Great interview guys. I admit I've had similar thoughts of "am I too generalist?" I then realize 1. I have to follow my own interests/tendencies and 2. I've been doing this two years and have a good chance of simply outlasting the current wave of competition. Liberty, I appreciate the reminder that it's perhaps essential to let your personality shine through.
David, I'd love to know how your migration to Substack is going. I chose to build my own platform at the beginning because I couldn't upload PDF's (I like a nice "locked down" look), and given the 10% cut from Substack. I'm now wondering if I'd gain more subs throwing up my hands and going with Substack exclusively vs. using it as my exclusive free content distribution platform.
hey Adam, i've only been on substack for 3 weeks so it's prob too early to draw firm conclusions. i didn't migrate exclusively to ss. i'm running both my wordpress and the ss. i'm using ss to bring in free subs who might one day convert and so far it's going fine.
Thanks, David. I worry I'm being stubborn trying to save the 10% when I could be missing out on a lot of subscribers who would prefer Substack. I might follow your lead and offer both. Right now I've just been using SS as free -- the "funnel".
Substack does reduce friction in many ways, and can bring growth via recommendations from other substacks. That doesn't automatically make up for the 10%, but in many cases, I think it does.
Great interview guys. I admit I've had similar thoughts of "am I too generalist?" I then realize 1. I have to follow my own interests/tendencies and 2. I've been doing this two years and have a good chance of simply outlasting the current wave of competition. Liberty, I appreciate the reminder that it's perhaps essential to let your personality shine through.
David, I'd love to know how your migration to Substack is going. I chose to build my own platform at the beginning because I couldn't upload PDF's (I like a nice "locked down" look), and given the 10% cut from Substack. I'm now wondering if I'd gain more subs throwing up my hands and going with Substack exclusively vs. using it as my exclusive free content distribution platform.
hey Adam, i've only been on substack for 3 weeks so it's prob too early to draw firm conclusions. i didn't migrate exclusively to ss. i'm running both my wordpress and the ss. i'm using ss to bring in free subs who might one day convert and so far it's going fine.
Thanks, David. I worry I'm being stubborn trying to save the 10% when I could be missing out on a lot of subscribers who would prefer Substack. I might follow your lead and offer both. Right now I've just been using SS as free -- the "funnel".
Substack does reduce friction in many ways, and can bring growth via recommendations from other substacks. That doesn't automatically make up for the 10%, but in many cases, I think it does.