How To Launch, Grow, And Monetize A Category-Defining Substack Newsletter

The Substack Kickstarter

A FREE 6-day email course to help you build the go-to Substack in your niche—even if you don't consider yourself "a writer."

Created by Dickie Bush and Nicolas Cole

This is the exact system we used to take our Substack newsletter Write With AI from zero to $10,000 in monthly recurring revenue in less than a month.

Then we used it to grow Write With AI to:

110,000+
Subscribers
$425,000+
Annual recurring paid subscriptions
$845,000+
Additional digital product sales from that same list

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What's Inside

Here's everything we're going to cover (for FREE!) over the next 6 days:

Day 1

Category Newsletter Positioning

Why a newsletter "for everyone" is secretly a newsletter for no one—and the counterintuitive positioning move that attracts the right readers to your newsletter.

Day 2

Irresistible Offer Stack

How to make $10/month feel like the bargain of the century—using a 3-part offer stack which makes it easy for your ideal readers to hit "Subscribe."

Day 3

Substack Tech Stack

What the fastest-growing Substacks all have switched on inside their dashboard (that most writers don't even know exists).

Day 4

Newsletter Conversion Secrets

The truth about why most Substack paywalls don't convert—and the one structural change (it takes about 90 seconds) that flips free readers into paid subscribers.

Day 5

Notes Traffic Strategy

What to post on Substack Notes if you want the algorithm to feed you new subscribers every single day.

Day 6

Monetization Mastery

Why relying on paid subscriptions alone leaves the vast majority of your Substack income on the table—and the 4-model stack top earners use to multiply revenue from the same list.

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