Yes, for real, Microsoft Fricking Word! Your first few Substack newsletters were probably either completely over-cooked or embarrassingly amateurish. But at least when you were starting out you knew how many newsletters you’d written and what you said in each of them. Six months later and things will be getting…

All the details you can’t find out from Substack So you’ve got your Substack payments turned on and you found some new readers? Good for you! Wherever you get your new fans, it’s easy to upload them to your Substack list from your dashboard. You’ve probably been doing this already. …

Free organic traffic for your newsletter So you’ve got a Substack newsletter and it’s doing okay. But you need more subscribers. I hear you. Audiograms can help. Audiograms are a powerful and surprisingly underused tool for reaching new audiences, and for keeping your current subscribers excited. What is an Audiogram? An audiogram is an…

A fast method, using free tools What is an Audiogram? An audiogram is a video version of an audio file like a podcast episode or lecture. The visual part of an audiogram is usually a static image with an overlay of an audio waveform. …

Spice up your Substack with embedded audio, without loads of tech It’s possible to add sound to Substack without using the native Substack podcast feature. And it’s easier than you think. You can add a full audio version to each of your Substack posts for people who like to listen…

People are still talking about climate change in future tense. I can’t believe it. Are you accounting for climate change when you plan your retirement? This was a question asked by one writer on Medium recently*. In the article we were warned that climate change will happen “one day” and…

… a short read with no real insights, but a funny screenshot Algorithms are running the show for Medium writers. And readers. And today, the AI (artificial intelligence) bots that power the algorithms are having fun with us. I’m beginning to wonder if they have actually become sentient. …

Subscription overload will kill Substack in its tracks Email subscriptions are a waste of time, and the email format is a “Bad Bet” for creators. So said one successful Medium writer last month*. Wow. So many writers are frothing about Substack, ConvertKit, and MailChimp newsletters right now. …

Is a PLR Website worth it? After successfully making and selling a website last year, I thought I’d repeat the process this year. But this time, I didn’t want to write all the content myself. So I turned to PLR. PLR stands for Private Label Rights. PLR products are digital…