Marijana Kay

How Marie Poulin uses ConvertKit to manage her $40K/month course business

Marie Poulin is a Notion pro. She teaches business owners to design their life and business systems to match their unique lifestyles. Notion Mastery, her flagship course, counts more than 2,100 students. The course and Notion templates she sells…

How Daren Smith grew his $85,000+ business with under 10 hours per week with ConvertKit

Daren Smith is the person behind Craftsman Creative, a hub of resources for creators who want to build a six-figure business. Creators can dive into blog posts, a free email course, a newsletter, podcast episodes, a book, and a paid community to…

What happens when you migrate 14,000 subscribers from Mailchimp to ConvertKit? Better results with less work. Here’s why.

Chris Ferdinandi teaches JavaScript to early-career web developers and designers who want to transition into code. He does this through free emails five times a week, as well as paid resources like ebooks, courses, and workshops under the Go Make…

The 9 types of creators and the tools they use to scale their business

Writers, teachers, filmmakers, artists… different types of creators have been around for longer than any of us can remember. Creator economy, however, is quite new. The term only became widely used in late 2020. The online tools we can access today…

Creator collaborations: the what, why, and how + examples to inspire you

The journey of a professional creator can be lonely and exhausting. You rely on social media to reach your followers and attract new ones. You count on SEO to give you an organic search boost. You build lead magnets and send newsletters to nurture…

How to maximize your impact as a creator with plug-and-play formulas

You’re a creator that has so much to share with the world and earn a good living doing it—but finding the exact way to do so is often really hard. Authors, food bloggers, podcasters, finance coaches, yoga teachers and all the other types of creators…

How to use SEO and ads to scale your creative business

Launch a new lead magnet. Post on Instagram. Send your weekly newsletter. The list goes on—you’re already doing a lot to market your creative business. Ever feel like there’s no chance to slow down and take a break from creating new content all the…

9 ways you can use ConvertKit’s Tip Jar to monetize your creator journey (with real-life examples)

You’ve worked hard to build your audience. You know that developing and launching a product will take time—but you want to get paid for your hard work sooner. (Read: for the dozens or hundreds of hours you spent creating blog posts, newsletters,…

How sponsorship coach Justin Moore had a $40K course launch with ConvertKit

Justin Moore is on a mission: help creators big and small land a million sponsorships by 2032. It’s a bold goal, but not an impossible one. Justin has been a full-time creator with his wife for a decade, with 1.5 million followers across all…

How artist Shelby Abrahamsen built an email list with 60,000+ subscribers using lead magnets and automations

Being creative as an adult is hard. It feels like an indulgence, or that it’s difficult to squeeze into grown-up responsibilities. This is what Shelby Abrahamsen saw in many adults—and herself. She thought that finding the key to productivity would…

How to launch an online course with ConvertKit (step-by-step)

You’re ready to launch your online course and you know it’s a good one that will help your students get results. But there’s only one problem: the tech setup intimidates you. Learning the ins and outs of a course platform, sending emails to…

How Pinterest coach Cara Chace uses opt-ins and evergreen automations to grow her audience

Many creators build a business because it feels like a better fit for their lifestyle than any other job out there. This was the case for Cara Chace, who left her career as a Special Agent to build a digital marketing agency. She then narrowed her…

Creator burnout: what it looks like, why it happens, and what you can do to heal from it

Burnout is among the most deceptive—and misunderstood—adversaries any creator can face. That’s because the experience of burnout is unique to each creator. It’s deeply personal in how drained it leaves you and how painful it can be. But even though…

10 exceptional welcome email examples you can steal (and why they work)

Every time a new subscriber joins your email list, they’ve let you into what’s arguably the most personal space on the internet: their email inbox. It’s where you can have one-on-one conversations with them, hear about the problems they hope to solve…