Episode SummaryIn this episode, we chat with Nathan Barry, creator of the wildly popular email marketing platform ConvertKit and host of “The Art of Newsletters” podcast. One of the many reasons we wanted to talk to Nathan is because he’s been an avid podcaster long before it was popular (circa 2014).In addition to hosting his own show, Nathan and his team created a network for ConvertKit where t..
This podcast was published on March 02, 2022
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$30M in ARR, a team spread in 28 cities, and a strong audience worldwide. In this podcast, we talk about Nathan's successful keys in growing ConvertKit, his ups and downs as a solo founder, and get valuable insight into his learnings as a bootstrapped entrepreneur.
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This podcast was published on February 15, 2022
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Joining me this week is Nathan Barry.Nathan is a creator, author, speaker, designer, and founder of ConvertKit, an email marketing platform. Nathan has been cutting his teeth since 2010 by blogging online and selling various digital products to his growing online audience. He has become an authority on audience building and email marketing. This episode is a treasure trove for anybody thinking of building an onl..
This podcast was published on September 30, 2021
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Deepening your business relationships genuinely was a theme throughout season 2 and we are highlighting some thoughts from Nathan Barry, Kara Goldin and Jay Baer in this recap episode. Â Be sure to check out their full episodes: How to Use ConvertKit to Deepen Relationships, with Nathan Barry -Â video.realrelationshipsrealreven..
This podcast was published on September 29, 2021
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Deepening your business relationships genuinely was a theme throughout season 2 and we are highlighting some thoughts from Nathan Barry, Kara Goldin and Jay Baer in this recap episode. Â Be sure to check out their full episodes: How to Use ConvertKit to Deepen Relationships, with Nathan Barry -Â video.realrelationshipsrealreven..
This podcast was published on September 29, 2021
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Nathan Barry is the creator of ConvertKit. He's also a writer and designer. In this conversation, we spoke about homeschooling, his early success, building an online business in Boise, Idaho, the power of streaks, and unsolicited advice from James Clear.
This podcast was published on May 14, 2021
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ConvertKit’s mission is to help creators reach their audience and make a living doing what they love. That includes musicians – possibly the most mainstream of creators. If you’ve been following along, you may have caught wind that ConvertKit recently acquired FanBridge, an email marketing company geared toward musicians. In today’s episode, Charli, Haley, Miguel, and ConvertKit CEO Nathan Barry discuss the why behind ConvertKitâ..
This podcast was published on April 21, 2021
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Nathan Barry shares the secrets of the world’s most effective communicators and how you can leverage the power of automation to scale your business development efforts to the moon. Learn how business development professionals can use email and content to grow an audience that is hungry for their expertise, reach more people in a deeper way at scale instead of just 1-to-1, and how the compound gains of consistent action can lead to incredible..
This podcast was published on April 10, 2021
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Nathan Barry shares the secrets of the world’s most effective communicators and how you can leverage the power of automation to scale your business development efforts to the moon. Learn how business development professionals can use email and content to grow an audience that is hungry for their expertise, reach more people in a deeper way at scale instead of just 1-to-1, and how the compound gains of consistent action can lead to incredible..
This podcast was published on April 10, 2021
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Mo shares his insights from the habits of Nathan Barry. ConvertKit has grown from a startup to $25 million a year in revenue. His perspective on seeing how thousands of professionals use his platform gives him a lot of insight into what works and what doesn’t. Teach everything you know. Many professionals resist the idea for fear of giving away all their best stuff for free, but the opposite tends to be true. The more y..
This podcast was published on April 09, 2021
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Mo shares his insights from the habits of Nathan Barry. ConvertKit has grown from a startup to $25 million a year in revenue. His perspective on seeing how thousands of professionals use his platform gives him a lot of insight into what works and what doesn’t. Teach everything you know. Many professionals resist the idea for fear of giving away all their best stuff for free, but the opposite tends to be true. The more y..
