Nathan Barry Archive

062: Ellen Hyslop - Turn Your Pain Points Into a 400K Subscriber Newsletter

Feb 28, 2022

01:01:44

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Episode guests

Ellen Hyslop

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Episode notes

What's the Advantage of a Paid Subscription?

02:23

Cost of Acquisition - What's the Cost Per Subscriber?

02:03

Nech Communities - I Love It!

02:39

Introduction

2min

The Idea for the Gist

2min

Bata Tests

2min

How Did You Get the First 100 Subscribers?

2min

How Did It All Come to Be?

2min

What Are Your Aspirations for Converket?

2min

Accelerate Accelerator - How Long Did It Take?

3min

Refurrels

3min

Is There a Local Market?

2min

10.

How to Grow the News Letter?

2min

11.

How Do You Get High Quality Subscribers?

4min

12.

Cost of Acquisition - What's the Cost Per Subscriber?

2min

13.

How Do You Scale Up Overtime?

3min

14.

Do You Know the Demographics of Your Subscribers?

2min

15.

Is There a Niche for Women Writing?

3min

16.

Nech Communities - I Love It!

3min

17.

The Future Revenue Model Is Still Up in the Air

3min

18.

What's the Advantage of a Paid Subscription?

2min

19.

The Podcast Planting All This

4min

20.

How Do You Build a Team of Writers to Run the News Lettert?

3min

21.

The Secret Sauce at the End of the Day

3min

22.

How Do You Write a News Letter?

5min

23.

How to Build a Boot Strapped Company?

2min

In this episode, I talk to Ellen Hyslop, Co-Founder of The Gist.

The Gist is a newsletter all about sports, written entirely by women. Ellen and her co-founders have scaled a massive team to 20 people. They’ve grown The Gist to almost 400,000 subscribers, and they’re earning fantastic revenue from it.

Ellen talks about how they grew The Gist in the early days. She also talks about their process of testing, how they launched with a launch party, and a bunch of other things.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

How to get subscribers when you’re first starting out
Why you need to create a style guide for writing your newsletter
Tips for growing your newsletter to 400K subscribers
When niching down can lead to more revenue

Links & Resources

The Gist Co-Founder Jacie deHoop
The Gist Co-Founder Roslyn McLarty

Ellen Hyslop’s Links

The Gist website
The Gist newsletter
The Gist of It podcast
Follow Ellen on Instagram

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Nathan Barry Archive

062: Ellen Hyslop - Turn Your Pain Points Into a 400K Subscriber Newsletter

Episode guests

What's the Advantage of a Paid Subscription?

Cost of Acquisition - What's the Cost Per Subscriber?

Nech Communities - I Love It!

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