The Top 6 Newsletter Tips from 2025

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The Growth Vault is LIVE: Chenell's brand-new offer for newsletter creators is here - filled with newsletter templates, growth strategies, and real examples you can implement at your own pace. - “I think you are being financially irresponsible if you do not have a newsletter.” - Nathan May, The Feed Media The GIR Podcast is approaching it's 1st anniversary of publishing! To celebrate, we pulled six standout clips from some of the smartest newsletter operators and creators we interviewed this year. Each clip highlights a growth or monetization tactic that actually works in the real world - from using testimonials strategically, to building self-liquidating flywheels, to using DMs to drive thousands of subscribers. KEY TAKEAWAYS How Eddie Shleyner drives high conversion rates on his landing page The Self-Liquidating Flywheel Olly Richards uses to fund his paid growth The IG + ManyChat strategy Sam Vander Wielen uses to convert viewers to subscribers How Katelyn Bourgoin uses an incentivized newsletter poll question to drive sales The successful + unscalable strategy Justin Moore used to get his first devoted subscribers Nathan May's private newsletter strategy earning $1M ARR.

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