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FMS FinPub ProHow To Get FinPub Affiliates To Sell Your Trading And Investing ProductsFinPub Pro is produced by The Financial Marketing Summit, the #1 networking and marketing conference for financial newsletter publishers, trader educators, and digital financial media. John Newtson, host and founder of The Financial Marketing Summit can be reached via LinkedIn at John Newtson
2025-11-1120 minFMS FinPub ProAgora's #1 newsletter promo of the past 7-years.Copywriter Chris Cimorelli joins me to talk about his latest promotion. This newsletter promotion generated $4.5 million in subscription sales in the first 24-hours, making it the #1 single sales day for a promotion at Agora over the past 7-years. It went on to sell $8.8 million in subscriptions over it's 5-day launch window.FinPub Pro is produced by The Financial Marketing Summit, the #1 networking and marketing conference for financial newsletter publishers, trader educators, and digital financial media. John Newtson, host and founder of The Financial Marketing Summit can be reached via LinkedIn at John Newtson
2025-08-3056 minFMS FinPub ProTheir trading creators are processing $600 million/year of payments. Should FinPub pay attention?FinPub Pro is produced by The Financial Marketing Summit, the #1 networking and marketing conference for financial newsletter publishers, trader educators, and digital financial media. John Newtson, host and founder of The Financial Marketing Summit can be reached via LinkedIn at John Newtson
2025-07-3038 minFMS FinPub ProA Private Equity Education & Investing Membership ModelWhat happens when your wealth manager fires you after losing your money? For Graham Rowan, it became the catalyst for moving into private equity investing before founding The Inside Investor Club.His club typically invests in companies valued between $20-80 million, making $500k-$2M raises accessible to its community of about 200 high net worth families.Graham's business model represents the growing direct to investor businesses models proliferating in many different forms. In this one we see investor education merging with exclusive direct investment opportunitiesFinPub Pro is produced by The Financial Marketing Summit...
2025-06-1140 minFMS FinPub ProMastering FinPub Copy: Insights from a Top ChiefFinPub Pro is produced by The Financial Marketing Summit, the #1 networking and marketing conference for financial newsletter publishers, trader educators, and digital financial media. John Newtson, host and founder of The Financial Marketing Summit can be reached via LinkedIn at John Newtson
2025-05-0659 minFMS FinPub ProHow to write stronger free & paid financial newsletters.Kim Iskian, the editorial director at Porter Co., joins us to talk about creating editorial that readers want to engage with and are willing to pay for. FinPub Pro is produced by The Financial Marketing Summit, the #1 networking and marketing conference for financial newsletter publishers, trader educators, and digital financial media. John Newtson, host and founder of The Financial Marketing Summit can be reached via LinkedIn at John Newtson
2025-03-251h 04FMS FinPub ProAndrew's journey from the trading floor to building trader education brandsAndrew started trading on the CBOE before starting his trader education company.He's one of the few traders who have had success both as an independent publisher and as the face of large franchises at The Agora companies.He's also MC for us at https://financialmarketingsummit.com/FinPub Pro is produced by The Financial Marketing Summit, the #1 networking and marketing conference for financial newsletter publishers, trader educators, and digital financial media. John Newtson, host and founder of The Financial Marketing Summit can be reached via LinkedIn at John Newtson
2024-12-0758 minFMS FinPub ProMarketBeat's Dr. Matt Paulson: The Changing Trends in Acquisition MediaJoin us for a must-listen conversation with Dr. Matt Paulson from MarketBeat, where we unravel the latest shifts in the financial publishing landscape. FinPub Pro is produced by The Financial Marketing Summit, the #1 networking and marketing conference for financial newsletter publishers, trader educators, and digital financial media. John Newtson, host and founder of The Financial Marketing Summit can be reached via LinkedIn at John Newtson
2024-09-3035 minFMS FinPub ProMorgan Busby: Surviving & Thriving in a Changing Financial Publishing industryThis episode took me too long to get done.In this conversation with Morgan Busby, CEO of Financial Media Corp.Morgan is one of my favorite people in FinPub. He’s a great entrepreneur and human.He’s also always willing to talk about the hard stuff in business.We dig into the challenges he’s had managing the business over the past few years.From the early 2020 fears of maybe needing the business plan version of an apocalypse bunker – to the biggest boom the industry has ever see...
