Insight & Advice
A simple antidote to a corporatized, unfeeling, profit-maximizing world
“Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.” Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich. Each issue shares resources and insights to help writers launch, improve & grow their email newsletter. This issue features evergreen advice from Seth Godin.
17 non-negotiable things your email newsletter needs right now
12. ALWAYS WRITE BACK. Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich. Each issue shares resources and insights to help writers launch, improve & grow their email newsletter.
How Austin Kleon assembles his weekly newsletter
"I don’t send out a list of 10 things I think my readers would find interesting. I send out a list of 10 things I find interesting that I think my readers would find interesting, too." Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich. Each issue shares resources
Just how personal is an email newsletter?
“Email is kind of like a living room. It’s a very personal space. You let in your friends, the coworkers you like, and a couple of brands you really trust — like this one.” - from a Nieman Lab profile of Dan Oshinsky shortly after he became the New Yorker&
Little lessons from writing newsletters
Eight writers on how their writing skills evolved by writing a newsletter (via Catapult). Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich.
Creating a fully customised, weekly newsletter
Dense Discovery provides an updated summary of all the tools they use and how they connect them to create their weekly newsletter, including their membership and sponsorship programs. Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich.
Advice for newsletter-ers
"A personal email newsletter ought to be divided into seasons, just like a TV show." Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich.
35 lessons from 35 years of newsletter publishing
A lot of impeccable advice here, but my favorite is #20 ("Subject lines don’t matter anywhere near as much as your From line). Read This is curated by Stephen Knezovich.