need help with, then gives them
exactly that.
-------------------
How Katelyn Does It
-------------------
1. She asks new subscribers about their pain points at signup.
When someone joins, they’re asked what they’re struggling with.
It’s a quick 1-question survey that helps Katelyn sort people
into groups based on what they actually need help with.
2. She built targeted welcome sequences for each group. Instead
of one generic welcome flow, Katelyn created different sequences
based on the pain points people shared. Each one is built around
a specific problem and leads naturally into the product that
solves it.
She compares it to walking into a stranger’s house:
“Imagine you’re greeted with a drink at the door, and there’s
this beautiful spread put out for you, and you feel valued. I
feel the same way about the welcome sequence for a newsletter.”
– Katelyn Bourgoin
3. The sequences sell without being pushy. Katelyn says she
actually hates sales. Her approach is to let the marketing do the
selling for her. The welcome sequences softly introduce her
products in context, so by the time someone hits a sales page,
they already know the brand and they’re already interested.
Are you ready for the real gold?
4. She layers in segmented flash sales. Beyond the welcome
sequence, Katelyn split her subscribers into thirds. Each segment
sees a flash sale for a different product on a rotating basis, so
there’s always an offer running, but no one person feels like
they’re being sold to all the time.
New subscribers get routed into the most relevant offer based on
what they said at signup. And anyone in an active welcome
sequence is excluded from flash sales so the experiences don’t
overlap.
------------
Why It Works
------------
She’s meeting people where they are. Someone who just told you
their biggest challenge and then gets a sequence addressing it
will pay way more attention than someone getting a
one-size-fits-all drip.
It builds trust early. Instead of pitching right away, Katelyn
creates what she calls a “wow-worthy first impression.” That
goodwill carries forward into everything else, whether it’s a
product launch, a flash sale, or just her regular newsletter.
Segmented flash sales use real urgency without burning out the
whole audience. By limiting deals to a segment of the list, she
can use real urgency without burning out her whole audience. And
because she’s not blasting sales on social media, her public
content stays focused on value.
-------
Results
-------
* Digital product sales up 30% within 3 months of launching
personalized sequences
* Overall digital product sales doubled
* And happier readers who feel like she’s speaking directly to
them
------------------------
How You Can Implement It
------------------------
1. Add a “pain point” question to your signup flow. Keep it
simple, with just one multiple-choice question about what they’re
struggling with is enough to start.
2. Build a welcome sequence for each pain point. 3-5 emails that
address their specific problem and naturally lead to a relevant
product or offer.
3. Exclude people in active welcome sequences from other
promotions so the experience doesn’t get messy.
4. Once you’ve got enough subscribers, try segmented flash sales.
Split your list into groups, rotate offers, and give each segment
a reason to buy now instead of later.
5. Analyze and iterate. See which sequences lead to the most
sales and keep improving the ones that aren’t pulling their
weight.
-----
Tools
-----
* Kit (
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) for email sequences, segmentation, and automation
* A survey at signup – Katelyn uses Kit polls (
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) for this. You can also use Tally (
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), or Beehiiv (
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) has surveys too
Your welcome sequence is the first real conversation you have
with a new subscriber. Katelyn treats it like a first impression
worth making, and it’s become the biggest driver of revenue in
her business.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
P.S. You can follow Katelyn on LinkedIn (
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See you tomorrow,
Chenell
P.S. Did you know there is also a complementary private podcast?
You can get access by sharing this 30 day series with 1 friend. 👇
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newsletter. I charge $799 for the full audits, and this is a
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🍬 Day 2: The 1 Change That DOUBLED Sales
chenell@growthinreverse.com4/21/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 2 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're all new
here, I thought it would be nice to include a little intro and
reminder of what you're reading. :)
This is a pop-up newsletter put together by the team at Growth In
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***********************************************************
The Welcome Sequence That Doubled Her Digital Product Sales
***********************************************************
How asking 1 question at signup doubled her product sales in 90
days.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
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---------------
CHENELL BASILIO
---------------
April 21, 2026
Think about the last newsletter you signed up for. You probably
got a generic welcome email, maybe a quick pitch, and then you
were dropped into the regular newsletter cadence just like
everyone else.
Katelyn Bourgoin thinks that’s a missed opportunity.
And after seeing what she's built, I have to agree.
Katelyn runs Why We Buy (
https://2ed903a4.click.convertkit-mail4.com/lmulpnovmpbmhn772krf6h8w9d2xef5mp8ve0qx7gv6vd5pl92o5d644x0vxr9zzn8vmeeqdrvm066vl7dwwm5no08pvxdr35ww65m372re5m97eokoml055z0kb7roo5/owhkhwuwd70nz3fq/aHR0cHM6Ly9sZWFybndoeXdlYnV5LmNvbS8=
), a newsletter about buyer psychology with about 63,000
subscribers. And she’s on a mission to hit $2 million in revenue
while, in her words, “getting lazier.”
The biggest lever so far? A personalized welcome sequence that
asks new subscribers what they need help with, then gives them
exactly that.
-------------------
How Katelyn Does It
-------------------
1. She asks new subscribers about their pain points at signup.
When someone joins, they’re asked what they’re struggling with.
It’s a quick 1-question survey that helps Katelyn sort people
into groups based on what they actually need help with.
2. She built targeted welcome sequences for each group. Instead
of one generic welcome flow, Katelyn created different sequences
based on the pain points people shared. Each one is built around
a specific problem and leads naturally into the product that
solves it.
She compares it to walking into a stranger’s house:
“Imagine you’re greeted with a drink at the door, and there’s
this beautiful spread put out for you, and you feel valued. I
feel the same way about the welcome sequence for a newsletter.”
– Katelyn Bourgoin
3. The sequences sell without being pushy. Katelyn says she
actually hates sales. Her approach is to let the marketing do the
selling for her. The welcome sequences softly introduce her
products in context, so by the time someone hits a sales page,
they already know the brand and they’re already interested.
Are you ready for the real gold?
4. She layers in segmented flash sales. Beyond the welcome
sequence, Katelyn split her subscribers into thirds. Each segment
sees a flash sale for a different product on a rotating basis, so
there’s always an offer running, but no one person feels like
they’re being sold to all the time.
New subscribers get routed into the most relevant offer based on
what they said at signup. And anyone in an active welcome
sequence is excluded from flash sales so the experiences don’t
overlap.
------------
Why It Works
------------
She’s meeting people where they are. Someone who just told you
their biggest challenge and then gets a sequence addressing it
will pay way more attention than someone getting a
one-size-fits-all drip.
It builds trust early. Instead of pitching right away, Katelyn
creates what she calls a “wow-worthy first impression.” That
goodwill carries forward into everything else, whether it’s a
product launch, a flash sale, or just her regular newsletter.
Segmented flash sales use real urgency without burning out the
whole audience. By limiting deals to a segment of the list, she
can use real urgency without burning out her whole audience. And
because she’s not blasting sales on social media, her public
content stays focused on value.
-------
Results
-------
* Digital product sales up 30% within 3 months of launching
personalized sequences
* Overall digital product sales doubled
* And happier readers who feel like she’s speaking directly to
them
------------------------
How You Can Implement It
------------------------
1. Add a “pain point” question to your signup flow. Keep it
simple, with just one multiple-choice question about what they’re
struggling with is enough to start.
2. Build a welcome sequence for each pain point. 3-5 emails that
address their specific problem and naturally lead to a relevant
product or offer.
3. Exclude people in active welcome sequences from other
promotions so the experience doesn’t get messy.
4. Once you’ve got enough subscribers, try segmented flash sales.
Split your list into groups, rotate offers, and give each segment
a reason to buy now instead of later.
5. Analyze and iterate. See which sequences lead to the most
sales and keep improving the ones that aren’t pulling their
weight.
-----
Tools
-----
* Kit (
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) for email sequences, segmentation, and automation
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) for this. You can also use Tally (
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) has surveys too
Your welcome sequence is the first real conversation you have
with a new subscriber. Katelyn treats it like a first impression
worth making, and it’s become the biggest driver of revenue in
her business.
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
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See you tomorrow,
Chenell
P.S. Did you know there is also a complementary private podcast?
You can get access by sharing this 30 day series with 1 friend. 👇
--------------------------------
🎁 Share with friends, win prizes
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newsletter and/or what you’re struggling with and help you get
unstuck.
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🍬 Day 2: The 1 Change That DOUBLED Sales
chenell@growthinreverse.com4/21/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 1 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're all new
here, I thought it would be nice to include a little intro and
reminder of what you're reading. :)
This is a pop-up newsletter put together by the team at Growth In
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Hey Maude,
Before we jump in, I wanted to give you a bonus tip that I just
discovered yesterday. It's called "Accidentally send over
thousands of subscribers on your list 3 welcome emails even
though they've been subscribed for years."
If you got a bunch of emails from me yesterday, my apologies.
🤦♀️
I ended up with over 200 replies from you letting me know:
The downside? I confused A LOT of you last night when you started
getting a flurry of emails. I really am sorry about that. I was
going to send an "Oops" email and then decided that adding a
FOURTH email to this madness wasn't the right way to go.
