I tried Beehiiv for 355 days
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video, I go into my one-year experience with Beehiiv, a newsletter platform tailored for media businesses. While highlighting my favorite aspects of Beehiiv, I also address some limitations and areas for improvement that potential users should consider. This review aims to provide insights into choosing the right newsletter service based on your specific business needs and budget.
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1) Beehive is not an open subscription platform; it locks in payment data to prevent you from leaving. 2) It's made for techies and not for writers, journalists and publishing companies who do not want to spend time learning and working out how to set it up, design the website, landing page, sign-up form and sequence etc 3) The look and design of it is enough to make Steve Jobs scream in his grave - it's a bunch of techies who just do not care about the ease of use nor if it looks cartoony and childish.
Extremely insightful! Thank you, Eric!
I searched beehiiv tutorial. Saw your video thinking "no idea who this guy is. Lets see if this is useful".
Saw your pinned and realized you're Exploding Ideas creator. I'm a pro subscriber.
Thanks for cutting my learning curve!
Yooooooo!!! Rahul ur the man! your comment just made my day!
great breakdown. Thank you for sharing your opinion on Beehiiv.
it's sad to see analytics becoming useless with these new industry changes.
100%. hopefully someone figures out how to fix it
Hi Eric, I totally agree all newsletter pages look same same in style. I really like your landing page I will wait for your video thanks
Helped me a lot. But can you pls make a video on how to make a custom landing page just like yours😢
Sure
@@ericlamideas Any updates on this? Your landing page looks sweet.
Do you find that you lose subscriptions with readers' aversion to ads? I'm really on the fence about including them in my forthcoming newsletter.
Your content is wonderful, and I often watch your vids multiple times. Thanks so much for your generous sharing.
This is a great question. I was hesitant to try ads for the same reason. The short answer is no. The longer answer is, every time you send an email you will lose some subscribers. The key is setting up a consistent organic top of funnel so you always have new subscribers coming in. This way when you send an email you can make up for the lost subscribers. To your ads question specifically, I havent seen a difference in unsubscribes since adding ads. People either want your newsletter or they don’t, ads from what ive seen don’t make them lose interest.
How does Beehiiv compare to Ghost?
Love your channel brother, just subbed! Do you have any tips on creating a stellar landing page for a newsletter like you did for Exploding Ideas? Many Thanks!
Keep it simple. Don’t use more than like 3 colors. Also use 2 fonts maximum.
Why not just host your own newsletter on your own platform like WordPress to create your own rules and changes instead. Be unique.😊
I did. I coded it in nextjs and use the beehiiv api to log subscribers.
I am using free behiiv, now i cant find website option under settings
They moved it to the homepage
I made it before realizing that you need pay money for the scale plan to use the ad network and the boost. 😢
Beehiiv is way more expensive now than shown in the video. For 100,000 subscribers they charge 349 Dollars per month now for their MAX plan.
They changed their pricing
If you have 100k subs though you're gonna make a lot of money in the right niche
@@10minutebooks-ww1nhfr bro your making 7 figures a year for sure or atleast high 6 figures with that amount of subs 😂
Thanks for the Honest Review, one thing I also want to add is that they don't even have a Subscriber name option, so how can we customize the emails for the subscriber's
This was a great well rounded video. Thank you for the info.
Thanks for all the valuable information. It's really helpful.👍🏻
Thank you for the time and effort you put into this video. It was informative and honest.
We have a large following in the beauty niche. Can Beehiiv boosts get us paid partnerships? Btw Loved your channel, brother!
I find it surprising that no one is discussing the analytical aspect of this. What's even more amusing is that a TH-camr suggested in a recent video that it's beneficial to get rid of inactive subscribers 😮
I created something on beehive and it won’t let me send out blasts
This is so spot on. I literally just sent them feature request because I can't do even the simplest of things with the landing page. Things like creating spaces between sentence blocks. Having more than one frame or column on the page. Being able to edit the formatting of some of the text on the page. There are even more limitations with the upgrade page. I am really hoping they invest more in their customization features. This is the main thing that has me considering other platforms. I hate having the same landing page as everyone else and no way to change it.
you get it!!!!
