Growth In Reverse: Newsletter & Email Growth

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Stop losing subscribers with your onboarding - get Chenell's Subscriber Onboarding Course included in The Growth Vault: growthinreverse.com/vault This episode is a live recording from the 2026 Newsletter Conference in New York City where Chenell sat down onstage with Tim Huelskam

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[This is a replay from our conversation with Sam Vander Wielen from September 2025] “All roads point to the email list. " - Sam Vander Wielen, Sam's Sidebar In this episode, we interview Sam Vander Wielen- a lawyer-turned-creator who has sold over $9M in legal templates with a 50

If 30 top creators handed you their best newsletter growth tactic, for free, would you take it? Of course you would! I'm excited to share that we are launching 30 Days of Growth (Part 2!) on April 20th. If you missed last year's event, you don't want to miss it again. Each day I'

NOTE: This is a rerun of an episode we published in September 2025. But just because it's a rerun doesn't mean it ain't still a banger 💥 -------------------------------------- “One of the worst things you can do is send new subscribers to a dead-end thank you page. That kills en

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Get Instant Access to the Growth Vault now >> growthinreverse.com/vault *** In this episode of the GIR Podcast, we're airing "cross-published" episode originally featured on Jay Clouse's Creator Science podcast. Check out the Creator Science podcast here >> *** “If someone can Go

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Get 30 proven strategies to grow and optimize your email list FREE >> This week, we're playin' the hits! Let's rewind the clock to December 2024. This episode was the very first episode we published-and it's been our most popular episode to date! In this very first episode, we di

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The Growth Vault is LIVE: Chenell's brand-new offer for newsletter creators is here-filled with newsletter templates, growth strategies, and real examples you can implement at your own pace. Quick note: We ran a 30-day Social Growth Challenge that we opened to the public for a $1

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Get 30+ video lessons and ideas for optimizing your newsletter: https://growthinreverse.com/vault -------------------------- “All roads point to the email list. " - Sam Vander Wielen, Sam's Sidebar In this episode, we interview Sam Vander Wielen- a lawyer-turned-creator who has s

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>> Join the 30-Days of Growth Social Challenge: https://growthinreverse.com/social -------------------------------------- “The first 6 months taught me that consistency beats everything - even if you’re not perfect. " In this episode of the Growth In Reverse podcast, Dylan and Ch

“If you spend 80% of your time making incredibly good content, you probably only have to spend 20% marketing it. " In this special episode, we’re bringing you Chenell’s conversation with Darrell Vesterfelt, VP of Growth at Mighty Networks , for a recent Creator Summit. In the cha

The Growth Vault is LIVE: https://growthinreverse.com/vault ---------------------------------------------------------------- “During my last year as a CFO, I made more money from my newsletter and podcast than my full-time job ." - CJ Gustafson, Mostly Metrics We sit down with CJ

The Growth Vault is LIVE: https://growthinreverse.com/vault ---------------------------------------------------------------- “ You don’t need to create for everyone. You need to create for the people who value you most - and they’ll carry your newsletter further than you think."

The Growth Vault is LIVE: https://growthinreverse.com/vault ---------------------------------------------------------------- “This is the underrated growth strategy every newsletter should be using.” What if every subscriber could turn into 10 more? In this episode of the Growth

“I waited to launch my paid newsletter until I had a solid strategy and felt like I’d earned it.” - Tom Orbach, Marketing Ideas Tom Orbach of MarketingIdeas.com - which recently crossed 44,000 free subscribers and over 500 paid subscribers in just the first few days after launchi

“$250k is when growth changes. It’s when you need systems. You usually can’t do it solo.” - Matt Gira, The Quarter Matt Gira joins Chenell & Dylan - in person - to share how he went from building underwater drones to launching The Quarter: a newsletter that deep dives into how fo

“I love unsubscribes. Don’t be here if you don’t want to be here.” It is insanely easy to subscribe to a newsletter-and even MULTIPLE newsletters all at once. But is that a good thing? Should newsletter creators be more choosy when determining who signs up? We're diving into one

“The real value wasn’t in the keynotes-it was the dinners, the hikes, the casual connections.” - Dylan Redekop, first-time C+C attendee Dylan and Chenell reflect on their time at Kit's Craft + Commerce email newsletter conference for creators in Boise. But this episode isn’t just

"Every time I try to be an expert, I lose readers. When I’m just me, they stick around." - Jesse J. Anderson, Extra Focus newsletter For the first time ever, Chenell & Dylan have recorded LIVE, in-person podcast episodes! Coming at you in-person from Kit Studios in Boise ID, Chen

"Podcasting isn’t a shortcut to growth-but it’s a hell of a way to deepen relationships." - Chenell Basilio What can happen when you commit to a weekly podcast for six straight months? You're about to find out. Chenell & Dylan pull back the curtain on the Growth In Reverse podcas