This is so interesting to read; thank you for sharing it! I'd love to know, as someone with a very small paid following, when Jeannine started paywalling most of her content. It seems really scary (and not wise?!) when I have only five paid subscribers... But makes a lot of sense when you have a following the size of Jeannine's. I really…
This is so interesting to read; thank you for sharing it! I'd love to know, as someone with a very small paid following, when Jeannine started paywalling most of her content. It seems really scary (and not wise?!) when I have only five paid subscribers... But makes a lot of sense when you have a following the size of Jeannine's. I really admire it (and have benefited from Jeannine's generous previews); I'd just be curious to know if that was something she did from the start or when she had a bigger paid following.
Holly, the longer version goes into a little more depth on that. I started paywalling right away, but I kept a TON of content free--which I would absolutely recommend to anyone who, like me, has little or no platform. Again, the longer version goes into a little more detail, as do the two essays I published on this topic last December, which I can link to here as well.
This is so interesting to read; thank you for sharing it! I'd love to know, as someone with a very small paid following, when Jeannine started paywalling most of her content. It seems really scary (and not wise?!) when I have only five paid subscribers... But makes a lot of sense when you have a following the size of Jeannine's. I really admire it (and have benefited from Jeannine's generous previews); I'd just be curious to know if that was something she did from the start or when she had a bigger paid following.
Holly, the longer version goes into a little more depth on that. I started paywalling right away, but I kept a TON of content free--which I would absolutely recommend to anyone who, like me, has little or no platform. Again, the longer version goes into a little more detail, as do the two essays I published on this topic last December, which I can link to here as well.
Thank you so much! I will have a look at the links you sent.
https://writinginthedark.substack.com/p/how-i-grew-my-substack-from-zero
https://writinginthedark.substack.com/p/how-i-grew-my-substack-from-almost