Going from 0-1,000 newsletter subscribers has never been easier...
I'm sharing in-depth guides on how to use each of these channels for your newsletter growth:
๐ค X
๐ LinkedIn
๐คณ TikTok
๐ฒ Instagram
๐ฅ YouTube
๐ Google Ads
0-1k subs in 90 days๐
My time leading
@beehiiv
โs growth so far:
โข 19 months
โข $13.7m raised from investors
โข 130k indie, SMB, and enterprise publishers
โข $340k MRR / $4m ARR from <$100 AOV customers
โข +29 headcount
โข Profitability
None of this would be possible without the leadership of
We added *ONE* tool to the
@beehiiv
blog in March that caused the spike organic search impressions and clicks.
Comment โbeehiiv SEOโ and Iโll DM a link with access to this tool that is still in beta.
Cracking growth in a startup is hard.
But it doesnโt need to be.
Hereโs the exact playbook weโve deployed to grow
@beehiiv
from $0 to $4m in ARR in 22 months ๐งต๐ชก
Something big from
@beehiiv
dropping at 11 am EST.
If you're just starting your newsletter or trying to get your first 1,000 subs, you don't want to miss this.
So proud to be leading the growth team over here at beehiiv and to have played a role in securing our series B funding.
The talent density on this team is unreal.
We added *ONE* tool to the
@beehiiv
blog in March that caused the spike organic search impressions and clicks.
Like, RT, or comment โbeehiiv SEOโ and Iโll DM a link with an invite (it's still in beta!)
This week became the most challenging of my life when my wife and I miscarried our first pregnancy.
Weโre devastated, and thereโs no playbook for handling this grief.
I believe sharing to be therapeutic, and I hope the vulnerability of talking about such a private struggle can
My brother just got dropped off at college this weekend.
Today he reached out asking how to start making friends when you have to form your social circle from scratch.
I gave him my two cents, but I'm curious what advice you would give him.
You spoke, we listened.
We moved our API, custom domains, and multiple publications to our free plan.
Because unlike other companies who take away features and make the free product harder to use over time, we don't hate you.
the free LAUNCH plan got a massive upgrade...
โข can now use custom domains (new)
โข full API access (new)
โข unlimited audience segmentation (new)
โข still unlimited email sends
plus the dozens of the other features you already know and love
@anothercohen
Fake range numbers, quality issues, and comfort problems all give me pause when there are very strong competitors from Toyota, Audi, Volvo, Lucid, Rivian, Fisker, Polestar, and Ford coming online
What is your biggest growth challenge as a newsletter publisher?
Let me know below and include your stage of growth:
โข Launching (0-2,500 subs)
โข Growing ( 2,500-10k subs)
โข Scaling (10k-100k)
โข Beast-mode (100k+)
Got off a plane to start vacation only to see that our community round was filled and oversubscribed in less than 2 hours ๐ฎ
So proud of the community weโve built.
yesterday we announced our $33M Series B led by NEA
... but we reserved an extra $1M for our users โค๏ธ
now's your chance to join us and own a part of beehiiv
Are we witnessing the creation of a โbeehiiv mafiaโ in real-time?
Weโll see, but the facts are my former direct-report interns are 2/2 on exits within a year of leaving beehiiv.
That makes me proud.
cc:
@Jayyanginspires
,
@abhishekshah173
I bought a newsletter!
I just acquired
@NerdNewsletter
from
@Jayyanginspires
We're going to be rolling it into Newsletter Operator.
I'll share more about the story/process in my newsletter and podcast soon.
5/10 of 2023's top newsletters are powered by
@beehiiv
.
That's insane to me considering we've been at this for two years in such an intensely competive market.
What's more, we've also had interest from three of the remaining five.
8/10 of the worlds top newsletters see
โจMeet the best newsletters of 2023โจ
In 2023, over 1M newsletters were read on Meco.
We gained insight to which newsletters got the most love from readers and which grew the fastest.
Hereโs the best of the best this year:
couldn't be more thrilled to announce the acquisition of
@TypedreamHQ
โ an AI-based website builder
the future of
@beehiiv
includes powerful newsletters AND powerful websites, together
we're truly just getting started... no one's safe ๐
Thinking about starting a newsletter from scratch?
Get good at Twitter first.
Use it as a testing ground for ideas.
If you canโt engage users with 280 chars, youโre gonna have a hard time engaging them with more.
Once you find your legs, you can launch to a hungry audience.
Weโre the fastest growing newsletter publishing tool on the market and weโve never paid a single user to switch
@beehiiv
.
We donโt have to - the value of our platform is that apparent.
Not many of our competitors can say that.
Thatโs winning.
Building a legendary brand means building a community, your tribe.
Nothing unites the tribe more than an existential rivalry:
Coke vs Pepsi
Apple vs Microsoft
beehiiv vs __________
๐ฃ New Beehiiv Growth Tutorial Alert! ๐ Learn how to distribute your content through Google News and reach millions of users with our step-by-step guide.
Tag a newsletter who could use this.
๐ Watch now:
Minor under-the-hood update released today for beehiiv sites that will boost conversions rates ๐๐
We updated email collection fields with autocomplete to make subscribing even more seamless for readers.
Have a great long weekend everyone!
@ShaanVP
Itโs their business model.
They work primarily with ton of indie talent, putting their name behind the best of the best projects.
When it comes to originality and quality, they donโt miss - it comes from investing in those relationships.
Source: Iโm an A24 stan
Just got done making some of the most impactful updates yet to
@beehiiv
's
@make_hq
connector.
These updates consisted of a ton of quality-of-life improvements to make our app easier than ever to use. ๐งต๐
As Ryan Reynolds says in his
@Mintmobile
commercials, "We're lowering our prices because we don't hate you."
