The ❤️ Passion 🗞 Letter

Hand curated resources from the best publications of passion economy leaders

Here are my (weekly ?) best hand curated resources from the last publications of passion economy leaders (Twitter, Blog, Newsletters, Podcast, etc). You can get access to more daily resources and add yours on this telegram channel too.

Since this newsletter is in it’s first days please send me your best feedback on how you find it, what you’d love to see in it, on which frequence, do I need to add some leaders I miss, account to follow, category to create, etc • alexandre@airparty.io

Love. Alexandre

Starring in this Digest

🌟Anne-Laure Lecunff 🌟 Jack Butcher 🌟 Rosie Sherry 🌟 Kamphey 🌟 David Perrell 🌟 Dru Driley 🌟 Sari Azout 🌟 Pat Flynn 🌟 Arvid Kahl 🌟 Jon Yen 🌟 Lenny Rachitsky 🌟Ana Lorena Fabrega—Ms. Fab 🌟 Substack 🌟

✎ Online course | 🗞Newsletter | 🎧Podcast | 👓Article | 💸Prize | 🛠Tool | 🐦Thread | 📚Directory

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Community Building Everything

🎧 Fireside Conversation w/ Rosie Sherry head of community @ Indie Hackers • Airparty | featuring 🌟Rosie Sherry 🌟 Link

remi rivas @remirivas

Yesterday, thanks to @durandchabert & @joinairparty, I had the pleasure to share ideas with @rosiesherry, Head of community @IndieHackers All the talk is here : airparty.substack.com/p/fireside-con… Thank you for your questions @alexkovax @Aurelien_Gohier @AhyiAnge @MarieDOLLE

airparty.substack.comFireside Conversation w/ Rosie Sherry head of community @ Indie Hackers 🇬🇧Listen now (61 min) | “For me, how I approach it, is just being human. It’s sound really basics almost like stupid. But being human like more than perhaps traditional kind of way. Trying to getting back to the roots of humanity (…) I go to my gut feelings. Community is so important to us as humans a…

🗞 Rosie Land • “Every Monday I will send out a free newsletter with juicy community building links” | 🌟Rosie Sherry 🌟 Link

🐦 “The transition from the gig economy to the creator economy to the participatory economy. A thread” | 🌟Sari Azout 🌟

Sari Azout @sariazout

The transition from the gig economy to the creator economy to the participatory economy. A thread

🐦 “Here’s the long-term student journey.” | 🌟David Perrell 🌟

David Perell @david_perell

Here’s the long-term student journey. Start with the Write of Passage cohort, take Building a Second a Brain with @fortelabs, return for future cohorts, become an alumni leader, join the club, launch a business, and graduate once its profitable — all while growing your audience.

Virtual Event to Book :

🗓Rosie Sherry: Building the Indie Hackers Community • featuring 🌟Rosie Sherry 🌟 Link

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Newsletter Everything

👓 50 lessons learned from writing 50 newsletters • Nesslabs • Link | 🌟Anne-Laure Lecunff 🌟

👓 Influence – The Andrew Kamphey Interview • Letter List • Link | 🌟Andrew Kamphey 🌟

🎧 Episode 5: 0 to 10,000 subscribers and monetization with Andrew Kamphey of Influence Weekly • Newsletter Crew • Link | 🌟Andrew Kamphey 🌟

Kamphey @Kamphey

A thread of quotes from my interview with @newslettercrew Once you reach 50 subscribers, your goal is not to scale, your goal is to find the 51st subscriber. The subscriber count is not a good proxy for a newsletter lifecycle. If you haven’t started a newsletter yet, launch.

🐦 “My newsletter sales really ramped up this month! I made $1,450 from getting my newsletters sponsored in June.” | retweet by 🌟Dru Driley 🌟

Wilbert Liu @wilbertliu

I ❤️ following what Pete always does. Step by step. From time to time. He’s truly on a different grind! If you wanna get started on doing your own thing, get the inspiration from him! 🔥

Pete @petecodes

💸 Had my best month for revenue since I started! 💸 $2,333 for @noCSdegree 😎 A big thanks to everyone who sponsored my newsletter or bought my book! 🙌 Here's my analysis of June for me. 🗓 THREAD 👇

🐦 “Big milestone” | 🌟Lenny Rachitsky 🌟

Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan

Big milestone 🥺🙏❤️

Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan

After ten months of a free newsletter, and now six weeks into paid, this thing is for real: 🙏 ~450 paid subscribers 👋 ~13,000 free subscribers 🤯 ~$56k ARR (before fees) For anyone thinking about newsletter'ing, some early learnings in the thread below 👇 https://t.co/CCKHca6E79

🐦 “1. Pick a hobby that you spend too much $$ on 2. Create a newsletter for that hobby”

Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke

One of my favorite small business ideas: 1. Pick a hobby that you spend too much $$ on 2. Create a newsletter for that hobby 3. Market to other enthusiasts via reddit/twitter/FB The Ferrari Market Letter has 5k subscribers and does $2m+ in revenue with a team of 2.

