I'm a designer who turned into a writer who turned into a startup CEO. My mission is to help creators earn a living. Subscribe for essays on building an audience and earning a living as a creator.
I launched a new podcast
I'm so excited to finally share this with you! I've been working on this podcast for a while now and the first episode is out this week.
The Art of Newsletters explores what it takes to consistently write and grow a great newsletter. Since ConvertKit runs the most popular newsletters on the web, I'm in a unique position to get behind-the-scenes stories from these creators.
It's a weekly show (new episodes every Monday) published to YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. I'm also uploading short clips to all my social channels.
Subscribe here:
- Apple Podcasts
- Spotify
- RSS
- YouTube: Full episodes / Clips
- Instagram
The separate accounts for Instagram and YouTube are to split it out from my regular content and share in a format that each algorithm likes to recommend.
THE FIRST EPISODE
Mastering Twitter with David Perell
David Perell is known as “The Writing Guy” on Twitter, but did you know his email newsletter has over 40,000 subscribers? Not only that, but he sends THREE newsletters a week… every week!
In this in-depth conversation, David shares exactly how he uses Twitter to grow his audience, how he maintains consistency with such a high rate of output, and how he’s built an amazingly profitable business by monetizing his newsletters with his breakthrough writing course.
FROM CREATOR SESSIONS
Ingrid Andress
Ingrid's session was awesome! She's so talented and funny, and she shared really openly during her session. She's both a singer and a songwriter and I loved hearing about her process and some of the secrets to writing a great song. She has been nominated for 3 grammys and we were so excited to have her join us!
WHAT I'M READING
Billionaires Build by Paul Graham
This was a great essay, particularly for entrepreneurs and creators. Graham is a partner at Y Combinator, the famous startup accelerator. He has seen thousands of founders come and go, and shares what he's learned from them here. There were many golden nuggets in here, like this one:
Read the full article here »
Thanks for joining me this week!
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Nathan Barry
I'm a designer who turned into a writer who turned into a startup CEO. My mission is to help creators earn a living. Subscribe for essays on building an audience and earning a living as a creator.
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