📈 3 Simple yet Proven AI Tactics We Concluded After Growing Organic Subs List from 0 to 43.6K in Months

Introduction

2025 is near… As we approach the end of 2024, it’s time to reflect on the progress made. Thanks to Beehiiv, we all can look back at some impressive numbers this year, and here are REAL numbers from Beehiiv:

• 302% Audience Growth: We went from 14.4k+ to 43.6k+ subscribers in a few months.

• 37.7% Average Open Rate: Peaked at an incredible 48%.

• 4M+ Impressions

• 6,300+ Clicks: All in a single post. 💥

• 83% US Readership: A strong presence in the US.

Wanna see these insights in real life? 👇 (I’ll tell you the secret to this growth later in this part. It’s not magic. It’s a simple, repeatable system I call the 5Rs)

• Right Audience: Identifying your ideal reader is key.

• Right AI Tools: Leverage AI to streamline your workflow and boost efficiency.

• Right Content: Focus on creating valuable, engaging content your audience loves.

• Right Platforms: Grow your audience where they’re most active.

• Right Monetization: Use effective strategies to turn your efforts into revenue.

These steps helped us achieve big results. And I must say that the best ways to support your growth are from FREE & ORGANIC traffic, along with potential sponsorships. But how do you get sponsors? How can you get organic traffic easily? (you can totally be just like us).

All we used are some advanced tactics like using RSS feeds, faceless videos, and AI platforms to connect with our subscribers. In this article, I’m going to walk you through exactly how you can use these tools to attract sponsors and grow your newsletter. You don’t need a huge following to start; you just need to know the right strategies. These tactics are simple to implement and can make a big impact.

Let’s get started!

I. Using RSS Feeds to Automate Content Distribution

Using RSS feeds can save you time and effort by automating your content distribution across multiple platforms. It helps you reach a wider audience without manually posting updates. In this section, I’ll walk you through how to set up your own RSS feed and connect it with platforms like Pinterest and Google News.

1. Understanding RSS Feed and Setting Up Your Own One

First, let’s break down what an RSS feed is. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a tool that allows you to automatically distribute your latest content to subscribers or other platforms. It’s like a shortcut for getting your content out there without manually posting it everywhere.

=> With social media, all you see is the favorite stuff that people share. With an RSS feed, you see everything a website publishes.

How do RSS feed work?

RSS lets you share updates from your website with your audience in a simple way. It works by creating an XML file that includes details like the title, description, and link for each new post on your site.

Once this RSS feed is set up, it automatically updates whenever you publish new content. Visitors who subscribe to your feed can see your updates in their RSS reader without needing to visit your site.

As a newsletter owner or just a publisher, RSS helps you:

• Syndicate content across platforms easily.

• Keep your audience updated with posts, podcasts, or news.

• Drive traffic by keeping subscribers engaged.

Here are some ways to use RSS for your growth:

• Share content on social media automatically: Link your RSS feed to platforms like Pinterest, or Google News cause we tested and find them really outstanding. This keeps your accounts active by sharing updates from up to 25 feeds without extra effort.

• Send emails automatically: With some little set up in tools like Mailchimp, you can connect your RSS feed to create and send emails that highlight your latest content inmmediatly.

• Get content inspiration: Use your RSS feed to stay updated on industry news. This can spark ideas for social posts, blog articles, videos, or even podcasts.

• Engage in online communities: Subscribe to RSS feeds in your niche. You can answer questions, share expertise, and link back to your website when appropriate.
  
  => To find an RSS feed on a website, look on the site’s main or home page. Not all RSS icons look alike. RSS icons come in different sizes and colors. Not all these icons contain the acronyms RSS or XML. Some sites use a Syndicate. This link or another type of link to indicate an RSS feed.

  
  
  

Now let’s see how to enable and create your own RSS link in Beehiiv. Basically, Beehiiv provides two RSS options for you to choose:

• RSS Feed - Available for all plans: It lets you feature posts from your beehiiv publication on your website, allowing readers to access content directly on your site.

