Three ways you can make money the moment someone subscribes
The moment after signup is when a reader pays the most attention. Here are three ways you can sell in it: your own thing, leads for local businesses, and spots on your offer wall.
TJ LarkinBuilds greetform at 8th replayOctober 1, 2026 · 3 min read
- A new subscriber is paying more attention to you than they ever will again.
- greetform gives you three ways to sell in that moment: your own thing, leads for local businesses, and spots on your offer wall.
- You set the prices and make the deals. greetform tracks every lead and claim.
- The free plan is free forever and covers 250 new subscribers a month.
Most newsletters spend the moment after signup on a thank-you page. greetform turns it into a few quick questions and the offers that fit each reader. That opens up three ways you can make money. Use one or all three.
You set the prices and make the deals. greetform gives you the tools to sell right at signup, and you see every lead and claim in one place.
Here's what each of the three looks like.
- 01Sell your own thing
Courses, memberships, events and services, offered to the new readers who fit them.
- 02Sell leads to local businesses
Realtors, med spas, gyms and contractors. A reader taps yes, and the lead goes straight to that business.
- 03Sell spots on your offer wall
Local deals matched to what each reader told you, priced per claim.
How a lead gets made
Say a new reader tells you they own a home. Mid-survey, your real estate partner's card shows up. One tap sends her the lead. In Henderson HQ's real greetform, that partner is Leah James, and the reader's info only goes to her.
The same idea works for businesses that want to advertise. Readers who own a business can ask for your media kit right at signup. That's an advertiser lead you didn't have to chase.
The offer wall
At the end, every reader sees an offer wall made for them: your offers and your partners' offers, matched to every answer. Readers claim in one tap.
The second someone subscribes, you have more of their attention than you will ever get again.
Know who you're selling to
Every answer lands on the subscriber. Town, homeowner, parent, business owner, interests. It all syncs to Beehiiv, ActiveCampaign or Mailchimp as fields you can segment on, so your media kit finally has real numbers.
Getting started
Enter your email, confirm it and set a password, then launch your first greetform. The free plan covers one publication and one live survey, and paid plans start at $49 a month when you need more.
Questions people ask
Does greetform pay me?
Is it really free?
Do I have to switch email platforms?
Will it annoy my new readers?
TJ Larkin builds software for local media at 8th replay, the company behind greetform, larkfeed and lightbreak. He and his team run more than 20 local newsletters, and greetform started as the form they built for their own readers.