This podcast was published on April 09, 2021
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Mo asks Nathan Barry: How do we hack our own habits to keep building their audience? The most important thing you can do is do it consistently. Anywhere you can find leverage and compound returns are crucial to your long term success. This is where habits come in. Creating content is a long term game and if you only do it for a few months you’re not going to see a lot of traction. Nathan uses an app called Streaks to tr..
This podcast was published on April 08, 2021
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Mo asks Nathan Barry: How do we hack our own habits to keep building their audience? The most important thing you can do is do it consistently. Anywhere you can find leverage and compound returns are crucial to your long term success. This is where habits come in. Creating content is a long term game and if you only do it for a few months you’re not going to see a lot of traction. Nathan uses an app called Streaks to tr..
This podcast was published on April 08, 2021
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Mo asks Nathan Barry: How do you deepen relationships with an email list? When you first meet someone, your relationship is initially pretty shallow. Nathan likes to take as much information about himself and include that into his email sequence because that allows people to get a glimpse of who he is. Being authentic, open, and direct is a way you can help people get to know you and instill that vital trust. Any..
This podcast was published on April 07, 2021
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Mo asks Nathan Barry: How do you deepen relationships with an email list? When you first meet someone, your relationship is initially pretty shallow. Nathan likes to take as much information about himself and include that into his email sequence because that allows people to get a glimpse of who he is. Being authentic, open, and direct is a way you can help people get to know you and instill that vital trust. Any..
This podcast was published on April 07, 2021
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Mo asks Nathan Barry: How can we get more of the meaningful work we want to do? When you think about all the service providers you could hire, you consider all sorts of things like price, location, rapport, but near the top is actual expertise. One of the most effective ways to signal your expertise is to teach what you know. Nathan originally started off designing apps for the iPhone for other people, and in the process ..
This podcast was published on April 06, 2021
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Mo asks Nathan Barry: How can we get more of the meaningful work we want to do? When you think about all the service providers you could hire, you consider all sorts of things like price, location, rapport, but near the top is actual expertise. One of the most effective ways to signal your expertise is to teach what you know. Nathan originally started off designing apps for the iPhone for other people, and in the process ..
This podcast was published on April 06, 2021
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Mo asks Nathan Barry: What’s your big idea for growing a book of business, growing relationships, and growing a career? Nathan used to play video games and he likens having an audience and a newsletter to having the cheat codes for business. Having an engaged audience that you can push content to is incredibly powerful. Some platforms have followers, like social and blogging, and others allow you to push content in fron..
This podcast was published on April 05, 2021
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Mo asks Nathan Barry: What’s your big idea for growing a book of business, growing relationships, and growing a career? Nathan used to play video games and he likens having an audience and a newsletter to having the cheat codes for business. Having an engaged audience that you can push content to is incredibly powerful. Some platforms have followers, like social and blogging, and others allow you to push content in fron..
This podcast was published on April 05, 2021
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In this episode, Nathan Barry founder of Convertkit. Talks to our host, Cameron Albert-Deitch, about his Book Smart pick,  Anything You Want by Derek Sivers.
This podcast was published on October 20, 2020
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Li Jin and Nathan Baschez interview Nathan Barry--creator, author, speaker, designer, and the founder of ConvertKit. He founded ConvertKit in 2013 as an email marketing company for creators, with the goal of helping more people make money online. The company has been bootstrapped to $23.5M in ARR and has over 31K customers.Nathan got his start in the passion economy almost 10 years ago, when he launched a series of books for web and mobil..
This podcast was published on September 28, 2020
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I am here with Nathan Barry, a friend of mine and also the founder of a business called ConvertKit which powers the email and newsletter that many of you subscribe to. He like me was homeschooled and dropped out of college. He now runs a hundred million dollar company. In this episode, we delve into …
This podcast was published on July 30, 2020
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Not that long ago, we were living in a grow-grow-grow economy where stock options in a hot venture-backed startup were what most employees coveted. Today, a profitable bootstrapped company that shares its profit with its own employees feels like a revelation. In this episode, we speak with Nathan Barry, founder and CEO of ConvertKit, about how his bootstrapped software company shares profit with its employees, and while we're at it, how they t..
