Podcast Episodes

How to grow your audience in a post-Facebook world

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Earlier this month, I sent a newsletter to my audience with the subject line: "Ask me a question." …

2 years, 3 months ago

How William Knight built Early Morning Media, a B2B newsletter company

Before William Knight launched Early Morning Media, he had worked for years at a company that specialized in sending press clippings to corporate cli…

2 years, 3 months ago

How Tom Arbuthnot built Empowering Cloud, a media comapany focused on Microsoft cloud products

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The rise of cloud computing introduced all sorts of benefits for the enterprise software space. No…

2 years, 4 months ago

How CJ Gustafson built Mostly Metrics, a newsletter for CFOs

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I think everyone likes to think of themselves as being financially savvy, especially if, like me, y…

2 years, 4 months ago

How Sam Koslowski helped build The Daily Aus, a social first media outlet in Australia

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For most of Instagram's existence, it wasn't thought of as a platform for distributing news, but a …

2 years, 4 months ago

The state of newsletter advertising in 2024

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Ask about just any media executive, and they'll tell you that the year 2023 was not a …

2 years, 4 months ago

How Riad Chikhani built GAMURS Group, one of the largest gaming media companies in the world

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By the time Riad Chikhani was 16 years old, he had already built a hugely successful online communi…

2 years, 4 months ago

How to monetize newsletters on LinkedIn

Earlier this month, I sent a newsletter to my audience with the subject line: "Ask me a question." Basically I told everyone to jump in the comments …

2 years, 5 months ago

How Jack Kramer and Nick Martell sold their media company to Robinhood and then bought it back

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When Jack Karmer and Nick Martell launched their daily newsletter Market Snacks in 2011, they kept …

2 years, 5 months ago

How Cityside built a sustainable model for local news

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It's no secret that local journalism has struggled since the Great Recessions, with hundreds of new…

2 years, 5 months ago