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Growing when you AREN'T a fintech AI b2b SaaS sales content engine
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Growing when you AREN'T a fintech AI b2b SaaS sales content engine

Hey bees. Longtime beehiiv user for my day job, new member of the hiive for a passion project.

I recently launched a weekly literary newsletter: book reviews, recommendations, essays, and generally the kind of overthinking-about-books discussion I used to love in literature classes.

I've grown a personal newsletter before on Substack and manage another newsletter on beehiiv professionally, so I'm comfortable with the basics. What I'm trying to figure out is how organic growth works on beehiiv when your audience isn't really in the business/tech/creator ecosystem.

A few things I'd love to learn from people here:

  • Has anyone built meaningful organic growth through beehiiv Launch alone? I was hoping to get to ~50 subscribers organically before upgrading, but I'm open to changing that strategy.
  • Where are consumer/lifestyle newsletters actually finding their first 100–500 subscribers? Instagram? Reddit? SEO? Cross-promos? Recommendations? Something else?
  • Has anyone here built a newsletter in books, culture, entertainment, food, travel, etc.? I'd especially love to hear what's worked.
  • I'm finding relatively few literary/bookish creators on beehiiv compared with Substack. Do you think the size of your niche within beehiiv materially affects growth through recommendations/discovery?
  • And for those who moved from Substack or another platform: what growth feature if any actually made the biggest difference for you?

Not looking for hacks or overnight growth here, I'm not motivated by short-term monetization. Mostly trying to understand which levers are actually worth investing time in for reaching the audience I'm looking for.

Would really appreciate hearing what worked, what didn't, and what you'd do differently if you were starting again.

For context, link to my newsletter, Plot Twist.

u/almamahlerwerfel — 2 days ago
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Are we far off from getting a dedicated Beehiiv mobile app?

I know the Beehiiv ecosystem is getting massive and complex with everything being built, but is there any word or timeline on an official mobile app for creators?

I don't even expect a full post editor on mobile (drafting and designing newsletters on a phone sounds like a nightmare anyway). But having a proper mobile companion app to:

  • Check the main dashboard and real-time subscriber metrics
  • View website, podcast, and community analytics
  • Check and reply to DMs / community messages
  • Get push notifications for new free/paid subs, milestone alerts, etc.

Logging into the mobile browser version just feels clunky when all you want to do on the go is check stats, respond to messages, or see alerts.

Has the team mentioned anything on the roadmap about a native app anytime soon?

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u/EriksonThorsen — 3 days ago
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A newsletter (5000 subs) is open for cross promotions

If your newsletter fits any of these niches:

  • Finance and Investing
  • Crypto, ETF and Memecoins

You can send a cross promo request directly here

If not, feel free to join the community (150+ creators) and let me know your niche, I’ll notify you when a relevant opportunity comes up.

Let’s help each other grow in a way that’s authentic and valuable to our readers.

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u/Ok_Question_9555 — 3 days ago
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Beehiiv Polls

Hello! I'm wondering if someone can help me troubleshoot something with the native beehiiv polls. Do you know why beehiiv polls redirect users back to the newsletter in the url/forces them to login on my website instead of simply letting users vote on the polls in the email itself? It feels like an unnecessary extra step for the user.

Because the polls are native, I'd like to keep the user in the email to take the poll itself to reduce friction. This has happened to me when I take my polls, and I had a reader express frustration with it as well this week. To clarify, this happens before the user votes, not after.

Is there a way to turn off/disable the email-to-web redirect? Thanks!

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u/outandaboutfairfax — 4 days ago
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Podia with Beehiiv

Anyone successfully combine podia and beehiiv? I want to use podia for their course system and better digital storefront / shopping cart, but want to use beehiiv for the newsletter. Anyone implement this? Am I looking at any major headaches? Will Zappier be enough to do the trick?

Or is there an easy way to create upsells for digital products within beehiiv?

TIA

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u/Specialist-Store-814 — 5 days ago
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I despise undisclosed AI slop

I have a newsletter that's a few months old now. I cover the intersection of luxury, technology, and sustainability, with a focus on what it all means for luxury consumers—it's very much not an industry-focused publication.

Before I started, I made commitments to myself and to my readers that 1) every word on the site would be human-authored and 2) I'd never miss a deadline. I made the first commitment because I hope and believe that in the age of AI, people will increasingly crave stories about people, written by people. I made the second commitment because I hope and believe that consistency is important—I can think of YouTube channels and newsletters where I may not watch or read everything they do, but they've been consistent for years and I'd miss them if I lost access to them. I believe in those commitments so much that I include them in a manifesto I link to from my home page.

