Why You Should Start an Email Newsletter

The Weekend Review #004.

Apr 29, 2023

black iphone 5 on orange surface — Photo by Adomas Aleno on Unsplash

Welcome back to the weekend review!

I hope you had a good week and that you accomplished much of what you hoped to do. If you’re like me - some of the days were less productive than others, but I still managed to get everything done I needed to do.

Have a great weekend!

Laugh of the Week

Article of the Week

This week’s article is from

Burk

who writes

The Solo Creator Hub

here on Substack.

He suggests five “cool” ways to make money with your newsletter - regardless of the size of your audience.

The Solo Creator Hub

✓ The 5 Coolest Ways to Monetize Your Newsletter In 2023

Brought to you by my favorite short newsletter* Hi friends, let’s be real. Most of us don’t start a newsletter out of pure joy. The fun is part of it, but the ultimate goal is making money from our passion project. To reach this goal, we need to think about ways to make money with a newsletter. Paid subscriptions aren’t going to cut it for newbies. Those c…

a year ago · 7 likes · 5 comments · Burk

Video of the Week

Ali Abdaal has over 4 million subscribers on YouTube.

He’s a former doctor turned entrepreneur who explores strategies and tools to help people be more productive and live the life they want.

I’ve watched his video about why everyone should start an email newsletter several times. I think you will find his video as helpful as I did!

Quote of the Week

“You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.” ―William S. Burroughs

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