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Hello there!! 👋
Today you’ll learn how to create your own newsletter, including a website that houses your newsletters and a sign-up form that you can add to other websites. Let’s build
Today’s Task📝
🧱 Project: Create a Newsletter and Subscription Form
⏲️ Estimated time: 30 minutes
🛠️ Tools: beehiiv
Context📄
Newsletters are one of the most direct methods of communicating with your customers and community, and are a useful medium for every type of business and creator.
Once you secure someone’s email address (with permission, of course), you earn that data and the ability to communicate with subscribers whenever you want. This ability to directly speak with your audience is not only an intimate and highly effective form of marketing, but it reduces your reliance on third-party algorithms or paying for advertising.
Most major email newsletter and marketing platforms give you functionality to segment your subscribers via criteria that’s useful for sending targeted messages. Want to only send a newsletter to your subscribers based in Canada? You can do that with demographic targeting. There are so many useful segments you can build to deliver highly targeted newsletters.
In today’s lesson you’ll use popular newsletter platform beehiiv to create a newsletter, create a website that houses your newsletters and create a subscribe form that you can add to other websites. Not only does beehiiv give you all the no-code tools you need to build a subscription list and newsletter, but their focus on the creator community means they also have features, functionality and educational materials that make it possible to build an entire business from your newsletter on one single platform.
Let's Prep 🥗
What's beehiiv?
beehiiv is a popular newsletter platform built for creators, by creators. It was founded in 2021 by early employees from one of the world’s most popular newsletters, The Morning Brew.
beehiiv has developed features beyond just email marketing, focusing on four key areas of newsletter growth:
- Create - no-code editors for creating your newsletters and a website that houses your newsletters.
- Publish - tools to help you write and publish, including email automation.
- Grow - one of the standout aspects of beehiiv is the focus on tools to help you grow including easy-to-build subscribe forms, links, referral programs and cross-promotion with other newsletters on the beehiiv platform.
- Monetize - directly monetize your newsletters with premium subscriptions, cross-promoting other newsletters or utilizing beehiiv’s own ad network.
This Lesson
In this lesson you’re going to sign up for an account with beehiiv, spend some time reviewing your newsletter website and then create a subscribe form that you can embed on another website (if you already have one).
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Sign up for beehiiv using the links in this email and you’ll receive a complimentary free 30-day trial PLUS 20% off your first 3-months of any paid plan, should you wish to upgrade.
🔥 Get ready to build!
To make your life easier when you build, it’s good to get some practical stuff out the way first. Follow these steps so you’re ready to build:
- Sign up for for your account with beehiiv
- It’s handy to have an 800 x 800 image ready on your device (you’ll use it for your newsletter logo). This is optional.
Time to Cook 👩🍳
- Sign up for an account with beehiiv
- Follow this step-by-step guide to complete today’s lesson.
That’s a wrap, we hope you found this lesson helpful!
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