Your email list is your most valuable asset — but it's not the only channel that matters. SMS gets 12% click rates compared to email's 2–3%, and when you combine both, you can see up to 97% higher clicks. Here's exactly how newsletter creators and digital product sellers can add SMS to what they're already doing — without rebuilding their strategy from scratch.

Every year someone predicts email is dying. Every year it refuses to cooperate. Here's what the latest 2026 newsletter data reveals — and what it means for creators building courses, memberships, and digital products.

Many creators stopped blogging when AI summaries started reducing organic traffic. But the shift to AI-powered search may actually make blogging more important. Learn how tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews rely on blog content—and how creators can position themselves as trusted sources.

Most creators think audience growth requires constant posting and complicated funnels. During a 30-day creator challenge, we tested 30 simple actions designed to grow an audience in just 15 minutes a day. Here’s what actually worked—from collaborations and borrowed audiences to small conversion improvements that compound over time.

The Creator Growth Flywheel explains how digital creators build predictable revenue through five stages: attract, engage, nurture, retain, and advocate. In this article, I share how studying Dave Ramsey’s business model influenced the way I think about creator growth systems.

And for digital product entrepreneurs, what you don't know to ask is usually the exact thing your revenue depends on.

That's the difference between an AI assistant and an AI mentor. And it's a distinction that most people don't discover until they've already paid for the gap.

Generic AI is extraordinary at helping you build a business.

It will set up your store, write your copy, choose your tools, and map out your content strategy — faster than any course or consultant ever could.

But there's something it won't do.

It won't tell you what you didn't know to ask.

And for digital product entrepreneurs, what you don't know to ask is usually the exact thing your revenue depends on.

That's the difference between an AI assistant and an AI mentor. And it's a distinction that most people don't discover until they've already paid for the gap.

Most newsletters feel like email blasts.

The best ones feel like publications.

In this article, Destini Copp breaks down the Mini-Magazine Method, a framework for structuring newsletters so readers actually look forward to opening them. Using the All Healthy newsletter as a case study from the New Media Summit, you’ll learn how successful newsletters combine editorial voice, recurring sections, curated insights, and smart sponsorship placement to build loyal audiences — and real revenue.

Discover 101 practical ways to use AI in your online business. Learn how course creators and digital product sellers can integrate AI into marketing, delivery, systems, and strategy.

If your digital product revenue depends on launches, you don’t have a system — you have spikes. The Creator’s Growth Flywheel is a five-stage predictable revenue framework that connects attraction, engagement, retention, and advocacy into a compounding system for digital product businesses.