👓 Increase Your Newsletter's Click Rate by Adding Media • Hypeletter • Link | 🌟Andrew Kamphey 🌟

👓 Should I Start a Newsletter or a Podcast? • Hypeletter • Link | 🌟Andrew Kamphey 🌟

💸 Announcing the next Substack Fellowship for Independent Writers • Substack • suggested by 🌟Airparty 🌟

⏯ Substack Writer Workshop - Finding your niche • Link • Substack • suggested by 🌟Airparty 🌟

Virtual Event to Book :

🗓 Building an audience when you don't have one • Link • Substack • suggested by 🌟Airparty 🌟

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Podcast Everything

💸Learn how to build a paid membership for your podcast and win your share of
$100,000+ • Link | 🌟Supercast 🌟

✎ Hosting Challenges that Grow Your List & Income • Link | 🌟Pat Flynn 🌟

🐦 “Serial, w/ ~250M listeners, makes about $0.002/listener via $500,000 in annual ad revenue” | 🌟 Supercast 🌟

Supercast @supercast

Serial, w/ ~250M listeners, makes about $0.002/listener via $500,000 in annual ad revenue. Chapo Trap House, w/ ~2M listeners, makes over $1/listener via $2,000,000 in annual paid membership revenue. How does Chapo Trap House do it? They offer a $5/month membership.

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Ebook Everything

👓 Zero to Sold: 1000+ Books Sold in 7 Days. Here are the numbers • Link | 🌟Arvid Kahl 🌟

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Company of One Everything

🎧 How Jack Butcher is Creating His “Visualize Value” Enterprise – EP 100 • Tim Stodz • Link | 🌟Jack Butcher 🌟

TimStodz @TimStodz

This was absolutely my favorite interview yet. @jackbutcher from @visualizevalue is brilliant. It was a thrill to speak to him about his journey, his ideas, and his philosophies on entrepreneurship. Like and share if you enjoyed it. 😎 timstodz.com/jack-butcher/

timstodz.comHow Jack Butcher is Creating His “Visualize Value” Enterprise - EP 100Listen on iTunes Listen on Spotify Jack Butcher is a graphic designer, an entrepreneur, and the founder of Visualize Value. I first started following Jack’s work at the beginning of the year. I discovered his company and I became fascinated with his journey. Jack is extremely transparent with his br…

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Nocode Everything

✎ Level-up your Airtable skills with David Peterson • Makerpad • Link | shared by 🌟Ben Tossel 🌟

Ben Tossell @bentossell

Exciting workshop from a Makerpad partner, coming soon... Level-up your @airtable skills with @edavidpeterson - scripting blocks - new buttons - new use-cases - plus some inside-scoop on features in the pipeline 🤩 makerpad.co/e/level-up-you…

makerpad.coLevel-up your Airtable skills with David Peterson

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Copywritting Everything

✎ How to visualize value • Design fondamentals • Link | 🌟Jack Butcher 🌟

🛠 Mumu : A new, better way to pick emojis on mac • Link shared by | 🌟Lenny Rachitsky 🌟

🎧In this week's episode #6 of Show & Tell, David and I talk about Modern Making | 🌟 Ana Lorena Fabrega—Ms. Fab 🌟

Ana Lorena Fabrega @anafabrega11

Modern technology has lowered the barriers for amateur content creators and producers. In this week’s episode of Show&Tell, @david_perell and I talk about Modern Making— creative uses of technology to learn and produce. 👇🏼⚡️ youtu.be/jZqYIG3FyG4

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Growth Everything

✎ Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience | 🌟 David Vassalo 🌟

John @elamje

@lawrencekingyo Easy. 63 -> 915 followers in just over a month. @dvassallo has a ton of credibility, $500k/yr @amazon, quit and grew his twitter to 30k from 0 in just over a year. Not a formula, just key principles he learned. My account +1500% in 2 months.

gumroad.comEveryone Can Build a Twitter AudienceOver the past 14 months, my Twitter account has grown from 150 to 24,000 followers. How did I do it? First, the backstory: Last year I left a cushy job at Amazon to work for myself. But then I realized that my reputation only existed at the companies I’d worked for. I was practically unknown to the …

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“Building In The Open” Everything

👓 3 Ways to Use Indie Hackers as a Project / Product Blog | 🌟 John YEN 🌟

John @ YEN @yenFTW

thinking about building in the open? #buildintheopen? start a blog! easiest (fast, free, simple) way is using IH: 3 Ways to Use Indie Hackers as a Project / Product Blog indiehackers.com/post/3-ways-to… via @IndieHackers

indiehackers.com3 Ways to Use Indie Hackers as a Project / Product BlogThe best thing about `Indie Hackers` is the community, bar none! I mean, that’s why we’re all here, right?! The second best thing (and there are quite a...