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Matt McGarry
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Matt McGarry
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The Newsletter Guy | Founder at GrowLetter.com & NewMediaSummit.com | My newsletter is read by 50,000+ founders👇
- People calling Hormozi a "grifter" for selling $80M+ of BOOKS are absolute clowns. This is what people get wrong about Hormozi: He's not a guru or an influencer. He's a MEDIA founder who's built one of the largest media companies in the world. But instead of monetizing it
- Want a list of 25+ ways to grow your newsletter? (With best practices and examples). I've helped The Hustle, Milk Road, and 10+ other newsletters add over 2,000,000 subscribers with these little-known growth channels. Like & reply "grow" and I'll DM you the link.
- The math behind a $1M per year newsletter business:
- Industry Dive was acquired for $525M in 10 years. MorningBrew was acquired for $75M in 5 years. The Hustle was acquired for ~$27M in 4 years. Milk Road was acquired for 7 figures in 10 months. The Peak was acquired for $5M in 3 years. Keep building your email list.
- Want to sell ads in your newsletter? You need a great media kit. I curated the 20 best media kit and sponsorship page examples. It has slide decks, pages, and self-service examples from top media companies and creators. Like & reply "Sell" and I'll DM you the link.
- Zach Yadegari and "App Mafia" just had the biggest course FLOP in history. 10M+ impressions Thousands of negative comments Reputation permanently damaged Here's how they could have made $1M+ and built their brand instead of destroying it: First, the results. After taking
- ANNOUNCEMENT: Last year I left @TheHustle to start GrowLetter - a newsletter growth agency. Since then we’ve helped 20+ newsletters add millions of subscribers. Today I'm partnering with @beehiiv to take GrowLetter and our client's newsletters to the next level. Here's how:
- I grew my newsletter from 0 to 5k subscribers in 100 days. Here's: • What worked great • What didn't work • What worked ok And how you can apply what I learned to your newsletter:
- "MorningBrew for X" is the new "Uber for X" ☕ But the companies that follow the MorningBrew model will be 10X more successful. Here's HOW the newsletter business works and WHY more newsletters will win in 2023:
- Here's the secret that newsletter founders DON'T want you to know about building a massive newsletter business… It’s all about ad arbitrage. 🤫 Here’s how it works:
- The math behind a $1M per year newsletter business: - Send 3 newsletters a week - Create a $250 course At 50,000-100,000 subscribers you can sell ads for ~$3500 each. Then get 2-4% of subscribers to buy your course. $1M+ in revenue.
- I made $28,910 by sending one email. It took me 3 hours to write - but 3 years to learn. I'll teach you how to do it in 3 minutes:
- There’s a proven growth playbook for newsletters: 0 → 100 - Tell friends & co-workers 100 → 5k - Publish on Twitter & LinkedIn 5k → 10k - Cross-promos & recommendations 10k → 100k - Paid acquisition + all of the above Don't overcomplicate it.