Growth methods
Paid
Free

Free recommendations

What is it?

Use a free recommendations tool like SparkLoop Upscribe to partner up with other, relevant newsletters in your niche.

When someone subscribes to your partner's newsletter, they'll see your newsletter recommended in a pop-up widget. And vice versa when people sign up with you.

You can reach out to other newsletters you already know and admire in your niche. Or discover relevant newsletters to contact from SparkLoop's directory of newsletters.

By partnering up with 3-4 other newsletters growing at a similar speed to yours, you can all grow 2-3x faster with recommendations for free. And the subscribers are super high quality...

Justin Welsh adds thousands of subscribers per week from recommendations, who spend $10k/month on his products!

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Ideal for
Beginner (< 500 subs or < $5k revenue)
Early Stage (< 5k subs or < $50k revenue)
newsletters
... in the
B2B
consumer
finance
local
news/entertainment
space

The Good and the Bad

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Examples of how to crush it

Justin Welsh

Justin Welsh has added over 90k subscribers from free recommendations inside of ConvertKit's Creator Network. Directly resulting in more than $200k of revenue from product sales so far.

Why We Buy newsletter

Katelyn Bourgoin more than doubled the growth rate of her Why We Buy newsletter when she started using SparkLoop Upscribe to partner up with creators in the marketing space on free recommendations.

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