I love Substack as my newsletter platform. Although, I wish I was able to have more feedbacks some way in the form of comments. As to reader feedbacks the built in poll function seems to be more effective than the comment function.
We all love feedback and comments but people just consume and go. I have found that on posts I make that ask for comments directly, I get more of them.
Thank you for this Dan, I’m sure I’m not alone in appreciating what you do in sharing valuable information. It’s so helpful to me as I have yet to get started, but I have already seen the growth of the platform and the amazing calibre of those sharing their knowledge. Thank you again 😀👍🏻
I'm sold on the idea of having a subscription newsletter on the Substack platform. My question is this: Might it also be worth it to maintain a traditional bog in the newsletter's niche? I know the SERPS are a mess at the moment, but I've had success before driving traffic using Pinterest and Instagram. Pinterest in particular works really well with a traditional WordPress blog since you can drive traffic right from a Pin to a specific post. So, would you drive social traffic to a blog in your newsletter's niche (this would obviously require more article writing), and then push the traffic from the blog to your paid newsletter? I'm just thinking about ways to grow a subscription base faster. You can let me know if I'm complicating things too much, but this seems more effective to me than driving social traffic from each Pin/post directly to a Substack subscription page. Also, if you would throw a traditional blog in the mix, would you just post more basic articles on the blog, and save your more premium tips, tricks, and advice for paid Substack members?
Also the key principle of Renegade Newsletter is getting people in the funnel. Free subscribers convert to paid ones so you might as well concentrate in one place.
I love Substack as my newsletter platform. Although, I wish I was able to have more feedbacks some way in the form of comments. As to reader feedbacks the built in poll function seems to be more effective than the comment function.
We all love feedback and comments but people just consume and go. I have found that on posts I make that ask for comments directly, I get more of them.
Thank you for this Dan, I’m sure I’m not alone in appreciating what you do in sharing valuable information. It’s so helpful to me as I have yet to get started, but I have already seen the growth of the platform and the amazing calibre of those sharing their knowledge. Thank you again 😀👍🏻
Dan,
I'm sold on the idea of having a subscription newsletter on the Substack platform. My question is this: Might it also be worth it to maintain a traditional bog in the newsletter's niche? I know the SERPS are a mess at the moment, but I've had success before driving traffic using Pinterest and Instagram. Pinterest in particular works really well with a traditional WordPress blog since you can drive traffic right from a Pin to a specific post. So, would you drive social traffic to a blog in your newsletter's niche (this would obviously require more article writing), and then push the traffic from the blog to your paid newsletter? I'm just thinking about ways to grow a subscription base faster. You can let me know if I'm complicating things too much, but this seems more effective to me than driving social traffic from each Pin/post directly to a Substack subscription page. Also, if you would throw a traditional blog in the mix, would you just post more basic articles on the blog, and save your more premium tips, tricks, and advice for paid Substack members?
Hi Dan,
When you post on SubStack then these become effectively blog posts, sd this post is here:
https://danraine.substack.com/p/renegade-newsletters-the-platform/
You can then use Pinterest to get traffic.
I personally would not have a blog as for me that is just extra work :)
Also the key principle of Renegade Newsletter is getting people in the funnel. Free subscribers convert to paid ones so you might as well concentrate in one place.
Makes sense Dan. Thanks for the advice. I look forward to the rest of the newsletter training.