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Your Best Emails Are Wasted
The Crash Course That Crashed My Lead Drought

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Market News
The Dispatch Buys SCOTUSblog in First of Several Planned Acquisitions. (LINK)
Acquire.com adds newsletters to its marketplace. (LINK)
Etsy’s Ad Revenue Growth Offsets Tariff Fears. (LINK)
Google Chrome will now continue to use third-party cookies. (LINK)
Gumroad buys Small Bets for $3.6M – was it a good deal? (LINK)
“Your Old Content is a Sleeping Giant. Wake It Up with This Email Course Trick.”
Nick Anderson-Vines was struggling to grow his newsletter—no matter how much valuable content he shared, his list wasn’t growing, and readers weren’t converting into clients. Then, a simple shift changed everything: he stopped writing new content and started repackaging his best emails into a 5-day email course (what he calls an "EEC"—educational email course). By giving readers a clear, structured learning experience (instead of random tips), his conversions skyrocketed from 2% to 48%. Suddenly, he wasn’t just sending newsletters—he was offering a transformation in exchange for an email address. The course also helped him attract higher-quality leads, segment his audience, and make sales way easier because subscribers were already invested in his teaching.
The secret? Treat your course like a product, not just content. Give it a compelling name (like "The Smart Recruiter’s Playbook" instead of "How to Improve Recruiting"), keep lessons skimmable (800–1,200 words max, with bold headers and visuals), and structure it like a crash course—covering myths, mistakes, and action steps over 5–7 days. Then, promote it on a distraction-free landing page (the 1-1-1 rule: one page, one offer, one choice). The best part? You don’t need to create anything new—just reorganize your top-performing emails into a step-by-step journey. If your newsletter feels stuck, an email course might be the missing piece that turns passive readers into paying customers. (LINK)
Media News
The Google Doc That Drove 18k Subscribers. (LINK)
High-conversion Newsletter Welcome Sequences. (LINK)
One way to grow your newsletter... (LINK)
The "owned audience" funnel that goes beyond email (LINK)
The Dispatch's Plan to Double Revenue in 2025. (LINK)
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