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Full guide · 5 steps
This guide walks a small business through starting an email newsletter in five steps: choose a platform such as Kit or AWeber, add a signup form, write a welcome email and a one-line promise with AI, draft and trim your first issue, add a simple header image, then send. Free plan limits are listed at the end.
Last checked · By Mishal Brands Editorial
A newsletter is the one audience channel you own. Social reach changes with every algorithm update, but an email list stays yours, and a short, regular email keeps customers coming back.
Suggested workflow. These steps are a workflow for one person with off-the-shelf tools. We name tools as examples.
Create a free Kit account if you expect your list to grow past a few hundred people.
Kit’s free plan has no trial clock; paid features such as sequences start with a 14-day trial.
Our tool page: Kit.
Choose AWeber instead if you want a simple editor and landing page and your list will stay small at first.
Set your one free automation as the welcome email.
Our tool page: AWeber.
Use prompts 1 and 8 from our newsletter prompt pack to write a one-line promise and a welcome email under 150 words.
Put the promise on your signup form so people know what they are joining.
Our tool page: ChatGPT.
Use prompts 3, 4 and 9 to write subject lines, an opening line and a tighter draft.
One useful idea per issue beats five links.
Our tool page: Claude.
Make a header image in Canva with your name and newsletter title, sized for email.
Keep text in the email itself, not inside images, so it reads on every device.
Our tool page: Canva.
Browse by category: All 49 Marketing tools · All 41 Writing and content tools. Every tool page lists the vendor’s own price and the date we checked it.
Send a test to yourself, read it on your phone, then send. End every issue with one question people can answer by replying. Replies tell you what to write next.
Pick an email platform, add a signup form to your site and bio, write a welcome email, then send a short first issue that teaches one useful thing.
Pick a schedule you can keep, such as weekly or every other week. Consistency matters more than length.
Yes. Kit and AWeber both report free plans; their limits and check dates are in the pricing section at the end of this guide.
Each line is worded as the vendor reports it, with the date we checked. Plans change, so confirm on the official page before you sign up.
Written by Mishal Brands Editorial. Affiliate links are marked and never change the order.
A short, copyable set of image prompts for product shots, portraits, thumbnails, logos, and ads. These are starting points you can adapt — not a promise of any result.