The plus side? I can't help but think this will end up improving
my deliverability. ;) And I get to interact with a bunch of
subscribers who usually don't reply.
So there's your bonus 30 Days of Growth tip - send welcome emails
to people who have been subscribed, confuse your readers, and
improve your deliverability. (I'm kidding, don't do this).
Okay, let's get on to the real tip for Day 1 of 30 Days of
Growth!
***************************************************
The 2-Step LinkedIn Posts That 10x’d His Email List
***************************************************
How he added 30k+ followers and 10k subscribers to his email list
with one small tweak.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-->
---------------
CHENELL BASILIO
---------------
April 20, 2026
You’ve seen the “comment [WORD] to get my free resource” posts on
LinkedIn.
They used to drive hundreds or even thousands of subscribers
consistently. But by early 2025 (or if we’re being honest, 2024),
everyone was doing them and engagement dropped.
Daniel Bustamante had already run 30+ of those giveaways, and
they drove 70-80% of his growth. But the tactic was losing steam.
So he evolved it into what he calls the “2-Step” post.
Instead of making the giveaway the whole post, Daniel writes a
full educational post, then adds a comment-triggered CTA at the
end tied to a deeper resource on the same topic.
Some of his 2-Step posts now outperform his original giveaway
posts.
------------------
How Daniel Does It
------------------
He writes a value-first post.
The whole post is insanely valuable on its own: a framework,
breakdown, or lesson. The reader gets something useful whether or
not they take the next step.
He adds a comment-triggered CTA at the end. Something like: “P.S.
I put together a swipe file of welcome email examples. Want it?
Comment SWIPE and I’ll send you a copy.” The resource always ties
directly to the post topic.
He delivers via DM with a landing page. When someone comments, he
(or his assistant) DMs the resource as a link to a landing page
where they enter their email.
Here is an example:
669 comments of people wanting to get this resource. 🤯
------------
Why It Works
------------
Leading with something valuable earns people’s attention before
you make an ask. The reader already got value, so commenting a
keyword feels like a natural next step.
It also sidesteps LinkedIn’s link penalty, as there’s no external
link in the post.
Side note: I’ve heard links in the post don’t matter as much
anymore, but every time I post with a link I get almost no reach.
Delivering via DM creates a direct conversation, which can lead
to sales calls for anyone selling services or high-ticket offers.
And because the resource matches the post topic, commenters are
self-selecting by interest. They’re not just collecting free
things, they’re qualified leads who just told you what they care
about.
-------
Results
-------
In 18 months, Daniel went from:
* Grew from 600 to 30,000+ LinkedIn followers in 18 months
* 1,000 to 10,000+ email subscribers - which is roughly 10x
growth from a single format tweak 🤯
* Went from 0 to 2-4 warm inbound leads per week
* $84K+ in digital product revenue on the side
70-80% of that growth came from his comment-triggered strategy
and its 2-Step evolution.
------------------------
How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Start with the post, not the freebie. Write something
valuable enough to stand alone – a framework, breakdown, or
lesson.
Step 2: Build a resource that goes deeper on that exact topic.
This could be a swipe file, checklist, template, etc.
Step 3: Add a simple CTA at the end: “Comment [WORD] and I’ll
send it.”
Step 4: Deliver via DM, and send them to a landing page to opt
in.
Step 5: Follow it with a short welcome sequence so the new
subscriber hears from you right away (not just silence after the
freebie).
This isn’t a complicated strategy, it just requires a little more
effort.
-----
Tools
-----
* LinkedIn (free or Premium) – Premium will be valuable for DMs
* Your ESP (Kit (
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), Beehiiv (
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), etc.) for email capture and sequences
* A landing page builder (Carrd (
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), or your website) – email opt-in
Every post Daniel publishes does 2 jobs at once.
It teaches something worth reading on its own, and it gives the
reader a clear next step to go deeper.
It's no wonder that this strategy is working so well.
👉 Daniel created a free mini-course on lead magnet ideation for
you, that you can grab here. (
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)
See you tomorrow,
Chenell
P.S. Daniel is the CMO of Premium Ghostwriting Academy and runs a
boutique email marketing agency on the side called Velocity. You
can find him on LinkedIn (
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P.P.S. If you're enjoying these emails, did you know there is
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--------------------------------
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taste of that, for free.
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🍬 Day 1: The Posts That 10x’d His Email List
chenell@growthinreverse.com4/20/2026
Kit
Welcome to Day 1 of the 30 Days of Growth. Since we're all new
here, I thought it would be nice to include a little intro and
reminder of what you're reading. :)
This is a pop-up newsletter put together by the team at Growth In
Reverse. We've pulled together 30 creators to help give one
actionable way you can either grow or improve your email list.
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)
Hey ,
Before we jump in, I wanted to give you a bonus tip that I just
discovered yesterday. It's called "Accidentally send over
thousands of subscribers on your list 3 welcome emails even
though they've been subscribed for years."
If you got a bunch of emails from me yesterday, my apologies.
🤦♀️
I ended up with over 200 replies from you letting me know:
The downside? I confused A LOT of you last night when you started
getting a flurry of emails. I really am sorry about that. I was
going to send an "Oops" email and then decided that adding a
FOURTH email to this madness wasn't the right way to go.
The plus side? I can't help but think this will end up improving
my deliverability. ;) And I get to interact with a bunch of
subscribers who usually don't reply.
So there's your bonus 30 Days of Growth tip - send welcome emails
to people who have been subscribed, confuse your readers, and
improve your deliverability. (I'm kidding, don't do this).
Okay, let's get on to the real tip for Day 1 of 30 Days of
Growth!
***************************************************
The 2-Step LinkedIn Posts That 10x’d His Email List
***************************************************
How he added 30k+ followers and 10k subscribers to his email list
with one small tweak.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-->
---------------
CHENELL BASILIO
---------------
April 20, 2026
You’ve seen the “comment [WORD] to get my free resource” posts on
LinkedIn.
They used to drive hundreds or even thousands of subscribers
consistently. But by early 2025 (or if we’re being honest, 2024),
everyone was doing them and engagement dropped.
Daniel Bustamante had already run 30+ of those giveaways, and
they drove 70-80% of his growth. But the tactic was losing steam.
So he evolved it into what he calls the “2-Step” post.
Instead of making the giveaway the whole post, Daniel writes a
full educational post, then adds a comment-triggered CTA at the
end tied to a deeper resource on the same topic.
Some of his 2-Step posts now outperform his original giveaway
posts.
------------------
How Daniel Does It
------------------
He writes a value-first post.
The whole post is insanely valuable on its own: a framework,
breakdown, or lesson. The reader gets something useful whether or
not they take the next step.
He adds a comment-triggered CTA at the end. Something like: “P.S.
I put together a swipe file of welcome email examples. Want it?
Comment SWIPE and I’ll send you a copy.” The resource always ties
directly to the post topic.
He delivers via DM with a landing page. When someone comments, he
(or his assistant) DMs the resource as a link to a landing page
where they enter their email.
Here is an example:
669 comments of people wanting to get this resource. 🤯
------------
Why It Works
------------
Leading with something valuable earns people’s attention before
you make an ask. The reader already got value, so commenting a
keyword feels like a natural next step.
It also sidesteps LinkedIn’s link penalty, as there’s no external
link in the post.
Side note: I’ve heard links in the post don’t matter as much
anymore, but every time I post with a link I get almost no reach.
Delivering via DM creates a direct conversation, which can lead
to sales calls for anyone selling services or high-ticket offers.
And because the resource matches the post topic, commenters are
self-selecting by interest. They’re not just collecting free
things, they’re qualified leads who just told you what they care
about.
-------
Results
-------
In 18 months, Daniel went from:
* Grew from 600 to 30,000+ LinkedIn followers in 18 months
* 1,000 to 10,000+ email subscribers - which is roughly 10x
growth from a single format tweak 🤯
* Went from 0 to 2-4 warm inbound leads per week
* $84K+ in digital product revenue on the side
70-80% of that growth came from his comment-triggered strategy
and its 2-Step evolution.
------------------------
How You Can Implement It
------------------------
Step 1: Start with the post, not the freebie. Write something
valuable enough to stand alone – a framework, breakdown, or
lesson.
Step 2: Build a resource that goes deeper on that exact topic.
This could be a swipe file, checklist, template, etc.
Step 3: Add a simple CTA at the end: “Comment [WORD] and I’ll
send it.”
Step 4: Deliver via DM, and send them to a landing page to opt
in.
Step 5: Follow it with a short welcome sequence so the new
subscriber hears from you right away (not just silence after the
freebie).
This isn’t a complicated strategy, it just requires a little more
effort.
-----
Tools
-----
* LinkedIn (free or Premium) – Premium will be valuable for DMs
* Your ESP (Kit (
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Welcome to Growth In Reverse - it's great to have you here!
It can be a struggle to look at creators who have huge
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already have an audience? What did they do when they were just
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Really, Cross Promotions?
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If you're not familiar, a cross promo is basically a swap: I
share your newsletter with my audience, you share mine with
yours.
