I'd like any workshop on this to cover more about special promotions. Discounts, time-limited offers, interesting CTAs around this I believe may be important to boost conversion especially at time of launch. How to create urgency, impulse conversions and FOMO when differentiation has been achieved.
Also simply to show people how to send a segmented campaign to their MOST engaged subscribers. In the UI this is not intuitive to many non Email marketing folk. That you can segment based on Emails opened, activity and Web views and re-send a Campaign similar to your Paid launch post, to your most fanatic free readers on a regular basis should be common knowledge.
Substack could have pre-made segmented "top audience" lists for campaigns, to facilitate this that automatically excludes paid subscribers. Simply sending Emails without segmentation for those of us who have worked in Email marketing is the fastest way to increase churn in you audience.
Not sure if I'll ever go paid but this was definitely a helpful guide. Any tips on increasing your audience for paid when you don't have a huge following?
I write sonnets and generally post one with a detailed explanation every Monday. I've recently added a Sunday song exploration that's usually accompanied by a little vignette related to the song.
Can Substack make money from my presence? It may need to find a way because I prefer to remain free from reader payments. For a decade my readers have been seeing my work free of charge, on Facebook, Twitter and Discord. I cannot bring myself to slip behind a paywall now. That would be so disrespectful to the loyal followers I have who followed me here.
Frances, I think that the whole model of SM is the users *are* their assets. So yeah, Ss *is* making money off all of us, newsletter writers and only-commenters alike. They are data-mining at the very least.
Will the video of the event go up after or some kind of article on what advice was given? I gotta work during the call so I can't make it, but would love to learn from it
I started paid subscriptions this week because of two reasons: 1) Someone offered to pay for posts 2) I got laid off with only 48 hours notice. I have been writing my newsletter for over three years, so it's time.
Some good suggestions in here, didn't know we could send targeted emails to specific readers. Will use this the next time I give away subscriptions so I can engage those most likely to want one.
In my experience, it takes one good viral post. Everything rolls from there. It might happen in the first year, or the next year, and your chances increase with consistent postings, ... but ultimately you write for sheer Substack luck.
Propaganda is not new (of course you know that), but the means for distributing it have reached a *whole new level* of psychological manipulation, especially to the wider audience which is severely dumbed down and obedient.
I realize that you can't comment here now because substack has banned you from the thread but this is not really Substack's problem, it's a problem of the wider society that we've built. Pharma is the elephant in the room and it also has a significant share of other media (TV, newspapers) advertising. If Substack tried to shut that down they'd probably be out of business pretty quickly. We just have to work with it in the meantime while trying to work to a better society which does actually focus on health instead of its opposite.
I'd like any workshop on this to cover more about special promotions. Discounts, time-limited offers, interesting CTAs around this I believe may be important to boost conversion especially at time of launch. How to create urgency, impulse conversions and FOMO when differentiation has been achieved.
Also simply to show people how to send a segmented campaign to their MOST engaged subscribers. In the UI this is not intuitive to many non Email marketing folk. That you can segment based on Emails opened, activity and Web views and re-send a Campaign similar to your Paid launch post, to your most fanatic free readers on a regular basis should be common knowledge.
Substack could have pre-made segmented "top audience" lists for campaigns, to facilitate this that automatically excludes paid subscribers. Simply sending Emails without segmentation for those of us who have worked in Email marketing is the fastest way to increase churn in you audience.
Wow that sounds perfect Katie! I'm thrilled at all these extra classes and events.
Not sure if I'll ever go paid but this was definitely a helpful guide. Any tips on increasing your audience for paid when you don't have a huge following?
Loved this resource. Though I don't plan to go paid anytime soon, it's definitely informative to learn what’s possible.
Share your Substacks. I'm open to subscribing to reed something new. 😊🚀
I write sonnets and generally post one with a detailed explanation every Monday. I've recently added a Sunday song exploration that's usually accompanied by a little vignette related to the song.
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Just launched tetherware - about fundamentally new approaches to make AI more humanlike or even alive. :) tetherware.substack.com
I was re-reading this post again and saw my year old comment... kinda wholesome that I still love Substack as a platform ❤️
Saving this for later
Can Substack make money from my presence? It may need to find a way because I prefer to remain free from reader payments. For a decade my readers have been seeing my work free of charge, on Facebook, Twitter and Discord. I cannot bring myself to slip behind a paywall now. That would be so disrespectful to the loyal followers I have who followed me here.
Frances, I think that the whole model of SM is the users *are* their assets. So yeah, Ss *is* making money off all of us, newsletter writers and only-commenters alike. They are data-mining at the very least.
So you are not data mining for profit?
Will the video of the event go up after or some kind of article on what advice was given? I gotta work during the call so I can't make it, but would love to learn from it
Same
Can you send out a link?
Is this link still available?
Huge thanks...this is extremely helpful - saves me a bunch of time!
I started paid subscriptions this week because of two reasons: 1) Someone offered to pay for posts 2) I got laid off with only 48 hours notice. I have been writing my newsletter for over three years, so it's time.
Dear Substack members,
I'm inviting you all to take a look at my page, the last review I have published https://jaroslavnovosyolov.substack.com/p/-?utm_source=%2Fprofile%2F99309116--&utm_medium=reader2
I am going to publish more reviews on a regular basis. Thank you in advace!
Some good suggestions in here, didn't know we could send targeted emails to specific readers. Will use this the next time I give away subscriptions so I can engage those most likely to want one.
Great to read and plenty to work on.
Helpful. Thanks
In my experience, it takes one good viral post. Everything rolls from there. It might happen in the first year, or the next year, and your chances increase with consistent postings, ... but ultimately you write for sheer Substack luck.
How about SUBSTACK promoting us? It's the same with all the marketplace sales platforms. Take the money and do very little to market its clients.
I agree about the censorship. It's not fair and it's not right.
Propaganda is not new (of course you know that), but the means for distributing it have reached a *whole new level* of psychological manipulation, especially to the wider audience which is severely dumbed down and obedient.
I realize that you can't comment here now because substack has banned you from the thread but this is not really Substack's problem, it's a problem of the wider society that we've built. Pharma is the elephant in the room and it also has a significant share of other media (TV, newspapers) advertising. If Substack tried to shut that down they'd probably be out of business pretty quickly. We just have to work with it in the meantime while trying to work to a better society which does actually focus on health instead of its opposite.
Nice
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