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Let’s start the new week on an exciting note! Part 4 of our beehiiv playbook is here.
Every Monday we open beehiiv and spend 20 minutes on a few numbers. Then we decide what to change that week. Part 4 shows how to run your newsletter like a business: the numbers, the sponsors and a paid tier.
Quick question: does your newsletter earn money yet? Reply with yes, no or not yet.
Scroll down for Part 4 👇
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Kris & The AI Central Team
P.S. Thursday brings Part 5, the last one: how to let AI do the routine work while you make the calls.
🔗 TOGETHER WITH BEEHIIV
Part 4: run your newsletter like a business
I came to newsletters from finance, and I still read a newsletter the way I read a company: margins, ratios and payback.
Part 4 gives you the numbers that matter in 20 minutes a week, sponsor deals that renew, and a paid tier your readers are happy to join.
What you'll learn:
How to keep one page of numbers in five groups
How to know your payback before you spend on growth
How to run a 20-minute Monday review with the beehiiv reports
How to build a media kit and a rate card, price your slots and pitch sponsors
How to sell outcomes and report results so deals renew
How to launch a paid tier with an upgrade ladder and the right price
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📚 Bonus guide for Part 4
Part 4 shows how to price a sponsor slot and launch a paid tier. This guide from our library on beehiiv income streams puts both next to the others, in the order to add them:
Earn Cash From Emails: the layering plan, from the Ad Network and Boosts to digital products, paid subscriptions and direct sponsors, so you know which stream comes next
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📓 beehiiv Playbook Part 4: Run it like a business
What’s inside Part 4:
Your numbers, the model and the tools: One page of numbers in five groups, read in a 20-minute Monday review.
Sponsors and brand partnerships: A media kit, a rate card and a pitch, then results that make deals renew.
Paid tiers and digital products: How free readers become paying members, with an upgrade ladder and the right price.
The last part arrives on Thursday:
let AI do the routine work while you make the calls!
