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So encouraging to see your journey. I'm definitely looking forward to discovering your optimistic side now. (Although I never saw you as an all-out pessimist before either.)
I guess in terms of growing a platform and attracting a broader audience, especially in a space that is crowded (or that's what if feels like to me at least).
This is awesome! Congrats on your success and thanks for sharing your experience. Looks like you turned on paid soon after your started on Substack. Can you share how you divided free vs paid posts in those early days? Also what kind of metrics do you focus on? Thank you and wish you continued success.
I started TAB as paid right away (I had a 700-people email list, I'd recommend starting paid above that number, though). In the early days I only paywalled 1 every 3 posts (or less) to prioritize overall growth over paid sub growth.
The ultimate metric is paid subs because that's what gives you money, but free subs are important because they're the less-friction way to grow financially. Besides money, I focus on providing the most value to the people who pay and engage with me–they're the reason TAB exists at all!
Very inspiring Alberto, keep it up! With all the synthetic and ChatGPT generated A.I. link rundowns, I'm looking to people like you to keep original content that's more human alive.
Felicidades. Por este gran proyecto que cada vez crece más. Y es obvio, la calidad no se improvisa y eso es lo que está pasando con El Puente Algorítmico.
Mantener la crítica en mi opinión, es lo que más define y es por lo que me encanta este boletín. Contar la realidad, hablar de lo bonito y lo feo de las cosas tiene mucho valor, aunque en el común parezca lo contrario. También estoy de acuerdo con la intención de probar nuevos enfoques, esto es fantástico. Vas a crecer mucho.
Congratulations on the first year, Alberto!
So encouraging to see your journey. I'm definitely looking forward to discovering your optimistic side now. (Although I never saw you as an all-out pessimist before either.)
Thanks Daniel, you're doing pretty good yourself!!
Any tips for a writer like myself, who only recently started publishing on substack?
PS. Amazing to see what can be achieved in a year. It also shows quality writing and hard work pays off eventually :)
Thanks Jurgen, that's 100% true!
Can you narrow down??
I guess in terms of growing a platform and attracting a broader audience, especially in a space that is crowded (or that's what if feels like to me at least).
Some important things from the top of my head:
- You can't shortcut consistency. If you want results assume you will spend a long time not seeing any.
- Quality over quantity but they're entwined—the more you write, the better you write.
- Explore other platforms and create funnels to drive traffic here from those that work better.
- You're a writer but also a marketer, a seller. Learn those skills too.
Hope that helps!
Thanks, much appreciated! Great tips
This is awesome! Congrats on your success and thanks for sharing your experience. Looks like you turned on paid soon after your started on Substack. Can you share how you divided free vs paid posts in those early days? Also what kind of metrics do you focus on? Thank you and wish you continued success.
Thanks Naveen!
I started TAB as paid right away (I had a 700-people email list, I'd recommend starting paid above that number, though). In the early days I only paywalled 1 every 3 posts (or less) to prioritize overall growth over paid sub growth.
The ultimate metric is paid subs because that's what gives you money, but free subs are important because they're the less-friction way to grow financially. Besides money, I focus on providing the most value to the people who pay and engage with me–they're the reason TAB exists at all!
Very inspiring Alberto, keep it up! With all the synthetic and ChatGPT generated A.I. link rundowns, I'm looking to people like you to keep original content that's more human alive.
Thank you Michael, appreciate the work you do!!
Felicidades. Por este gran proyecto que cada vez crece más. Y es obvio, la calidad no se improvisa y eso es lo que está pasando con El Puente Algorítmico.
Mantener la crítica en mi opinión, es lo que más define y es por lo que me encanta este boletín. Contar la realidad, hablar de lo bonito y lo feo de las cosas tiene mucho valor, aunque en el común parezca lo contrario. También estoy de acuerdo con la intención de probar nuevos enfoques, esto es fantástico. Vas a crecer mucho.