I publish a 1,500- to 2,500-word feature article every Wednesday, and a 600- to 800-word review every Saturday, each at a specific time. And there are times where those deadlines are tough. I was out sick this week, and the article I was working on for Saturday had hit a dead-end, so the net was that Friday evening, I had to pull myself together and write a polished article while feeling pretty terrible. I did it because keeping my commitments was important to me.

So this weekend I find out about a brand-new newsletter covering the luxury space. Not naming-and-shaming, so I'm not going to link to it here, but at first glance, it's nicely done. Minimalist but good branding and layout. Good use of photography. Long-form writing. A commitment to multiple articles a week. Nothing about the authors, but the articles are authored by "The __________ Editors". I was impressed and honestly a little jealous—how cool would it be to work with a whole team, not just be reliant on myself?

And then I read the articles. Every one of them came back with a 100% probability of being AI-generated in the tool I use to check for that, but that was just confirmation of what I already knew. The AI writing style was obvious—blindingly so in places.

It was bad enough that they didn't disclose it, but then in one of the articles, AI wrote it from a first-person perspective, strongly implying that an editor for the publication had done the thing they were writing about. It never happened—or if it did, they couldn't be bothered to write about it themselves.

So it's someone (probably just one person) somewhere using AI to generate text, to scrape images, to assemble articles, and generally to pretend to be a team of human writers who have amazing experiences and then write about them. Sigh.

In the end, the realization about their use of AI made me feel both gratified and disappointed: gratified that no, some team didn't pop up out of nowhere and was out-writing me in my space; disappointed that they're using AI in a way that makes the world a little bit worse, pretending to be human and in their own tiny way, eroding trust in online content.

u/hauteimpact — 7 days ago
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Looking for Investment partner for 100k+ subscriber newsletter

I have a finance website that has 100k+ subscriber. I am looking for a investor that wants to partner up on this and and grow the revenue. We don't have it monetized yet so first step would be to monetize it on beehiiv and get more advertisers in board. Ideally a partner would be that has an ad account already setup where we can add the site. The subscribers are highly engaged and very valuable. I will also offer a money back guarantee at anytime. Please send a dm to discuss further

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u/bitcoinxtrader — 7 days ago
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Got 10K+ visitors to my health blog in 2 weeks, looking to partner with a health newsletter

Hey guys, I started a daily health-related blog on Beehiiv and pulled 10K+ visitors in the first 2 weeks, all from Reddit.

Last night I turned on the pop-up to capture leads and got 10 subscribers in one night without really optimizing anything yet.

Here's the thing: my skill set is traffic generation, not running a newsletter, and I don't have the bandwidth to write daily content on top of it. So instead of building my own list from scratch, I'd rather partner with someone who's already running a health newsletter and send my subscribers to you for a fixed payment for each subscriber (similar to Beehiive Boost).

How it'd work: I keep driving traffic to the blog with a lead magnet built for my audience; the lead magnet gets delivered from your email with a welcome sequence, and you take it from there with your regular content.

If you're running a health newsletter and this sounds interesting, drop a comment or DM me and we can figure out if it's a fit. If you link your newsletter in the comments, I'll take a quick look on my end too, just so we're not both wasting time on a mismatch.

Here's the blog if you want to see the traffic for yourself: blog

Heads up, the first few posts are tech-related since I was still testing the concept, everything after that is health-focused.

u/Deep-Owl-1890 — 6 days ago
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Exclusive Ad Placement

Like many people, I run a hyper local newsletter in a metro of about 2 million people. We have a 48% open rate, 6.6 click rate with 4k subs.

We currently will take one exclusive ad per newsletter, so no competing ads.

I see a lot of people talk about charging sponsors 50-100 bucks per 1k subs. Is that for multiple ads in a newsletter or an exclusive ad in a newsletter?

If it is for multiple ads, would you charge extra for being the exclusive sponsor of a newsletter?

I would love to get people’s thoughts. From the research I’ve done the ad game seems a bit made up.

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u/Sa1ntAubin — 8 days ago
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SpaceX Earnings Recap, Applied Materials Earnings Preview, & US Oil Reserves: The Weekly Sift Stack Issue 37 - 8.10.2026

The Weekly Sift Stack: CJ Gettelfinger, Lucas Nulsen, & Tyler Sherven break down the biggest stories moving markets. The S&P 500 is at fresh all-time highs after July payrolls came in at negative 23,000 against roughly 80,000 expected & progress toward peace in Iran, flipping September odds from a Fed hike back toward a hold. The deep dive is Applied Materials, reporting Thursday after the close with consensus near $9 billion in revenue, up about 23% year over year. Also covered: SpaceX's first quarter as a public company, Berkshire's cash falling to $365.5 billion under Greg Abel, Intel's $15 billion offering, Palantir setting the bar, and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a 43-year low. Which name moves most this week?