• RSS Ingestion - Available for Max and Enterprise plans: It allows you to populate newsletters with content from your website by using external RSS feeds, ensuring subscribers stay updated with relevant content.

From AI Fire’s experience in years, we see that RSS Ingestion is quite difficult and more advanced, it also requires higher plans which cost a lot, so in this part, we’ll guide you to use RSS feed to distribute your content automatically - yeah it’s reasonable, organic and just PERFECT!!!

How to generate an RSS feed for your publication:

If you don’t want to read, here’s the video tutorial:

• From the left panel Dashboard, scroll down and click Settings.

  

• Under Settings, find the publication you want to generate an RSS feed for and click on RSS.

  

• In the RSS Feed section, click New RSS Feed.

  

• A unique RSS Feed URL will be generated. This URL ends with .xml, which is the standard format for RSS feeds. Copy and use it wherever needed. If you ever delete the feed and create a new one, a fresh URL will be generated.

  

If you’re using Max or Enterprise and want to use RSS Ingestion, use this guide instead.

Once you’ve added an external RSS feed to your account, it can easily be included in your posts, your social accounts, and more.

2. Integrating Your Feed with Pinterest

Pinterest is a visual search engine, and it's one of the best platforms to showcase your content, drive traffic, and build your audience. AI Fire also use it a lot to integrate our RSS feed, we think it is a smart way to automate the process of pinning your new content.

We don’t just say, we tested it, we see it works and we share. As shown below, AI Fire page gets 10,2K organic views each month even we don’t put much effort into it, just a RSS URL and a Pinterest account👇

Step 1: Set Up a Pinterest Business Account

If you don't already have a Pinterest business account, now’s the time to set one up. It’s free, and it offers tools and features that can help you grow your audience. There are two ways to get a business account on Pinterest:

• Create a new business account: Go to Pinterest Business and create an account.

  

• Convert a personal into a business account: But I know most of you guys are already using Pinterest, so you can convert it into business account for more control. Just click on your avatar > “Convert to Business”

  

• Fill out your profile details (name, description, website link) to help optimize your account for discovery. I recommend using your professional email and your own name rather than the name of your business.

  

• Claim your website option: You’ll see 3 options on onboarding journey, click on “Claim your website”. To claim a website, you must own the domain, subdomain or subpath, and you need to be able to edit the source code. There are three ways you can claim a website. If you face any problem, use this guide from Pinterest to get it done.

  
  

Step 2: Connect your RSS feed

Now you need to connect your RSS feed to Pinterest.

• Click the directional down icon at the top-right corner to open your menu. Click Settings.

  

• Select Bulk create Pins from the menu at the left. Under Auto-publish, paste your RSS feed URL into the field, this is the link you copy in Beehiiv RSS Feed. This option will only appear if you have a claimed website.

  

• Click the directional down icon to choose a board. If you’re new to this, let’s create boards that align with the content you’re posting using this guide, it’s simple and straightforward so don’t be worried. For example, if you're posting blog updates, create a “Blog Updates” board. Then click Save.

  

Here’s what you should know before creating your first feed:

• Content Updates: When you update your RSS feed, new content will automatically appear as Pins on your boards within 24 hours. The oldest content on your RSS feed will be published first, with a limit of up to 200 Pins per day.

• Board Selection: Each feed can be linked to a specific board. If you choose a secret board, the Pins will stay private and won’t be visible to others on Pinterest.

• Multiple Feeds: You can add as many RSS feeds as you want, provided they are connected to your claimed website.

Step 3: Monitor and Adjust

Once everything is set up, Pinterest will start automatically pulling content from your RSS feed and posting it to your boards. But don’t just leave it alone, monitor the results to see how it’s performing:

• Check Pinterest Analytics to track the success of your pins. From your dashboard, click on “View Audience Insights”

  

• Here you can see all the statistics about your audience, your growth, and see which posts get the most engagement (repins, clicks, etc.). Then, you can adjust your content strategy based on what works best.