There are loads of variations, but in essence, collaborations are
what we're talking about here.
And on the surface it sounds simple, almost too simple. But
here's why I think they're so powerful.
When someone recommends your newsletter to their audience, it
comes with built-in trust. It's not an ad or some random
promotion. It's a creator that person already knows and likes
saying, "Hey, you should check this out."
That's a warm introduction, and those subscribers tend to stick
around way longer than people who come in through paid ads or
giveaways.
The other thing people get wrong about cross promos is they think
you need to find someone with the exact same audience size. And
that's just not true.
Last year I intentionally worked with creators of all different
sizes - some with huge lists, some with much smaller ones. And
some of the smaller creators drove more engaged subscribers than
the bigger ones. Engagement matters more than size.
The challenge with cross promos, though, is that if you're
sending a weekly newsletter, you only get maybe 4 or 5
opportunities a month to do one.
And you can't really stack them because your readers are going to
tune out if every issue is just recommendations for other
newsletters.
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How 30 Days of Growth Was Born
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So in the Growth In Reverse Pro community, we were doing a
challenge around cross promotions - trying to do them better, get
more results, learn what actually moves the needle.
And I realized that with my weekly send schedule, I was only
going to get those 4-5 data points over the whole challenge.
That's not enough to really learn anything.
So I had this idea: what if I launched a separate daily
newsletter - a pop-up, just for 30 days - and did a cross
promotion in every single issue?
Each day, a different creator would share one growth tactic that
actually worked for them, and I'd feature their newsletter. In
return, they'd share the 30 Days of Growth sign-up page with
their audience. 30 cross promotions in 30 days.
At the time I thought it was going to be simple. I put the whole
thing together in about 2.5 weeks. And I will tell you - it was
not simple. It was one of the hardest things I've done.
But it was also just plain fun.
It was one of the most exciting experiments I've done since
starting this newsletter.
But the best part was hearing from readers that it was some of
the highest quality information they'd gotten on newsletter
growth in a while.
That obviously feels great as the person who put it all together.
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The Year 1 Numbers
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So let me share some numbers, because I think this paints a
really interesting picture.
The first edition went out to 1,440 people. By the end of the 30
days, 3,714 people had signed up total. And of those, 1,757 were
completely new subscribers - people who had not been subscribed
to Growth In Reverse before. In 30 days.
Now here's the part I love. I set up a referral component using a
tool called Viral Loops. If you referred one person, you got
access to a private podcast feed where I recorded an audio
version of each day's growth tactic.
And 102 people ended up sharing it with at least one person,
which brought in 356 subscribers through referrals alone. That's
roughly 10% of my new subscribers coming from word of mouth.
And there was this one wild example - one person got referred,
and they went on to share it with 15 people. One of those 15
people then went and referred 21 more people on their own. So
that single original share turned into 36 new subscribers. That's
pretty cool, huh?
Engagement was strong too. The open rate on day 1 was 77%, and
even on the final day - day 30 - it was still at 62%. So people
were sticking with it.
One of the best parts was that this lived on as a 30 day email
sequence people could sign up for. So over the next few months
the subscriber total went up to around 4,200 people.
I also asked people in the welcome email to reply with their
biggest challenge with newsletter growth and I got over 200
replies in the first week alone. Not like one-word answers
either. Paragraphs.
People telling me exactly what they're struggling with. That was
honestly one of the most valuable things to come out of the whole
project.
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What I Learned (And What I'm Doing Differently)
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Okay, so what did I learn? A few things.
First, give yourself more time. I put this together in 2.5 weeks
and only had about the first week of content ready when I
launched. I was writing some of these the morning they went out.
It worked, but I would not recommend it. This year I'm giving
myself way more prep time. But in reality, I still only probably
have that amount of content ready to go, so who knows if this is
necessary :)
Second, not every creator's schedule is going to align with
yours. Out of 29 creators I worked with, about 7 of them couldn't
share during the timeframe we'd planned. That's something you
have to account for when you're coordinating with that many
people.
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Really, Cross Promotions?
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If you're not familiar, a cross promo is basically a swap: I
share your newsletter with my audience, you share mine with
yours.
There are loads of variations, but in essence, collaborations are
what we're talking about here.
And on the surface it sounds simple, almost too simple. But
here's why I think they're so powerful.
When someone recommends your newsletter to their audience, it
comes with built-in trust. It's not an ad or some random
promotion. It's a creator that person already knows and likes
saying, "Hey, you should check this out."
That's a warm introduction, and those subscribers tend to stick
around way longer than people who come in through paid ads or
giveaways.
The other thing people get wrong about cross promos is they think
you need to find someone with the exact same audience size. And
that's just not true.
Last year I intentionally worked with creators of all different
sizes - some with huge lists, some with much smaller ones. And
some of the smaller creators drove more engaged subscribers than
the bigger ones. Engagement matters more than size.
The challenge with cross promos, though, is that if you're
sending a weekly newsletter, you only get maybe 4 or 5
opportunities a month to do one.
And you can't really stack them because your readers are going to
tune out if every issue is just recommendations for other
newsletters.
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How 30 Days of Growth Was Born
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So in the Growth In Reverse Pro community, we were doing a
challenge around cross promotions - trying to do them better, get
more results, learn what actually moves the needle.
And I realized that with my weekly send schedule, I was only
going to get those 4-5 data points over the whole challenge.
That's not enough to really learn anything.
So I had this idea: what if I launched a separate daily
newsletter - a pop-up, just for 30 days - and did a cross
promotion in every single issue?
Each day, a different creator would share one growth tactic that
actually worked for them, and I'd feature their newsletter. In
return, they'd share the 30 Days of Growth sign-up page with
their audience. 30 cross promotions in 30 days.
At the time I thought it was going to be simple. I put the whole
thing together in about 2.5 weeks. And I will tell you - it was
not simple. It was one of the hardest things I've done.
But it was also just plain fun.
It was one of the most exciting experiments I've done since
starting this newsletter.
But the best part was hearing from readers that it was some of
the highest quality information they'd gotten on newsletter
growth in a while.
That obviously feels great as the person who put it all together.
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The Year 1 Numbers
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So let me share some numbers, because I think this paints a
really interesting picture.
The first edition went out to 1,440 people. By the end of the 30
days, 3,714 people had signed up total. And of those, 1,757 were
completely new subscribers - people who had not been subscribed
to Growth In Reverse before. In 30 days.
Now here's the part I love. I set up a referral component using a
tool called Viral Loops. If you referred one person, you got
access to a private podcast feed where I recorded an audio
version of each day's growth tactic.
And 102 people ended up sharing it with at least one person,
which brought in 356 subscribers through referrals alone. That's
roughly 10% of my new subscribers coming from word of mouth.
And there was this one wild example - one person got referred,
and they went on to share it with 15 people. One of those 15
people then went and referred 21 more people on their own. So
that single original share turned into 36 new subscribers. That's
pretty cool, huh?
Engagement was strong too. The open rate on day 1 was 77%, and
even on the final day - day 30 - it was still at 62%. So people
were sticking with it.
One of the best parts was that this lived on as a 30 day email
sequence people could sign up for. So over the next few months
the subscriber total went up to around 4,200 people.
I also asked people in the welcome email to reply with their
biggest challenge with newsletter growth and I got over 200
replies in the first week alone. Not like one-word answers
either. Paragraphs.
People telling me exactly what they're struggling with. That was
honestly one of the most valuable things to come out of the whole
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What I Learned (And What I'm Doing Differently)
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Okay, so what did I learn? A few things.
First, give yourself more time. I put this together in 2.5 weeks
and only had about the first week of content ready when I
launched. I was writing some of these the morning they went out.
It worked, but I would not recommend it. This year I'm giving
myself way more prep time. But in reality, I still only probably
have that amount of content ready to go, so who knows if this is
necessary :)
Second, not every creator's schedule is going to align with
yours. Out of 29 creators I worked with, about 7 of them couldn't
share during the timeframe we'd planned. That's something you
have to account for when you're coordinating with that many
people.
Third, the referral incentive matters, but keep it simple. The
private podcast feed was, I believe, the single biggest driver of
referrals. It was a low barrier, just share with one person, and
the reward was immediate and tangible. People loved having an
audio version they could listen to on their commute instead of
reading the email.
And fourth, this kind of project builds relationships in a way
that nothing else really does. I got to collaborate with 30
different creators, and those relationships have continued to pay
dividends way beyond the 30 days. Some of them have come into the
Growth In Reverse Pro community to do deeper workshops. It
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Year 2: What's Next
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So with all of that context, let me tell you about this year.
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Hello!
Happy Easter to those who celebrate. 🐰
This week, I'm excited to share my deep dive on Pat Walls and how
he grew the Starter Story newsletter and business into a 7-figure
behemoth that he recently sold to HubSpot.
So how did he do it?
Well, spoiler alert. One of his main strategies early on was SEO.
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How Pat Walls Grew Starter Story Into a 7 -Figure Business
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This is a throwback edition of a deep dive I wrote on Pat Walls
in 2024. While the ending is clearly outdated (he sold to HubSpot
this year), it's still a great representation of the work he took
to get to a place where he could sell it.
