I made a huge change with my email newsletter last month. I switched to beehiiv! And here's why.

(use my special code ‘LYNN30’ for 30% off your first three months!)

So, I've been sending The Resource Room (this newsletter) to 20k+ people every single week for years. And it hit me one day: why am I only using this newsletter to sell my Canva courses? Why aren't I monetizing the newsletter itself?

And so, I stumbled upon beehiiv. A tool that turns your email newsletter into a digital product that sells on autopilot. Combined with other features like a full-blown website, digital products, subscriptions, and even a podcast.. It’s the full content creators dream platform!

Let me walk you trough it.

First thing I really love about beehiiv is the main dashboard that shows your recent results and overall growth. From newsletter numbers, ads, to actual digital product sales. All in one overview.

The Resource Room (this email newsletter) has 20,000 subscribers with a 31% open rate. That’s way above the normal open rate of 20%. Also my click rate went up from 1.3% to 2.4%, in just 30 days!

With the beehiiv website builder you can build a website on your own domain, that integrates your email newsletter, digital products, subscriptions, and you can now even launch your own podcast. You can showcase and sell it all trough your own website, including full SEO settings and statistics.

And even if you only use the website builder as a newsletter archive, you’ll have so much benefit of the website builder. Because subscribers can already see what to expect from your newsletter, making them more excited to sign up.

Here’s an example of the start of The Resource Room:

Now, it’s nice to have a pretty looking website.. But how are people going to find you? AKA.. How can you build your audience? Of course you can share your newsletter trough your social media content and link in bio, but there’s another amazing tool inside beehiiv that can give you that extra growth push.

It’s called the Recommendation Network: where creators recommend each other's newsletters.

Every person that signs up for my newsletter will get my 4 recommendations of other beehiiv newsletter creators, that might be interesting for my audience too. They can decide for themselves if they’d like to sign up for these newsletters too.

This also works the other way around: other creators can recommend my newsletter to their audience. So we can boost each others audiences without lifting a finger.

This tool made me money the first time I used it: the Ad Network. While writing my newsletter, I can check the ad network and browse available offers that are interesting for my audience.

Just press the forward slash / while typing, and you’ll get an overview of available ads.

If people click the ad, you make money. It’s that simple.

Last week I added my first add to my newsletter. 62 people clicked on this add to check out the article, what made me an extra $64.50 from sending just one newsletter.

Let’s do the math: doing this every week, it pays for my full beehiiv subscription. So I’m basically running my website, email marketing, digital products, and subscription for free. Without any extra work for me. This seriously blows my mind!

Let’s be honest: recurring revenue beats single sales 100%. And with beehiiv you can easily make this your reality, by turning your newsletter into a subscription.

How it works: People can sign up for your free plan, where they receive one newsletter a week. Or they can sign up for your paid plan, where they get an extra newsletter a week. Or they get access to special resources, extra tutorial videos, etc. You can get very creative with this.

For example: I divided my newsletters into a free and paid section. Free members get access to the the first (more theoretical) part of my newsletter, and paid members get access to the full article, including an in-depth video tutorial + a pre-made template.

The first 8 people that joined my paid plan, made me an extra €56 per month (MRR) and €672 in annual recurring revenue (ARR). That’s almost $800 with today’s exchange rate. That’s wild!

beehiiv offers a special trial so you can test everything risk-free. After using it for only 30 days I can already say it’s an amazing investment for my business.

Use Code ‘LYNN30’ for 30% off your first three months

Scroll down for some free resources to help you get started.

I made 3 free email templates you can use right now. They’re already available in the beehiiv template library ↓

Plus 3 videos showing you how everything works:

Have fun checking it out and feel free to ask me any questions. I’m just an email away!

xx Lynn