The Step-by-Step Playbook We Used to Build a $100M+ Newsletter Business

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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💰 Get the Side Hustle Ideas Database [free] Episode 693: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Alex Lieberman ( https://x.com/businessbarista ) and Austin Rief ( https://x.com/austin_rief ) about how to build a profitable newsletter. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:12) 0 to 100K subscribers (9:18) Nontraditional hires (15:26) 100K to 1M subscribers (35:00) Entrepreneurs Operating System (43:27) 8-figure Exits (55:28) How to start a newsletter in 2025 (1:02:57) Newsletter ideas — Links: • The Hustle - https://thehustle.co/ • Morning Brew - https://www.morningbrew.com/ • Traction - https://tinyurl.com/5dfh3nx9 • Arena Magazine - https://arenamag.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	I still think the big opportunity in the media space,
0:02.1	if someone's take a big swing,
0:03.8	someone wants to go build a billion dollar company,
0:06.8	it's,
0:07.4	I feel like I can rule the world,
0:09.4	I know I could be what I want to.
0:12.2	I put my all in it like no days off.
0:14.7	On a road, let's travel, never looking back.
0:16.6	So say, what were you saying earlier, how you hated me?
0:19.3	No, you didn't hate me.
0:20.3	No, I didn't hate you.
0:22.0	Like, I hated you.
0:23.4	Just to be clear, I hated you.
0:26.1	I, I did not hate you.
0:27.3	Like, I feel like also part of like my schick has always been, like, I don't hate anyone.
0:32.0	I try to kill people with kindness.
0:33.7	I try, like, people have to feel like douchebags for hating me because there's no way to hate me.
0:38.0	Like, I feel like that was my MO for a while.
0:40.0	But I remember, yeah, I remember being on the phone with Tim Shah.
0:43.9	And he was investor in the hustle also, right?
0:46.2	Yeah, I was so mad at him for investing in both of our companies.
0:49.2	I was so angry.
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