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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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People.
They’ll lose their minds over a delayed train, snap over a slow barista. Let a spilled coffee ruin their day.
But when it comes to the big stuff, staying in the wrong job, letting their dreams die quietly. Wasting years on auto pilot.
Nothing. No urgency. No reaction.
We treat small problems like emergencies and the real emergencies as background noise.
Why do we do that?
This is the kind of posts I really want to continue to see from Substack - good job!
Going to think hard about how I can apply this to my own newsletter.
Thanks, Doug! What do you want us to write about next?
How to handle price raises - best practices - what people do.
Also a discussion of churn?
The price is fixed unless they unsubscribe.
I understand that! But I did a price raise early in my newsletter, and I have a good amount of users still at the old price, however I am considering doing another one.
The thing that is interesting re: Price raises is you can actually say hey we are about to do a price raise, and that sometimes moves the incremental free user to sub and lock in an annual at a lower rate. I would do almost anything to see the reactions that the upsell of free > paid before a price raise.
I have thought about this. I would announce date it’s going to. Maybe 14 days from the first announcement. Push this to all tour free subscribers. Send emails at 14, 7 4 and last day to get in at the old price. Inflation makes the argument easier plus add what else you might be doing to give value.
yep! I am also maybe going to try to launch a superset of my newsletter as a product if they offer a higher tier - think things need to happen on substack side for that to happen.
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