Success on Substack
Craft a Subscription Newsletter Worth Reading
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Hello it is me! Your faithful and devoted weekly writer. Committed to the sacred attention of turning towards beauty and pain and reporting it to the people.
Today I am so excited to share something deeply important to me that I’ve been working on this year : a class with Skillshare called Success on Substack : Craft a Subscription Newsletter Worth Reading
This class is EVERYTHING I know about writing a digital newsletter for over a decade, and specifically choosing to monetize it - sending it weekly to 25k subscribers, 1400+ paid subscribers, and a gross annualized revenue of over $80k a year.
MAY TRANSPARENCY IN NUMBERS = FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY FOR THOSE WHO MAY CHOOSE THIS PATH OF WRITING AND ART MAKING
Writing a weekly newsletter is not only my job it is my creative destiny. It is the container for my research. It is the portal for redirecting my community’s attention toward what I trust will fill them with inspiration and hope.
I feel strongly that no matter what your profession is, a newsletter is the most direct way to reach your customers, clients, peers, and readers. There is no algorithm, no overlords, no puppet masters hoping to steal what you are building. Not only does this newsletter earn on its own, it is a channel to direct my readers to my other offerings. My classes, my books, my podcast, my dreams!
If you are already on Skillshare go find class! You can sign up for a free 30 day trial and take class now. If you’ve already taken my Newsletter Class this is the deeper more advanced version. IT IS SO GOOD! I take you through every single step, the tech, how to make things stand out and shine. All the things you love about your favorite newsletters in fun school format.
Here is a little social media video if you want to catch the vibe
It comes with a notion template I created just for class. I cry when I talk about money and shame. I laugh when I make fun of myself. If you’ve been thinking about creating a digital newsletter or revamping the one you have - now is the time.
I am grateful for you as a reader, and it is my great wish that you find the path to creative freedom that I have cultivated through pain, loss, celebration, grief, and more. The holy world awaits your noticing, you as the listener, you as the documenter.
Jade is visiting this week and we watched My Name Is Pauli Murray and it is one of the most beautiful and heart breaking stories of our non binary queer ancestors. This is for all the god freaks, poets, devotees to queer abundance looking for a story of someone who history wrote out who changed our world
Heard a whippoorwill last night at place
Speaking of Elle - I finally got to visit her amazing land project yesterday and can’t recommend the accompanying newsletter enough!
My California friend family is organizing on behalf of their community member Zora. A portion of this month’s paid subscriptions will go toward the fundraiser and I encourage you to join in! Let’s help them get over the finish line :)
Vibing to Fergie lately
I bought a lot of books this week :
A new copy of A Pattern Language because I keep gifting my copy
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Finding the Mother Tree : Discovering the Wisdom of the ForestThis scene in Before Sunset
Very important SHIRT PRE ORDER from 69 herbs
I am signed up for How to Start Birding with on Belle Isle this Thursday from 6-8pm
Happy Birthday to Ellen Rutt, whose love lights me up beyond measure, beyond human capacity, beyond this lifetime!
