Hi Paul, just got sent here by your friend Andre Chaperon. I'm thrilled he did. First, you provide a balanced assessment of the best use cases for this platform. More importantly, you've embedded a short masterclass on building a publishing business into your article. Thank you, I found many of those bullet points stimulating!
I like that you raised this issue as its made me think a lot more about the model. I see Substack as the delivery platform. The messaging is all done off Substack. A place to host content. Maybe take a look at Andre's old course called 'Lean Business For Creators' where he answers a lot of your concerns, while giving you a template to control the flow and journey of your customer. In his example he uses Patreon. It still doesn't answer some of your other questions regarding back catalogue etc. He also gives his thoughts regarding unfair access to people who have been with you a while, versus new people coming in and getting access to all your content. Either way, it's been fun throwing these ideas around.
Yeah it's worth doing little thought exercises like this from time to time to both challenge your own assumptions and to also think about assumptions that seem to be generally held.
The one idea that I didn't get round to - which weirdly enough, Andrew pointed out in an email - is that nothing is ever static. So Substack's model will change over time. Whether that's for good or bad remains to be seen...but no tech platofrm stays the same year on year on year.
Hi Paul, just got sent here by your friend Andre Chaperon. I'm thrilled he did. First, you provide a balanced assessment of the best use cases for this platform. More importantly, you've embedded a short masterclass on building a publishing business into your article. Thank you, I found many of those bullet points stimulating!
Hi Martin
Glad you enjoyed it!
Paul
IF you have any questions....don't be shy! Ask away!
I like that you raised this issue as its made me think a lot more about the model. I see Substack as the delivery platform. The messaging is all done off Substack. A place to host content. Maybe take a look at Andre's old course called 'Lean Business For Creators' where he answers a lot of your concerns, while giving you a template to control the flow and journey of your customer. In his example he uses Patreon. It still doesn't answer some of your other questions regarding back catalogue etc. He also gives his thoughts regarding unfair access to people who have been with you a while, versus new people coming in and getting access to all your content. Either way, it's been fun throwing these ideas around.
Yeah it's worth doing little thought exercises like this from time to time to both challenge your own assumptions and to also think about assumptions that seem to be generally held.
The one idea that I didn't get round to - which weirdly enough, Andrew pointed out in an email - is that nothing is ever static. So Substack's model will change over time. Whether that's for good or bad remains to be seen...but no tech platofrm stays the same year on year on year.