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Best Business Newsletters of 2025

Make this the year you become a better business owner or entrepreneur — all thanks to these newsletters.

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Written by: Sammi Caramela, Senior WriterUpdated Apr 16, 2025
Chad Brooks,Managing Editor
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We are living in the golden age of the email newsletter, during which there are subscription opportunities for every imaginable topic — including all things business. Business newsletters offer advice that helps you become a better entrepreneur and give you practical tips on how to build a successful business. But, with seemingly endless options out there, how do you decide which newsletters are worth your time?

Small business owners can learn valuable lessons by subscribing to email newsletters geared toward the everyday entrepreneur, not Fortune 500 CEOs. Fortunately, there are plenty of them out there, and we’ve put together a list of our favorites. Improve your business smarts in 2025 by adding these publications to your inbox.

1. The Marketing Millennials

This marketing-focused newsletter by Daniel Murray is part of the Workweek content collective. The Marketing Millennials includes “zero BS” and “unfiltered” conversations with thought leaders in the marketing industry. Topics of conversation include building profitable newsletter businesses and creating effective TikTok videos. We like that Murray focuses on storytelling with his guests and generating actionable insights that business owners can apply to their own marketing efforts.

2. Social Media Today

Learning how to create social media campaigns is an essential skill for small business owners that want to advertise at little or no cost. Social media is also a fast-changing landscape, which is where Social Media Today comes in. This newsletter examines social media trends impacting marketers and contains helpful articles on social media marketing, platform updates, posting strategies, influencer marketing and more. Social Media Today is part of the Industry Dive family of publications, which offers free newsletters on business niches from groceries to waste management.

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3. Growth Unhinged

This weekly newsletter is brought to you by Kyle Poyar, an operating partner at venture capitalist firm OpenView. Poyar’s day job involves helping his firm’s portfolio companies grow, and Growth Unhinged provides a free look at his methods. The newsletter explores the “playbooks behind the fastest-growing startups” with in-depth case studies.

Growth Unhinged focuses on expanding businesses through “product-led growth (PLG), pricing, go-to-market strategy” and more. We’re particularly fond of Poyar’s use of drawings, GIFs and emojis to demonstrate his points.

4. Around the Bonfire

Around the Bonfire is a newsletter produced by Kevan Lee, co-founder of Bonfire, former vice president of marketing at Oyster and teaches marketing at Boise State University. In this newsletter, Lee takes readers inside the world of brand-building and marketing with “real-world lessons from in-house marketers turned business builders.”

Around the Bonfire is a great subscription for any entrepreneurs who are trying to get their brand off the ground. It offers practical examples of designing brands and launching marketing campaigns that resonate with your audience, helping you gain traction and cut through the clutter in a world where getting attention is the first step to success.

5. Bootstrapped Founder

Bootstrapped Founder is about starting and growing a small business, even when you’re working a full-time job. This newsletter is written by Arvid Kahl, the author of Zero to Sold and founder of FeedbackPanda.

Kahl particularly focuses on building and monetizing audiences, as well as being transparent and public while building your business to elevate your profile. We like that Bootstrapped Founder provides useful tips for entrepreneurs who are trying to make their entrepreneurial dreams work without deep pockets or extensive funding.

6. Intercom’s “The Ticket” Newsletter

This weekly newsletter is an in-house publication produced by customer service software company Intercom. Subscribers to this free resource receive bi-weekly guides on “product management, sales and marketing, customer support, and startups.”

We like that many of Intercom’s articles clearly define the topic (such as email marketing). Plus, they provide step-by-step instructions on how to get started in that area and measure your success. [See our picks for the best email marketing services.]

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7. SatPost

Trung Phan writes the SatPost, a roundup of the week’s best memes and tweets. Phan, who gained fame on X (formerly Twitter) for his witty and engaging threads, is known for breaking down fascinating business stories into bite-sized pieces.

We find his newsletter incredibly readable — much like his Tweets — and, dare we say, completely addictive. Topics include “Why is LinkedIn so cringe?” and “MrBeast’s $1.5B YouTube empire.” Subscribe and learn something new in a well-written, appealing format.

8. Not Boring

A business newsletter that calls itself “not boring” certainly sounds promising, and author Packy McCormick definitely delivers on his promise. The publication covers emerging business trends and strategies, with a particular focus on cutting-edge technologies.

A few topics covered in Not Boring include Web3, carbon removal, nanotechnology and generative AI. The newsletter goes out two days per week, with one send focused on long-form essays and the other consisting of sponsored or guest posts. [Learn how to reduce your business’s carbon footprint.]

9. Young Money

This up-and-coming newsletter is written by Jack Raines, a Columbia Business School student who quit his first job because, in his words, “looking at spreadsheets for eight hours a day got boring.” Today, Raines spends his free time backpacking around the world and writing.

Much like the author’s life, Young Money hops around from topic to topic, but with a focus on financial advice and motivation. We enjoy Jack’s engaging writing style and unique perspective on current events.

10. Dave Birss’ AI Newsletter

Generative AI isn’t going anywhere, so it’s about time we start taking advantage of it. Dave Birss, the “sensible AI guy,” believes that with the right approach, AI can benefit businesses, employees and customers.

Dave Birss’s email newsletter provides weekly AI prompts to help you improve your AI prompt writing. Rather than viewing AI as a nuisance or threat to your company, Birss sees it as an empowering tool that can elevate your existing knowledge and expand your reach.

Invest in yourself by subscribing to newsletters

The first quarter of the year is a great time to declutter your inbox and narrow your reading list to the newsletters that really impact your life. What emails can you junk and which are must-reads as you focus on your entrepreneurial pursuits?

Consider which of our favorite newsletters highlighted above best matches your needs in this season of business and join the mailing list. It also can’t hurt to subscribe to all 10 to start and see which you like the most after a few weeks. Like in business, a trial-and-error method can pay dividends.

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Written by: Sammi Caramela, Senior Writer
Sammi Caramela is a solopreneur who has spent nearly 10 years using her first-hand experiences to help aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners understand all facets of running a business. With her management experience, she is adept at examining the business world from both the employer and employee perspectives. At business.com, the versatile Caramela covers a range of business topics, including accounting, marketing and workplace issues. Caramela's expertise has been highly sought after by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 24/7 Wall St., and other organizations and outlets. She is also a published fiction author and poet.
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