💰 Boost your revenue

It’s the final product update of 2023, and it’s been quite the year…

Wild to think that I wrote that tweet prior to our three most recent updates in December. And today’s won’t disappoint either…

💰 Boosts enhancements
🎨 Custom confirmation emails
⛓ Survey submission automations
👩🏾‍💻 Bulk API endpoints

Show me the money.

Boosts enhancements

Today we are launching two huge updates to help publishers earn more revenue with Boosts:

• New Monetize dashboard

• Boosts popup widget optimized for conversion

New Monetize Dashboard

We completely revamped the Boosts Dashboard for those of you monetizing 📈.

At the top of the dashboard, you’ll see the most important metrics and data about your revenue, including the subscribers you are driving to other publications.

Then below those metrics, we call attention to current publishers you are working with who have enabled Email Boosts, and allow you to apply with one click.

As a reminder: Email Boosts allow you to promote other publishers in your newsletter with a simple one-click signup button; making them the simplest way to drive a large volume of revenue in a single email send. For example, if a publisher is paying you $3.00 per subscriber, you include an Email Boost in your newsletter that generates 1,000 clicks, you could earn up to $3,000.

As you scroll down, you’ll find a line-by-line breakdown of the revenue you’ve generated by helping other publishers grow.

You’ll see the current that rate each publisher is paying you per subscriber, the subscribers who are in your pipeline, and the revenue you’ve earned from each.

Under the Email Boost tab, you’ll see any current Email Boosts you have active with a simple reminder to include them in an upcoming newsletter of yours.

In the table underneath, you’ll see the performance of every single Email Boost you’ve run previously. Email Boosts are the simplest way to drive a large volume of revenue in a single email send.

Finally, under the Insights tab you can track and visualize the revenue and growth you’ve generated over your selected time frames.

Boosts popup widget

Today we’re launching a brand new popup widget that is considerably more sleek and optimized for conversion.

The new widget will appear for new subscribers after they submit their email, and prior to continuing on the post-subscribe journey.

Early tests have shown a considerable increase in conversion rate, which should lead to more revenue generated for you when you are boosting other publishers 📈💰️🤑.

New to Boosts?

1. Connect your Stripe account (so you can get paid)

2. Visit the Boosts Marketplace to browse offers

3. Apply to publishers that are a good fit

4. Once accepted, you’ll begin generating revenue automatically  

Custom confirmation emails

One of the most common questions we receive is “Can I customize the double opt-in confirmation emails?”

As of today, the answer is yes.

Just go to Settings → Publication → Double Opt-In and click View and Update Confirmation Email.

• You can now edit the content of the confirmation email to include whatever you want.

• Each email also features a confirmation button that directs subscribers to your beehiiv homepage or a custom URL.

  • Simply add a Opt-In Redirect URL in the settings (above) to redirect new readers to a different location.

Double opt-in is an optional setting that requires new subscribers to confirm their email before they can begin receiving emails. Until they confirm their email (i.e. click the button in the confirmation email) they will be marked as Pending.

Note: All subscribers who join via Boosts, Recommendations, or the Referral Program automatically go through the double opt-in process to reduce spam and abuse.

Survey submission automations

We won’t stop shipping Automation features until beehiiv is home to the most robust suite of automation tools in the industry.

Today we are launching two powerful new Automation features:

• Survey submission trigger

• Survey submission conditions

As a reminder: beehiiv Surveys allow you to collect information about your subscribers without needing to use and pay for SurveyMonkey, Typeform, etc.

You can even build custom subscriber flows to display surveys as soon as someone signs up or unsubscribes from your newsletter.

Below is a simple survey we ask new readers to submit when they sign up to this very newsletter you’re reading right now.

As of today, you can now trigger automations when a reader submits a survey response.

In our example, we can enter readers into an automation as soon as they submit an onboarding survey for this newsletter.

And with Survey submission conditions… you can now add logic to check whether or not a reader has submitted a specific survey previously.

Below is an example of a True/False Branch that is checking to see if the reader both submitted the onboarding survey and answered that they do not have a newsletter on beehiiv.

With this new logic, I can send an automated and targeted email to readers who don’t yet use beehiiv 🙂.

Bulk API endpoints

We have made some considerable upgrades to our API. The goal is to further empower you to take advantage of the open web and integrate our platform however you see fit.

What’s new…

• Bulk update subscriptions

  • Also an endpoint to List / Show the statuses of these bulk updates

• List / Create / Update / Show / Delete custom field values for your publication

What are Boosts?

The easiest way to passively earn revenue from your newsletter. Period.

Browse hundreds of offers like the ones below in the Boosts Marketplace, apply to those that align with your newsletter, then passively earn revenue for each subscriber you send their way.

From the hiiv 🐝

the hiiv is the official beehiiv Slack community, home to thousands of the top newsletter operators in the world.

This week there were tons of feedback sessions with the community helping each other... and lots more 💪.