This podcast was published on May 19, 2020
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ConvertKit founder and CEO, Nathan Barry, returned to the podcast this week and joined host Darrell Vesterfelt to talk about how he got his start, the competitive advantage of email marketing, and the future of email.
Nathan Barry founded his company to help founders, creators, and digital marketers serve their audiences better with email … and earn a living doing it.
ConvertKit is an “email marketing company for creators” ..
This podcast was published on March 30, 2020
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Why would you change course from a personal brand that’s making $250,000 in annual revenue to build a software-as-a-service business in an incredibly competitive market? Nathan Barry shares the details of how he started selling apps, then ebooks and courses, and then how he broke even with his email marketing software.  “ Just because something is making money for you doesn’t mean you should keep it around, because it..
This podcast was published on February 27, 2020
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The Get Paid Podcast: The Stark Reality of Entrepreneurship and Being Your Own Boss
Today, I’m talking with , the Founder and CEO of , email marketing software designed to help creators connect with their audience. I first came across Nathan years ago when I stumbled upon his book, Authority, and I’ve been following his story since. He launched ConvertKit in early 2013 as a challenge to build a web app from 0 to $5k MRR in 6 months and diversify away from his less stable income from his self-published books. 6 months later..
This podcast was published on September 10, 2019
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The Effective Founder
I’m pretty sure that most of you have either heard about ConvertKit, are thinking about using it, or are already raving fans. Today’s guest is the Go-To Guy behind ConvertKit – Founder and CEO, Nathan Barry.
This isn’t a typical interview with Nathan though, and we actually don’t really talk much about email marketing.
This podcast was published on July 04, 2019
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Episode #3. I’m pretty sure that most of you have either heard about ConvertKit, are thinking about using it, or are already raving fans. Today’s guest is the Go-To Guy behind ConvertKit – Founder and CEO, Nathan Barry.
This isn’t a typical interview with Nathan though, and we actually don’t really talk much about email marketing.
This podcast was published on January 21, 2019
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Nathan Barry is the founder of ConvertKit, a super successful email marketing software company, but the road to success hasn’t been an easy one. Nathan shares how his family’s money struggles growing up instilled in him a sense of resourcefulness, and how he’s passing on those lessons to his kids. Nathan also talks about how his support systems have gotten him through troubled times.Nathan's 2 Cents:If you build into kids a ..
This podcast was published on January 10, 2019
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Nathan Barry (@nathanbarry) knows better than anyone: Sometimes, you're working hard on something, and it's just not happening. How do you decide whether to double down, or shut down? This is what Nathan was asking himself two years after launching his email service, ConvertKit. He was bringing in only $1,500 a month, and he was losing customers every month. It was time to decide: Doubl..
This podcast was published on September 13, 2018
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For the curious...On July 2nd, Convertkit announced they'd be rebranding to Seva. So I reached out to talk to Nathan Barry about the process of designing a new brand name in 2018.Show Highlights
1:30 - Why Nathan changed the name of his company and how Amazon influenced this huge decision.
5:01 - Why Aweber and Constant Contact are going to fail and why Drip's rebrand didn't..
This podcast was published on July 20, 2018
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ConvertKit founder Nathan Barry dropped by to talk about their platform, their evolution, and why they’ve taken a leap into a brand-new name and identity. Editorial note: ConvertKit recently announced that they’re going to stay with the name ConvertKit — here’s why. At Copyblogger, we really like the ConvertKit email solution. In fact, we’re marketing... Listen to episode
This podcast was published on July 16, 2018
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Today's show is not a full episode! Jon and I have been busy with our day jobs, plus Memorial Day, and didn't have time to record a show.But, to be honest, this pricing discussion isn't something we can solve in a 30-minute conversation. We've realized it's going to require more research. We need to talk to folks who know more than us. So that's what we've been doing. This week, I have a c..
This podcast was published on May 29, 2018
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In previous careers, Nathan has been a designer, author, and blogger. After learning the power of email marketing he gave up a successful blogging career to build ConvertKit.
He’s come on the show to let us know how you can start using email for your service based business.
In this episode we cover:
Why starting an email newsletter isn’t a p..
