Get started free

Playbooks

Start a newsletter

Start a newsletter: An email list is an audience no algorithm can take from you. 1) Choose one topic and one reader, and describe the reader in one sentence. 2) Pick a free newsletter tool and set up a simple sign-up page. 3) Write three issues before you tell anyone.

Updated · 2 min read

The steps

  1. Choose one topic and one reader, and describe the reader in one sentence.
  2. Pick a free newsletter tool and set up a simple sign-up page.
  3. Write three issues before you tell anyone.
  4. Send it to 20 people you know who fit, and ask each what they would change.
  5. Post one useful idea from each issue where your reader spends time.
  6. Send it on the same day every week.

Your first move in Cutline

Block an hour to describe your reader and write the first issue.

Copy this

Make it a block

Add it to your week in Cutline: one click and the time is blocked.

Put it in your week

One click makes it a block in your Cutline week. Free.

Add it to my week

Keep reading