"Why am I getting this email?" — quick reminder:

You may have signed up on my homepage, for one of my free resources (1KS Roadmap or Mark Manson onboarding templates), or you were referred here by a friend's newsletter. If not, unsubscribe at the bottom — no harm, no foul.

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Quick question slash favor to ask.

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Newsletter Hits
Of The Week

⚡ "10 best tips for turning info products into a living" — from someone who's sold over $500k from their newsletter.

⚡ 160 LinkedIn Post Templates (With Real Examples).
Better LinkedIn posts = more impressions = more followers = more subscribers.

⚡ Save time doing cross-promotions with a Tally form (here's mine).
Cross-promos can be fantastic growth levers. But they're a pain to organize. Make it easier with a form. Use Tally form for inspo linked above as a template (not a sponsor).

⚡ Simplify your landing page using the RSVP landing page method.
Make your landing page clear not fancy. Jason Resnick shows you how with a memorable acronym.

⚡ The #1 tool* I'm using to grow on LinkedIn.
We recently wrapped up the GIR Pro community 30-day LinkedIn Growth Challenge.

I finished in 2nd place🥈:
→ gaining 201 followers
→ growing my follower count by 12% (1st place grew by 23%)

But what matters most is this → I built a publishing habit.

And I did it by posting every. damn. day.
See the graph below and how infrequently I was posting prior to the challenge.

(going on 46 days in a row now but who's counting 🙌)

I owe a lot of my daily publishing success to AuthoredUp*.

It's the tool I use to draft, plan, and review all my LinkedIn posts and stats.
And one of my favorite features is the calendar view 👇

*(see all your past posts and scheduled posts, along with their stats, in a calendar format)*

I don't often gush about third-party social apps. But AuthoredUp* has made my LinkedIn life so much better (and yes I'm sharing an affiliate link because I use it and love it—and think you will too).

And just for fun...

I used AuthoredUp's export feature to pull 30-day LinkedIn Challenge stats.

Then I shared them with ChatGPT for more insights and takeaways:

📈 Engagement is Growing

Reactions per Post: 21.2 (⬆️ 40.5% from 15.1)
Comments per Post: 22.9 (⬆️ 177.3% from 8.3)
Shares per Post: 0.35 (⬇️ 30.2% from 0.51)
Impressions per Post: 857 (⬆️ 0.7% from 851)
Words per Post: 137.7 (⬆️ 57.3% from 87.6)

Key Takeaways (via ChatGPT)

✅ More Engagement Per Post:

Reactions and especially comments saw huge growth.
A 177% increase in comments suggests more discussion-driven content was posted.

❌ Shares Decreased by 30%:

This suggests that while posts were more engaging in discussions, they weren’t necessarily content that people wanted to reshare.

Thanks to this, I know that I need to post more "discussion-driven content" 🙌

AuthoredUp is pretty easy to use. But if you're on the fence, let me help push you over: if you use my affiliate link to get a subscription and let me know, I'll share a Loom video showing you how I use it.

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How to Revive A Newsletter on Life Support

"2024 growth was down. And years prior it had been growing, growing, growing." — Ben Collins

Ben Collins has 55k subscribers to his Google Sheets Tips newsletter.

But his growth has not only stagnated, it's declining. So he's enlisted our help!

Check out this "newsletter coaching" edition of the GIR podcast where we share growth ideas for Ben that could also work for YOUR newsletter.

We share 7 different growth strategies with Ben — and a few ways he can convert some of his existing subscribers to his paid membership.

Watch now →

And you can listen here:

→ Apple Podcasts
→ Spotify
→ More...

Newsletter Events

The Newsletter Marketing Summit - Feb. 27-28 - Austin, TX
Hosted by Matt McGarry

Sponsor Games - Mar. 16-19 - San Antonio, TX
Hosted by Justin Moore

The Newsletter Conference - May 02 - New York City
Hosted by Who Sponsors Stuff

Craft & Commerce - Jun. 11-14 - Boise, ID
Hosted by Kit

(Got a newsletter-related or other relevant event coming up? Let me know!)

The Funnies 😆

More LOLs for you this week.

(We always kill the prettiest ones. source)

Do newsletters better:

→ The 1KS Roadmap: A Free Course To Your First 1,000 Subscribers
→ Increase opt-ins like a best-selling author (FREE templates)
→ Start a newsletter for FREE with Kit (free up to 10k subscribers)*
→ Book a 1:1 newsletter strategy sesh w/me: 30 mins || 60 mins

Peace and platonic love,

Dylan

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