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How Eric Newcomer built his tech newsletter up to over 65,000 subscribers

The Business of Content with Simon Owens

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How to Launch a Successful Business With SubStack

I was extremely fortunate and was had this. I never I didn't have like a second job. Like, when I quit, the newsletter has been the whole thing the whole time. What I start getting paid subscribers in October 2020, and by February 2021, I had more than 1000 paid subscribers and I was charging like $150 a year. So within, you know, five months of launch, I was pretty secure that like this was going to work. The paywall, it feels so table stakes now. It's insane. And I don't know if I'm willing to compliment them a lot for rolling that out, but great, great to have it.

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