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The Newsletter Business: July 22, 2025

Hi there. Time for my semi-periodic (read: haphazardly infrequent) missive on how the business of creating a newsletter business is going. I know some of you are newsletter + email metrics nerds, so let’s get straight to the numbers. - I’ve published 125 issues of Godspeed since March 14

Jul 22, 2025 5 min read

Branding Crossroads: Should a Provocative Newsletter Name Be Rebranded?

Last week I provided a recap of my progress in building a newsletter business, and I got an interesting response. A couple of you commiserated with me about how hard it is to grow a subscriber base. Apparently, this is not an isolated challenge. One reader really piqued my interest

Dec 17, 2024 3 min read

Newsletter Business Update

December, and almost at year’s finish line 🏁, so it must be time for a semi-regular update on the progress of building a newsletter business here at Godspeed. (For new subscribers, (Subscribers = Speeders?), this might be your first update – and when I say they occur semi-regular, I mean semi-regular almost

Dec 12, 2024 3 min read

Building a Newsletter Business: July 2024

An early happy Independence Day to those of you who are reading in the U.S.A. If you're new to Godspeed within the past six months or so, a quick explainer: Every once in awhile we break down progress on this experiment of building a newsletter business

Jul 2, 2024 3 min read

Money = Energy = Community

Awhile back, I wrote about the Impact Multiplier Effect, an economic concept that, applied to social enterprises, serves as a guide for companies to multiply their impact through their B2B spending. I recently published a piece here about the tech media site Platformer switching newsletter platforms, and it got me

Jan 30, 2024 4 min read

Musings and Hopes for 2024

Greetings Earthlings and fellow travelers on this spinning orb, A quick update on year-end readership as some of you have an interest in the mechanics of building a newsletter business. Since reporting two months ago, readership is up by 10% to 158 members. (Still waiting to catch 🔥) Paid supporters increased

Jan 3, 2024 3 min read

Building a Newsletter Business

Before we jump into the newsletter business, be sure to check out this week's Halloween-themed trivia question later in this issue - it's a fun one. So about that newsletter business: It's time to check in, as promised, with progress on building this newsletter

Oct 31, 2023 3 min read

Building a Newsletter for Creators of Impact

This whole newsletter business is a grand experiment to see if I can scale my experience and connections to help entrepreneurs and companies embrace social and environmental impact. So, let's have a look at the experiment with this month's update on building a newsletter business. Over

Sep 12, 2023 4 min read

Learning the Ropes

I promised awhile back to share progress on building a newsletter business. Time for an update, I suppose. First, to the metrics. Godspeed now has 95 subscribers, five of you as paid supporters. (Thank you very much!) I've published 21 issues and written about 17,000 words, which

Jul 25, 2023 3 min read

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