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How To Grow Your Newsletter With Sponsorships

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Today’s post comes from Write With AI friend, Matt Giaro. Matt helps people turn their expertise into profitable content (in their spare time) with persuasive writing and AI.


One of the best ways to grow your list is to tap into other creators' audiences.

That’s where sponsorships come into play.

The concept is simple: you pay another creator a small fee to get featured in their newsletter.

I’ve been using this technique for the past 2 years. And it has been a significant catalyst in filling my email list with subscribers who not only read my newsletter…

But who also buy my digital products.

So in this article, I’m going to walk you through the exact process to grow your list with sponsorships.

Step 1: Find 50 newsletters to sponsor

The first step is to find the right newsletters to sponsor.

You want creators in your niche with engaged audiences who are also open to sponsorships.

AI tools (with Research mode) can significantly speed up your research process that used to take me HOURS to do manually.

You could use:

  • Grok

  • Perplexity

  • ChatGPT

Make sure you turn on Research mode (or even better: Deep Research mode.)

Here's the exact prompt I use:

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