Lessons learned on the way to $6.5K I’m celebrating a newsletter milestone this week: 65 weeks of publishing, 65 paying subscribers, $6,500 in yearly revenue. It feels amazing to finally be earning ‘real’ money doing what I love every week. …

It was pretty easy, actually — This is totally not a sales pitch for my products, I promise (but check them out if you must 😁 ). This is me being excited about Gumroad 😃🎉✨ Gumroad hype is all over the place at the moment. Let’s be honest, most of it is run-of-the-mill drivel. Posts like…

Step-by-step, with pictures — So you’ve got a new Substack and people are signing up? Great! Where are your new sign-ups coming from, I hear you ask… Substack tracks your traffic sources, and you can find that information in the ‘Stats’ section of your Substack dashboard. Unfortunately, the information is not very detailed. For…

And which layouts work best — Substack just launched new customization options for publications. Read on to find out how to use them and which layout would work best for your publication. Before we begin While it’s nice to have a good-looking online publication, it is not as critical as you might think when you are first starting out…

Substack’s community engagement tools explained — If you aren’t already writing on Substack, this post is not for you. If you are already using Substack and you’re confused about threads, chats and notes, join the club of millions of creators and readers who are scratching their heads daily. How did we get here? When Substack was new, publication owners could create…

Best practices are changing, don’t get stuck with advice from 2020 — Posting frequency is a topic where opinions have changed a LOT recently in the Substack community. One thing that everyone can agree on is that you have to be consistent. If you don’t regularly show up in your subscribers’ inboxes, it’s much harder to build a relationship with them. …

No list? No worries! — Someone asked me the other day if you can start a Substack with no subscribers. Well yes, you can of course. But that’s not the whole question, is it? The real question is: It is easy to get new subscribers on Substack? I’ve been Substacking for 18 months, I have thousands of subscribers and make thousands of dollars per…

It’s never too early to get started Building a newsletter audience takes time. Bigger audiences mean more opportunities for you. So the earlier you start an email newsletter, the better. In this post, I show you just how easy it is to get started on Substack. …

… and should you start a Substack if you want to make money from writing? — A favourite Medium writer of mine just published a Medium versus Substack article, in which he said there is literally no comparison because Medium is so much better than Substack. Not true. Comparing Medium and Substack, he said, is like asking which is better: Coke or Pepsi, which (he said)…