Let's create the first opportunity ourselves. If you're open to a cross-promo or a recommendation swap, post below with:
Your newsletter and its niche
Your list size (rough is fine)
What kind of partner are you looking for
Scroll the replies, find a fit, and take it to DMs. Jobs and gigs deserve their own visibility, so start a new post for those anytime.
I'm Cagri, one of the founders of HeyNews. I've spent my career in SEO and growth, and I've written more newsletter issues than I can count, most of them the slow way. That's roughly why HeyNews exists.
Your turn. Three things:
1. Who you are and what you do
2. What you're building: a newsletter, a media brand, a company publication, or just an idea so far
3. One thing you could use help with
That last one matters. It gives the rest of us a reason to reply.
To get this channel going: post any newsletter question below, and I'll answer it personally. Whether it's growth, monetization, writing workflow, deliverability, or using AI without sounding like AI, whatever you're stuck on.
No question is too basic. The "dumb" questions usually help the most people, because everyone else was too embarrassed to ask.
Every new issue of the HeyNews Newsletter shows up here as it goes out.
Each issue gets its own thread. Comment with what you'd push back on, what you tried after reading, or what we should cover next. The newsletter is written for the people in this room, so this is also where we take requests.
This community is now open. Whether you run a newsletter, write for one, or you're still deciding whether to start, you're in the right place.
Quick channel map:
- Intros is where you say hi.
- Ask for Help is for questions and feedback.
- Wins and Show & Tell are for sharing what worked and what you made.
- Opportunities covers jobs, gigs, and cross-promos.
- Resources is for tools and links worth passing on. And every new issue of the HeyNews Newsletter lands in Hot Off the Press for discussion.
One ground rule to start: be generous. Answer questions when you can, and when you share your own stuff, do it in Show & Tell or Opportunities with enough context to be useful to others.
Go post an intro. We read everything.
Nineteen out of twenty readers won't act this week. Here's what to do with them.
The one-person everything department might fail you harder than you think.
And you thought your prompting would handle everything perfectly.
But your subscribers will always remember you, even if they unsubscribe.
Consistency looks like nothing, until it looks like everything.
And it's worth more than your next ten issues
Also seems like the newsletter folks are running away from platform taxing.
Connect your archive. Generate one issue. Decide from there.
Production drag is the problem. HeyNews launches next Tuesday, you can join in now.
The $315 receipt hiding in your week.
To begin with, at least.
Of course you can keep pretending otherwise
Go ahead and find out.
Oh boy, you've been asking for it, haven't you?
There's a fix. It takes about 60 seconds.
Chaos reigns.
For everyone building a newsletter, whether you write it yourself or your team runs it for you. Solo creators, marketers, and company teams swap what's working in growth and workflow, compare notes on AI writing, and get an early look at what we're building at HeyNews. Thinking about starting a newsletter? This is a good place to ask the dumb questions.
