🤖 A ChatGPT challenge to grow your newsletter

And 2 other ways to grow a newsletter.

Author

Sofia Terlesky
April 19, 2023

Hey there 👋

Unita’s newsletter has been growing a lot these past weeks — so thank you to those who follow us in every edition.

We've been doing some research to find how creators with thousands of subscribers started and found some interesting stories along the way.

Some people just tweeted about a milestone and got their first subs while sleeping, while others are following a ChatGPT challenge to help them market a newsletter and grow to 1M subscribers.

✉️ Today we are going to explore 3 ways to grow a newsletter with examples from other content creators:

  1. Build in public + Interviews

  2. Popups + free resources

  3. ChatGPT challenge

📰 Also, the latest news and trends on:

  • Newsletter creators on Twitter

  • Curated resources for newsletter creators

  • Best communities

👉 Read our past edition first: “Building an AI indie project in 48hs to sell it for 65K“

📣How to grow a newsletter

There are newsletters all over the internet, but a few of them get to grow massively and consolidate an audience. Here are some of the strategies used by top creators 👇

🏆The strategy

She build with no-code and consistently shared her process with build in public posts. She grew an audience of no-code makers and turn it into subscribers by interviewing other founders who sold their products

She grew from 0 to 5.5K subs in 7 months!

🏆The strategy

We created free resources such as Notion templates and SEO spreadsheets like the one on AI tool ideas that are still worth building after GPT-4 and make them free for our newsletter subscribers.

Also added popups with related newsletter editions on our most featured posts, and begin to receive lots of emails coming from those pages.

We grew almost 120% in the past month 🙌

3. Newsletter ChatGPT challenge

There's a #HustleGPT challenge but for newsletters that have been around on Twitter.

🏆The strategy

You just ask GPT for a growth plan with details about your audience and your goals. And then share your progress in public.

There's a newsletter creator with a big audience trying this, but it's also an interesting approach for small newsletters that are just getting started.

✨Latest tweets from newsletter creators

⚙️Top and new tools

👉 Linkedin Post Generator - See how your post performs and generate a better one with AI.

👉 Do Anything Machine - The To Do that uses AGI to do itself. (signups are closed but you can join the waitlist)

💬 Curated resources