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Should you start a Substack?
Other Life
English - September 19, 2020 20:50 - 32 minutes - 27.4 MB - ★★★★ - 170 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture Science Social Sciences ideology media philosophy politics religion technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Especially for people like me—if you write mostly about abstract intellectual topics that are not directly useful—writing should be the way you build your audience and not the way you monetize your audience. After you’ve built an email list through consistently publishing your writing for free, you can monetize in other ways, which make more sense and will earn you more money in the long-run. I wrote a blog post about this at otherlife.co/should-you-start-a-substack.
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