How To START A NEWSLETTER + 5 Profitable Niches To Explore

Summary

With social media algorithms frustrating content creators, newsletters are becoming extremely profitable revenue streams. Five lucrative newsletter niches include business and marketing, finance and trading, health and wellness, personal essays, and technology. You can start a free newsletter on Beehive with affiliate links and sponsorships. Convert social media audiences into email subscribers and send them tailored content to monetize. Business and marketing newsletters generate money through HubSpot sponsorships or promoting useful products. Finance newsletters explain complex topics simply, charging subscriptions. Share health recipes and fitness advice using affiliate links. Essay writers build paid subscription models around their thoughts and opinions. And technology companies will pay to sponsor your tech product reviews.

Takeaways

• 😊 Newsletters are becoming popular and profitable revenue streams for professionals, creators and educators
• 👍🏻 You can make thousands per month from newsletters via affiliate links, sponsorships and subscriptions
• 📰 Newsletters give you full control over reaching your audience unlike unpredictable social media algorithms
• 💡 The best part - you can start a newsletter for free without any upfront investment
• 📧 Beehive is a great free platform to get started with building your mailing list and monetizing it
• 🏢 Business/marketing newsletters can score sponsorships and affiliate commissions from major brands
• 💹 Finance/trading newsletters cater to audiences keen to learn - subscriptions work well
• 🏋️‍♀️ Health/wellness newsletters can promote discounts and affiliate products to engage readers
• ✍️ Personal essay newsletters build loyal followers - charge subscriptions for premium content
• 👨‍💻 Tech newsletters attract sponsorships and utilize affiliate programs due to industry budgets

Q & A

What are some of the benefits of starting a newsletter?

Newsletters allow you to directly reach your audience and are not restricted by social media algorithms. They also provide opportunities to generate revenue through affiliate links, sponsorships, and subscriptions.

What platform does the speaker recommend for starting a newsletter?

The speaker recommends using Beehive. It is an all-in-one platform to help grow your subscriber list, engage with subscribers, and monetize your newsletter. It also has a free plan for up to 2,500 subscribers.

What is an example of a successful business and marketing newsletter?

Two examples given in the script are Morning Brew and The Hustle. Both have millions of subscribers and have been acquired for millions of dollars.

How can you monetize a finance and trading newsletter?

You can use sponsorships, affiliate links, or a subscription model. There are many finance companies looking to reach specific audiences that may want to partner through sponsorships or affiliate programs.

What health and wellness brands have good affiliate programs?

Some health and wellness brands mentioned that offer affiliate programs are Fitbit, iHerb, and Lululemon.

What types of writers are leveraging newsletters effectively?

The script mentions writers who have built audiences on platforms like Instagram struggle with the visual element. Newsletters allow them to better monetize their writing through subscriptions.

What technology newsletter has over 1 million subscribers?

TLDR is used as an example in the script of a popular tech newsletter with over 1.25 million subscribers.

Can you start a newsletter for free?

Yes, Beehive offers a free trial for up to 2,500 subscribers to help get your newsletter started at no cost initially.

What are some niche areas that newsletters can focus on?

Some niche examples given are business/marketing, finance/trading, health/wellness, personal essays, and technology.

How can a newsletter be monetized?

A newsletter can generate revenue through affiliate links, sponsorships, and subscription models.

Outlines

00:00

📝 How to Make Money from Email Newsletters

This paragraph introduces the concept of starting a profitable email newsletter business in 5 niche areas - business/marketing, finance/trading, health/wellness, personal essays, and technology. It highlights reasons why newsletters are becoming popular (beating social media algorithms, connecting with audiences) and gives an overview of platforms, monetization models (sponsorships, affiliate links, subscriptions), and examples.

05:02

💰 Business and Marketing Newsletters

This paragraph dives deeper into the business/marketing niche for newsletters. It suggests differentiation strategies and discusses examples like Morning Brew and The Hustle. It provides specifics around building sponsorship deals and using affiliate links to monetize the audience.

10:03

💵 Other Lucrative Newsletter Niches

This paragraph briefly covers other potentially lucrative niches such as finance/trading, health/wellness, personal essays, and technology. It gives examples like The Milk Road and TLDR newsletters and discusses multiple monetization models including subscriptions.

😊 Final Call to Action

This concluding paragraph encourages the viewer to get started with their own newsletter right away using the Beehive platform. It directs them to a link and additional video for more details on growing and monetizing their list.

Keywords

💡newsletter

A newsletter is a regularly distributed publication generally about one main topic that is of interest to its subscribers. In the context of this video, newsletters are promoted as a profitable way for creators, influencers and business owners to generate revenue and connect with their audience outside of unpredictable social media algorithms.

💡subscribers

Subscribers refer to the people who sign up to receive a newsletter. Having more newsletter subscribers means having a larger reach and audience for your content compared to fickle social media followers. The video cites that once someone subscribes to your newsletter, they are guaranteed to receive every email you send out.

💡sponsorships

Sponsorships involve having a brand pay to be featured or promoted in your newsletter content. The video mentions newsletters can make thousands per month from sponsorships if you build a sizable subscriber list of 10,000+ people. Large brands want exposure to niche, targeted audiences.

