OPTIN · Fully Managed Media

We grow and monetizeyour media assets.

We build a newsletter audience of your exact buyers, convert it into pipeline, and monetize it through the OPTIN Ad Network.

Talk to the founder No commitment. You leave the first call with a full plan.
2M
subscribers built,
zero paid ads
400K+
our own audience,
six newsletters
15
active clients,
near-zero churn
1–2%
verified
CTR
The Feedback

Don’t just take our words.

Founders who’ve grown real audiences with us, straight from them.

Ryan AllisFounder/CEO, SaaSRise · founded iContact ($170M exit)

“We’ve worked with OPTIN, and are continuing to grow our B2B SaaS newsletter past 50,000 subscribers. What stands out is that they treat it like an asset, not just a send. They have a proven method I’ve been using for a long time and I highly recommend it to B2B companies who want to grow their newsletter audiences.”

Justin SeveridtFounder and Managing Partner, Exact Insight

“We have worked with Optin as both a growth partner for our weekly newsletter, Operator Signal, and placed ads and sponsored conferences through the Optin Ad Network. They really are a one stop platform for media growth and management. Working with them is a delight and I highly recommend them!”

VP of Marketing$30M Series A funded software company

“We’ve worked with the Optin team to start and grow a newsletter to 28,000 subscribers. We publish our insights every week and use it to market our software and webinars. What we love about it is it’s an audience we own and can market to regularly and build up over time.”

Walker DeibelFounder, Build Wealth · Publisher, Wealth Stack Weekly

“In about 18 months, we’ve built Wealth Stack Weekly to almost 1 million weekly subscribers and have been the fastest growing private markets newsletter in the world. When they first told me what they do, I loved it so much I asked if I could invest in their company!”

Jonathan KvarfordtFounder, AI Revenue Report

“I’ve worked with Optin to grow AI Revenue Report to 30,000 weekly subscribers and they are great strategic partners around my media strategy. Their Ad Network is now selling my ad placements to some of the leading brands and it’s only the beginning.”

Kevin RiceFounder, CEOs and ABCs

“I’ve just started with Optin’s Fully Managed Media and so far they’ve grown my newsletter to 3,000 subscribers, with great KPI’s. Their ad sales desk is actively selling our ad sales and in the first month has generated a $200K pipeline and a $40K proposal out. I consider them a strategic thought partner and I’m highly certain they’re going to turn this into a super profitable media company as I’ve only gotten started!”

JasonSMB Newsletter

“We have worked with Optin and grown our newsletter from 20K subscribers to 100K. What’s great about their ecosystem is we are now a part of their ad network and have their desk selling our inventory. We have our own product that the newsletter powers but it’s great to be able to monetize it as a media asset as well!”

The Proof

We built this for ourselves first.

“In about 18 months, we’ve built Wealth Stack Weekly to almost 1 million weekly subscribers and have been the fastest growing private markets newsletter in the world.”
Walker Deibel · Founder, Build Wealth · Investor, OPTIN Growth
0 → 1M
Wealth Stack Weekly
Fastest growing private markets newsletter · 18 months · zero paid ads
0 → 150K
PE150
Premium sponsorships · industry events · monetized media brand
400K+
Our own audience
Six newsletters · proprietary infrastructure
15
Active clients
PE, wealth mgmt, ad-tech, SaaS · near-zero churn
The Problem

B2B media doesn’t fail on content.
It stalls without an operator.

Three failure modes, none of them about the writing. They’re operator problems: grow, engage, monetize, built in sequence, across every surface.

01

The Flat Audience

Most B2B audiences plateau under 15K and stay there. Referrals don’t scale, organic takes years, and paid pulls $5–7 CPLs of low-intent volume.

02

The Silent Audience

Footage that never ships. LinkedIn posted when someone remembers. Sponsor slots nobody is selling. Even a good audience produces nothing on its own.

03

The Budget Line

A media program booked as a marketing expense gets re-justified every quarter. In a tight quarter it gets cut, no matter how good the content is.

None of these are content problems. They’re operator problems: grow, engage, monetize, across every surface. The machine is built in sequence, not with more posting.
The Shift

Expenses get cut.
Assets get kept.

The unlock is ROI the CFO can see: booked pipeline for businesses that sell, or break-even sponsor and event revenue for media assets. Either way, the program moves off the expense line.

Marketing Expense
  • Re-justified every quarter
  • First thing cut in a downturn
  • ROI is always “next quarter”
  • Survives on faith in the channel
Owned Asset
  • Covers its own cost
  • Compounds instead of resetting
  • ROI visible on a P&L line
  • Nobody kills what pays for itself
The media asset that funds itself. Then funds growth.
The Surfaces

One audience. Three surfaces.
One operator.

The same verified reader carries a work email, a LinkedIn profile, and a feed. We put all three to work: one editorial engine, distributed everywhere your buyer actually looks.

INBOX

The Newsletter

The asset of record. Verified ICP subscribers in your ESP, on your domain, engagement proven on clicks. Everything else compounds from here.

FEED

LinkedIn

Subscriber-to-Network™ reruns every newsletter issue natively as a LinkedIn edition, turning engaged readers into first-degree connections.

