From Zero to More Than 300 Paid Subscribers and Other Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Substack
Substack thinks it’s possible to convert 5-10% of your free readers into a paying audience.
Substack’s business model is easy enough to understand:
“Start a newsletter. Build your community. Make money from subscriptions.”
It’s a true newsletter platform that makes it super simple and fun to set up an account, start creating a newsletter, grow it and monetize your content.
It’s a powerful tool for everyone who wants to get a piece of the (paid) newsletter boom.
What most creators don’t know is that Substack thinks it’s possible to convert 5-10% of your free readers into a paying audience.
From zero to more than 300 paying subscribers
From my experience, people feel good about giving creators they trust and like money so they can continue to make stuff they like.
Recently, Medium writer and publication owner
from enabled the paid button after hitting over 2,000 free subscribers.Last week, I talked to
from .Michael has a best-selling Substack newsletter about the super-hyped topic of AI.
AI Supremacy has around 12,000 subscribers and a whopping 358 paid subscribers!
This means it makes more than $20,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR) on Substack in just over a year.
Do you see the potential?
Substack is a thriving platform.
One of the reasons Substack thrives and other platforms don't is that it keeps adding valuable features - for example, chat, cross-posts, mentions, private publishing, and Substack Pledges.
The truly writer-centric approach plays a key role in Substack's growth.
There’s more - Things you (probably) didn’t know
That’s why in today’s YouTube video, I share 7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Substack but definitely need to understand when you’re…
on the fence about whether to join or not
looking into expanding your writing habit (beyond Medium)
itching to head to Substack
curious to learn more about Substack because it came up in lots of (Medium) articles and conversations
wondering what Substack’s secret is and why so many creators are joining it
Click here to watch the video.
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Kristina
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