I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
WOW: Massive crowds in New York City right now for the 50501 National Day of Action against the Trump regime.
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✏️ 🟧 I turned on paid subscriptions this week (!)
For those who have gone paid, what advice do you have for the first few weeks? What do you wish you had known?
🧠Along with what Rachel says (which is accurate, from my experience), come up with a strategy of which of your past posts (Archives, or as I call 'em, Legacy Articles) you place behind a paywall. Keep a smattering of your best as freebie examples, which will help encourage readers to want to peek behind your "pay curtain."
Some of us schedule (possible to do either in Settings or on the pub page of each post page where you publish) to have our newly-released go behind the paywall after 2 weeks,…
thanks, Brad – appreciate the tip! great to know there's a capacity to set posts to go behind the paywall after a certain period of time :) will certainly think about how to employ that in my paid strategy
Lotta ways to "play with" the paywall.....I just sent an article, Sunday, to just my paid subbies, and "told it" to unlock tomorrow (Thurs, 1/4) at 7am. You can see it on my front page with a lock, and theoretically, it'll lose the lock tomorrow morning, while also being e-mailed to my free subbies! bradkyle.substack.com/p… Good luck, and thanks for replying, Cissy!
