Newsletters
Channels/03 · Owned audience

Platforms change their rules. A list does not.

Every follower you have on LinkedIn is rented. An email list is the only audience you own outright. We either build yours from zero or take over the one you already have and never have time to send, on whatever platform and whatever cadence you want.

Newsletters

Hi Professor,

What Newsletters has produced for academics and researchers we work with:

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Built or adopted

New list from zero, or we take over yours.

Weekly to monthly

You choose the cadence, we run it.

100%

Of the list, data and archive stays yours.

Small lists close deals

Four hundred of the right readers outperform forty thousand strangers. We build the list from people who can actually fund, appoint or invite you.

Direct to the inbox

No feed, no ranking, no reach penalty. The people you want reading your work receive it.

The problemI

Attention you cannot call back.

01

Ten thousand followers and no way to reach any of them directly the day a grant deadline moves.

02

The people who matter most, two programme officers and a prospective co investigator, are buried in a follower list you cannot query.

03

Nothing on your profile converts a reader into a contact you can follow up with.

04

Every post starts from zero reach instead of building on the last one.

How we run itII

The Newsletters process, step by step.

01

Audit or blank page

If you already have a newsletter we audit it: list health, deliverability, open and click history, format, cadence and archive, then tell you what to keep and what to change. If you have nothing, we start from the blank page and design the publication with you.

02

Format and cadence

We agree the shape of the send and how often it goes out. Weekly research note or monthly briefing. Whatever you commit to, we produce it and hit the date, because the calendar is our job and not yours.

03

Platform setup or migration

beehiiv, Substack, Kit, Mailchimp, MailerLite, Ghost or your institution's approved stack. We set it up properly, or migrate your existing list and archive across without losing subscribers, deliverability or history.

04

Lead magnet built from your expertise

A short, genuinely useful asset only you could write: a methods primer, a funding landscape briefing, a review of where a field actually stands.

05

Capture and infrastructure

Hosted capture page, list infrastructure, consent handling and deliverability set up properly so your sends land in the inbox rather than promotions.

06

Writing and ghostwriting

We research, draft, edit and schedule every issue in your voice, from your voice notes, papers and slides or from what is moving in your field. You approve on your phone. Weekly or monthly, the standard does not drop.

07

Segmentation

Peers, funders, industry and press tagged separately, so a grant announcement, a paper and a commentary opportunity each go to the right subset.

08

Growth and guest placements

We place you in newsletters your funders and collaborators already read, which is the fastest legitimate way to add several hundred qualified subscribers.

What you get

Everything, done for you.

Your time

Thirty minutes a month reviewing the send. The lead magnet takes one interview.

Who this is not for

If you have no intention of ever emailing your audience, skip this and put the budget into LinkedIn and PR.

  • Newsletter built from scratch, or full takeover of your existing one
  • Platform setup or migration: beehiiv, Substack, Kit, Mailchimp, Ghost and others
  • Name, positioning, template and visual identity for the publication
  • Every issue researched, ghostwritten, edited and scheduled at your chosen cadence
  • One lead magnet produced and designed, plus refreshes as the list grows
  • Capture page, welcome sequence and consent handling configured
  • Deliverability work: domain authentication, warm up and inbox placement monitoring
  • Audience segmentation and tagging by peers, funders, industry and press
  • Growth programme: LinkedIn funnels, cross promotions and guest placements
  • Sponsorship readiness: media kit and rate card when the list is large enough
  • Monthly report on list growth, opens, clicks, replies and opportunities created
First 90 daysIII

What actually happens, and when.

Weeks 1 to 2

Audit or blank page. Format, cadence and platform decided. Setup done or your existing list migrated.

Weeks 3 to 6

Lead magnet and capture page live, first issues published on schedule, subscribers arriving from LinkedIn and PR.

Months 2 to 3

Segmentation applied, growth and guest placements running, replies from named readers turning into conversations.

Swipe
What it looks like in practiceIV

Clinical academic moving into policy advisory work

Before

A growing LinkedIn audience with no way to contact anyone directly.

What we ran

A frontline briefing on what actually happens between bench and bedside, sent monthly, with a research translation checklist as the capture asset.

Result

A list read by health journalists and policy leads, producing media features and select committee invitations.

QuestionsV

What academics and researchers ask before starting.

Yes. Consent is explicit, the source of every subscriber is recorded, and unsubscribe handling is built in from day one.

Let us show you what this would look like for your name.

One call. We review your current position, tell you honestly whether Newsletters is the right channel for you, and show you the first three moves.