2024-09-1054 min
Seth Farbman on Podcast - From Startup to Stock ExchangeHow Personal Branding Impacts Publicly Traded Companies | John NewtsonIn this episode, Seth Farbman, CEO of Vstock Transfer, sits down with John Newtson, CEO of Pendry Cannon, to explore the evolving role of digital marketing in shareholder acquisition and corporate storytelling. Seth shares his insights on how CEOs can leverage LinkedIn and other social media platforms to build authentic connections with investors and stakeholders. Discover how personal branding, strategic content creation, and social targeting are transforming the way public companies engage with their audiences. Learn about Seth’s 20-year journey in capital markets and the lessons he's gathered along the way to help companies thrive in today's digital la...
2024-09-0934 minFMS FinPub ProThe Finance Publisher for FoundersMathieu Silverstein runs Wealth Factory.It is not your traditional FinPub – but has done something unique in the industry.He straddles a fascinating line between B2C & B2B.Wealth Factory publishes finance education for founders and business owners.His marketing model is 100% the B2C marketing approach we are used to in FinPub.But his target audience is B2B.They have money.They spend money.And it’s essentially a business expense for them.That’s a powerful position to be...
2024-08-051h 19FMS FinPub ProHow to double trading newsletter sales in 3 months.How do you double a trading newsletter business?In this hotseat session Bret Holmes, who has helped build newsletter publishers up to $225 million in annual revenue, digs deep into the business of a trading newsletter founder who has built up his subscription business to a point it ranges between $55,ooo to $85,000 per month.This is an example of the premium conversations we're having in FMS PRO - the discord community for the financial publishing, trader education, and media industry. Try FMS PRO out here https://financialmarketingsummit.com/...Also, The Financial Marketing...
2024-07-151h 28FMS FinPub ProNo boring ideas: Why great Promotions are more than just great sales copyMany of the most legendary direct response marketing promotions had a concept built into them that elevated the promotion itself.A concept that only indirectly had anything to do with the benefits of the product. These were more than simple sales letters or VSLs they were full blown PROMOS.We start this episode looking at some of those promotions and follow the conversation into more nuanced territory around what makes an editor more promotable, new promotional formats, the nature of relationship building with the prospect and customer, and more. In this episode I'm...
2024-05-292h 09FMS FinPub ProComparing the two big newsletter industries with Matt McGarryHere in Financial Publishing we've all watched the rise of The Morning Brew, The Hustle, Milk Road with interest.The media attention and venture attention on them and the newsletter boom fueled by the Substack & Beehive boom made newsletters finally seem "cool."Here in FinPub we've been running newsletter subscription businesses for over 60 years. So what do these two industries have in common?Matt McGarry joined me to explain the model & thinking of these rising "Newsletter-First Media Companies".Matt's got a ton of experience here as he managed a...
2024-05-0655 minFMS FinPub ProBuilding a Trader Education Business with John Carter, Founder of Simpler TradingI've been wanting to talk to John Carter on here for awhile for a few reasons.First, because John founded Simpler Trading and built it into one of the top trader education companies in the industry.Second, because John's approach to building the business has always steered away from the hype side of promotion.Third, because he exited a large portion of the business when he sold 2/3rds of it to a private equity company.Basically, he's carved his own path through FinPub and built a unique business.In...
2024-04-291h 03
Newsletter OperatorJohn Newtson - How Agora, Motley Fool, and MarketWise Make $1B+ From NewslettersJohn Newtson is the founder of Financial Marketing Summit, a marketing conference for financial publishers, trading educators, and media brands. Connect with John on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/johnnewtsonWant more content like this?Join Newsletter Operator for more strategies on how to grow and monetize your newsletter here: NewsletterOperator.comWork with Ryan's agency Tailwind Work with Matt's agency GrowLetterFollow Matt McGarry @JMatthewMcGarry and Ryan Carr @ryan_boat on Twitter.Episode Topics & Timestamps00:00 Financial industry's pre-digital growth and tr...
2024-04-1957 minFMS FinPub ProThe newsletter vs. the high-ticket coaching model. Why Conor Lynch, who helped build a $50 million publishing business is making the switch.Conor Lynch had massive success with more traditional trader education newsletter model. He was publisher on one of the fastest-growing publishing companies in that last decade. He and the team he was working with grew from $0 to $50 million in annual sales in just a few short years.Then they faced disaster – the FTC brought a case against them for their promotional claims.Since settling that case Conor has moved on and is launching a new business.But he’s decided to launch using a completely different marketing and business model.Hig...
