Growth In Reverse
Hitting 50k newsletter subscribers isn't easy. But the Growth In Reverse podcast reveals how newsletters are doing it. Chenell Basilio has …
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Growth In Reverse
Hitting 50k newsletter subscribers isn't easy. But the Growth In Reverse podcast reveals how newsletters are doing it. Chenell Basilio has spent the past 2+ years and thousands of hours reverse engineering how the biggest newsletter creators in the world have grown audiences of 50,000 to 1M subscrib...
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April 23, 2025
The Cross-Promo Playbook: Strategies That Actually Work (Without Wasting Time)
Get 30 proven strategies to grow and optimize your email list FREE >> We're diving into one of the most underrated growth strategies out there: collaborations and cross-promotions . Whether you're building a newsletter, launc...
April 20, 2025
30 Proven Ways to Grow Your Newsletter (this episode will self-destruct in 7 days....)
Here's the scoop: I'm launching a free 30-day, pop-up newsletter called 30 Days of Growth . It's going to feature 30 different tactics to either grow or optimize your newsletter from creators like Jay Clouse , Amanda Goetz , ...
April 16, 2025
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April 9, 2025
How “IV Content” Fuels the Fastest-Growing Newsletters—to 50k and Beyond (NMS Talk)
This special edition of the Growth In Reverse podcast is the full live talk I gave at the Newsletter Marketing Summit in Austin TX this past February. Over the past two years, I’ve studied the growth of the most successful ne...
April 2, 2025
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March 26, 2025
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