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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 numbers, profits, business costs,
and the background of how they got started.
A lot of these businesses you might have never heard of, but
they’re making tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of
dollars per month.
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publishing text-based interviews? Let’s take a look.
At the time, Starter Story was making around $1.1 million per
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I used that, along with some more recent premium member numbers
that I found to back into some updated numbers, and estimate he
was bringing in almost $100k per month.
There are 3 main ways that Starter Story makes money today.
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Starter Story’s Growth Timeline
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Let's dig into the growth timeline a bit, shall we?
I know what you’re thinking. I must have done something wrong in
my research.
No newsletter just takes a nose dive after that much growth
unless they just stopped writing the whole thing.
I was so confused after seeing these numbers drop like that.
I’ve never done this with a deep dive and usually just collect
all the data on my own, but I had to reach out to Pat and see
what happened.
I messaged him on Thursday and just asked if they had chopped the
list or what happened. We weren’t connected or anything so I was
a little nervous my message wouldn’t get seen.
Thankfully, he responded pretty quickly....
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The Hidden Genius
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Why your best work might be invisible
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A hidden genius is someone who pours days, weeks, sometimes
months or even years into making something genuinely great. They
put their heart and soul into it, giving everything they can -
but they never share it with the world.
Maybe they hit publish. But they don’t tell anyone. They don’t
talk about it. It just sits out there, undiscovered.
I see it constantly.
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craft. But they’re so focused on the work itself that they
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The Hidden Genius
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Why Your Best Work is Invisible
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I gave a talk last month in Austin (
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chance for success as a creator and what’s working now.
But the one thing I got the most feedback on was something that I
almost didn’t include: the concept of the Hidden Genius (
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Let's get into it.
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The 2 Variables of Success
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After studying hundreds of creators, I realized something: every
success story comes down to 2 variables:
* Momentum is the level of awareness a creator has. When you have
momentum, growth becomes easier. Opportunities come your way, and
the whole process becomes more enjoyable. People with zero
momentum often haven’t given their work the best chance of
breaking out and being shared by others. Momentum is when your
work starts moving without you pushing every time.
* Insanely Valuable Content is the kind that makes people reply
“I can't believe this is free.” It helps someone make money, save
money, save time, learn something, be entertained, or some
combination of those. It's the difference between “meh, that was
okay” and “I have to share this with a friend right now.”
I decided to plot this out to visually show this:
Let’s talk about each of these 4 quadrants:
* “Don’t Stay Here” - on the bottom left are the people who have
“meh” content and don’t have any momentum. I just labeled this
one “don’t stay here” because honestly, most of us start at this
point. We’re figuring it out, and that’s okay. If you stay there
too long, you’ll fizzle out. And if you’ve been at this a while
and are still here, something needs to change.
* Hard Mode - the bottom right are the people who are creating so
much momentum, but their content isn’t that good. The people they
are attracting are leaving and feeling let down. I call this hard
mode because if they just put a little more effort into their
work, the momentum they worked so hard to build would pay off and
they’d find themselves in the “Rising Creator” space. Life would
be easier.
* The Rising Creator - the top right is where insanely valuable
content meets consistent distribution. Your work compounds.
People share it for you and growth starts to feel easier.
* The last one is what I call The Hidden Genius. These are the
people who work so hard at creating great work, but don’t spend
any time on promotion. They aren’t willing, or are too afraid, to
put their craft out into the world.
After this talk, I had more than a handful of people tell me they
resonated heavily with the “hidden genius” side of things. And
that always breaks my heart.
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The Richest Place on Earth
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There’s a quote I keep coming back to, from the great Les Brown:
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here
that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never
fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were
never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that
were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take
that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry
out their dream.” - Les Brown
That absolutely wrecks me every time I think about it.
People didn’t give life to their ideas. Whether it was fear,
social norms, or just never feeling ready - their genius stayed
buried. And that sucks.
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What is a Hidden Genius?
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A hidden genius is someone who pours days, weeks, sometimes
months or even years into making something genuinely great. They
put their heart and soul into it, giving everything they can -
but they never share it with the world.
Maybe they hit publish. But they don’t tell anyone. They don’t
talk about it. It just sits out there, undiscovered.
I see it constantly.
So many creators are deeply talented, deeply committed to their
craft. But they’re so focused on the work itself that they
completely neglect the other half: getting it in front of people.
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Why Does This Happen?
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There are a few layers here, and I’ll call out 3 of them. There
are probably many more to add to the list, but I think 90% of
them boil up to this first one.
Fear.
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Fear of looking dumb. Fear of getting feedback you don’t want to
hear. Fear of saying something stupid.
Fear of this thing you’re so tied and so excited by, not getting
the feedback you want to hear. Or fear of what people will think
- friends, family, even some random stranger on the internet.
You see all those negative comments online and think, “Can I
handle that? Can I sustain having people throw negativity at me
after I’ve poured my heart into something?”
But fear comes in many shapes and sizes.
This whole thing is scary. I’m not going to pretend it isn’t.
Perfectionism.
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As a creative person, you have great taste. And it becomes
excruciatingly painful how far apart you are now, from being
“good” at a thing. But that’s the name of the game.
In an interview in the early 2000s, Ira Glass, host of This
American Life, said one of the most profound things (
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“All of us who do creative work … we get into it because we have
good taste. But it’s like there’s a gap, that for the first
couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t
so good, OK? It’s not that great. It’s really not that great.
It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not
quite that good.
But your taste — the thing that got you into the game — your
taste is still killer, and your taste is good enough that you can
tell that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you.”
That hits me like a ton of bricks every time I hear it.
He goes on to say that this is the point where most people give
up. They can’t stand how horrible their work might be, without
realizing that it takes time to get better.
And this perfectionism plays a HUGE role in keeping people from
sharing their work.
And even if you get past the fear and perfectionism, there’s
another layer.
The Moral Objection to Marketing.
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A lot of creators (especially the really thoughtful ones) have
this visceral reaction to anything that feels like “marketing.”
You see the sleazy tactics, the clickbait, the noise from big
corporations, and want no part of it.
I get that. But by avoiding all promotion, you’re handicapping
your own growth.
You’re making it exponentially harder for anyone to find your
work. And sadly, it’s usually the work the world needs the most.
If your work is valuable enough, you are doing a disservice to
the people who need it most by not sharing.
You have this incredible knowledge, art, creativity that could
actually change someone’s life and you’re not getting it into
more hands because you “hate marketing?”
If you’re not making any effort to showcase what you’re doing,
you’re going to have a really hard time building an audience,
growing your reach, and most importantly, making enough money to
keep creating.
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Be Your Own Johanna
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Think about Van Gogh - the man never saw his work take off in his
lifetime. He sold one painting while he was alive. One.
His genius was only discovered after he was gone.
How did he get famous after he had passed? His sister-in-law,
Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, became his promoter. She organized
exhibitions. She loaned paintings to galleries. She hustled her
ass off to get his work out there.
She spent decades doing this. And eventually, it worked. Van Gogh
became one of the most recognized artists in history.
But it took someone actively, relentlessly promoting his work to
make that happen. If she hadn’t done that, his incredible work
would have died with him.
Even Van Gogh, one of the greatest painters who ever lived,
needed someone to promote him. His genius alone wasn’t enough.
Johanna was the one who got his work in front of people.
If you’re just waiting to be discovered, you might be waiting
forever.
I’m not saying that newsletters are the same as famous paintings,
but the underlying message holds true. Most of us don’t have a
Johanna, so we have to be our own.
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Break the Seal
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There’s a creator named Colin Landforce who tweeted something
recently that I loved.
Colin is incredible at short-form video these days and well-known
in the golf space for his content. He knows what hits, what
doesn’t, and he’s become well known in the space, even teaching
other creators how to create short-form video.
When he got started with video a few years ago, his first ones
were about basketball cards. It wasn’t that he was all-in on
basketball. He loved basketball cards, but he didn’t think he was
going to make money on cards.
But he knew it was something he could talk about over and over
again to break the seal of content creation.
He used this to figure out what worked and how to create insanely
valuable content. When he did make the switch to golf, he had
learned so much about content creation that it became easier to
stand out and not feel all the fear and uncertainty of being a
complete beginner again.
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I love that framing.
Find something you’re willing to screw up in order to learn what
works. Maybe it’s something you love but not quite the thing you
want to do forever.
If he had started with golf, Colin might not have put himself out
there in the same way.
I think it’s an incredible place to get started. Maybe even more
so then when you find your true “thing.”
This is one of the easiest ways to escape the Hidden Genius trap.
Because when we find our thing, the topic we’re deeply passionate
about, it actually becomes harder to share.
You want to do it right. You don’t want to look like an idiot.
The stakes feel so high.
But there’s a learning curve to putting yourself out there.
There’s a format you have to figure out. It’s a whole new game.
And sometimes the best move is to practice with something that
feels lower-stakes, just to build the muscle.
