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9 Untapped Features in Beehiiv to Skyrocket Your Subscriber Count—for Free!
These 9 Free Features and Strategies will Double Your Subscriber Count
Duleeka H.S.
09 May • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes
Thinking of starting a newsletter to own that audience in your social profiles?
Yes, Newsletter is the best and the easiest way to do it. Because;
→ They become your own audience by subscribing via their own emails.
→ In return, you give them knowledge that they are craving for.
It’s a win-win! 🙌
Ok! Now you need a Newsletter platform (a SAAS) to do it.
There are SaaS products like Beehiiv, Substack and ConvertKit that let you own your audience by collecting email addresses unlike LinkedIn and Medium.
So, why Beehiiv?
Here’re the reasons with examples.
1. It’s Free Upto 2,500 Subscribers
Yes, no charge at all. So, you can start it for free and test it for free.
You can even use your newsletter as a way to validate a SaaS product you are planning to do. If your newsletter is gaining a good number of subscribers, that means people need it.
In a near future article, we will show you a comparison with other Newsletter SaaS tools too.
2. Multiple Design Options to Make Your Newsletter Look Pretty
Impression matters a lot!
We think it doesn’t, but the look of your Newsletter itself can increase your subscriber count and newsletter open rate/ read rate.
Need proof?
A message I got from a reader when I moved my personal newsletter, Success with Balance” to Beehiiv
Beehiiv gives the option to fully customize the fonts, colors and add code blocks, blockquotes, tables, bullets to your newsletter for “Free”. So, it doesn’t look boring to read even without images.
CTA - Call to Action button text is very important.
Jon Brosio says we can win more digital business with "indirect" CTAs. Ex: “Join the movement” is better than just “Subscribe”.
A snapshot from Jon Brosio’s Newsletter
Many Newsletter platforms do not allow this for free, but Beehiiv does.
No Newsletter platform gives you the chance to connect your custom domain to your newsletter for free, but recently, Beehiiv started giving it 100% free without any time limitation.
5. Advanced Email Capture Feature is Available for Free
I never used this advanced email capture feature where you can request the reader to subscribe. I thought it’s not nice to do, but I was wrong.
I couldn’t increase my subscriber count of my personal newsletter, “Success with Balance”. But soon when I used the “Gated” feature in February 2024 which is available for free in Beehiiv, even without publishing any article for 1.5 months as I was taking a break due to a family emergency, it started increasing my subscriber count even though I am a very small creator with a small audience.
Subscriber Growth in Success with Balance after using the Gated feature
6. The Subscribe Form Can Be Easily Added to Your Website Including Customization
Usually, in other Newsletter SaaS platforms, adding the subscribe form is either paid or it’s available via a 3rd party tool, which makes things difficult and limits customization.
But in Beehiiv, it can be easily done with the same customizations we need to add to the form including the button color, button text, description, thank you message and next screen to show. See below.
7. A/B Testing is Available For Free to Maximize the Open Rate and Time to Send the Email
Beehiiv provides a feature to test what is the best time to send out our email just by activating a simple toggle button named “Create A/B Test”. When you activate it, Beehiiv itself email the newsletter to different sets of subscribers at different times and check the open rate. Based on that, it shows the writer what is the best time to send out our newsletter to maximize the open rate.
Open rates during different times for my personal newsletter
8. Adding the Latest Articles to Your Own Website is Free
Once the settings are done (this requires someone who knows website coding a bit), Beehiiv automatically sends and add your latest article to your main website in addition to adding it to the newsletter/ blog site.
This is how my main website, www.Duleeka.com gets updated automatically with the latest articles I publish on my personal newsletter, Success with Balance.
9. Tips and Strategies to Grow Your Newsletter with Success Stories are Emailed to You Weekly for Free
Beehiiv’s Lead Editor, Francis Zierer sends weekly emails to its users with amazing tips and strategies that have been proven and used by already succeeded newsletter writers. I have learned a lot from these articles for free and he even responds to your emails if you ask him any question.
If you are wondering about starting your own newsletter and own your subscriber base, then start it right now for Zero Cost!
Use this link to create your account in Beehiiv. https://www.beehiiv.com?via=duleeka
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Duleeka H.S.
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