📱 Unlock Newsletter Growth with Content Market Fit

🤖 Bring Your AI Characters to life with Character.ai

Character.AI is evolving fast—it's not just about chatting anymore. With new video and social features, users can now bring their AI characters to life in creative, shareable ways.

Here’s what’s new:

• 🎥 AvatarFX: Generate up to 5 AI videos per day using photos, voices, and custom scripts.

• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Scenes: Drop your characters into pre-made storylines crafted by other users.

• 🔁 Streams: Launching soon, this lets any two characters interact in real time.

• 🔒 Strong safety filters block real human photos while still allowing celeb-style art.

These tools mark a big step toward interactive, story-driven AI content creation.

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📱 Unlock Newsletter Growth with Content Market Fit

Are you looking to build a thriving media business with your newsletter? The key lies in achieving Content Market Fit – creating content so valuable and indispensable that it solves a real problem for your audience. When you hit this sweet spot, everything else, from growth to monetization, becomes significantly easier.

So, how do you know if you've found it? Look for these clear indicators:

• 1,000+ organic subscribers: A strong sign of natural interest.

• Positive reader replies: Direct feedback that your content resonates.

• High poll ratings: Readers actively engaging and appreciating your work.

• Excellent unique open rates and click-through rates: Proof that your audience is consistently engaged.

To get there, the advice is clear: publish a weekly newsletter and consistent social content. Start by focusing on social platforms to attract initial subscribers, and most importantly, actively seek feedback! Polls, replies, surveys, and direct conversations with your readers are invaluable for continuous improvement.

Don't wait for perfection to start. Consistent publishing and a commitment to learning from your audience are the most powerful tools for finding your content market fit.

Ready to Transform Your Newsletter? Dive into Content Market Fit

💸 Turn Every $1 Into $36 with Smart Email Marketing 

If someone told you email marketing still delivers the highest ROI in digital—would you believe them?

Well, the data doesn’t lie. Smart marketers are generating $36 for every $1 spent, not by luck, but with proven, strategic systems.

Email marketing that actually performs

Unlock the strategies that drive $36 in return for every $1 spent.

Learn how to build quality email lists people actually want to join, craft messages that outperform industry benchmarks, implement advanced segmentation that drives conversions, and measure metrics that prove real business impact—all in clear, actionable steps.

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🧲 How Real Lead Magnets Supercharge Your Newsletter Growth 

Want to grow your newsletter faster and attract the right subscribers? In this episode of Newsletter Growth Lab, we reveal:

• Proven lead magnet strategies that actually work, backed by real stats and actionable insights.

• How to craft irresistible offers that convert browsers into loyal fans (for creators, marketers, and entrepreneurs).

• How AI and fresh marketing trends are reshaping email growth in 2025.

• Bonus tips on maximizing engagement and scaling sustainably!

Unlock proven strategies for faster newsletter growth and turn browsers into fans.

📣 Prompt of the Day: Campaigns Without Strategy Are Just Noise

You’ve got landing pages to launch.
You’ve got emails to write.
You’ve got KPIs breathing down your neck.

And yet—every new campaign starts with the same sprint of guessing, tweaking, and hoping it sticks.

Sound familiar?

That’s not a performance issue. That’s a strategy issue.

Before you fire up your next campaign, drop this into ChatGPT to build a battle-tested marketing gameplan:

“Act as a senior performance marketer. I’m launching a campaign for [product/service]. Help me develop a strategic plan covering positioning, channels, audience segmentation, ad creative angles, messaging frameworks, budget allocation, and funnel stages. Include tools and examples of high-performing campaigns.”

What came back was a campaign roadmap, not just content:

📌 Phase 1: Nail down your product’s unique angle, key pain points, and target personas
📣 Phase 2: Map the funnel—Top, Mid, Bottom—and assign channels (Meta, Search, Email, Influencer)
🧠 Phase 3: Craft creative angles using emotion, urgency, and proof—test 3 variations per stage
📊 Phase 4: Set metrics by stage (CTR, CPL, ROAS), then optimize weekly based on insights

Plus:
⚠️ Pitfalls to dodge: Broad targeting. Copy that’s all features, no benefits. No clear CTA.
🔧 Tools to win: Meta Ad Library (inspo), Motion (ad creative testing), Jasper (copy), HubSpot (tracking), ChatGPT (iteration)

The result?
Not just a bunch of posts and pixels—but a growth engine with purpose, precision, and ROI.

Because the best marketers don’t just run ads.
They orchestrate attention.

🖼️ Image Prompt of The Day

Impressionist wood grain oil painting, parallel view, A photo of two cute [enter subject] wearing blue harnesses, lying on the grassy shore of Lake Lisa in Kitzbühel with a clear sky and mountains in the background. One [enter subject] is standing up while the other is sitting down. The scenery includes green meadows, lake water, and a distant mountain range under sunny skies. Bright sunlight highlights their fur colors and playful expressions, small strokes of oil painting

📰 News Flash: Updates You Need to Catch Up On

• ElevenLabs is making moves! Their iOS app is now available for pre-orders, and they've also launched "Conversational AI 2.0" with a new turn-taking model and language switching. Plus, ElevenLabs is now a verified launch partner for the n8n.io Community Nodes program.

• Stitch (by Google) just upped its game, now able to generate 10 designs simultaneously.

• Rive is innovating with a new "Data Binding" feature for images, letting you dynamically swap images in the Rive Editor and at runtime (currently in Early Access). They've also added support for "Mac Catalyst" in the Rive Apple runtime, meaning you can use the same Rive files across all Apple platforms with a single runtime.

• Descript is on a roll! Their AI co-editor, "Underlord," is now in open beta for everyone. They've also redesigned their timeline to integrate scene thumbnails directly into the video transcript and added a new "Split" tool to the timeline.

• Spline is enhancing Hana with "Progressive Blur" and "Gradients."

• Framer's May update brought a new plugin, Quick Action menus, improved numeric inputs, new layer icons, and numerous fixes.

🧰 Creator’s Toolbox

• Duck AI: Anonymous access to GPT-4o Mini and Claude 3—no login, no tracking, just instant AI chat.

• Greta: Build and deploy full-stack apps in seconds—zero code required. Ideal for fast prototyping and MVPs.

• Whisper V3: Transcribe long YouTube videos effortlessly with a single click—powered by Hugging Face.

• Quadratic: Chat with your spreadsheets, connect to databases, and visualize data—no coding required.

• Pikzels: Generate viral thumbnails and titles in seconds with AI.

• Riso: Apply risograph print textures on any text or image.

• Rogo: Create Swiss-inspired design patterns.