The irony is that once you find the thing you’re most excited
about, you get so nervous about messing it up that you freeze.
Just know that momentum doesn’t come from going viral. It comes
from consistently putting your work in front of people: sharing
it, talking about it, and giving it multiple chances to be seen.
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The Vicious Cycle
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The vicious cycle of it all becomes one of doing nothing.
You spend a ton of time on a piece of content. But you’re scared.
You don’t share it. Nobody sees it. You don’t get good feedback,
but you don’t get bad feedback either.
And you start the next thing, and you don’t share that either.
No feedback, just you, living in your head, thinking you’re on
the right path without really knowing.
Now you’re stuck in a cycle where your best work (the stuff you
spent the most time on) never reaches anyone.
You’re not getting feedback. You don’t know where you can
improve.
Hell, you don’t even know if you actually enjoy the topic, or
just the idea of the topic.
You might think something is your “thing” until you post about it
a few dozen times and realize, “Nope, I’m done with that.”
But without posting or sharing, you never figure that out.
And to be honest, sometimes the reason it stays hidden is because
it hasn’t been tested yet. Feedback helps turn good work into
great work.
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It Never Fully Goes Away
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I don’t think we ever fully get past this. Every time you start
something new, this fear can creep back in.
I used to write deep dives every week, putting 40-60 hours into
each piece - it became unsustainable as I wanted to podcast, and
launch a community.
But deep dives were the thing I had become known for. The reason
people shared my work with others. So when I stopped writing deep
dives, I felt like anything I published that wasn’t a full deep
dive wasn’t “worthy.”
I stopped posting much on social media, sharing those pieces with
friends. Sure, they went out to the email list, but that was
literally it.
And you know what? People loved the shorter ones - and some even
thought the shorter posts were deep dives anyway.
So who was I to say my own work wasn’t valuable enough to promote
widely?
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The Real Cost of Staying Hidden
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There are an infinite number of good ideas in the world. But
ideas that never get shared for others to enjoy and learn from?
They might as well not exist.
Don’t let that be you.
Your genius is too important to stay hidden. Even if it’s scary,
even if you don’t feel ready, even if you’re not sure anyone will
care, share it anyway.
Tell a few people. Post it on social. Send it to a friend. Don’t
worry about “building momentum” - just break the silence.
The world needs fewer hidden geniuses and more people brave
enough to share their creativity with the world.
Don’t let the graveyard be the only place that gets to enjoy your
work.
PS - This was a little difference than what I usually send, but
it needed to be shared. Does this resonate with you?
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Hey,
Did you make it to the workshop this week breaking down the
90-day newsletter playbook for hitting $10k/mo? Such good stuff.
I shared it in last week's email, but I got some messages that a
few people missed it, so I'm sending a one-off email to make sure
you don't miss this again (
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).
It's run by my friend Nathan May.
You might remember Nathan from our podcast, where he shared how
his 1,500-subscriber newsletter helped him build a 7-figure
agency in just 10 months. (
He is also the growth partner behind The Neuron, The Rundown, and
Arnold's Pump Club, and many more newsletters we know and love.
Well, Nathan is putting on 2 more live events (
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) next week for you, where he's going to share that $10k/mo
newsletter playbook, including:
* The system for turning social media followers into email
subscribers, consistently
* How to choose a category where advertisers pay premium rates
(and avoid the "trap" niches)
* How to acquire subscribers who actually buy
* Converting readers into revenue with products and services
He's even sharing the email sequences and sales pages he used to
do 7-figures in newsletter digital product and agency/coaching
sales. (these are always my favorite to see, such juicy stuff! 🧃)
There are 2 sessions next week for you to join:
* Tuesday, March 24 (
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) at 12:00 PM ET
If you want consistent, reliable subscriber growth that drives
revenue, instead of just watching your list get bigger and your
bank account get smaller…
👉 Grab your seat for the workshop here (
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)
Have a great weekend!
Chenell
P.S. Both sessions have a 30-minute live Q&A, so if you want to
ask Nathan anything directly, bring those questions. And not the
softballs, ask him the tough questions! :)
P.P.S. Don't forget to show up live. Nathan is notorious for
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chenell@growthinreverse.com3/20/2026
Kit...engagement, CTR, and happy readers
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A free workshop on how to add $10k/month to your newsletter
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The Newsletter Accelerator and another 60+ inside his agency.
He works with some of the biggest newsletter brands in the world,
including:
* The Rundown
* The Neuron
* Daily Drop
* Arnold’s Pump Club
* Tyler Denk (CEO of Beehiiv)
And dozens more doing $1M+ annually.
He put all of his learnings in a 120-page playbook on how
newsletters are getting to $10k+ per month without massive
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🤿 The Simple Welcome Email Flow that Doubled His CTR
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Newsletter welcome emails are usually forgettable. A quick
"thanks for subscribing" page, maybe a bland welcome email, and
done.
Or worse, you forget to set one up, and are essentially ghosting
your new subscriber.
You've wasted the moment when your new reader is most excited
about your work.
This comes from the Strategy Breakdowns newsletter. The founder,
Tom Alder, was able to get his CTR from 23% to 47.4% on his
welcome email.
Tom's welcome email is different from most. It's not even just
the email, but his onboarding workflow is so effective at
capturing that excitement.
How did he do that? Well, it starts with his welcome email, which
is super simple.
(
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The Email
---------
Here is exactly how simple the email is:
It's one of my favorite examples of a simple welcome email.
There are a few reasons I think this works:
* Personal opener with a photo of him waving. He's a real person,
not a brand.
* You understand the value proposition of the newsletter in one
sentence. He tells you the result and time commitment, which
keeps it simple.
* 2 CTAs only: reply (engagement signal that helps with
deliverability) and click to confirm.
* The subtle surprise: clicking the confirmation link takes you
to a full case study right now. He said "get tomorrow's case
study" but you get one immediately. And it's his best piece of
content, so you're getting bought in right away.
The Numbers
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This new version took Tom's click through rate from 23% to 47.4%
- which is WILD.
47% of new readers are clicking through. That's quite good.
He essentially doubled his CTR by stripping the email back and
keeping things focused.
Not every scenario calls for this simple of a welcome email, but
I think it could be worth a test.
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2. The 4-Hour Email
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This next strategy comes from Jason Resnick at NurtureKit.
Someone signs up for your lead magnet. They're excited. But then
they don't open the delivery email because they got busy, forget,
etc.
The "4-hour email" recovers those missed connections (Craigslist,
anyone? I miss the 2000s...) and starts a conversation while
you're still top of mind.
How It Works
------------
Set a trigger: if someone signs up for a lead magnet but doesn't
click the lead magnet or free thing within 4 hours, send a second
email automatically.
2 goals:
* Make sure they actually get the thing they came for
* Get a reply and warm up the relationship
Let's walk through some examples.
4-Hour Email Examples
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Version A: Simple and warm
Subject: Did you get the [resource name]?Hey [First
Name],Wanted to make sure you got the [lead magnet name].
Sometimes these get buried.Here it is again: [link]While I have
you: what made you sign up? I'm always curious what people are
working through.- [Name]
Version B: Personal, question-first
Subject: Hey, did this get lost?Hey [First Name],Just checking
in. I noticed you grabbed [lead magnet name] but I'm not sure the
email made it through. Here's the link: [link]Quick question:
what's the one thing you're most hoping to figure out right
now?Talk soon,[Name]
Version C: Super short
Subject: Quick check-inHey, did you get the [resource
name]?[Link]Let me know if you have questions.- [Name]
Results
-------
Here are some results Jason shared from his experience:
* Original email open rate: 81%
* Subscribers who didn't open: 19%
* Opened the 4-hour follow-up: 55% of that 19%
* Click rate on follow up: ~10%
* Unsubscribes from follow-up: 0
30 people got the follow up. And the best part? None
unsubscribed. So if you were thinking you're bothering people,
I'd push back there.
I bet most people were grateful it showed up as a reminder.
Setup Notes
-----------
* This works in Kit or any ESP with an automation trigger.
Beehiiv's automation flows should support it too.
* Only send this to people who didn't click on the first email -
that way your engaged subscribers won't see duplicate content.
* Takes 20-30 minutes to set up and runs automatically from
there.
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While I don't plan to launch a paid newsletter, I am getting
ready to launch something, and wanted to revisit his strategy.
I figured I might as well share that with you. Even if you're not
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The 2 Rules Tom Followed Before Launching
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I feel like a lot of people launch too early, thinking they can
just come up with something super early and make a bunch of money
from it.
But Tom waited 2 years before launching a paid newsletter.
This strategy isn't for everyone, but even if you do launch
something earlier than that, the way he went about these next
steps was very interesting.
He had 2 non-negotiables before launching:
1. Build a big enough audience first. He wanted to prove to
himself he could actually grow a substantial free newsletter
before "earning" the right to charge for it.
2. Have a real plan. Instead of silently having a "by the way,
there's a paid tier if you want it" approach. He put together a
proper, thought-out launch strategy.
Here are some of the pieces of that launch plan.