💡affiliate links

Affiliate links allow you to earn commission when someone clicks your link and buys a product or service. Adding affiliate links to recommended products in your newsletter content is noted as an easy way to monetize, especially when starting out.

💡subscriptions

Subscriptions refer to charging people a fee (e.g. monthly) to access premium newsletter content and make it a paid offering. This video states personal essay/opinion and finance newsletters often use subscriptions successfully once they build authority.

💡algorithms

Algorithms decide which social media content gets shown to users. The video argues creators are getting increasingly frustrated trying to beat algorithms to reach their audience, making newsletters more reliable for connecting with fans.

💡niche

A niche refers to a focused topic or specialization. This video outlines 5 profitable newsletter niches to consider - business/marketing, finance, health, personal essays, and technology.

💡monetize

To monetize something means being able to generate income from it. The video repeatedly states that newsletters represent an excellent way to monetize your audience through avenues like sponsorships and affiliate marketing.

💡partnerships

Partnerships refer to joining affiliate programs or building sponsorship relationships with brands relevant to your niche. This allows you to earn commissions or get paid to feature certain products or services.

💡revenue

Revenue refers to the money earned from business activities. The core premise of this video is that starting a newsletter around your niche can become a significant and predictable revenue stream.

Highlights

Newsletters can make you thousands of dollars per month from affiliate links, sponsorships and subscriptions

Newsletters allow you to connect with your audience in a profitable way, unlike unpredictable social media algorithms

Newsletter subscribers will receive every email you send, giving you total control over reaching your audience

The best newsletter platform to get started for free is Beehive, up to 2,500 subscribers

The business and marketing niche has huge potential for revenue through sponsorships and affiliate links

Finance and trading newsletters can quickly grow subscribers by explaining complex topics simply

The booming health and wellness industry provides opportunities for commissions through affiliate links

Influencers can leverage their audience into newsletter subscriptions with personalized content

Writers are using newsletters for monetizing free content through subscription models

Technology newsletters capitalize on audience demand for updates and sponsorships

tldr newsletter has over 1.25 million tech subscribers with customized content

Newsletters can scale over time, starting small and free then building revenue

Beehive offers a free trial to get started growing and monetizing your subscriber list

Consider business, finance, health, personal content, or technology niches for newsletters