  

3. RSS to Google News Integration

Google News is a free platform that shows news articles from various websites. It organizes articles by how recent they are and how relevant they are to the topic. This makes it easy for users to explore different topics and find the news they care about quickly.

Integrating your RSS feed with Google News is another smart way to increase your newsletter’s visibility. It’s an easy process that helps you get your content in front of more people by automatically making it accessible.

Here’s a real example: At AI Fire, we connected our RSS feed to Google News, enabling it to automatically publish new posts from our website. One of our posts went viral, generating around 900 clicks in a single day, you can read this post here. And you can achieve that result too, it takes about 1-2 months for us to go viral but I think you’ll go faster with this guide.

Step 1: Create a Google News Publisher Profile

To start, you'll need to set up a Publisher Profile if you don’t have one. This is where Google will recognize and verify your content.

Note: Publisher content must comply with the Google News content policies.

• Go to the Google News Publisher Center. If you’re using Google Chrome, it’ll automatically sign in for you.

  

Step 2: Add Your RSS URL:

• Enter the URL for your publication in the box above, give it a Name and Location.

  

• Next, verify your domain with Google Search Console (GSC). If you’re using a custom domain (not beehiiv’s default domain), you need to verify ownership through GSC. Add a tool like Google Tag Manager or Google Analytics in your beehiiv settings to verify your account in GSC.

  

• Once your domain is verified, click your publication name at the top of the screen and select the first option from the dropdown. In the settings, you can:

  • Change your publication name, language, location, URL, and contact details.

  • Add a logo and custom fonts under the Visual Styles tab.

  • Update organization settings and user permissions.

    

Step 3: Access Your Publication Settings

• Go back to the main screen and click Add Content Labels. Select labels that describe your content, such as Blog, Press Release, or User-Generated Content.

  

• Back to main screen, click Open in the Explore Products section. Click Edit in the top-right corner. Choose a Category and select your Distribution Countries. Pick the Google Properties where you want your content to appear.

• Create Sections based on parts of your website that contain publishable content. This could include:

  • Your RSS feed

  • Specific web pages

  • Videos

  • Personalized feeds
    
    Here’s the examples of final sections in AI Fire:

    

• If everything looks good, click Publish. Google News will start picking up your latest articles. But, there are still some things you need to monitor.

  • Check your Google News Publisher Center regularly to see if your content is showing up. You should start seeing articles appear within a day or two.

  • Make sure all posts are being pulled in correctly. If some posts are missing, it could be due to the formatting of your RSS feed or issues with how it’s structured.

    

II. Leveraging Faceless AI Videos to Drive Free Traffic

In this part, I’ll briefly walk you through several steps to create a stop-scrolling faceless videos with just 1 AI tool. I've tested over 20 AI tools and researched bunch of processes to create faceless videos to write this guide.

As you can see, people are making thousands of dollars per month, and the best thing is they attract millions of users come to their website. I can confidently say that you can do just like them, 100%.

After all, you can easily upload the video to all major social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook Reels. And don’t forget the trending platform in 2025: LinkedIn.

Step 1: Brainstorming and Organizing Video Script

• Before you can make a faceless video, you need a clear plan. Think about what you want to say and why it matters. You don’t have to start from scratch. Look at what’s already popular in your niche from social media platforms. Then write your script based on the outline.

Step 2: Create a Faceless Video with Revid AI

In simple terms, this is an all-in-one AI video tool to create shorts in minutes, with just a few clicks. If you don’t have an account yet, go ahead and create yours. Then go through these steps. Once again, you can find more detailed tutorials here.

• From the dashboard, click "Create New Video”. Choose from Revid’s pre-designed templates, optimized for social media platforms like TikTok or YouTube.