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The "Non-Calculatable" Offer Strategy
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Tom said that the problem with most paid newsletters is they're
too easy to calculate. What does he mean?
"4 emails a month for $20? That's $5 per email."
The moment people can break down your offer into a simple
cost-per-unit, you're competing on price. And that's not where
you want to be.
So he made his offer deliberately impossible to calculate by
including:
* Weekly premium marketing ideas (the best ones he'd been holding
back for 2 years)
* A 400-page PDF book (yes, seriously)
* Archive access to all past premium content
* A structured community launching a few months later with
scheduled discussions, AMAs, and expert interviews
You can't divide that by 4 emails and call it $5 each.
Tom uses this same approach for everything he sells—even his
corporate workshops include one-on-ones with leadership and
follow-up AMAs, making it much harder to reduce to some kind of
"cost per minute" calculation.
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The Surprise Launch (No Teasing or Waitlist)
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This breaks every product launch formula you've ever read.
Tom didn't have a pre-launch sequence, a waitlist, or "coming
soon" teasers.
Just...boom. Wednesday morning he sent an email out saying,
"Here's the paid plan."
His reasoning? "If I tease them and they cannot pay, how will it
help me?"
Fair point. But I did push back on this with him. I actually
think teasing things and creating some kind of curiosity
beforehand is beneficial.
And he admitted a waitlist would probably work well too—it just
felt too complicated to manage manually in Substack.
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The 9-Day Launch Sequence That Did $50K+
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Here's where the fun part begins. Many of us get caught up
thinking we're emailing too much. But Tom knows better and made a
legit plan for emailing enough during this window.
He sent 1-2 emails per day for 9 days straight.
I'm not telling you this to say you need to send that many, but
using it as an example that generally we need to be emailing more
than we are comfortable with.
Here are how those emails broke down.
Days 1-2 (Wednesday-Thursday):
* Wednesday morning: Long-form launch email with social proof,
full offer details, and 24-hour discount
He had a fast-action pricing which got you $99/year for the
lifetime of your subscription. After that, it was gone.
* Wednesday evening: Reminder (not just "hey don't forget about
this" but he added value and more hints about what was coming)
* Thursday: Another message about the sale
* Thursday evening: Final reminder before price increase
Day 3 (Friday):
* Book launch. Yes you heard that right. Tom put out an entire
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Days 4-9:
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* Monday: Sharing social proof from first 5 days
* Tuesday: Smaller sale announcement (ending Friday)
* Wednesday: Reminder (sent only to most engaged subscribers)
* Thursday: one final reminder
* Friday: was the launch of the first paid post
He segmented some of these emails to only go to his most engaged
2,000 subscribers to avoid fatigue and an increase in
unsubscribes.
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What Actually Worked Best
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While Substack has (a lot) of limitations, when you launch a paid
newsletter there, you can see exactly which emails drove paid
conversions.
His winner? The Wednesday evening reminder—the one with the most
urgency. "10 hours left for the one-time sale."
This isn't surprising, right? If you've read anything about
launches, there is always an urgency towards the end when people
realize this is their last chance.
The email that drove the second most subscribers? The one about
his book launch. People really wanted that 400-page PDF of
Marketing Ideas.
Because of the book options, Tom expected people to subscribe for
one month just to grab the book, then cancel.
But 30 days later, almost no one unsubscribed. I love hearing
this because while some people probably intended to cancel, he
was giving out enough value that they stuck around.
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The 2-Year Setup
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None of this would have worked without the non-obvious point that
Tom spent 2 years giving away insanely valuable content for free.
He didn't even have sponsors during this time.
He also said he intentionally held back some of his best
marketing ideas because "if everyone started using them, they'll
lose their power."
He wanted to save those for a smaller, paid audience.
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My Takeaways
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If you're thinking about launching a paid newsletter (or
anything!):
* Don't launch too early. Build trust first. As Gary V. would
say, Give, give, give, and give some more before you ask.
* Make your offer non-calculatable. Bundle things that create
intangible value, not just "X posts per month for $Y."
* Send more emails. Send 3x more email than you think you need
to. Including value in these emails too so you'll feel less
cringey about it and build in more goodwill with your readers.
* Use real urgency. Limited-time pricing works because it works.
You're not going to see that "launch" pricing offer from Tom for
a while (if ever again).
* Segment your emails. Protect your list by sending some messages
only to your most engaged readers. And yes, you can do this a
little bit with Substack, so don't let that hold you back.
* Launch with a book? Now I realize this one is hard. But I think
it works because it was this extra thing you get for free. And
because it is hard to do, most people won't put in the effort so
you'll definitely stand out.
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🤿 The Money Button That Earns MarketBeat $1M a Month (Hint: It’s
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You can read the full article here. (
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Matt Paulson started making money online in middle school with a
GeoCities website that earned him $25-50 a month.
Almost two decades later, MarketBeat brings in mid-8 figures
annually with 20 employees and 17 million email addresses in
their database.
The wildest part? A third of their revenue comes from SMS. Not
email, not their website, but text messages.
We got the chance to have him on the podcast recently, and it was
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While most newsletter creators obsess over growing their email
list, MarketBeat is building something they say is even more
valuable: a database of phone numbers.
“A phone number is probably worth five to ten times more than an
email address,” Matt said.
Their monthly Twilio bill runs $300,000-400,000, but it’s seems
like it’s 100% worth it.
One text message to their list can generate $5,000-10,000 or more
in revenue. I signed up and got some of these to show you:
This isn’t my cup of tea, so I unsubscribed after a few days, but
I can see how this works
But you can’t just send out your free content. “You probably have
to be at least 50% ads, otherwise it’s just not going to pay for
itself,” Matt said.
When he sends a text to his full list, it costs at least a few
thousand dollars. So every text needs to at least break even on
that send cost.
They’ve built 3 separate SMS lists, and they’re strategic about
collecting numbers.
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The 4-Channel Strategy That Changed Everything
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Most newsletter operators celebrate getting one email address.
MarketBeat collects four different touchpoints from a single
visitor:
* Email subscription to MarketBeat
* Email subscription to their Beehiiv list (American Market News)
* SMS subscription
* Web push notifications
“If I can communicate four or five different ways with people,
it’s a lot easier to break even than if I just have one email
subscription,” Matt says.
This multi-channel approach makes their paid acquisition work.
They spent $11 million on ads last year and are targeting $20
million this year. That’s only possible because their funnel is
so profitable.
I don’t hear a ton of people talking about push notifications
these days, but Matt still seems excited about them. Here is a
screengrab of what that signup looks like:
This kind of notification would make sense for someone interested
in timely stock news.
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The Money Machine
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After someone signs up for their newsletter, they go through 4 to
5 offer screens. Each page is dynamically optimized based on
what’s performing best across their various co-registration
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* The 2 numbers Matt pays attention to most
* How they got their first 100k subscribers (using automation!)
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He's Made Millions from Teaching Others How to Land Sponsorships
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He’s made over $5 million from brand deals and sponsorships
alone.
And now he teaches others how to do the same with his newsletter
and brand called Creator Wizard (
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There are very few people who have been on both sides of the
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* Having the experience in closing millions in deals for their
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* And knowing what the brands are looking for in their
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Add on top of that a teaching mindset and there might only be one
person who is the perfect combination of these things. His name
is Justin Moore.
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How It Started
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In 2009, Justin's wife April launched a beauty YouTube channel.
He edited her videos, and when brands started paying for
sponsorships, Justin, who was in business school at the time,
jumped in to negotiate the deals.
He got good at it. Really good.
After years of running these partnerships, Justin saw other
influencer friends struggling with the same challenges. He
already had the brand connections, so he launched Trending
Family, an influencer agency connecting lifestyle creators with
sponsors.
Seven years later, he had to shut it down.
But that "failure" became his greatest asset. Running the agency
taught him exactly what brands want, what they'll pay, and who
makes the decisions. Combined with his YouTube experience, he
understood both sides of the table better than almost anyone.
Today, Justin runs Creator Wizard, teaching creators how to land
and negotiate their dream brand deals.
And he's perfectly positioned for it: he's lived the entire
journey, from editing his wife's videos to running a seven-figure
agency.
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How Justin Makes Money
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Justin is one of those “under-the-radar” creators who’s quietly
lots of money. And it’s not like he isn’t talking about it, but
if you look at his follower count and email subscriber numbers
you might write him off.
Well, you’d be making a huge mistake because there is a lot we
can learn from Justin’s business. So let’s dig into how he’s
making his money today.
Brand Deal Wizard
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Brand Deal Wizard (
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) is Justin’s course where he teaches you the full process of
finding, pitching, closing your dream brand partnerships.
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The $10k Brand Deal Challenge
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Justin started running a live 4-day $10K Brand Deal Challenge to
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And the next one starts tomorrow!
From February 2nd to 5th, he’ll walk through:
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* What separates premium deals from low-paying collabs
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helped people like Ali Abdaal, Jay Clouse, and more of your
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The challenge is $47 (normally $97) and includes $590 in bonuses,
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Brand Deals & Sponsorships
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It would be crazy to talk about the “brand deal” guy and not
mention his own brand deals. Justin works with sponsors for his
YouTube channel, newsletter, etc.
