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🔴 Partisan content pays more, but he won't do it

The Court Watch newsletter counts federal judges, prosecutors, and widely-read journalists among its subscribers. Its founder still doesn't pay himself a salary.

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🔴 How a recipe creator built a $1M+ business

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🔴 How a pricing expert runs an 85,000 subscriber newsletter

Kyle Poyar turned four years of unpaid writing into a six-figure solo business, starting with with an ad deal that closed before he'd even launched.