Your Newsletter Could Be Making Way More Money

Welcome To The Orbit Marketing Newsletter 🪐 

This Week We’re Diving Into:

• 🧠 Tutorial: How to Monetize Your Newsletter in 2025, Insider strategies from beehiiv and Ezoic.

• 🎙️ Podcast: From ZERO to 400,000 Readers, How Ariel David built Upward News from nothing to an independent media heavy-weight.

Read time: 4 minutes

At Orbit Marketing, we’ve helped 50+ businesses launch weekly newsletters. If you are struggling to nurture your prospects, stay top of mind, or publish consistent content, click here to learn more about how we can help.

Monetizing Your Newsletter in 2025 🤑 

Let’s be clear: newsletters aren’t side hustles anymore, they’re full-on businesses.

Recently, Alec Kremins from beehiiv and Gavin Bechtold from Ezoic shared some great pointers for how to turn your newsletter into a revenue-generating machine.

Here are four tips from the pros:

🧾 Subscriptions Work (When They’re Tiered Right)

Want readers to pay for your content? Give them access to something no one else gets, such as:

• Deep dives

• Niche breakdowns

• Industry-specific tools

“More of the same” isn’t premium. Readers need something truly differentiated to justify the jump from free to paid.

📣 Sponsorships That Sell Themselves

Through tools like beehiiv’s built-in ad network, creators are landing paid deals with major brands like Netflix and HubSpot.

Add direct booking pages with live metrics and package options? Now you’re closing sponsors in your sleep.

🤝 Build a Paid Community

Some creators are parlaying newsletters into masterminds, live events, or private Slack groups. If you’re a niche authority, this is your retention engine.

Monetize the connection, not just the content.

Lenny Rachitsky does an excellent job at this.

🧠 Sell Your Own Stuff (Our Favorite)

The most lucrative way to monetize is simply to promote your own offer directly to your newsletter readers.

Think agency services, consulting, info products, merch drops, or digital downloads.

Need proof? This community newsletter creator sold $100K+ worth of Catskills-themed Monopoly boards (yes, really).

📞 Want help building a newsletter that prints money?

• Book a strategy call with Orbit Marketing to learn how to turn your audience into a high-ROI media asset.

• Want to go deeper on newsletter monetization? Check out the full training from beehiiv and Ezoic on YouTube.

🇺🇸 Ariel David: Building Upward News from ZERO to 300,000 Readers

As the founder of Upward News, Ari has grown his politically neutral news platform to hundreds of thousands of readers.

He credits Upward’s success to one strategy: building an engaged, loyal email list

In this interview, you’ll learn:

• 🔁 From Anon Account to Trusted Brand: How Ari transitioned from running a fully anonymous Instagram to building a personal connection with readers, without compromising on objectivity.

• 📬 Owning the Relationship with Email: Why migrating his readers from Instagram to his daily newsletter was the key to sustainable growth, direct audience access, and protection from censorship.

• 💸 Ads vs. Subscriptions: Why Upward ditched advertisers in favor of a reader-supported model, and how that decision aligned business viability with editorial integrity.

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