@@ericlamideas only problem is.. I'm not a developer.. or designer.. I just know what I like and what works. 🙄
Yo brother is it possible to use beehiiv as the newsletter in the background and run the site it self via ghost for example?
@@denitechYT Hi there, Yes from my understanding. If you want to use Ghost, Framer, Carrd, or some other platform for you landing page etc you can and just use Beehiiv to capture and send emails. It just requires a little more work and Beehiiv is supposed to be all-in-one platform. However, Beehiiv does have API and Webook intergraion options as well as embeddable subcribe forms for your website.
Where are you getting the $84/month screenshot at 2:56? Looks like they raised prices like two days before this video was posted. Are they (your word, not mine) "greedy"?
With the new pricing, the plan you quoted at just over $1K/year is now $2616/yearly or $249/monthly - which is $2988 a year. That's a 3X increase...😳
They raised their prices the same day the video dropped. They have a lot of VC funding so id imagine theyll raise prices again in a few years. They’re definitely less worth it than before. I’m going to continue using them but if they don’t start rolling out some impressive features i’m out
@@ericlamideas I’m not trying to be negative, things change and businesses grow. But a 3x bump overnight is kinda wild. And that still only gets you to 25k subscribers while the old one went to 100k😮.
I kinda see what they are doing, making it a little more accessible to those starting from zero and charging established customers more because they have revenue coming in. However, seems a little excessive.
Love it man! How do you promote your newsletter?
Thank you for giving an honest review Eric!
What I also don't like about beehiiv is there is no way to publish to beehiiv via RSS. You can publish FROM beehiiv via RSS, but what sense does that make. If you have a CMS that CMS usually is your system of record. ConvertKits let's you publish to it's platform via RSS. Beehiiv needs to catch up. I think this is a major feature.
This is so so so valuable! Thank you❤
is it true we can have 100,000 subscribers for all 3 publications? and we can send unlimited email
Yes
@@ericlamideas $39 you get 100k subs?
Great video!!!
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Super helpful! Would you recommend BeeHiiv for e-commerce as well, and if not, would you recommend Klaviyo? :)
beehiiv is good for ecommerce but it doesn't have all the integrations companies like klayvio have. so i'd suggest it if you can build them yourself (via api), otherwise, klayvio will be better.
Hey
My one active boost has been paused. How to solve this 😢😢 can me tell me
Amazing. As a developer this is very helpful.
What do you think about Beehiiv boosts
Great way to start making money. Poor way to get subscribers since they wont read ur newsletter.
@@ericlamideas fu@k way to make money bro, all are fake
Hi Eric , How are you ? Can you make a real overview about feature on Beehiiv for a beginner. Have you a tutorial who explain the best way for start and how configure a new newsletter with Beehiiv and make a video series on it please ?
What would you like it to have to be different from the other videos others put out?
Convertkit just bumped there free plan to 10k. Do you think it will outperform beehiive?
Race to the bottom. Probably since CK is bootstrapped. But ultimately these platforms will get cheaper for users
Your landing page is very nice dude you build that in Beehiiv or outside of it?
Outside of it. Video breakdown on it coming a week from tomorrow!
Bro how to market our newsletter via reddit
Check out the newsletter traffic in 2024 video
would running a Chrisitian newsletter business be profitable ??
yes since we’re living in end times
I think you should niche down further since there are already a lot of Christian newsletters.
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what are your thoughts on Substack?
It’s good if you just want to document your thoughts but if you want to build a real multi faceted business it’s very limited
@@ericlamideas I’ve decided that I’m gonna build my own site and embed beehiiv for newsletters
Great video
glad you liked it!
Lol. They just updated their pricing 😂. Now most of them are saying CK is cost effective compared to Beehiiv.
Same day this dropped so does pricing. This is still cheaper tho fwiw but it’s closer call