Introduction:
Hi there, newsletter authors! We love you, first of all. We enjoy reading so many of the posts that land in our inboxes. Our favorites are Next Draft, Hung Up, Ageless & Timely, Oldster, plus History Club, but flipboard newsletter we’re always interested in finding out about other magazines that we ought to be reading. (Inform us!)
Flipboard is a powerful tool for newsletter creators, since it powers their creative processes plus newsletter distribution strategies. For them, Flipboard has developed into a potent referral source, a means of exposing posts to fresh audiences, and an instrument for producing supplementary content for subscribers.
Here are a few ways that writers might use Flipboard to enhance the community, growth, and quality of their own newsletters.
PRIOR TO PUBLICATION:Â
1: ENSERT YOUR IDEA INTO A BANK
You probably consume a lot of material as a writer in order to keep current in your field. Flipboard may serve as a central location for nearly all if the content that you consume, which will expedite this process. (Consider it as a more elegant and useful version of the Google Reader, RIP.) By linking Flipboard to Twitter, following topics, and customizing those subjects, you may customize what you see on the app. Additionally, you may utilize search to identify specialized subjects and add particular sources to your Flipboard. Alternatively, you can go to Explore to uncover a wide range of publishers, creators, and curators.
2: STORIES CAN BE PRESERVED IN A (PRIVATE) SETTING
If you come across a story that you think will be helpful later, you can turn it into a digital Flipboard magazine by using the Add button with our browser extension. Before the electronic edition is released, make the publication’s contents private to protect your ideas and sources of inspiration. Alternatively, you might make it public so that your subscribers may see what’s telling you behind closed doors.
Following your publication:
1: SEARCH FOR NEW AUDIOVISIONS FOR YOUR CONTENT
Turn your newsletter into a sort of Flipboard magazine after it’s published, much like Jason Steinhauer—the man behind History Club’s History Club Substack—is doing here. To make sure your post appears in front of interested readers in our subject feeds, our algorithm will examine the keywords in it and assign pertinent topic tags.
As you can see below, Jefferson Graham’s Substack piece was given the #IPHONE subject tag by Flipboard. With 1.3 million followers for Flipboard, this topic has a large potential audience that might never have otherwise seen this URL. The Substack analytics dashboard of the author of this post will show the traffic generated by Flipboard.
2: PROVIDE SUPPLEMENTARY CONTENT FOR SUBSCRIBERS
There’s only so much capacity in a newsletter, so perhaps you could provide more detail about your topic or links to materials that served as inspiration for your writing. For every sponsored article on Flipboard, author in the Timeless & Modern Substack Scott Monty creates related collections. This is his perspective on it.
These might pertain to books that I’ve used as a source of information or recent occurrences that need additional explanation. Paying subscribers gets a weekly separate article containing periodic sets of hyperlinks: timeless, timely, and links to a germane book and podcast for more reading. Additionally, You take things a step better every week and make storyboards for every paid entry.
3: USE A GROUP MAGAZINE TO ENGAGE YOUR READERS
Imagine something analogous to a Facebook group magazine, where the focus is on the content rather than the conversation. This arrangement, in our opinion, contributes to the establishment of a serene, superior atmosphere where the focus is on reading, viewing, or listening to content before making a comment. Ask your readers to participate with you in a group magazine so they can discuss and exchange newsletters and supplementary content in one location. This is a great illustration provided by Jefferson Graham, the owner of that Photowalks Substack.
4: USE NOTES TO ENGAGE WITH READERS
With the exception of notes, which allow users to leave brief remarks for other magazine readers. Almost all of the material on Flipboard is house elsewhere. A note is an empty (well, sapphire) canvas that can be use for several purposes, such as sharing a reader quote, emphasizing a point, and asking questions. If someone is following you on Flipboard, add a note to strike up a discussion and interact with them.
Oh, and we also enjoy including newsletter creators in our newsletters and carefully chosen collections. Get a sense for each of our newsletters by subscribing to any or all of them, and contact us if your viewpoint seems like a suitable fit. We have newsletters with topics like gastronomy, photography,
We’ll end with a quote and some guidance from Scott Monty. “I think it’s well worth the extra effort and thought to add content to Flipboard. It’s difficult to automate custom curation.” Flipboard offers readers a useful service and is the second-largest source of travel to Timeless & Timely, following email. Many more of your newsletter whizzes should soon be visible on Flipboard. Thank you, Scott! Please don’t hesitate to ask questions; we are always please to assist. Head of creative community and newsletters Mia Quagliarello even had Steve Pell on her show. Because she loves the Next Draft.
