Newsletter evidence: 28 quotes from 6 creators

“Started once a week, switched to three times a week and now we do five times a week. It's my full time job.”

“switched to three times a week and now we do it five times a week it's my full-time job”

“Where I'm trying to grow that, that's my main thing, but have started this newsletter on the side.”

“Substack takes 10% of everything.”

“Whereas Substack takes 10%, Beehive takes nothing”

“Whereas sub stack takes 10%, Beehive takes nothing.”

“Substack makes money by taking ten percent of the income you make from your paid subscribers.”

“Substack makes 10% of your cut of of all paid subscriptions”

“You pay no platform fees on paid subscriptions, whereas Substack takes 10%, Beehiiv takes nothing.”

“You pay no platform fees on paid subscriptions, whereas Substack takes 10%.”

“Now, I live in the Dallas Fort Worth area, but I want to start a local newsletter anywhere.”

“working from home can be a bit noisy, with his wife homeschooling their kids”

“His newsletter generates approximately $1200 in monthly recurring revenue”

“Yeah, today it's about you can range from 12 to 15,000 currently.”

“So Wall Street Journal reports $14,000 a month.”

“Step three is to use a newsletter tool that is free, and three of the most popular newsletter tools are Beehive, Substack, and Kit which is formally convert Kit. They're all free to start, pick one and create an account.”

“Investing 10 grand. He kick started the newsletter, spending a fraction of it on essential tools.”

“Substack is a free newsletter platform.”

“the normalized monthly expenses are around 200 bucks”

“It cost him absolutely nothing to run the show.”

“Now it's decreased to like 2:00-ish K, give or take, where, you know, we're still spending the same amount of money. So it's about $3000.”

“Mike dedicates his nights and weekends, investing around 8 hours a week into running the merge.”

“I would focus on making a sales pitch at least once a week to your email audience.”

“Like it ends up being probably close to 20 hours a week.”

“if anyone is looking to sell sponsorship, don't sell one off sponsorships. You're not going to make money.”

“You clutch an email address and then you never say anything. You never email them.”

“The worst thing you want to do is to start out super gung-ho, saying, "I'm going to email seven times a week or five times a week or whatever, and then you lose steam and then you drop to three to one."”

“Substack makes money by taking ten percent of the income you make from your paid subscribers.”