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Last chance to join the Fika challenge
⎯ 😮👏2The 3rd Fika Challenge is coming to an end on April 10, which means you’ve got just 3 days left to make your move. If you’ve already published your article, now is the time to push it, share it, and get people to engage with it! The winner of this competition won’t just be someone who writes, but also someone who knows how to get their content seen. Want to increase your chances of winning? Here a…
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Top 7 Newsletter Platforms in 2026
Starting and running a newsletter in 2026 can feel like an overwhelming decision to make before you even write a single word because of the number of newsletter platforms claiming to be the best. The market is packed with “the best newsletter platforms.” The best for growing your mailing list, the best for earning from your writing, the best for deliverability. And each of those claims may even be…
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4+ fantastic Fika updates from March
⎯ 👏🤔4March brought a few breakthroughs we want to share. Each month, we compile a list of updates and new features added to Fika. This helps us see how far we have come and gives us some direction on where to go next. Here are four new things on Fika. Two can really speed up your publication's growth, so read this article to learn more and get tips on how to make the most of them. The 3rd Fika Challeng…
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Fika Challenge #3: Post and share to win 2 books!
⎯ 🔥👏❤️6We are launching the third Fika Challenge, and we want you to win it. The rules are simple. The stakes are high. And Fika gives you every tool you need to come out as the winner; all you need is to know how to use them. Read on to learn the rules and receive a few handy tips that will already give you the winning advantage. Ready? The rules are simple Write a post on Fika, share it everywhere you …
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Top 50+ best marketing newsletters to read in 2026
Newsletters are back. In fact, we are living in a golden age of newsletters. Less focus on algorithm, more focus on understanding what people want to read and how to give it to them. Marketers are busy people, and curating what you read takes a lot of time. This guide does it for you. We have collected the best marketing newsletters in 2026 for strategy, positioning, experiments, and industry news…
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Top 50+ best tech newsletters to read
If you care about staying sharp in a fast-moving industry, the best tech newsletters can be really helpful. When you find a newsletter that covers a segment of tech that you are really curious about or maybe haven’t heard of before, you are basically having someone smart curate the internet for you. Our inboxes can get too noisy at times, but some newsletters are really worth signing up for. These…
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A Complete Guide to Punctuation Marks
Every writer needs to understand how to use punctuation marks. The obvious reason for this is that punctuation marks are the symbols that help organize your writing and that help readers read and understand your text, of course. But another important feature of punctuation is the rhythm that it creates in your writing. You can think of punctuation like music notes; they show pauses and lead reader…
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Top 6 Best Substack Alternatives in 2026
Substack helped many writers start paid newsletters, but more and more writers are now looking for Substack alternatives that offer them better, fairer fees, more control over who sees their posts, and a place that doesn’t feel like every other social media platform. If you are looking for an alternative to Substack, you are probably comparing platforms and thinking about what works best for your …
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Top 50 Best Sports Newsletters
Sports newsletters are in a league of their own on the Internet, somewhere between sports journalism and email marketing. Major outlets have enough newsletters to fill a dozen stadiums. They write long lists of newsletters all about sports, discussing everything from games to leagues to teams. However, a new wave of independent writers is stepping onto the pitch with their own sports newsletters. …
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Grow your newsletter by sharing posts
⎯ ❤️2Sharing your writing is one of the most important ideas behind Fika. We believe everyone can be a writer and everyone has an audience waiting for them. The only problem is, in a world as big as ours, finding your audience isn’t always easy. You don’t have to be an influencer and you don’t have to go viral in order to see positive results from sharing your writing on social media. The only thing th…
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Fika launched on Product Hunt!
⎯ 👏🔥❤️10We have added many new features and made a lot of changes to Fika in the past few months, all of them centered around creating a platform for writers like you where you can create a space for yourself, a platform that supports you as you write, helps you reach a wider audience, and gives you the opportunity to make a living from writing. This journey has reached new heights with something very spe…
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Grow Your Publication with a Content Calendar
⎯ 👏❤️🔥4Publishing regularly on Fika is the best way to grow your Publication on Fika. Maintaining a content calendar helps you create a regular publishing schedule, which signals to new readers that your blog is alive and active, while building a relationship with your subscribers so they know when to expect newsletters from you. A content calendar also grows your blog over time when combined with SEO be…
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What blog topics pay the most?
⎯ 😮❤️👏6Choosing what to write about has never been more strategic if you want to turn writing into a stable income stream. Paid newsletters have seen a steep rise in popularity in the past few years, and since the launch of monetization on Fika, writers have another platform to build their audience and make a living from their writing. But that also depends on finding the highest converting topics and fi…
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How to Earn by Writing on Fika
⎯ 👏❤️🔥10We are happy to announce that writers can now earn money directly from their readers on Fika by offering paid subscriptions on their publication. What’s new for writers You can now turn your Fika publication into an engine to grow and earn as a writer. Continue posting free publications to grow your audience, then offer paid content and other benefits for your most loyal readers. This way you keep…
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Fika Improvements Part 2: The End of February
⎯ 👏🔥❤️6A little over two weeks has passed since we last posted about changes to our platform, but February was such a productive month that we have not one, not two, but seven new things to share with you that have made Fika an even better place to build your writing habit and start publishing your work. Some of these changes may seem small, but they all contribute to the experience we want Fika to repre…
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Top 8 Best Blogging Platforms in 2026
⎯ ❤️1Starting and running a blog in 2026 can be tough. It can be tough for many reasons, but one of the main reasons starting your blogging career can be overwhelming is that choosing a blogging platform is already very difficult in itself. The market is saturated with platforms claiming to be the best. But what is the best blogging platform? The best blogging platform to make money? The best platform …
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5 Quotes That Will Make You a Better Writer
⎯ ❤️🔥👏7Quotes from writers help power us through writing slumps. It helps to hear from those who have come before. Whether they speak of the difficulties they faced, the lessons they learned, or the joy writing gives them, what they share about writing can motivate us to write and teach us to write better. Some famous writers generously offer practical advice on topics as broad as how to write better to …
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