I built my substack which I started with 1800+ subscribers, many with me for years. I just started monetizing two months ago. Lost and lose people everytime I send out a post, but I’ve gained 13 paid but starting to offer my back catalog. It’s a slow process in adding paid content when everything I did before was free but I would rather have a smaller connected following than massive numbers that probably just delete my stuff. I send out a weekly piece of writing advice or business news, then paid content 3 times a week.
Great insights. As an aquatic, I've been learning heavily on the growth and content side of things, building out the big world with lots of content. Need to work on the monetization side more.
Such an aquatic thing, getting lost in the universe and the world and the formats and missing out on "How do I make this into a reality though". Also, you kind of have to grow at the beginning to have anything to monetize, but I'm excited you're in a position to know that about yourself and to want to get to the next level.
What did I learn today from this newsletter? I think I'm doing my Substack right, but I need to fix a few things. I started off with publishing my comic scripts here. After I finish publishing my prose story, I'm going back to comic scripts.
Also, I'm not putting my "Dear Up and Coming Comic Writer" videos behind a paywall. I'm posting them on all on my social media pages.
Great insights here Russell. Something that's working well for me in Convertkit is sales triggers. So I offer something free related to the paid product. If they click on this that triggers a sales sequence of 5 emails. I take this as a sign they are interested in this topic. I get less unsubscribes and more sales this way.
I built my substack which I started with 1800+ subscribers, many with me for years. I just started monetizing two months ago. Lost and lose people everytime I send out a post, but I’ve gained 13 paid but starting to offer my back catalog. It’s a slow process in adding paid content when everything I did before was free but I would rather have a smaller connected following than massive numbers that probably just delete my stuff. I send out a weekly piece of writing advice or business news, then paid content 3 times a week.
Cool! Sounds like a plan that works for you and that’s great!
Great insights. As an aquatic, I've been learning heavily on the growth and content side of things, building out the big world with lots of content. Need to work on the monetization side more.
Such an aquatic thing, getting lost in the universe and the world and the formats and missing out on "How do I make this into a reality though". Also, you kind of have to grow at the beginning to have anything to monetize, but I'm excited you're in a position to know that about yourself and to want to get to the next level.
What did I learn today from this newsletter? I think I'm doing my Substack right, but I need to fix a few things. I started off with publishing my comic scripts here. After I finish publishing my prose story, I'm going back to comic scripts.
Also, I'm not putting my "Dear Up and Coming Comic Writer" videos behind a paywall. I'm posting them on all on my social media pages.
Cool!
Great insights here Russell. Something that's working well for me in Convertkit is sales triggers. So I offer something free related to the paid product. If they click on this that triggers a sales sequence of 5 emails. I take this as a sign they are interested in this topic. I get less unsubscribes and more sales this way.