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My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

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For how many months has it been making 2k now?

Started sponsorships in January of this year (2022) and it has been sold out ever since. Pricing started at $150 for the first month and has been $250 ever since.

What’s revenue growth looked like from month to month

Re: My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

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Started sponsorships in January of this year (2022) and it has been sold out ever since. Pricing started at $150 for the first month and has been $250 ever since.

What’s revenue growth looked like from month to month

Stable at $2,000. Have been sold out for months and haven't increased prices because of that.

Temporarily put a pause on new sponsors while I get through the current slots and look at subscriber growth, open rates, click rates, etc.

Re: My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

#133

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So to be clear, your email newsletter costs nothing to subscribers, but your income is through selling that sponsor slot? That's interesting. I wouldn't have imagined there's so much money to make in email newsletters from advertisements

Correct! It's 100% free to sign up as a reader of the newsletter and all the revenue comes from sponsors putting their message in front of these readers.

congrats on the success, it sounds pretty awesome, and thanks for sharing your story

Re: My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

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I think the point of the newsletter is to showcase workspaces at home that really work for those doing creative things. It doesn't have to be an expensive setup or a super clean environment, but it should be functional for the task at hand. Just throwing an old computer on top of a garbage heap doesn't do anything for me!

You could wear VR goggles and turn that garbage heap into a beautiful beach. Someone should start selling VR workspaces.

i am very interested in the next generation of things like horizon workrooms on oculus. I find the current gen unpleasant to use for long periods of time but I'm sure it can be improved

Re: My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

#136

What did you use for tools/subscription management? All custom or did you use a pre made service like hubspot?

Twitter DMs and GMail for all things related to the outreach and management of the content.

Substack for the actual publishing.

As barebones as you can get! (This will be changing a tiny bit next week)

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I've highlighted many "minimal" spaces that are mostly just a Macbook. https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/032-teresa-man https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/172-pat-walls https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/168-samiur-rahman https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/048-leah-fessler https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/036-mike-slaats https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/workspaces-020-devin-bramhall

Some of those look absolutely dreadful. I need a place to work, not a staged photograph from an IKEA catalog.

What works for them may not work for you, that's why it's their workspaces, who are you to judge them for how they like to work? If you want to compare, submit your own workspace then.

Re: My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA

#140

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You are the original poster but this isn't the original post.

I posted the original top post about the newsletter making 2k (because it's my newsletter) as well as this comment with the link. lol wtf

They are saying you should have just posted the link in the top/original post itself rather than as a comment. That's usually how it goes on HN so that people don't have to search for your specific comment with the link, they can just go to the post and see it there.
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