419: Zero to $50k: How to Grow and Monetize an Email Newsletter

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Zero to 55k subscribers and $50k in revenue in 8 months?

That’s exactly what Codie Sanchez with Contrarian Thinking, her newsletter about investing and entrepreneurship.

Codie's a former journalist, turned institutional investor, turned online business owner.

I've thought about content businesses mostly in the context of blogging, podcasting, or video -- but what if email is your content channel?

After all, the challenge that many other content channels face is "how to get people to join your list."

Codie's model, in a true "contrarian" way, cuts out that middleman.

This episode is sure to have you thinking a little differently about how you approach building an audience and building an online business.

Tune in to hear:

what you might create a newsletter about
what makes newsletters such an interesting business model
how Codie’s grown and monetized her's so far

Full Show Notes: Zero to $50k: How to Grow and Monetize an Email Newsletter

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0:00.0	This side hustle is like Hansel. So hot right now.
0:07.1	What's up? What's up? Nick Loper here. Welcome to the side hustle show because if you think like
0:11.3	everyone else, you can't be surprised when you end up like everyone else.
0:15.2	Today's guest has built an entire side hustle around thinking differently,
0:19.4	especially when it comes to investing in entrepreneurship.
0:22.4	She's a former journalist turned. when it comes to investing in entrepreneurship.
0:22.6	She's a former journalist turned institutional investor
0:26.3	turned now online business owner.
0:28.9	Cody Sanchez has grown her contrarian thinking,
0:31.8	email newsletter to over 55,000 subscribers in just eight
0:35.9	months and this episode is sure to have you thinking a little differently about how
0:40.3	you approach building an audience and building an online business.
0:44.0	Stick around to hear what you might create a newsletter about,
0:47.3	what makes them such an interesting business model right now,
0:50.2	and how Cody's grown and monetized her so far to the tune of 50 grand just in the last few months.
0:57.0	Notes and links for this one along with the full text summary of our call are at
1:00.8	Side Hustle Nation.com slash Cody, C-O-D-I-E.
1:05.8	This edition of the Sine Hustle Show
1:07.6	is sponsored by H-Refts, one of the most important tools
1:10.4	that I use in my business.
1:12.1	H-R-E-F's is incredibly powerful SEO software.
1:15.0	I'm talking about bank link analysis,
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