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10 unconventional things I'm doing to grow my newsletter 📈

40,000 subscribers, baby!

May 23 •

Your #1 marketing channel is people's egos 🍌

How we generated 1,000+ social shares (for free)

Apr 25 •

Color psychology is mostly nonsense 🌈

(Here's what actually works)

Feb 21 •

How to "hook" in exactly 3 seconds 🎣

Every successful ad follows this 3-second pattern (+my favorite examples)

Jan 3 •

The world's funniest marketing tricks (that made millions) 🧪

Try them yourself — 13 bizarre marketing ideas that actually work

Dec 13, 2024 •

Mini tools are 10x more powerful than free trials ⚙️

How "mini tools" are secretly fueling billion-dollar startups (and how you can create your own in 24 hours)

Aug 30, 2024 •

How I grew this newsletter from 0 to 18K in one year 🎉

Your ultimate Substack growth playbook

Aug 2, 2024 •

The marketing playbook for the 1%

Never run out of growth ideas again ✨ 120+ tactics inside

Aug 1, 2024 •

How to transform 'boring' content into viral hits (in 30 minutes) ✨

5 secrets to breaking the internet—even with the most serious topics

Jan 12, 2024 •

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The BIGGEST Marketing Ideas of 2024 🔥 (cheat sheet)

Hot tactics from Slack, Miro, Airbnb, Twilio, Okta, mmm, Readwise and more

Jan 5, 2024 •

The new trend of ABSURD pricing plans ❌

Ridiculously expensive pricing tiers are... actually a PR goldmine

Dec 22, 2023 •

The ‘playground’ trick for more sign ups 🛝

The most powerful CTA? Definitely not "Book a Demo"

Nov 24, 2023 •

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