Dan Oshinsky

Runs @inboxcollective. Accidental Google Doc publisher of Formerly: @newyorker @BuzzFeed, @StryUs, @tools4reporters. M-I-Z.

[Dan Oshinsky @danoshinsky]

Looking to follow me in the new year?

🔵 New stories at https://t.co/LkV2d8Oku4

🟢 Email news, tips, and ideas at https://t.co/nssaEBUVu0

🟡 Newsletters + alerts at https://t.co/sVYHx0RgNT

[Dan Oshinsky @danoshinsky]

Thrilled about the last few weeks of stories on @inboxcollective:

Chris La Tray on the power of a paid newsletter —> https://t.co/3UaJZpczVR

Evvie Crowley’s new series, FWD Progress —> https://t.co/QohByzSDnV

New @YannaTorry column —> https://t.co/5ra6253O8I

Lots more coming!

[Dan Oshinsky @danoshinsky]

@joewaters Take a look at https://t.co/szqNLifWKA or https://t.co/5NOcoG0jbH!

[Dan Oshinsky @danoshinsky]

I still can't believe this: I'm almost to the end of year four of writing a monthly Google Doc.

(And even more unbelievable: Almost 10,000 of you read it every single month.)

Read on in the latest issue...

[Inbox Collective @inboxcollective]

November's Not a Newsletter is here! Tons of links inside about indie newsletter, the ad landscape, and ideas for writing daily. It's all inside —> https://t.co/FRlDN2q1wq

[Dan Oshinsky @danoshinsky]

Oh, just a funny story about the time I tried to make some email authentication updates at the end of a long day and accidentally ended up in the spam folder for 24 hours 🤦‍♂️

https://t.co/RcPh9yueN7

[Dan Oshinsky @danoshinsky]

@inoldnews @ONA It wasn't just me! @tinythings @arianarg and @tanyasic were the ones who really shared their learnings about Courses that week!

[Dan Oshinsky @danoshinsky]

It's Nov. 1, which means @NewsMatch kicks off today. I've got a few tips here to help you build your best fundraising campaign yet.

https://t.co/Anw9hhmy5w

[Dan Oshinsky @danoshinsky]

As Alex explains so well here: We're making a push to tell stories about newsletters from all over.

This month, we've published stories from writers in India, the UK, & Chile

And this is the first we've published in two languages (English and Spanish).

Lots more to come!

[Alex Hazlett @ahazlett]

Yesterday @danoshinsky and I published this story for @inboxcollective and it's really worth your time for a few reasons 🧵 https://t.co/3kVEXcS7vM

[Iván Weissman @ivanwese]

Una alegría y honor que El Semanal sea digno de ser destacado x los capos de @danoshinsky y @ahazlett

[Dan Oshinsky @danoshinsky]

Excited to be a (small) part of this course!

[Tyler Denk 🐝 @denk_tweets]

I'm co-hosting a 5 day course with @businessbarista to help people create, monetize, and scale their newsletters

speakers include over a dozen of the top newsletter operators and writers

...and it's 100% free

only 50 spots available. apply 👇🏽

https://t.co/HfEZxG7rak

[Ashley Hoffman @_AshleyHoffman]

What do you readers want? Ask. Them. @danoshinsky https://t.co/lPYvHUxIVO

[Sarah Ebner @sarahjebner]

If you're interested in newsletters, you may enjoy a piece I've written with my colleague from reader research, Mike Hoole, on our reader survey. It's been incredibly successful.....https://t.co/OqyJs46LcJ (Thanks to @danoshinsky for featuring the piece)

[Dan Oshinsky @danoshinsky]

@danalacey Agreed! Fear isn't a good motivator for many! (And in Ben's defense, he wasn't trying to do that. He was just asking a question.)

[Dan Oshinsky @danoshinsky]

But it’s wild to wake up today and see, right there on the @Semafor homepage, a massive email sign-up box for their 8 newsletters. How things have changed in a decade. I know Ben’s still asking the same questions about growth — here’s betting it won’t take them nearly as long.

[Dan Oshinsky @danoshinsky]

So for @semaforben’s first day — and with @semafor launching all sorts of newsletters — I’ll tell the story about my first day working for Ben at BuzzFeed as their Newsletter Editor.

[Dan Oshinsky @danoshinsky]

It took 25 months to answer Ben’s question and get to a million subscribers. (Turns out that when you have no strategy or budget, you rely on a lot of trial and error.) The second million came less than a year after that.