When he had a 3,000-person email list, he told Nathan Barry (
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) he sold a $2k sponsorship deal.
I’m not sure those numbers hold up if you extrapolate them out to
the 35,000 subscribers he has now, but Justin is a deal-making
machine so it’s possible.
The Wizards Guild
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Justin runs an asynchronous coaching program called The Wizards
Guild (
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), where people can pay $1k+ per month to essentially have his
team there to answer their questions.
The Book
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Justin wrote a book outlining his whole process called The
Sponsor Magnet (
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).
While he probably won’t make millions from this book alone, the
people who read it are going to be primed and ready for his other
offerings.
Sponsor Games Event
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Justin launched an event last year called Sponsor Games (
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).
I went to this and it was AWESOME. If you get a chance to go this
year, you absolutely should. He turns learning into a fun, group
activity – I haven’t laughed that hard and been more engaged in a
while.
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The Growth Timeline of Creator Wizard
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Let’s take a look at Justin’s growth timeline to see how he’s
built up his newsletter and audience.
Of course, I could drag this growth timeline out to the early
days and start it in 2011, but I feel like that dilutes the story
of his current business.
Just keep in mind that he has years of experience in the creator
and sponsorship space.
You can see a big jump around the beginning of 2023. We’ll get
into more on that later, but I wanted to show you this big spike
in a timeline form.
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The Growth Levers of Justin Moore
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Justin’s business is one of the most straightforward I’ve
researched, but also one of the most nuanced.
Alright, let’s share Justin’s growth secrets.
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1. Do the Unscalable Things
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While it can be easy to get bogged down with growth at all costs,
and tactics that result in big numbers, Justin does a lot of
“unscalable things.”
He’s more focused on the quality of his subscribers as opposed to
the sheer numbers. And shouldn’t we all?
1-1 Relationships
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I don’t know if it comes from his experience building
relationships with brands for 15 years, or it’s just his
personality, but Justin is one of the most effective relationship
builders I’ve ever seen.
He and I can both walk into a room and meet the same 5 people,
and Justin will walk out with each one’s number and a task to
follow up on some collaboration they talked about.
Me? I’ll meet them and maybe follow up with one of them.
And it’s not some weird ploy to grow his business, he just loves
being around people, helping others, and working together. He
doesn’t waste any time finding a way to work with creators.
This leads to all kinds of collaborations like:
* Podcast guests
* Resource swaps
* Workshops
* Affiliate partners
* Clients and customers
* Brand partnerships
You name it, he’s done it.
I could go on and on about this but I’ll stop here because it’s
really that simple. Be a good human, talk to people, and follow
up.
1-1 DMs
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In the early days, Justin would direct message his new followers
and tell them to sign up for his newsletter.
He said that this led to connections and even people buying his
course, so I’d say it was pretty effective.
source
Do I think this is the best, least cringey way to get people to
sign up? No.
And it probably won’t work as well today. But Justin is also
shameless about promoting his content.
Be Shameless
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Justin has no shame about being quirky to get attention and help
creators.
He’ll wear a cheesy shirt, a light-up backpack that tells people
to subscribe, and even walk around a conference with a spinner to
spread the word about getting people more sponsorships.
He’s having fun with his work, which builds affinity and gets
people to remember you.
Give First & Say Yes
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One of the reasons he is so effective at building relationships
is that Justin is one of those people who will help you
regardless of how much he has on his plate.
He thinks that giving first is the way to build a good business
because he knows it comes back in the end, even if it’s 10 years
down the road.
The other side of this coin is saying “yes” to every opportunity.
In a thread about his growth, he brings this up:
source
Even if there are 3 people listening, that’s 3 potential
subscribers who can refer others to you and become customers.
At the same time, you’re building a relationship with that
podcaster or brand.
And by the time you get invited to those podcasts that have
thousands of listeners, your message will be refined and much
more compelling for the people listening. So it’s a win-win.
I really think 75% of his growth has stemmed from his ability to
meet new people, and willingness to help others, but there are
more tactics we can learn from.
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2. Become the “Guy” (or Girl)
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When Justin started Creator Wizard, he was nowhere near as niched
down as he is now.
He was trying to help people with the overall “Business of being
a creator.” He was talking about all kinds of things:
* Email marketing
* Social media
* Monetization
* Sponsorships
* Affiliate partners
* Finance for creators
It was honestly a smorgasbord of anything you could think of
around building a business. Sadly, people didn’t know what he did
because he said he did it all.
And his growth reflected that.
Now, in hindsight, this looks so crystal clear it’s almost
laughable:
* He ran an influencer agency for 6 years helping creators land
sponsorships
* 80% of his tweets were about brand deals and sponsorships
* His newsletter was all about sponsorships
* He had even built a full-blown course on the power of
sponsorships and how to do them well in January of 2021:
Even though he had such a unique experience in the world of
sponsorships, he still continued to focus on the “business of
being a creator.”
Here is one of his tweets from June of 2021 where he was still on
this path:
source
But one day in late 2021, a subscriber DMed him and told him to
stop talking about anything but sponsorships and brand deals.
Thankfully, he listened.
Justin doubled down on his unique expertise of helping creators
land brand sponsorships and deals.
This was probably the easiest rebrand in history because he was
already doing all of the things, it was more just fixing what he
told people he did.
He changed his Twitter profile to say: “Justin Moore | Brand Deal
Coach”
Although, he still had the “Teaching the business of being a
creator” in the description
Since he made that switch, he has exploded and become known as
“The Sponsorship Guy.”
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If he had stuck with the whole “business of being a creator”
thing, no one would know who to send to him and what he could
truly help with.
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🤿 The 1k Email Subscriber Formula
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I've talked to creators with 500k YouTube subscribers who can
barely get 100 email signups from a video.
Matt McGarry? He found a way to get over 1,000 email subscribers
from a single video.
And the best part is it's not some complicated funnel or paid ad
strategy. He's using simple lead magnets, just executed really
well.
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) with Matt recently. During our conversation, he casually
mentioned that he had gotten "hundreds" of email subscribers from
one YouTube video.
I couldn't stop thinking about it.
Right before we hit publish on the interview, I texted Matt to
get an update.
He later said it was more than 1,000 too. Crazy.
In that text, he also casually reminded me that my slides for the
New Media Summit are due this week, and I should focus on that :)
Whoops.
Sorry, Matt - the slides are almost done. 😬
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This was one of my favorite events last year (and I go to a lot
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How can you beat hanging out with hundreds of people who are
excited about newsletters, email marketing, and audience growth?!
I’m heading back again this year to speak about the newsletter
growth strategies I’ve uncovered through my research. Dylan
(podcast co-host) will be MC-ing the whole thing, along with an
incredible lineup including people like: Codie Sanchez, Alexis
Grant, Ryan Deiss, Matt Paulson, and more.
I love getting in a room with other newsletter and media
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businesses I’ve never heard of - the speakers are great, but the
side conversations are the real magic.
It's happening in Austin, Texas at the end of February, so us
northerners can get a little break from the cold (we're currently
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In our text message conversation, he said it had crossed a
thousand and didn't show signs of stopping.
Those "hundreds" had turned into over 1,000 subscribers from that
single video.
Naturally, as I do, I went down the rabbit hole to figure out how
he did this so I could share it with you all.
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Really, lead magnets?
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You might be thinking - Chenell, lead magnets are old and lame.
To which I would say you would be incorrect :)
No, this is not a new concept, but the intentionality behind it
feels really fresh.
And it feels native to the piece of content you're already
watching. It kind of reminds me of content upgrades from the 2015
era (am I dating myself?)
The best part is that these videos, unlike other social posts,
live on long past the typical 24-48 hours you get on other
platforms.
YouTube videos can be found YEARS later and you could still be
getting email subscribers from those.
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🎥 Here’s the Full Breakdown:
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These videos and details are typically things I share with people
in Growth Vault only, but I couldn't keep this one from you guys.
Here is the exact strategy Matt’s using to grow his email list
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If you're not a video person, you can read about this strategy
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The YouTube Video That Drove 1,000 Email Subscribers
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) Matt posted on YouTube about cohorts that ended up driving all
of this growth.
Naturally, this is a longer presentation, and people always want
the slides. Why? Who knows, but people love that stuff.
So, he gives them what they want…and more via a very well done
lead magnet.
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He promotes the lead magnet in a few places:
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You can expand each toggle below to see more info and a
screenshot
1. The video description
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He adds it to the video description, right at the very top so you
don’t have to “expand” the description to see the link:
2. Within the first 3-4 minutes of the video
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He also calls out the lead magnet in the first few minutes of the
video (3:35 to be exact) to let people know this even exists.
He waits until after he’s told you why this strategy is worth
your time and how valuable it is (it’s driven over $5 million in
sales over the last 3 years).
He’s got people at their peak excitement level at this point:
3. The outro of the video
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After you’ve listened to the whole presentation, you’re bought
in. So he reminds people again that they can get the slides and
his upcoming guide on how to run a successful cohort.
