Earning $1000 on Newsletters Is No Joke

If you’re building your brand or business on social platforms, you’re basically building a house on beach sand.

One wave… and poof. Years of work disappear.

Creators are finally waking up to it.

That’s why newsletters are exploding because they solve the one problem nobody wants to talk about:

→ You don’t own your social media audience.

Your account? Rented.
Your reach? Borrowed.
Your income? Unstable.

A newsletter is the first time the keys are actually in your hands.
No “oops, your account has been suspended for reasons we can’t explain.”

Let’s break down why creators are racing to start newsletters and what you can monetize from them today.

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→ If your X account vanished tomorrow, what happens to your people?

Most creators don’t have an answer.

A newsletter is the answer.

When someone gives you their email:

It’s permanent. It’s protected.

And the inbox is the one place people slow down. You’re not fighting 100 other posts per minute. You’re having a 1:1 conversation in a quiet room where people are ready to listen.

This is the #1 excuse people use to avoid starting.

But hey…

You already have enough material for 6 months.

Ask yourself:

▪ What did you learn the hard way?
▪ What do you wish someone told you 2 years ago?
▪ What do people constantly ask for help on?
▪ Do you have a skill that took you years to build that could be useful to someone new?

That is your newsletter.
Your lived experience is already a content strategy.

Posting frequency?

Start small.

I went:
→ weekly → twice weekly → three times → daily

because I could, not because I “should.”

Your frequency should match your workflow and the goals you have for it.

Everyone assumes newsletters only make money when you have a massive audience.

Wrong.

Tiny newsletters are printing money every day.

Here’s how I’m doing it:

If your open rates are solid, you’ll start getting weekly ad offers.
I get ~60 a week. Many pay $2–$4 per click.

You choose the ads, not them.

You can have:
➤ 3 ads per email
➤ readers pay nothing
➤ you get paid when they click ads

And that’s just one stream.

PDFs, guides, ebooks.
Your newsletter becomes both the shop and the marketing engine. You can do it directly through BeeHiiv like:

Flat-fee deals you negotiate yourself. You can even sponsor your own products or create manual sponsorships.

Partial paywalls inside an article.
Free readers get the setup.
Paid readers get the sauce.

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Everybody loves big subscriber counts.

But inboxes don’t care about your ego they care about your audience behavior.

Your deliverability depends on:

A healthy list beats a big list every single time.

And Beehiiv’s analytics make this stupidly easy to track:

It turns growth into a shared ecosystem, not a solo grind.

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Because newsletters flip the power dynamic.

On social platforms, you’re disposable.
In someone’s inbox, you’re intentional.

A newsletter is:

And deeper than that?

It’s service.

You stop screaming into the void… and start speaking to your people.

Pick ONE of these and knock it out in the next 7 days:

⤷ Create a basic landing page for your newsletter

⤷ Draft a welcome email (who you are, what you send, how often)

⤷ Write a list of 5 topics your community already asks you about

Don’t overcomplicate it.

If you need help, I’m happy to hop on a call with you. Book it here:

I’ll see you on the next one.
- AUNY 🧡

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