2024-03-261h 01FMS FinPub ProWhy Niche Ideas Drive FinPub with Brian York, CMO of The AgoraBrian York, Chief Marketing Officer for The Agora companies, the financial newsletter publishing giant joins us to discuss the current state of Finpub.This conversation started when Brian commented on my video presentation, The State of FinPub 2024 In that comment Brian said, "There are 3 words here that are the most important, “Identify tight niches”. The bull market and Covid forced FinPub into the mainstream… most businesses chased the volume with mainstream ideas. That was a mistake."We need to re-focus on big, fringe ideas and go deeply into those ideas. Customers pay us to b...
2024-03-2647 minFMS FinPub ProHow to protect your business from class action lawsuits with Damon Wright from Gordon ReesI’m joined by Damon Wright, Head of Advertising & E-Commerce at law firm Gordon Rees to discuss the rising dangers of Class Action lawsuits.We dig into what they, why they are on the rise, and the most effective ways you can protect your business from individuals who target e-commerce and publishing businesses. Click here to download The Gordon Rees updated E-Commerce Retailer Legal Guide that covers this and many other legal issues. FinPub Pro is produced by The Financial Marketing Summit, the #1 networking and marketing conference for financial newsletter publ...
2024-03-1153 minFMS FinPub ProCopywriting for financial newsletters with Patrick Bove, top FinPub Copy ChiefPatrick Bove is copy chief at Legacy Reserach.He's been writing copy in financial since 2008.And has a growing team of nearly 30 copywriters writing for him.In this conversation, Patrick explains what ideas are selling now.The market has changed.That means the ideas you use to sell subscriptions has to change, too.Patrick talks about the current hot spots in the market. More fundamentally, he talks about how your promotional copy has to adjust to the market conditions. When I asked Patrick ab...
2023-12-0151 minFMS FinPub ProNewsletter King Porter Stansberry on his journey turning a $36k investment into a $3 billion IPOPorter Stansberry founded Stansberry Research with a laptop and $36k of financing from Bill Bonner.(You can meet Porter in person at the June 14-15th www.FinancialMarketingSummit.com)He and his partner, Steve Sjuggerud, and the team they built, turned that 36k into a $3 billion valuation at their IPO.That initial money was to fund what would become one of the most successful promotions in the history of financial publishing.In this conversation, I wanted to dig into the pivotal decisions Porter made along that journey to $3 billion....
2023-05-0156 minFMS FinPub ProA conversation with Mark Ford of The Agora CompaniesMark Ford has been in involved in dozens of multimillion-dollar businesses. He helped Bill Bonner build the Agora Companies, which has dominated the financial publishing industry for over a decade, and broke over a $1 billion in top-line revenue.I met him the first time back in 2016 or 17 when my former business partner was managing the affiliate program for his Palm Beach Letter. Today we talk about the state of the digital publishing business focused on retail and self-directed investors. Plus, what ideas engage investors online and more. Mark's knowledge of the business is what you w...
2022-03-0340 min
Strategic MomentumDriving Business Momentum Through Kindness & Altruism with John Newtson, Beth Freedman, John Keeling, Dan Yu, Dr. Phil Zimbardo, and Dr. Richard ShusterAre we really there for each other?I recently published an article on Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global about altruism, kindness and business after hearing several of my guests mention kindness in their advice for breaking through business inertia. In their own ways, they stressed the importance of doing good and paying it forward, not just as an organization, as we commonly talk about these days, but as an individual. Because when you look around, the reality is that altruism in business really isn’t as common as we’d like to think.In this...
2019-02-2627 minStrategic MomentumTaking Responsibility for Other People’s Ambitions & Successes: A Unique & Valuable Approach to Event Marketing - with John NewtsonIn business, we often get so focused on our own needs that we forget or possibly don’t care to learn about another person or businesses and their potentials needs.Even when you go to a networking or marketing event, you’re still focusing mostly on you and your business – and so is everyone else. The end result is a bunch of conversations that aren’t very productive and, frankly, aren’t very interesting.But today’s guest, John Newtson, has co-created a B2B business development ecosystem that takes a fundamentally different approach to event market...
2018-09-1140 min