  

• Copy the text from the script you wrote in previous step of this process or use AI script generator inside. Select visuals like stock videos, animations, or your own media uploads.

  

• Choose a preset style for your video (e.g., “Vibrant,” “Corporate,” or “Minimal”). This will define the overall look and feel. Then select your AI voice in its library.

  

• Last one, click on “Generate” and wait for it to create a complete faceless video for you. You can also rename this video, create a new one while waiting.

• Watch the draft to ensure everything flows smoothly. Check the sync between visuals, voice, and captions. When you’re happy, click “Export” on the top right and choose the format you need.

  

You can look at some examples we created in AI Fire YouTube Channel:

It’s that easy right? People love videos because they’re engaging, easy to consume, and shareable. Once you have your video ready, you can share it across platforms like YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and even LinkedIn to drive traffic to your newsletter.

III. Finding Potential Sponsors to Attract New Subscribers

In the previous section, we explored how platforms like Paved and PassionFroot can help connect you with potential sponsors. In the meantime, we tested several new ones and finally, we found a new platform that could be a game-changer for finding sponsors and growing your newsletter: Wellput

Its aim is to enable successful connections between brands, newsletter publishers, and subscribers.

Step 1: Enter their waitlist:

• First, click on “Publishers” button on the top right corner. You need to enter some basic information about your newsletter, your audience, and your content focus. You’ll want to highlight the strengths of your newsletter, like your engagement rates or any special content niches that make you unique. The more information you provide, the more appealing you’ll look to potential sponsors.

  

• Once you’ve signed up, it might take a bit of time to get access. Here’s a tip from our experience: email them directly to speed up the process. AI Fire did this, and we got approved within just a few hours. This little push can save you time and get you moving faster.

  

Step 2: Onboarding Tutorials

• After you’ve been approved, you’ll receive an email from Wellput. This email will guide you through the next steps, including how to sign the contract and fully onboard onto their platform.
  
  => The instructions are clear and easy to follow, so don’t worry about getting lost in the process.

  

Step 3: Choosing the Right Sponsors for Your Niche

• Once you’re onboard, you’ll have access to the platform, where you can start selecting potential sponsors. Here’s where you need to be strategic. It’s crucial to choose sponsors that align with your niche.
  
  => For example, at AI Fire, we focus on AI-related content, so we prioritize products like AI Courses, AI Tools, and anything that resonates with our tech-savvy audience.

• One of the most important things to remember is pay attention to CPC (Cost Per Click). The higher the CPC, the more revenue you can generate from each click. It’s essential to choose sponsors that offer a good balance between relevance to your audience and a solid CPC. This ensures that the revenue from your sponsorships remains sustainable and aligned with your goals.

  

In summary, finding sponsors is a great way to grow your newsletter, but it’s crucial to pick the right ones. By entering the waitlist, going through the onboarding process, and carefully choosing sponsors that match your niche and offer a solid CPC, you can drive growth and ensure a steady revenue stream without alienating your audience.

Conclusion: Putting it All Together

Alright, that’s all the latest tactics we discovered after months in 2024 besides all the old ones. These methods work best when combined to streamline your process and make your newsletter stand out. 2025 is coming, we’re still researching, exploring and testing ourselves to ensure the best tactics delivering to your inbox!!!

Anyway, getting sponsorships isn’t the end. It’s essential to keep track of everything. Tracking and analyzing your progress allows you to see what’s working and what needs adjusting. Whether it’s the traffic from your AI videos or the response to your sponsorship efforts, tracking helps you optimize your strategy for better results.

In summary, combining these tactics will lead to steady growth, more engagement, and increased opportunities for monetization. Keep applying these methods, measure your success, and adjust as needed. By doing this, you’ll create a sustainable system that powers your newsletter forward. Remember, consistency and tracking are key to making these strategies work for you!! Bye…