Episode notes
Today’s guest is Sean Devlin, a media entrepreneur whose Nice News newsletter has, in less than three years, gone from 0 to 820k subscribers. The company currently has a team of seven full-time employees, plus at least four freelancers — and it’s been profitable for just under one year.
00:00 Building a 800k subscriber newsletter
08:53 The biggest mistakes when designing a newsletter
12:26 Why it’s important to have nice news
19:20 How to find positive content online
22:32 Who subscribes to nice news?
30:51 Building a following of 800,000
39:00 How to monteize your newsletter audience
44:30 What not to do when building a newsletter
47:00 Is it too late to start a newsletter?
Intro music produced by J. and Doug Organ.
Keywords
NewsletterCreator economyCurationAudience growthMedia business