This podcast was published on February 21, 2018
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This week I talk with Nathan Barry of ConvertKit! Nathan and I talk about being a maker as a kid, graduating high school at 15, being inspired by working in fast food, deciding when to pack it up or buckle down and much more! Enjoy!
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This podcast was published on September 20, 2017
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#244: ConvertKit Founder and CEO Nathan Barry shares his journey in bootstrapping a business and growing a software company from the ground up. Learn about how Nathan and his team work to grow ConvertKit, how rejection and criticism have been helpful, and how the company uses advisors. Podcast show notes available here: https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/session244
This podcast was published on December 14, 2016
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Nathan Barry is a blogger, author, designer, and the CEO of our very own rapidly-growing startup.
We’ve all heard it over and over again that consistency is key to any success. But how do you actually do it? How do you show up time and time again, even when you don’t want to? And does it really pay off ..
This podcast was published on August 08, 2016
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Do you struggle with the features of your email service provider? Are there too many or not enough? Our guest for today, Nathan Barry couldn't find a provider who could give him exactly what he needed so he decided created his own.On today's show Nathan talks about his journey of creating ConvertKit and how he's grown it into an enterprise that has been developing by 20% month over month! We also explain what makes ConvertKit so unique ..
This podcast was published on June 24, 2016
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This is part 2 of my conversation with Nathan Barry. In the past four months, he’s taken his burgeoning SaaS company (ConvertKit) from $1 million in annual recurring revenue to $2 million.
That sounds exciting, but it wasn’t easy getting there. In this episode Nathan talks about the stress of being a new CEO, running out of money, not being able to get a loan, and finally figuring out a way to succeed.
Personally, I complet..
This podcast was published on April 06, 2016
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The last time I talked to Nathan, his web app (ConvertKit) had just hit $5,000 in MRR. In this two part series, Nathan describes how they grew that to $182,000 in monthly recurring revenue.
I’m going to start more conference talks with: “Look, this worked for me. If you can get something from it great. But there’s no guarantees.” I’m not interested in be..
This podcast was published on April 01, 2016
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If you do email marketing in your wellness business (and you probably do, if you're listening to my podcast!) then you won't want to miss this week's interview with Nathan Barry, the founder of email marketing service ConvertKit. Get a notebook ready because Nathan shares a ton of valuable insights about email marketing including: how [...]
This podcast was published on March 28, 2016
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Nathan is the Founder of ConvertKit, an email marketing company, and he is also the Author of The App Design Handbook, Designing Web Apps, and Authority.
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This podcast was published on July 01, 2015
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Archive 2 of Entrepreneurs On Fire
Nathan Barry, founder of ConvertKit and author of Authority, talked with us about the struggles of getting a SaaS app off the ground. He focused on the hard decision of knowing when to invest both time and money into an idea, even when there aren’t clearLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This podcast was published on March 03, 2015
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Nathan is a designer and developer who grew a following when he started teaching everything he knows. He’s released 2 successful courses on design, a book called Authority and is currently building a tool to help authors with their e-mail marketing called ConvertKit.
In this episode we’ll go into the strategies Nathan uses to get so much done, learn a wide variety of skills as well as the behind-the-scenes of how he’s been app..
This podcast was published on December 23, 2014
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Nathan is the Founder of ConvertKit, an email marketing company, and he is also the Author of The App Design Handbook, Designing Web Apps, and Authority.
This podcast was published on March 02, 2014
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Entrepreneurs on Fire
Welcome to a brand new episode of Product People: this is the show that exposes you to the scrappy underworld of people creating their own products. No bullshit, no pretending: what does it take to build and launch your own thing?
This my conversation with Nathan Barry. It originally occurred on the community I run for bootstrappers called JFDI.BZ (Just Fucking Do It). JFDI members were able to a..
This podcast was published on December 31, 2013
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This week on The Giant Robots Podcast, Ben Orenstein chats with Nathan Barry about book writing, teaching and self employment.
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This podcast was published on October 28, 2013
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Hosted by Brennan Dunn and Eric Davis with guest Nathan Barry.
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This podcast was published on October 18, 2012
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