Runs @inboxcollective. Accidental Google Doc publisher of https://xitter.cf/t.co/xIlAfaScTm. Formerly: @newyorker @BuzzFeed, @StryUs, @tools4reporters. M-I-Z.
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Joined October 2008
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Thrilled about the last few weeks of stories on @inboxcollective:
Chris La Tray on the power of a paid newsletter —> inboxcollective.com/chris-la…
Evvie Crowley’s new series, FWD Progress —> inboxcollective.com/digging-…
New @YannaTorry column —> inboxcollective.com/will-swi…
Lots more coming!
I still can't believe this: I'm almost to the end of year four of writing a monthly Google Doc.
(And even more unbelievable: Almost 10,000 of you read it every single month.)
Read on in the latest issue...
November's Not a Newsletter is here! Tons of links inside about indie newsletter, the ad landscape, and ideas for writing daily. It's all inside —> notanewsletter.com/
Oh, just a funny story about the time I tried to make some email authentication updates at the end of a long day and accidentally ended up in the spam folder for 24 hours 🤦♂️
danoshinsky.com/2022/10/15/e…
It's Nov. 1, which means @NewsMatch kicks off today. I've got a few tips here to help you build your best fundraising campaign yet.
inboxcollective.com/how-to-b…
As Alex explains so well here: We're making a push to tell stories about newsletters from all over.
This month, we've published stories from writers in India, the UK, & Chile
And this is the first we've published in two languages (English and Spanish).
Lots more to come!
Yesterday @danoshinsky and I published this story for @inboxcollective and it's really worth your time for a few reasons 🧵 inboxcollective.com/santiago…
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Una alegría y honor que El Semanal sea digno de ser destacado x los capos de @danoshinsky y @ahazlett
First, come for the Q&A with @ivanwese about starting a newsletter under a parent company. There's lots of good stuff in there about turning your analysis into an indispensable product.
Excited to be a (small) part of this course!
I'm co-hosting a 5 day course with @businessbarista to help people create, monetize, and scale their newsletters
speakers include over a dozen of the top newsletter operators and writers
...and it's 100% free
only 50 spots available. apply 👇🏽
beehiiv.com/courses/newslett…
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What do you readers want? Ask. Them. @danoshinsky inboxcollective.com/financia…
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If you're interested in newsletters, you may enjoy a piece I've written with my colleague from reader research, Mike Hoole, on our reader survey. It's been incredibly successful.....inboxcollective.com/financia… (Thanks to @danoshinsky for featuring the piece)
But it’s wild to wake up today and see, right there on the @Semafor homepage, a massive email sign-up box for their 8 newsletters. How things have changed in a decade. I know Ben’s still asking the same questions about growth — here’s betting it won’t take them nearly as long.
It took 25 months to answer Ben’s question and get to a million subscribers. (Turns out that when you have no strategy or budget, you rely on a lot of trial and error.) The second million came less than a year after that.
I had no budget, no strategy, no team, no idea what readers might actually want in a newsletter (or newsletters???), and to date, I’d never built a newsletter that had even reached 1,000 subscribers.