Ready to grow your list to 10,000 subscribers on the Newsletter Plan? Let’s help you get set up.

When you created your ConvertKit account on the Newsletter Plan, you immediately:

All three of these things are growth tools on the Newsletter Plan designed to help you build your audience faster and more sustainably. Let’s dive into each of these components.

ConvertKit’s Creator Profile is your mini-website and newsletter feed. It’s an asset you can immediately share with your social media followers to get them to join your email list.

We started to fill out your Creator Profile for you when you answered the questions in the onboarding survey. So far, you have already updated your Creator Profile’s:

This is just to give you a head start! We recommend you further optimize it by choosing your design template of choice, personalizing your bio a little bit more, and even setting up your own custom domain if you already have one

Share it! It’s a great way to start getting new subscribers and share with your audience the content you already have. Here are a few examples:

Go to Grow > Creator Profile in the navigation to make the edits you want. You’ll be able to update your Creator Profile's:

Go update your Creator Profile now to share it with your followers!

The Creator Network is a network of thousands of ConvertKit creators. One of the pain points of being a creator is getting your name out there. With the Creator Network, you can increase the discoverability of your work with like-minded people and even creators working within your niche.

By being in the Creator Network, you also have access to Recommendations.

On the Newsletter Plan, you are auto-enrolled and required to be in the Creator Network. This means that Recommendations are auto-enabled on all your Forms and Landing Pages and the creators you recommend are automatically selected for you.

You can also choose to curate your own Recommendations and even add more! That’s completely up to you.

Recommendations is one of our growth features that helps you grow your list. With the creators in the Creator Network, you can use Recommendations to refer your audience to each other and grow your list faster and more organically.

Free Recommendations are when you recommend a creator. There are no associated financial incentives and by sending another creator quality subscribers, they may reciprocate. It’s a network of creators benefiting from one another.

Smart Recommendations is an auto-recommendation of creators with similar content. This makes finding relevant Recommendations even easier for you.

You can also run Paid Recommendations for which you get paid to promote other creators, but only on the Creator and Creator Pro plans.

Creator Network and Recommendations are required on the Newsletter Plan. While you can make edits to who you recommend, you must recommend at least one creator and Recommendations will also be automatically enabled on all your Forms.

Go to Grow > Recommendations in the top navigation, and then select My Recommendations to add new Recommendations or remove existing ones.

Then, to change your total number of Recommendations and/or their order, click the three vertical dots at the top right of the page > Customize.

On the Customize page, select the Slots tab in the right sidebar to access your Recommendation slots settings.

More details in this guide.

This locked Recommendation is a ConvertKit-managed Smart Recommendation, which is required on the Newsletter Plan. The ConvertKit-managed Smart Recommendation slot automatically pulls in either a Free or Paid Recommendation that offers content similar to yours.

For us to keep this plan free for up to 10,000 subscribers with all of its features, ConvertKit will keep 100% of any Paid Recommendation earnings generated from this slot.

To turn off Recommendations, you’ll need to upgrade to either our Creator or Creator Pro plan. By upgrading, you’ll get the ability to:

You’ll also get access to a lot more powerful automation features.