Make $500k/Year with One Email a Week

Synopsis

Episode on newsletter monetization built around Tyler's $500K/year side hustle run in about 5 hours a week with one email per week. Chris walks through the full beehiiv playbook: niche selection, landing pages and lead magnets, email and website templates, welcome automation, organic and paid growth, the beehiiv ad network, and advanced segmentation and surveys. The pitch is that newsletters are about as simple and high-margin as online business gets.

Ideas in this episode

• Local newsletter media business

  Build an LLM-assisted niche newsletter where agents handle curation and drafting, monetised via ads and the operator's own productised services.

• Newsletter as a media business

  Tyler's $500K/year newsletter run at ~5 hours/week via the full beehiiv playbook (niche, lead magnets, ad network, segmentation).