Guides
Guides and tutorials to help you build a better newsletter, level up with your tools, created for and by the Mailing List Hackers community. Sharing everything we know!
How to start a newsletter with Substack
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In this video, I'll show you how to start a newsletter in a little under twenty minutes with Substack. Watch on YouTubeIn a recent survey I took of subscribers to the Mailing List Hackers project on Product Hunt, the majority of them said that they don't have a newsletter, but
ConvertKit Tags vs. Segments — what's the difference? (Video Tutorial)
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In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the basics of ConvertKit tags and segments. You'll learn: How to create your first ConvertKit tagAdding subscribers to a tagUsing ConvertKit's broadcast feature to send emails to tagged members- Creating segments from tagsUsing link automation to tag users when they click links in
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ConvertKit Tutorial for Beginners: our complete video guide [2020]
Exclusive to Paid Members
In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the basics of ConvertKit, an email marketing tool. You'll learn how to: Create a landing page for capturing subscribersView subscriber dataCreate your first email broadcastLook at broadcast analytics, like open rate, and click rateIf you don't have a ConvertKit account yet, sign up
Creating a member-supported blog, using Ghost and Stripe
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Business and technology writer Ben Thompson's blog Stratechery is an incredibly successful example of membership-based content at work: Ben is reported to be earning over $200k in revenue a year from the site. In this guide, I'll show you how to set up a member-supported blog like Stratechery, allowing you
How to set up Mailgun for your Ghost blog
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In this (hopefully short!) tutorial, I'll show you how to set up Mailgun on your Ghost blog. A number of Ghost features, including inviting authors, resetting passwords, and more recently, handling login for Ghost's Members functionality -- as detailed in our "Setting up a membership program for your Ghost blog"
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