Calling All Future Newsletter Superstars From Europe (Especially Germany)

Substack shipped three new features. Plus, you can now join the German-speaking space inside "Substack School".

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It all started with this milestone post on Notes from

Katja Groesser

.

With her 52-week streak, she now belongs to the top 5% of publishers on Substack.

I thought:

“Time to celebrate and share this with others!”

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So I re-stacked her post with a note in English as well as in German, because Katja and I are from Germany and not native speakers.

Did you know most Substack writers quit after 16 weeks?

In my opinion, it’s super sad that writers aren’t patient enough to…

• hear crickets

• don’t feel seen and read

• feel alone and lost

• experience a subscriber or follower plateau

Katja tagged me because of my popular story “Write a Newsletter 52 Weeks in a Row and Watch it Change Your Life”.

Write a Newsletter 52 Weeks in a Row and Watch It Change Your Life

“It’s all about taking one step at a time and continuing to move forward,” Katja has learned.

Especially as a non-native writer, Substack isn’t an easy place to be seen and make money writing online.

I've been writing on the internet in my second language for about 3.5 years and still often feel that I can't express myself as creatively, wittily, innovatively and accurately as I'd like.

This week we had a live event with a 6-figure solopreneur

Maya Sayvanova

from Bulgaria.

My and Maya's English is at C2 level, but when real natives with my membership experience speak in the Q&A session, it's wonderful.

I LOVE English and my goal was to improve my English with every story I pump out.

Also, the opportunity to speak in English opened new doors for me.

I interviewed Medium top writer Zulie Rane, and Medium Product Manager and Boost Coordinator Ariel Meadow Stallings.

For non-natives confidence is key

Besides consistency + valuable quality writing for non-English speaking writers gaining CONFIDENCE is key.

consistency + valuable quality writing + confidence

So based on my conversations with

Henrik Hageland

Sunny Side Suppers

Carmen Luisa

from Substack’s network as well as Martina Maiani

Fabienne Mannherz

and

Dr. Axel Meierhoefer

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll open a space inside my Online Writing School for German-speaking writers.

If you’re a German-speaking writer, all you have to do is to…

• leave a comment

• subscribe to my newsletter, so I can send you an invite

• (If you want to support me and my work as well as invest in your writing, you can also join the international community experience where we’re talking in English with the Substack School and Medium School and GROW community which are included in the paid subscription of my newsletter. The German-speaking space will be part of it.)

The key takeaways from my conversations with German-speaking writers on Substack are:

We’d love to…

• connect

• have fun

• collaborate with others

• see more posts in German in our feed

• share our work with others and get feedback

• stay up to date on all relevant updates and new features that are relevant for Germany and Europe

• exchange best practices with other German-speaking writers

• improve our headlines and writing

• virtually meet other Germans

• meet IRL

If you say:

“Ja, Kristina, das ist genau das was ich möchte!”

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Hit reply, leave a comment, and let me know.

If you’ve other German-speaking Substack friends you’d like to invite, do so.

I’ve got more good news for you

Although I primarily cover updates for international writers, in this week’s video (which was in my spring cleaning drafts folder for too long 😂), I cover exciting changes and updates for European and German writers.

No worries, these changes are also relevant for international writers who often don’t know about these new payment options.

New Video: New Payment Options for European and International Writers

Here are the three new growth features I find interesting as a writer from Europe and Germany:

• Firstly, writers who are not native speakers and write in another language can set a default language for their Substack publication, for example, German.

• Second, your readers can now pay for a subscription in their local currency (multi-currency pricing).

• Third, subscribers can use four alternative payment methods (APMs) if they’re located in Europe.

✅Engagement BONUS: I love to gamify your newsletter experience, so if you leave a comment on YouTube (in English and/or German), you could win a 15-minute coaching session with me in May 2024.

✅Table of Contents

0:00 I started a Substack newsletter as a writer from Germany

1:00 Substack's new suite of payment features

2:15 How to pick your local language as default for your Substack

5:28 How to let your subscribers pay in their local currency and the 13 currencies available

8:04 How to set the 4 new alternative payment methods (APMs) when writing from Europe

10:05 What Substack could do better

10:57 Conclusion and outlook

Inside our Online Writing School, there are badass writers from Europe such as

Sofia Ponte

from Portugal.

Wanna join my Online Writing School (with the Substack School, Medium School, our community, and German-speaking space)?

Upgrade to paid and become a member of our tribe of badass writers.

As Katja, who is now one of the 5% of publishers on Substack, told us:

“It’s all about taking one step at a time and continuing to move forward.”

Give yourself the gift of an email list head start.

Liebe deutschsprachige Schreiber, ich freue mich von euch zu hören und zu lesen.

Schreibt gerne einen Kommentar und ich sende euch eine Einladung zum neuen deutschsprachigen space meiner Online Writing School.

Lasst uns zusammen Spaß am Newsletter-Schreiben haben!

Eure Kristina

Wait, please, could you do me a favor? 😘Re-stack and/or share this post, so more people can engage!😘 Thanks!

Hugs!

Kristina