4. The pinned comment
---------------------
This is the one people (including myself!) forget most often. But
people do look in the comments, and when you have a pinned
comment, it stands out quite a bit.
⭐ Bonus: Introduce the lead magnet language
-------------------------------------------
Another subtle thing Matt did in this one is starting to use the
language around “crafting your cohort” right before he actually
promotes the lead magnet. Here is the part of the transcript
where he does this (about 30 secs prior to promoting it):
He's introducing the exact phrasing he'll be using for the lead
magnet
“Craft your cohort” is not a typical phrase people are using
around cohort courses, so this is smart.
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The Custom Domain
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Matt does something really smart with this: he’s using a custom
domain. Instead of having a lead magnet that is hard to remember
the URL, like growletter.co/p/how-to-run-cohorts, he created a
custom domain for this one:
Note: it seems like he is planning to start a separate business
around this concept so this makes sense. I probably wouldn’t do
this for every lead magnet you create for YouTube. But if you
have 2-3 “main” ones, I would absolutely do this.
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The High-Converting Landing Page
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Here are 6 reasons this landing page is probably converting at a
high rate (aside from the super warm traffic source):
1. The “what” statement that acts as a pre-subheadline.
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This is a very practical statement of what you’re going to get
now and something to look forward to in the future.
2. The Sexy Headline
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This is one of the most important parts of a landing page.
Instead of “get the free download” or “subscribe to the
newsletter”, he’s tell you the sexy version of what you’re going
to get when you enter your email.
3. A “without” statement
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People are always going to have objections to what you’re
offering. Even if it’s free, even if you’re paying them to
download it. “This only works because of x, y, and z”
With this statement, Matt is addressing some of the most common
ones.
4. A form with minimal fields.
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This sounds basic, but I can’t tell you how many times I see
people asking for some conbination of:
* First name
* Last name
* Email
* Date of birth
* Country
* Phone number
Keep it simple. What do you actually need to deliver them value?
Usually, it’s some combo of name, email, or email and phone
number like Matt’s doing.
5. A button that doesn’t say “subscribe”
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Again, no one wants to subscribe to anything. It also kind of
sounds like I’m going to have to pay. Find a clever way to use
button text, and feel free to customize it to the landing page
it’s on.
6. Call out box
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I love this addition. He’s adding social proof and a brief
reminder of how this exact strategy has helped him earn $5
million.
Once you subscribe, he sends you right to the slides:
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The strategy is simple, it's the execution that makes a
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* Come up with an insanely valuable video idea
* Share the slides, a resource, a checklist, plug and play
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* Use a custom domain (optional)
* Craft a high-converting landing page
* Deliver the free thing right away
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Hey!
Just one last reminder...
Tomorrow at 12pm EST, my friend Nathan is hosting a free live
workshop breaking down exactly how to build a $10K/month
newsletter business (without relying entirely on ads).
So if you'd like to finally turn your newsletter into predictable
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Well hello! It's only the first Monday of the year, and I think I
may have already gotten in over my head.
You might remember my friend Nathan May from our podcast episode
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a 7-figure agency in under a year.
He has a wild story and has seen so much of the behind-the-scenes
work of big newsletters.
In 2025 alone, he worked with 300+ newsletters through The
Newsletter Accelerator and another 60+ inside his agency,
including some of the biggest ones out there (like Beehiiv's
founder, which is pretty cool).
He knows A LOT of interesting newsletter stuff, so I asked him to
share his knowledge with you all, and he agreed. Which is great!
👉 But here's the problem....
He said that he would run TWO sessions for Growth In Reverse
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So if one of your goals for 2026 is to take your newsletter
seriously, add recurring revenue, or even just start the dang
thing - I hope you'll come join us for one (or both) of these
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It would be awesome if it wasn't just me and Dylan in the
audience 😬
See you there? (please)
Okay, onto today’s issue.
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🤿 The ABC Content Strategy that led to 455k+ followers
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He went from zero followers in December 2021, to amassing over
455k in 3 years.
And over 65k email subscribers.
This is one of my favorite deep dives (
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) because he started this social profile with a genuine desire to
help people and save them money. And it's turned into an
incredible business.
Here are just some of the things I'll walk you through in this
deep dive:
🐦 1. The Twitter Explosion. This started as an anonymous account,
and within 14 hours he had 4,000 followers. Now he's at over
455k. We'll walk through exactly how he got there.
🔤 2. The "ABC" Content Strategy. He has a very specific content
strategy building in sprints and creating a minimal calendar to
keep track of it all. This was my favorite part of the deep dive.
♻️ 3. Content Flywheel. Over time, his content generates more
followers and subscribers, and this flywheel is a
self-perpetuating growth machine.
I can't wait to show you the growth story in this week's deep
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Happy New Year!
I have big goals for 2026 (I'm guessing you probably do, too!).
If your goal for this year is to:
* Finally start a newsletter OR
* Turn your newsletter hobby into a business that generates
predictable revenue
....then this (
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) is going to be a huge help.
My friend Nathan May is running a live workshop in a few days
that was practically built for you.
You might remember Nathan from our podcast episode (
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), where he shared how his 1,500-subscriber newsletter helped him
build a 7-figure agency in just 10 months.
He’s one of my favorite people in this space, and we talk often,
so I’ve had a front-row seat to the work he’s been doing.
In 2025 alone, Nathan worked with 300+ newsletters through The
Newsletter Accelerator and another 60+ inside his agency.
He has hundreds of hours of call transcripts, thousands of DMs,
and an unusually clear picture of where newsletter operators are
getting stuck.
His team uploaded all of that into ChatGPT, categorized the
questions, and Nathan spent weeks building clear answers to the
biggest growth, content, and monetization roadblocks.
They took it all and built a 120-page playbook on how newsletters
are getting to $10k+ per month without massive audiences or a ton
of money.
He’s teaching it live next week for Growth In Reverse readers:
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): Adding $10k/month to your newsletter business (without a huge
audience or expensive ads)
Nathan and his team work behind the scenes with some of the
biggest newsletter brands in the world, including:
* Jay Shetty
* The Rundown
* The Neuron
* Daily Drop
* Arnold’s Pump Club
* Jesse Pujji
* Tyler Denk (CEO of Beehiiv)
And dozens more doing $1M+ annually.
That gives him access to off-the-record tactics most people never
see. He's always sharing interesting case studies I've yet to see
before when we chat so I'm excited to have him share some of that
with you.
You can learn more and get the full playbook for free (
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).
This training walks through better ways to build a real,
sustainable newsletter business, including:
* Why sponsor-only newsletters are a bad business for most people
* How to choose niches that actually scale
* Content frameworks that convert
* Growth strategies that work beyond the first few thousand
subscribers
He’ll also cover what changed in 2025 that will impact how
newsletters make money in 2026.
If you’re serious about building something sustainable with your
newsletter in 2026, come join us (I'll be hanging out too!):
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And don't worry, Nathan isn't one of those people who just shares
tactics without screenshots and proof. He'll share real sponsors,
revenue numbers, and examples from top newsletters.
Hope to see you there!
Chenell
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Happy Sunday,
How is 2026 just 11 days away?!
2025 flew by, and it's so easy to forget what happened. It
doesn't help that I'm pretty bad at reflecting on past
accomplishments.
So I'm trying to do that today, and knowing that I have to send
this email out in a few hours is giving me the constraint to do
that.
First, to all 41,324 of you. Thank you for being here.
This was our first full year with a podcast. It helped me be more
thoughtful about certain topics and talk through the things I'm
writing about, which only helps clarify things.
The podcast is also the thing that people tell me they like most
- even more than my deep dives...
But deep dives take 40+ hours, and the podcast, maybe 15? I pour
my heart and soul into those deep dives, and yet you like the
other thing better?
Okay fine. No hard feelings...kind of. :)
I wanted to share some of my favorite/standout podcast episodes
from the past year:
* Our first YouTube video (
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), which is still our most popular
* But this one (
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) is about to eclipse it.
* The most underrated episode (
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)
* The most eye-opening video (
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* I was surprised this episode (
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) got that many views
Creating a podcast where you get to nerd out about newsletters
and audience growth? Highly recommend.
That's it for me this year. But here are some pieces of content
from other people and things I wanted to share with you:
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* What's your excuse? (
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) I always love it when Casey Neistat comes out of nowhere with a
new video - his bar for high-quality content is something I
admire tremendously. I will always click to watch a video of his.
Which always makes me think - how can I do something similar with
my content? Anyway, go watch it, it may or may not have made me
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* And lastly, a part-time role > Sam Vander Wielen is hiring a
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Reflecting on 2025, I am grateful for all of you. Thanks for
making a "job" like this possible.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah - whatever you celebrate, I hope
you have an incredible holiday season and end to the year.
I'll see you in 2026.
- Chenell
PS - Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good gets
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Welcome to Growth in Reverse - it's great to have you here!
It can be a struggle to look at creators who have huge
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Do the strategies they're using now only work because they
already have an audience? What did they do when they were just
starting?
That's what I'm here for.
Each week, I spend 20-25 hours reverse engineering creators with
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