The Sample publisher report

I’ve finished adding all the integrations on my list! Now we can auto-import subscribers into six different platforms: Mailchimp, Ghost, ConvertKit, Revue, Buttondown, and EmailOctopus. If you use one of those, I highly recommend that you go to the Subscribers page on the publisher console and enable the integration. If you’d like to enable an integration but you use a different platform, let me know and I’ll see if I can add it. Most of these only took like 20 minutes to set up. (The main exception is Ghost, which has an IMO overengineered authentication mechanism. But if anyone from the Ghost team reads this, it’s OK and I still love you, even though I had to go fishing through API docs to figure out the correct JWT incantation instead of just passing you back the API key like how every single other platform does it).

One note about the ConvertKit integration. New subscribers added via the integration will be attached to one of your forms, even though they’ll never actually see the form. The important thing is that if you haven’t enabled the “Auto-confirm new subscribers” option for the form, then new subscribers added via the integration won’t actually get added until they also click a confirmation link. I highly recommend that you create a new form just for The Sample, then go to Form Settings → Incentive and select “Auto-confirm new subscribers” (or deselect “Send incentive email”). After you add your ConvertKit API key to the publisher console, it’ll let you select which form you’d like to use.

(Oh, and a final note about the Revue integration: my test account finally got verified correctly, and the integration is working fine. Five or six other people have enabled the integration so far, and only one of them has had issues due to their account not being verified yet.)

Anyway, let me know if you have any questions or if you need help enabling any of the integrations.

Other stuff:

• I’m now moving on to the reader-focused improvements I discussed last week (the numbered list at the end).
• We are really close to having our Facebook ads be profitable. If they cross over into profitability and stay there, it will be time to bust out the metaphorical champagne.
• We took a team photo last week.

Jacob