Yes, you can make money with a newsletter. But the part nobody likes to hear is that it starts with growing an audience. There’s no way around that. If no one’s reading, nothing else matters. What has changed is how complicated the rest of it used to be. Back in the day, you had to find advertisers yourself, figure out how to charge people, set up payments, manage emails, track everything… it was a mess. Writing was almost the easy part. Platforms like beehiiv stripped a lot of that junk away. A