Subscribing is a low-stakes yes, so any page that walks someone down a value ladder before showing them the field is losing subscribers to its own length. This is the only template in the kit with a bespoke centred hero, for exactly that reason: the form is the primary action, not a panel next to one.
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Why this one
Directly under it sits the archive — six recent issues with dates, blurbs and reading times. It is the most persuasive thing on a newsletter page because it answers "is this person actually writing, and is it any good" in one scroll without asking for anything. Six is the right number: three looks like a false start, twenty looks like a blog and buries the signup.
Everything below the archive is a bonus. If someone scrolls to the FAQ they were probably never going to subscribe, which is why the page is short and the same field appears again at the close.
In the box
In the order they appear on the demo. Delete any of them and the page still holds together — they are separate components, not a theme.
01
One email input and a button, pill-shaped, at the width of the reading column. No panel around it, because a box inside a box is what makes a signup look like an ad.
02
Subscriber count, issues written, and the unsubscribe promise on one line. Three facts beat three paragraphs about what the letter is like.
03
Six issues with dates, one-line blurbs and read times. Rows become links when you give them URLs and stay inert when you don't, so the demo ships no dead anchors.
04
Three, with roles. For a free letter, three specific readers do more than a thousand-subscriber badge.
05
How often, is it sponsored, how do I leave. The unsubscribe answer converts more people than the archive does.
06
The same signup on a dark section. There is exactly one thing to do on this page and no reason to send anyone back up to do it.
Fit
Three steps
Questions
Yes. Anything that gives you a form endpoint works — Substack, Beehiiv, ConvertKit, Buttondown, Mailchimp, Ghost. The field posts straight to your provider, so double opt-in, unsubscribe links and GDPR receipts stay with the people who already do them properly.
Drop in the pricing block from the course template under the archive. Keep the free field at the top: the page still has to earn the free yes before it can ask for the paid one.
A list in one data file — title, date, blurb, read time, link. Paste six in and you are done; wire it to your provider's RSS later if you want it automatic.
Also in the kit
One purchase covers all six. Different offers want different pages, and most people end up using two.
See all six examples — or browse the other template pages: online course landing page, course website, cohort course, webinar landing page, coaching website, ebook landing page.
$39 today, $59 once the launch window closes. Lifetime updates, 14-day refund, and the free version is a real page rather than a teaser.