GuideEmail & Newsletter
How to Start a Newsletter: A Practical Guide for Creators
A step-by-step guide to launching a newsletter that survives past issue five — from picking the promise to choosing a platform to sending the first email.
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Email & Newsletter
Platforms for publishing a newsletter, growing subscribers and owning your list.
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Tools in this category
Ordered by entry price, lowest first — never by what a tool pays us.
MailerLite
Email & Newsletter
Low-cost email marketing with a clean editor, automations, websites and landing pages, priced for small lists.
- Best for
- Budget-conscious creators who want capable email marketing cheaply
- Starting price
- $12/month
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Kit
Email & Newsletter
Creator-focused email marketing with visual automations, landing pages and built-in digital product and subscription selling.
- Best for
- Creators who sell products or courses off the back of a list
- Starting price
- $33/month
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beehiiv
Email & Newsletter
A newsletter-first publishing platform with a built-in website, growth tools and an ad network for monetization.
- Best for
- Newsletter-first creators who want growth and monetization built in
- Starting price
- $59/month
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Guides and comparisons
ComparisonEmail & Newsletter
beehiiv vs Kit: Which One Fits Your Newsletter?
beehiiv is a publishing platform. Kit is a creator CRM. The right answer depends entirely on whether your newsletter is the product or the funnel.
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Buyer’s guideEmail & Newsletter
Best Newsletter Platforms for Creators in 2026
beehiiv, Kit and MailerLite solve three different problems. Here is which one fits the newsletter you are actually building, and which to avoid.
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GuideEmail & Newsletter
How to Monetize a Newsletter: Four Models That Actually Work
Sponsorships, paid subscriptions, your own products, affiliates — which model fits your list size and niche, and what each one demands from your platform.
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ComparisonEmail & Newsletter
Kit vs MailerLite: Automation Power or Lower Price?
Kit is built around automation and selling. MailerLite is built around doing capable email marketing cheaply. Here is how to tell which trade-off is yours.
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