80% of users will see a price decrease.
For larger customers that will see a phased-in increase between now and August, we're still the most affordable by a long-shot.
Hi everyone,
@ej_beehiiv
here.
I was put in charge of socials today while
@bellarosemortel
is OOO, so we're ending the week with a giveaway - who wants a retro logo beehiiv t-shirt?
Like, repost, and comment a ๐ and I'll pick a random winner later
Proud to welcome
@davegerhardt
to the
@beehiiv
community.
Iโve followed Dave for his thought leadership for 5 years now, and itโs incredibly validating now to have the king of B2B SaaS marketing using our tool.
Once again, heโs ahead of the curve.
I've decided to spend some time writing about creator businesses.
More specifically: writing to help you turn ideas into income + build a creator business.
Get my new newsletter here (and there's an email you'll get right now with some backstory)
I've lost count of how many folks have been able to build and exit their newsletter startups - truly crazy and it's not happening with any other platform
Building a high-quality, engaged audience from scratch is hard.
Running growth
@beehiiv
, I have the opportunity to see how new publications approach this challenge.
Here are 8 ways the fast-growing, top-performing newsletters build their audiences ๐ชก๐งต:
Yet ANOTHER beehiiv newsletter exit - is there any other platform that makes it so easy to launch, scale, and successfully EXIT?
The answer is no,
@beehiiv
is it.
I acquired a newsletter!
I just bought Category Surfers from
@stanrym
.
And Iโm rolling it up under the SaaS Weekly brand.
Why you ask?
Hereโs the strategy behind it.
(Taking a page out of
@JMatthewMcGarry
's playbook)
@davidkylechoe
@beehiiv
@ConvertKit
Game on.
They can try, but I can unhesitatingly guarantee that whomever they hire will be unfit to compete on the level with me and my team.
One of, if not my favorite, newsletters - I remember the day it launched when they started from literally 0.
Henry is a testament to the unstoppable power of hard work + the right tools for the job *ahem* beehiiv
My challenge from earlier was kneecapped by mentioning the new tool-that-must-not-named (or linked to!)
Hereโs my latest Growth Tutorial on setting up custom landing pages for lead magnets with custom drip campaigns!
It's DONE.
I've sold The Alerts Daily Newsletter to
@Overtime
๐
In 11 months...
I launched. Grew to ~35k subs organically with
@beehiiv
. Maintained a 51% + open rate. And worked with some dope brand partners.
Win? Yes - but it wasn't an easy one... more on this below.๐งต
The all-star team weโve assembled lives and breathes for our usersโ newsletter success.
Take care of the customer and the rest will take care of itself.
18 months into this journey
@beehiiv
and couldn't be more bullish about the future
SaaS revenue: 30%+ MoM since launch
Ad revenue: +250% MoM in April
Boosts revenue: new but substantial
(MRR only includes SaaS)
Every time I think our
@beehiiv
engineering team canโt surprise me with their genius and hard work, they find a way to one-up themselves.
Can hardly contain my excitement for some of the updates coming next!
If you canโt beat โem , join โem.
Starting using an app two months ago that replicates Nancy Pelosi (and otherโs) portfolio based on public filings.
Maybe I should get into politicsโฆ
OOO for family vacation in Sandbridge, VA this week ๐๐โฑ๏ธ๐๏ธ
Taking time to decompress and recharge is the secret to sustaining the grind.
It's official: I SOLD Psychology of Marketing.
In the last 9 months, I took the newsletter from 0 to 24,000+ subscribers. And last Friday I sold the business to
@stackedmarketer
.
Now, don't worry, I'll still be writing it for the foreseeable future because that's what I enjoy
The beehiiv Partner Program will pay out $1 million over the next year. Last quarter our top affiliate made $20,000 with one deal.
This has been made possible by one tool.
If you're a SaaS startup or a newsletter, repost and reply โbeehiiv Partner Programโ for an DM to test it
Thanks for the recognition
@joepompeo
@VanityFair
I reside in Baltimore, so itโs only fitting that I sum this up with a quote from The Wire: โOmarโs coming!โ
I get a ton of questions about how to set up tracking for Twitter Ads from publishers looking to supercharge their newsletter growth.
Well, hot from the studio, here's a brand new tutorial covering how to get started in less than 10 minutes:
Newsletterytics is live on Product Hunt today!
This community-built iOS app allows you to take your beehiiv newsletter metrics with you on the go.
Great work
@pawelkarniej
๐
Go give it an upvote and help them hit
#1
on the day!
Hats off to
@schwartz6694
for leading the transformation of
@beehiiv
users' web publications from newsletter archives to SEO-optimized CMS
We perfected them with beautiful design, ultra-fast page speed + customizable to the standards of the most veteran SEOs.
In just 30 days:
if thereโs ever been an opportunity for newsletters to make $$$ โฆ
thereโs almost a MILLION dollars sitting in the
@beehiiv
Boosts network just waiting for you to claim
recommended Boosts (by content category) now available on your dashboards ๐ฐ
@denk_tweets
@beehiiv
As a PLG organization, it's genuinely a TEAM effort every. single. day.
I would be nowhere without Tyler's visionary leadership and our genius engineers.
With that said, I am quite proud of the professional achievement of leading growth from $3.6k to $100k+ MRR in 11 months.
In the last year Iโve read biographies of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, and Steve Jobs.
Society remembers them as public icons and leaders.
But before they achieved financial success each was a builder in the trenches. ๐งต ๐ชก
introducing: the Boosts Recommendation Widget
seamlessly tap into the Boosts network across any third-party platform or website
you earn more revenue, we'll handle the verification and payouts ๐ค
thrilled to officially announce our series A led by
@lightspeedvp
if you like what we've done so far
@beehiiv
, just wait til you see what we do with this...