Newszii Newsletter Issue 10: 6 Proven Steps to Grow Your Email List in 2025

📧 Grow Your Email List with 6 Steps in 2025

No more ghost subscribers. Build a list that opens, clicks, and converts.

🎁 Lead Magnet Magic
Offer something valuable in exchange for emails—think free trials, eBooks, discounts, or templates. Make it irresistible.

⏱️ Smart Pop-Ups
Trigger pop-ups after a delay or on exit intent. Keep the design clean and the CTA clear (“Get My Free Guide”).

📲 Bio Link Power
Add your sign-up link to your social bios (Instagram, LinkedIn, X). Use tools like Linktree or Carrd to organize CTAs.

🎉 Giveaways & Quizzes
Engage your audience with contests or interactive quizzes. They’re fun and great for collecting emails quickly.

📹 Webinars & Events
Host value-packed sessions. Ask for emails to join, and repurpose recordings as gated content for more leads.

🧹 Clean & Segment Often
Regularly remove inactive users. Use segmentation to send the right content to the right people = better results.

💡 Bonus Tip: Use beehiiv Boosts or referral programs to tap into other audiences and grow even faster. 

🎵 How YouTube’s AI Makes Music in Seconds

Imagine typing “epic adventure intro with orchestral drums” and instantly getting a copyright-safe track for your next YouTube video.

That’s exactly what YouTube’s new AI Music Assistant does — and it’s currently being quietly tested inside Creator Music (beta).

🔍 What It Does:

• Generate background music from text prompts

• Royalty-free: no more worrying about copyright strikes

• Instant customization based on your content vibe

Whether you’re making a vlog, tutorial, or cinematic trailer — just type what you need, and boom, music tailored to your mood.

🧪 Still in Beta…

YouTube hasn’t made a huge announcement yet — this feature is rolling out to select creators, but it’s a clear sign that AI is coming to content creation in a big way.

And if you’re lucky enough to have access, it might just become your new go-to music source.

📢 Prompt of the Day

Want marketing strategies that actually connect? Start with smarter feedback loops.

Use today’s prompt to build one that evolves with your audience👇

Prompt:

I want you to act as a customer insights strategist.

Before generating the feedback loop, ask me the following:

What is the name of your business?

Who is your target persona? (e.g., Gen Z creators, remote developers, health-conscious moms)

What are their evolving challenges or pain points?

What is your current Unique Selling Proposition (USP)?

Once I provide these details, generate a comprehensive customer feedback loop that:

Continuously gathers insights from the target persona,

Identifies shifts in their preferences and problems,

And feeds these learnings back into future marketing strategies and USP refinement.

Make it actionable, with clear steps, tools to use, and how often feedback should be collected.

🖼️ Image Prompt of The Day

I want you to act as a figurine concept artist.
Before generating the image, please ask me these questions:

Which character do you want the figurine to be based on?
(It can be from a game, anime, movie, or your own original idea.)

What pose should they be in?
(e.g., standing heroically, battle-ready, sitting on a throne, mid-attack, etc.)

What is their expression or mood?
(e.g., calm, raging, confident, sorrowful, etc.)

Describe their outfit, weapons, or powers.
(Include armor, clothes, magical effects, weapons, etc.)

What type of base or background should they stand on?
(e.g., rocky terrain, castle ruins, futuristic platform, etc.)

Do you want a realistic figurine, stylized, or anime-style?
(Choose based on your taste: realistic, chibi, comic-style, etc.)

🎨 Creator Vibes

1. 📱 ChatGPT and Threads Continue Download Surge – Both apps held strong in March’s global download charts, proving their growing user loyalty.
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2. 📰 LinkedIn Expands Top-of-Feed News Banners – The platform’s headline bar is now reaching users in more countries, making curated news more visible.
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3. 📊 Best-Performing LinkedIn Posts Revealed – A new report breaks down the content formats driving the most engagement on LinkedIn in 2025.
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4. 👨‍🚀 Elon Musk’s Political Power Play for X – Musk is leveraging his influence to secure long-term investor interest in X (formerly Twitter).
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5. 💡 LinkedIn Launches Mini-Site for Creators – A new hub full of content tips, tools, and insights to help professionals post smarter.
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6. 📁 Messenger Ups File Sharing Limit to 100MB – Sending large files just got easier—Messenger now supports 100MB uploads per file.
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🧰 Creator’s Toolbox

• Sider – Create expert-level, interactive reports in minutes by auto-scanning 100+ sources and highlighting key insights.

• Voicenotes – Record your thoughts and meetings, remember everything, and get insights exactly when you need them.

• Veed – AI-powered video creation tools that help you edit and produce videos more efficiently.

• SimplAI – Build complex, high-accuracy agentic AI applications for enterprise use without writing any code.

• Llama 4 – Meta’s next-generation open-source AI model built for advanced reasoning, coding, and language understanding.

• Cognee – Adds structured memory to AI agents using knowledge graphs in just 5 lines of code. Boosts response accuracy by mapping relationships between facts.

• Hebbia – Searches large documents and answers questions fast. Popular with lawyers; recently raised $130M.

📰 News Flash: Updates You Need to Catch Up On

1. 📱 Netflix is testing an OpenAI-powered mood-based search feature — currently live on iOS in Australia and New Zealand, with a U.S. rollout coming soon.

2. 🔥 Rive just dropped two killer features — flowing text along any path and instant RTL layout flips, making your UI animations smarter, smoother, and ready for a global audience.

3. 🕶 ByteDance is secretly building AI-powered smart glasses, rumored to rival Meta’s Ray-Bans, but no word yet on when or where they’ll launch.

4. 🎥 Veo 2, Google’s next-gen video generator, might be getting a broader release inside AI Studio — some users are already seeing early access.

5. 🍎 Apple still plans to launch its revamped Siri this fall. But a new NYT report says its AI struggles date back to 2023, when the CFO reportedly blocked more NVIDIA chips for the AI team.

6. 💸 According to Artificial Analysis, AI reasoning model benchmarking is now wildly expensive — $5K+ for 12 models vs. $2.4K for 80 non-reasoning ones.