AD NETWORK

Podcast, YouTube & Events

Whatever you already publish, the OPTIN Ad Network sells sponsorships against it, commission-only. You keep producing it; we monetize it.

We write the newsletter. You keep the rest. OPTIN doesn’t shoot your video or produce your podcast — but we do write your newsletter to a standard, build the audience, run the pipeline, and sell the sponsorships around what you already publish.
How It Works

One engine. Three unlocks.

Each layer is earned, not bundled. Monetization activates when the audience clears the bar, not before.

Grow
Selective Distribution™ · Cold-to-Optin™

Selective Distribution™ compounds a verified ICP audience at velocity. Cold-to-Optin™ hunts buyer intent inside the same ICP.

Audience scale, with intent from week one.
Engage
Reverse Subscriber Funnel · Subscriber-to-Network

We concentrate your best readers and verify engagement on clicks, not vanity opens, then put the same proven reader to work on a second surface.

A sponsor-grade audience, on every surface.
Monetize
Audience-to-Pipeline™ · Audience-to-Interview™ · the OPTIN Ad Network

Engaged readers convert into booked, pre-warmed conversations or podcast-guest interviews with your exact buyers. The same audience funds itself through the OPTIN Ad Network, commission-only.

Pipeline and revenue, from one audience.

Growth, pipeline, and monetization aren’t lanes you pick between — they run together, on the same audience, from month one. Every milestone is scoped to your verified TAM and written into the agreement before you sign.

The Payoff

Two ways your audience pays you back.

Both included by default, on the same audience: booked pipeline for your sales team, and commission-only sponsor revenue that can cover the program itself.

Pipeline

Booked, pre-warmed conversations.

  • Audience-to-Pipeline™ booked meetings, or Audience-to-Interview™ appointments with your exact prospects
  • Never cold lists. Every contact arrives pre-warmed, reading you for weeks
  • Hand-raisers route straight to your team
One closed deal can cover a quarter of the program.
The Ad Network

The audience funds itself.

  • Sponsor and event revenue through the OPTIN Ad Network, sold by a dedicated desk
  • White-glove, end to end. Commission-only: nothing closes, nothing owed
  • Break-even first, then events, paid tiers, and a real media revenue line
150K engaged subs can break even on sponsors alone. Events take it past.
The Consolidation

Five vendors.
Or one number.

Assembling this program from the market means five contracts, five invoices, and five teams who don’t talk to each other. Typical published rates:

The Assembled Alternative
Newsletter growth + management $4K–6K
Editorial: newsletter written weekly $4K–8K
Outbound demand generation $5K–8K
Appointment / interview program $3K–8K
LinkedIn + YouTube content ops $5K–12K
Sponsor + event sales desk Not sold anywhere
Five vendors, $21K–$42K/mo. Activity-priced, no owned asset, no guarantees, and you’re the one holding the editorial calendar together.
The Fully Managed Program

Everything above. One team.

  • Growth, editorial, engagement, LinkedIn, YouTube, pipeline, and sponsor and event sales: one system, built to work together
  • We write it, to a standard. A senior editor owns your publication — you approve, you don’t draft
  • Guaranteed milestones. The alternative stack guarantees nothing
  • An asset you own: every subscriber in your ESP, on your domain
  • One number, one team accountable. No vendor-management tax
$12,500
Per month · content included
One line item
instead of five
The Program

One program.
One flat number.

No tiers to pick between. Everything below runs from day one, on a single flat rate.

Fully Managed Media
$12,500/mo

$37,500 due at signing, covering the first 3 months. Renews quarterly at the same rate, no escalator. Leave at the end of any quarter — the subscriber file is yours to keep.

  • Selective Distribution™ — ICP-matched audience acquisition
  • Cold-to-Optin™ — outbound demand capture, double opt-in confirmed
  • Audience-to-Pipeline™ — booked, pre-warmed conversations
  • Audience-to-Interview™ — your exact buyers booked as podcast guests
  • Subscriber-to-Network™ — every issue rerun natively on LinkedIn
  • Newsletter written weekly by a senior editor — you approve, we draft
  • Deliverability, isolated domains, and sending infrastructure
  • You own the subscriber file, exportable at any time
  • OPTIN Ad Network — commission-only monetization of what you already publish
2%
verified TAM
by Month 3
8%
verified TAM
by Month 6
20%
verified TAM
by Month 12
0%
owed if we
miss it

The guarantee: floor and cap confirmed at onboarding, written into the agreement. Measured on clicks, not opens. Miss a milestone and we work free until it lands. The sponsor desk is commission-only — nothing closes, nothing is owed.

Multi-brand organization needing category exclusivity and a named GM? Enterprise is scoped separately, from $20,000/mo on a 12-month minimum.

The First Call

A full plan before you invest a dollar.

You leave the first call with all three. Complimentary, no commitment required.

Subscriber TAM Study

Your full addressable audience by title, industry, seniority, and geography. Before you invest a dollar.

Newsletter Audit & Score

Your current editorial, deliverability, and engagement scored against what a sponsor-grade audience actually requires.

12-Month Growth Projection

A milestone model against your verified TAM: growth targets, cost per subscriber, and the break-even path.

Let’s build the media arm
that pays you back.

One 45-minute call with the founder. A TAM study, a newsletter audit, and a 12-month projection. No commitment.

Talk to the founder