Video shares 5 profitable newsletter niches to leverage for thousands in revenue

Transcripts

let me ask you something do you want to

make thousands of dollars per month

without having to hire a team or have to

hustle your butt off yes well this

business model I'm going to be sharing

more about is fast becoming a popular

and profitable Revenue stream whether

you're a professional a content creator

or an online educator if you love to

write then you're in the right place

because starting a newsletter could be

an amazing side hustle or additional

Revenue stream in your own business I

know what you're thinking but yes a

newsletter can make you thousands of

dollars per month from affiliate links

sponsorships and subscriptions and as

more and more business owners become so

frustrated with the algorithms on social

media newsletters are fast becoming a

way for you to actually generate revenue

and connect with your audience in a way

that is so profitable think about it

like this your ideal client can comes

across your Instagram page for the first

time maybe stalks a couple of your

photos loves what they're seeing gives

you a follow but then they never ever

see content from you again because your

content isn't getting the reach to that

person in contrast imagine if that same

person came across your content whether

it be on social media or maybe YouTube

or a blog or some other platform and you

have a call to action to subscribe to

your newsletter now if that person

subscribes to your newsletter gives you

their email address then they're going

to be receiving every email you send

unlike social media where you are bound

by an algorithm as to whether your

content is actually displayed to your

followers

each subscriber that's on your list will

receive your email newsletter which

means you have total control of your

content so this is why newsletters are

becoming something that a lot of

creators are talking about and saying

you need to get started with an email

newsletter because relying on social

media isn't enough anymore in this video

I'm going to be sharing how you can get

started with your email newsletter in

one of these five profitable niches

right now the best thing about starting

an email newsletter is you don't need

any money to get started you can get

started for free and my favorite

platform to get started with an email

newsletter is beehive it's an all-in-one

platform that helps you grow your list

engage your subscribers and build out a

revenue stream plus it's free up to two

and a half thousand subscribers which is

pretty much the best around so you can

sign up for a free trial using my link

below and check out my video which

shares a whole review of the platform

after you've watched this one so the

first Niche is business and marketing so

this is the niche I've decided to focus

on which is kind of obvious considering

all the content that I create on this

channel but there are a lot of people

focusing on this niche as well so it's

pretty competitive so if you are wanting

to focus on a business and marketing

Niche then you need to create some sort

of differentiation something that makes

you unique and whether that be your tone

of voice the things you talk about or

maybe you do talk about a specific

industry or type of marketing my

newsletter the content Society has a

focus on helping you become a better

creative marketer I share a combination

of my own insights and opinions with

trending news and even our little weekly

meme to bring in some personality some

of the most popular business newsletters

as in millions of subscribers include

morning brew and the hustle both of

which have been acquired for millions of

dollars yep Millions the reason why

business and marketing newsletters are

so profitable is because huge Brands

like HubSpot Squarespace Shopify are

wanting to get in front of audiences

that are interested in this particular

topic so there's two ways you can go

with this one you could go down the

sponsorship angle or the affiliate link

so if you're wanting to go down the

sponsorship Avenue which is the one you

can make the most money from then you

are going to need a sizable list so

generally 10 000 subscribers plus and

you can charge accordingly based on how

many subscribers you have the affiliate

link option is a much simpler one to get

started with especially if you have a

small list you can sign up to a partner

program of one of these big Brands and

then get commission if someone clicks

that link and actually purchases or opts

into their service some of the affiliate

programs I'm a part of are kajabi flow

desk beehive hobby copy and tubebuddy

because these are all products that I

use in my own business but if you're

wanting to find some of the most

profitable affiliate programs then go

and check out my video which shares

seven of these These are the highest

paying and the easiest to share with

your audience number two is finance and

trading so if you are an expert in the

finance Niche or maybe you're in stock

trading or crypto trading or something

like that then people are gonna want to

know what you know if you're able to

communicate this complex Topic in really

simple layman's terms in a newsletter

then you're going to have a million

subscribers so quickly one of the big

players in this space is the milk road

so this is a daily cryptocurrency

newsletter focused on explaining what's

happening in plain English the

newsletter saw subscriber growth from

zero to 250

000 subscribers in just 10 months when I

was acquired again sponsorship and

Affiliates work really well in this

Niche there's loads of finance companies

out there that are wanting to reach

specific audiences and have affiliate

programs or whatever you know build

sponsorship relationships with Brands

but also if you're a true expert in this

Niche and you can provide Extra Value a

subscription model works really well the

third Niche is health and wellness so

this particular industry is booming and

is making billions of dollars per year

from protein powders to yoga pants to

health coaching to online programs this

is such a broad industry that you can be

tapping into and able to leverage in

your email newsletters maybe you're

working in the health and wellness space

and you're a personal trainer or a yoga

teacher and you can be sharing workouts

or recipes or some other piece of

content that's really interesting and

engaging for your audience and then you

can add some affiliate links to those

products like protein powders or

supplements that often offer a discount

for their Partners so that means that

you can be passing on some sort of

discount which acts as an incentive for

your subscribers to actually buy and

then you make a commission from that

purchase so it's really a win-win for

both you and these health and wellness

Brands this works particularly well if

you're already an influence are in the

niche maybe you've built a Instagram

following or a tick tock following and

you're already building some of these

relationships and these Partnerships you

can just convert these into your

newsletter as well some of the brands

you might want to look into are Fitbit

iherb and Lululemon who offer affiliate

programs and they're all really popular

brands and trusted brands that your

audience is going to love Niche number

four is personal essays so if you love

writing and you've built an audience

whether this be on social media Twitter

Instagram or you've actually created a

blog or you're creating content on

medium then your personal essays can be

a really nice way to build that

relationship and your personal brand

with your audience so as an influencer

or a content creator you may be an

expert in a particular Niche or have had

experience doing something that your

audience wants to know more about and

really dive into telling that personal

story each week and draw on your

experience to share how to's or strategy

days or even opinion pieces about what's

happening in the industry you're

involved in I've noticed a lot of

writers diving into this space because

platforms like Instagram have never felt

quite right because that visual element

is a really tricky component for them to

create so they're leveraging newsletters

to take their free content and actually

start making money from it build on

whatever your audience loves you for

those opinions and thoughts and charge a

subscription model so this may mean that

you have a free version of your

newsletter as well as a paid version or

it may be that a portion of your

newsletter is free with the rest being

paid and these work really well

especially if you're a really

interesting writer you've got

interesting thoughts on particular

topics and people can be so engaged with

the content that you're creating

obviously you can still add affiliate

links and sponsorships but I'm finding

that that subscription model works

really well even if it's just five

dollars a month which is a total

no-brainer for people that love what

you're up to that love your opinion love

your thoughts and they can be receiving

that Weekly email or bi-weekly email and

Niche number five is technology so not

only do people that are interested in

technology want to sign up for

newsletters about technology updates

because they want to be the first to

know but technology companies generally

have pretty Deep Pockets so from that

sponsorship and affiliate angle you can

start building those Partnerships and

make revenue from the content that

you're sharing the news updates the

reviews or the opinion pieces that you

can include in your newsletter tldr is

the perfect example of a newsletter

honing in on this Niche now with 1.25

million subscribers so not only do they

have one newsletter that goes out to the

entire list each day they also allow you

to segment yourself based on specific

Tech interests you have which means

you'll receive more relevant content

based on what it is you're interested in

obviously this is a big newsletter

they've got lots of writers so they able

to do stuff like this but that's that

scalability so from a newsletter you can

start off really small start off for

free and then build and build and build

so if you are wanting to get started

straight away for free then go and check

out beehive via the link below and sign

up for that free trial and don't forget

to watch my review video which goes into

detail about how beehive is such an

incredible platform to help you grow

your list and monetize it so quickly so

I hope you love this video if you did

give it a thumbs up and thanks for

watching I will be back here with

another video I Know You're Gonna Love

so until then bye for now