Recreate the newsletters you've published on another email platform on your Creator Profile
Does moving your email setup from another platform to ConvertKit mean losing your newsletter archive?
Not at all. 😎
Our Creator Profile feature provides the perfect one-stop hub for showing off your previous newsletters.
So, once you've set up your Creator Profile, you can recreate your newsletter archive on it by:
Recreating your previous newsletters in ConvertKit as new one-off emails, also known as Broadcasts.
Sending these Broadcasts to yourself (we don't need anyone else to receive a copy of them!).
Publishing the Broadcasts to the web (because only Broadcasts that have been published to the web can appear on the Creator Profile).
Changing your Broadcasts' publish dates to match your newsletters' original publish dates.
What a neat trick, eh? 👀 Let's walk through the detailed steps for migrating your newsletter archive to your Creator Profile:
1. Set up your Creator Profile
If you haven't already done so, set up and customize your Creator Profile.
To do so, click the Grow tab in the navigation, followed by Creator Profile.
(Check out our full guide to setting up and managing your Creator Profile here.)
2. Add your email address to your ConvertKit subscriber list
Since you'll be sending your Broadcast to yourself, add your email address to your ConvertKit subscriber list.
Click Subscribers under the Grow tab in the navigation to open the Subscribers page.
Click the Add Subscribers button, followed by the Add a single subscriber option, to add your email address as a new subscriber in ConvertKit.
More details on this process in our guide to adding a single subscriber in ConvertKit.
3. Create an email newsletter template
This email template will contain the design of the newsletters featured on your Creator Profile.
Go to Email Templates under the Send tab in the navigation to create a new email template. While creating your email template, you can recreate the look of your newsletters on your previous email platform, or come up with a completely new design!
Visit our guide to the visual email template editor to learn more about creating an email template in ConvertKit.
We also have a guide to recreating Mailchimp email templates in ConvertKit that you may find helpful (it broadly also applies to recreating email templates from other platforms!).
4. Recreate your newsletter as a Broadcast
Now, we'll start populating your Creator Profile with your newsletters.
Create a new Broadcast and set it up with the email template you've designed for your newsletters.
Fill out your Broadcast with the contents of a previously published newsletter.
When you're done, click the Continue → button at the bottom to select your Broadcast recipients.
5. Send the Broadcast to yourself and post it to your public feed
On the Publish page for your Broadcast, enable the Send email option to send your Broadcast as an email.
Set up the filters under the Who would you like to send this to? section to send the Broadcast to subscribers whose email address "is exactly" your email address. Doing so will send the Broadcast to just yourself.
NOTE: If you set up your Broadcast to send to just yourself and get an error message that your filters need to include at least one subscriber, double-check that you've saved your email address as a subscriber in ConvertKit. Then, try setting up the filters again.
Keep the When would you like to send this? setting to Send now.
Next, enable the Publish to web option to post your Broadcast to your newsletter feed (and display it on your Creator Profile).
If your newsletter is a paid post, enable the Only display for paying subscribers option, too.
Finally, click the Continue → button to send your Broadcast to yourself!
6. Change your Broadcast's publish date to the original publish date
Once you've sent your Broadcast, you can change its publish date to reflect your newsletter's original publish date.
Select your Broadcast from the Broadcasts page to open its reports, then click the Edit button at the top right of any report.
Use the Published Date setting to update your Broadcast's publish date to match your newsletter's original publish date. Then, click Save to save your changes.
Check your Creator Profile after that.
If you've done everything correctly, you'll see your Broadcast there—and with the publish date you've set up for it!
NOTE: We may take a few minutes to update your Broadcast's publish date, so check back later if your Broadcast's publish date still indicates the current date.
Repeat steps four to six above for all the newsletters you want to migrate to your Creator Profile. They'll automatically show up on your Creator Profile in chronological order as you go along. 💪