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Jim Bennet, SubscriblyEveryone can write. Few can be read. Subscribly is a weekly reminder of the difference - and a field manual for closing the gap.
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The essay you're proudest of is probably the one nobody remembered.
Look at your last twenty essays.
Pick the three you’re proudest of. The ones where the sentences landed exactly right. Where the structure held. Where you felt, when you finished, that you’d produced something good.
Now look at the metric...
Writing isn't how you communicate what you think, it's how you find out what you think
You have this backwards.
You believe writing is what happens after thinking. First you think about the topic. Then, once you know what you want to say, you sit down to write it.
That’s not writing. That’s transcription.
Actual writing -...
You've been writing for algorithms. That's why humans stopped reading you.
You’ve spent the last year learning what platforms want.
You studied the headline formulas that get clicks. You learned the hook structures that boost open rates. You noticed which words get flagged and which get promoted. You adopted the...
You've been trying to become the wrong writer.
There is a specific writer you’ve been trying to become.
You didn’t design them. They emerged, slowly, from years of reading writers you envied. A little of one person’s rhythm. A little of another’s structure. A splash of someone’s swagge...
How to write emails people actually open
Most newsletter creators are haemorrhaging opens because of one thing:
Bad subject lines.
I know this because I used to be one of them.
My first newsletter? 22% open rate. Pathetic.
Today? I consistently hit 55-65% open rates on Subscri...
Audience Metrics
Subscribers, engagement, traffic and sponsorship for Subscribly.
| Subscribers | Engagement | 74 | Monthly Web Visits | ||
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The writer is the last honest profession. Subscribly is for the ones still practicing it - short, dense essays on craft, thought, and the sentences that separate you from the noise.
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