Welcome to Newsletter Operator!
Hey — Matt here. Thanks for subscribing.
If you’re here to…
Grow your email subscribers
Monetize your newsletter
Increase open rates
Start a newsletter
…Then you’re in the right place.
Here’s why:
I work with and study the world’s best newsletters, content creators, and media companies — and share their strategies and tactics with you.
Seriously. My agency GrowLetter has worked with: The Hustle, James Clear, Sahil Bloom, 1440, Milk Road, Codie Sanchez, Chartr, and many more.
Before we get into those learnings, do me a quick favor…
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Here's what to expect from the newsletter
📧 The Weekly: Every Saturday morning, you’ll get my weekly newsletter which includes:
The best links I found this week on growth, monetization, industry news, email design, content strategy, and much more.
A deep dive into newsletter growth and monetization. These are step-by-step guides with examples. Based on proven tactics.
📬 A few brief welcome emails: I’ll also send you a short series of welcome emails with more insights, tutorials, and resources.
Dive into my best work
Looking for growth strategies, tactics, and tools? Start here.
Top newsletter issues:
Top podcast episodes:
Adam Ryan - How To Build An 8 Figure B2B Media Company
Brad Wolverton - How To Write a Newsletter 2.5 Million People Love
Matt McGarry & Ryan Carr - 5 Newsletter Ideas You Can Start This Weekend
Matt Paulson - How MarketBeat Bootstrapped To $40M/Year and 4.3M Subscribers
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P.S. Last thing… Want to work with me to grow your business?
Here are 3 ways I can help:
1) GrowLetter – The #1 growth agency for media and education companies
If you’re a 7-8-figure media or creator brand that wants to grow your newsletter, membership, and course — I’d love to work with you.
GrowLetter has driven 10,000,000+ newsletter subscribers and tens of millions of sales for clients.
Learn more about how we help and see client testimonials here:
2) Write, Grow, Sell – The instruction manual for a $100k+ per month newsletter
Write, Grow, Sell is a cohort-based course on how to start a newsletter, get your first 10k subscribers, and monetize your email list.
Inside, you’ll learn our proven growth and monetization system with step-by-step training, templates, case studies, and examples.
But unlike other courses, you won't learn passively.
Instead, you'll start and grow your newsletter during the course with feedback from me, my team, and the course community.
Learn more and enroll here:
Course cohorts are capped at 250 students, and they sell out fast.
3) Newsletter Marketing Summit — The event for founders and marketers building the future of media and education
Attend our flagship conference with an amazing roster of speakers, including:
Alex Lieberman, co-founder of Morning Brew and StoryArb
Sam Parr, co-founder of Hampton and founder of The Hustle
James Altucher, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investor
Tim Huelskamp, co-founder and CEO of 1440 Media
Chenell Basilio, founder of Growth In Reverse
Jay Clouse, founder of Creator Science
And MANY more…
Learn more and save your seat here:
Before you go: Get the system to build a profitable newsletter from scratch
Thursday at 12 pm EST I’m hosting a free LIVE training on:
How to build a 7-figure newsletter business from scratch — even if you have ZERO followers, subscribers, or writing experience.
You’ll learn:
The step-by-step roadmap to start, grow, and monetize your newsletter in 4 hours per week WITHOUT spending dozens of hours creating content or setting up complicated software
How to pick a lucrative newsletter niche and get your first 1,000 subscribers FAST
The 6-step newsletter template you can steal and use to write high-quality content with AI
How to make money from your newsletter WITHOUT talking to a sponsor or manually sending any emails
4 ways to instantly earn $1-$3 for EVERY sign up you get (and make way more money from each subscriber over time)
And much more…
Plus, I’ll answer all your questions live.
Save your seat and be there live. There’s NO recording or reply.