Aakash Gupta

90K subscribers 🤯 5 Lessons for aspiring newsletter writers: 1. Just get writing Too many people get hung up on their topic, their niche, and their unreasonably high quality bar. At first, your quality won't be great. Your content format will be wrong. But you can't improve either without publishing into the world. My first format was company deep-dives. That's still something I do, but more like 6x per year - not 1x per week. The initial posts seem like they were written by a dumber person with worse writing taste. I cringe when I read them. But I needed those reps to cringe less now. 2. Find your tribe One of the biggest life hacks across any domain is to get a peer group. I have myself mine - several chat groups of newsletter writers in similar niches. These groups are great for understanding I'm not alone. We all get flamed on Reddit. They're also great for encouraging me to do what I need to. I would have never monetized the newsletter and gone full-time without the suggestion of Pawel Huryn, for instance. "You are the sum of the people closest to you." Your tribe makes you who you are. 3. Keep raising the quality bar As you get to writing, you should read your old writing regularly. If you can't read it, no one else will.  Everytime I get bored of one of my own pieces and check my phone... I'm happy! Now I know where the readers are dropping off. Make sure every post you make is better than the last in some way. Publishing is fine and dandy.  But worthless if you keep making the same mistakes.  I've met some writers with 100+ editions and <10K subscribers. If that's the case, you need to refine your quality. 4. Write for you It's really easy to just follow the market or follow the trends. Certainly, I've made this mistake many times. Regrettable web3 pieces? Check Overhyped AI takes? Check Cringe hooks? Check But I've been decreasing their frequency. The question I ask myself is: Would I like this myself? The skeptical version of me that didn't like newsletters three years ago. The one who thought he was super smart already. Writing for this past version of me is my crucial check now. 5. Don't abandon the publishing schedule The dichotomy of writing is you must continuously raise the bar and write for yourself, but... You need to keep up a regular publishing schedule. You can't go full YouTube and go from daily uploading to monthly uploading. Publishing regularly isn't just for your readers, it's also for yourself. The job of newsletter writer is an incredibly tough one. And continuously improving gets harder overt time. You need to assign yourself artificial publishing deadlines to actually push stuff out. P.S. Want to go deeper? https://lnkd.in/gbt3Hk2X -- SUMMARY How to grow your newsletter to 90K: 1. Just get writing 2. Create a peer group 3. Keep raising the quality bar 4. Write for you, not for the market 5. Don't abandon the publishing schedule