This is true. Our explicit advice to writers is make your best stuff free. Paid subscriptions unleash writers. With Substack, they can get reach *and* the ability to go deep with the truly interested.https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1305164174637506561 …
Glad to hear it. I'd recommend refining the positioning and messaging ato distance yourselves more clearly from what I think of as the patronage+pandering market. There's no free lunch, and I'm sensing a sort of wishful idealism that worries me.
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I realize you have to thread needle between encouraging quality free content to drive platform growth and encouraging value for paying subscribers that is less available for floating all boats, but long-term, "value for subscription $" needs to be a core, not an afterthought.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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