Also please give us any recommendations to sharpen or promote the newsletter, any feedback much appreciated!

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u/Tswervs — 9 days ago
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Beehiiv Website builder

How good is the website builder on Beehiiv?

I currently use framer, but run my newsletter on Beehiiv using a free plan, but figured it makes sense to keep everything on one platform.

How good is the site builder? I want to build some custom forms with progress bars that update when a user completes specific steps, do some articles to promote the newsletter ect. Nothing crazy, but the free website builder doesn't allow me to do most of this.

Given my newsletter is sub 1,000 members, which plan will I need and roughly how expensive is it?

I would have asked Beehiiv this, but i can't find a contact email address.

Thanks

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u/Thingform — 9 days ago
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Back in Gmail Promotions... sigh...

OK, a few months ago I had to trim most of my links out of my newsletter (which was hard bc we're mostly a local event listing newsletter), down to about 15, but I was successfully back to hitting Primary inbox. Now, it seems since the latest Beehiiv release, my letters are again hitting Promotions.

Did anything change on Beehiiv's end that could be causing this? Any recommendations to fix it? Open rate down to 42% from 61%.

Also, before, I could preview the email to see if it was going to hit Primary or Promotions... I've done the preview test twice now, and the test hits Primary, but the real one hits Promotions 😡

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u/w4nd3rlu5t — 9 days ago
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Selling my AI newsletter: 47-50% open rate

I’m looking to sell my AI-focused newsletter on Substack.

The newsletter currently has 23,000 subscribers. Most editions get around 17K-18K views, with a typical 47-50% open rate.

A few numbers from recent editions:

• 23K subscribers
• 47-50% open rate
• 17K-18K views per edition
• 100-150 clicks per edition
• 0.9-1.3% CTR, depending on how relevant the promotion is to the audience

Audience

According to Substack:

42% US
11% India
6% UK
4% Canada
3% Nigeria

The audience is primarily interested in AI news, tools, startups, and the broader AI ecosystem, so there are quite a few ways to monetize it through sponsorships, affiliate offers, your own products, or services.

The newsletter is hosted entirely on Substack, so the buyer gets the existing publication and subscriber base.

Why I’m selling

I have other projects I want to focus on, so I’d rather hand this over to someone who can take it further than let it sit on the side.

Asking price: $7,500

I’m open to reasonable offers.

For the transaction, I’m happy to use a trusted third party such as Flippa so both sides have protection throughout the deal.

If you're interested, DM me and I can share more details, screenshots, recent editions, and whatever else you'd need to evaluate it.

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u/Dangerous-Tough3045 — 11 days ago
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How would you grow a newsletter focused specifically on UK tech? 🇬🇧

I’ve started a newsletter focused on UK tech news, startups, AI and interesting stories from the British tech scene. What really matters for Uk tech.

For those who’ve grown a newsletter before, what actually worked for you?

Especially interested in how you got your first few hundred subscribers and what you’d do differently if you started again.

Would love to hear your experiences!

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u/QuestionOutside7372 — 10 days ago
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Is there a way I can sell direct ads in my newsletters (14k, and 8k respectively) where I get paid based on CPM

So long story short, I have a newsletter on TV and Films that I built via my blog and substack. I have two tiers, the 14k (40% open rate) functions as my main newsletter about TV, and the 8k (60% open rate) is for fandom related and cinephile adjacent stuff, I have landed an odd sponsorship here and there, but college was bought and I have never had the time to full invest in it to make it a proper brand until now.

80% of my opens are from US. I just shifted to Beehiiv so that I can run direct ads. But I find Beehiiv's Ad network frustrating, because so far I only see CPC based Ads, that too for AI companies. Can you guys tell me some ways to monetize and what would be a decent CPM if I do land something?

Worth a note that Stripe does not work in my country, so I can't do a paid tier.

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u/barryallenxoxo — 11 days ago
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What platform best for building a newsletter brand?

I've finally decided to start building a UK newsletter media company, focusing on business, tech, finance, and the stories that actually matter.

I'm stuck on one decision...

The platform itself

I've looked at Beehivv, Substack, Kit, Ghost, even Mailchimp.

It seems every creator swears by a different one.
Some say Beehiv is built for growing.

Others say Substack's network is unbeatable.

Then some people say Ghost gives you total control from day one.

If you had to start all over today, with everything you know

Which platform would you pick and why?

I would love to hear from people who have actually used them (including what you wish you knew before committing).

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u/QuestionOutside7372 — 13 days ago