This week Sparkloop shared a great breakdown of how to use merch and swag as rewards for your referral program. Referrals are an increasingly popular way to grow your newsletters and some like Morning Brew have perfected it. Have you tried launching a referral program? And if so how successful (or not) has it been?

And this week's featured newsletters cover the creator economy, book recommendations, fiction set in NYC, crypto, and more!

Articles & Tools

Referral Rewards 101: Guide to using merch & swag as rewards — sparkloop.app

Top tips for how to use swag as a reward and explode your newsletter growth

Newsletters are here to stay. But media brands must fight to keep their writers — mediatel.co.uk

Many high-profile journalists have left their roles at big media brands to launch their own independent newsletters.

CleanMyMails — cleanmymails.com

Email checker tool will clean your mailing list and increase deliverability rate up to 99%.

Growing A Local News Business with Ryan Sneddon — www.newslettercrew.com

A great interview with the creator of Naptown Scoop a community-based news newsletter.

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Actionable SEO tips – get more site traffic — compassdigitalstrategies.com

SEO Domination is your no-fuss SEO newsletter brimming with tools and tips to help you really understand search engine optimization.

Featured Newsletters

Reading Under the Radar — inboxreads.co

Get weekly recommendations for a book that has flown under the radar and missed mainstream coverage.

IdeaEconomy.net — inboxreads.co

The weekly digest of the creator economy. Grow your audience. Build your business. Get the best content of the week for online entrepreneurs.

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The Tilt — www.thetilt.com

The latest news, how-tos & training to help creators be financially successful.

The Journey by Julia Blum — inboxreads.co

Psychonaut Julia Blum takes you on the journey inward to unlock the power of psychedelic healing.

Hustle Fuel — inboxreads.co

An alchemy of the people, knowledge and money it takes to go from creation to commercialization of tech.

New York City Hours — inboxreads.co

New York City Hours is a weekly vignette about the fictitious characters that jaywalk the avenues of our minds.

The Global Tiller — inboxreads.co

The Global Tiller is a weekly newsletter produced by Pacific Ventury. We look at global trends emerging since the Covid-19 pandemic and ask critical questions of what the future could look like.

Rabbit Ideas — inboxreads.co

Find useful online resources and share them with you so you don't have to search.

CRYPTO CLUB — inboxreads.co

Get explanations of Crypto-Blockchain-DeFi so you can achieve financial freedom through cryptocurrency and escape fiat money inflation.

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