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The Best Paid Newsletter Tech Stack

As the team behind The Browser Newsletter [https://thebrowser.com/], one of the pioneers of the paid newsletter renaissance, we've tried everything in our search for the best technology for professional publishing. When we started our newsletter we had to connect Wordpress to Mailchimp to Stripe all by ourselves; when

Little Tip: Reply To New Subscribers

This is a tip from Craig Mod [https://craigmod.com/essays/on_writing_good_newsletters/] (in a post full of great tips – check it out!): it doesn't take much effort to reply to new subscribers and sometimes recipients are disproportionately impressed that they heard from the publisher. It's literally as

Chat Widgets

One of those little boxes on your site that lets people send you an email (or instant chat) directly from there, without opening their email client.

Little Tip: Gmail Search For Archive

It's a stupid tip, but the best fully-searchable archive you will ever have for your newsletter is your gmail archive.

Jailbreaking subscriber feed from Substack

How to get a live, usable feed of new subscribers (free or paid) from Substack publications, via Zapier.

Newsletter Failsafe

A "failsafe" system that sends you an email if your newsletter hasn't gone out by a certain time each day