Substack Tutorial and Review - Create an Online Magazine!
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- Substack is a blogging platform that combines email marketing, publishing and the design infrastructure to enable paid subscriptions. In this tutorial for Substack I'll explain everything. Get your custom domain name at Namecheap: davidutke.com/namecheap
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00:00 Intro
"Substack is an American online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters. It allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers. Founded in 2017, Substack is headquartered in San Francisco, California."
00:05 Substack features and pros and cons
This publishing platform is free to use and has built in email marketing and analytics. You can also have your content locked behind a paywall. So if you're looking to build subscription revenue Substack is ideal.
The email marketing though is pretty basic. You write a blog post and then choose to send it out to your list or not, or to your paid subscribers. You can setup a welcome email, but that is the only built in automation.
You're also quit limited with your design. Substack is pretty cookie-cutter in appearance and you have minimal customization. Last, as a free service Substack does take a transaction fee off your sales.
04:33 Substack tutorial for beginners
Learn everything you need to know to get started with Substack. From publishing tips, to customization and setting up your paid subscription.
18:58 Is Substack worth it / Risks?
Yes. What's great about Substack is that you can get started totally for free and grow with the platform. But long term you're probably better off with Ghost as it's open source and they don't charge any transaction fee.
Substack is not open source obviously so if they go out of business or another company buys Substack, you're building your business on top of a platform where you don't make the rules.
19:54 Subscribe!
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Thanks David. That was very helpful especially if you do not have lots of cash to begin. Thanks that got me started immediately.
Great Substack intro David. So folks are aware, the fee for a custom domain is a once fee 🤫
this is the BEST substack tutorial compared to other videos on TH-cam
Thanks, that was my goal with this video.
This is an immensely helpful tutorial. Thank you!
Happy to help!
I’m used to Twitter style social media apps and new to substack this was very helpful thank you so much 👍
Thank you for posting this. Considering using substack and this was very helpful.
That's why I made it. I was looking at Ghost and Substack.
Thanks David great video tutorial again. Cheers Brendan 😃
Glad you enjoyed it
thank you David, a really helpful video
Podcast seems to be diverging from their main product
Thanks for this video! You have so many great videos, very helpful :)
Glad you like them!
Good morning, and greetings from Wiltshire UK. A great video David thank you so much I've been dancing around the idea of getting started on Substack and this video is really energised me to make a start! Thank you so much. Tim
Go for it. I personally use Ghost, but Substack is a great platform.
@@DavidUtke Thank you. Have a good weekend David. Again thanks. Bye
Love this very helpful video! I'm using it to babystep myself thru the posting of my first newsletter. One question I am having an issue with is that when I added some you tube links, url's, the resultant thumbnails are so large they take up the almost the width of the page. The same size as the ones in your video, which is fine but I cant figure out how to adjust the size of them, ideally make then smaller. Or have varied sizes depending on the specific post. (I did write to Substack a while back, but...) anyway any insights are greatly appreciated -- Cheers DP
Where you can add a link, can't you select the icon and write your own code to launch the link to a new tab?
Okay but how are certain pages formatted with three columns? Is it because they have their own domain and they are designing it outside of substack?
Can I upload a pdf then copy a hyperlink and post that hyperlink on other sites to attract new subscribers?
What is the difference between Substack post and thread?
How to make the landing page on Substack like a magazine with various headings and articles. I've seen this on Substack. But since I'm new to Substack I don't know how to do this. Can you explain please?
Substack's UX is a total nightmare of confusion, competing settings and lack of clarity.
Like the video Any idea how to go about adding a section? Not a new newsletter, but separate section....Substack responses to this question are utterly overly complex and ungermane. Thsx, just in case!
I'm having the same issue, there doesn't seem to be an option for this in my Substack newsletter's settings☹️
In regards to the new section. I want one podcast to bring my writing to life through voice but another that is conversations with me and others. So you suggest making a new section for this?
Hi dina
basic question: how can you keep adding emails and keep sending out the Welcome column to the new people you add? do you have to have your big list ready and send out all at once, or can you keep adding? then later you do your 2nd col.
Content that's already published, you'll have to delete it then publish it again to send it out to new people you add. Not idea, but subscribers get new content after they sign up.
thanks for your video and question: does the initial "coming soon" post disolve after you've made your first "real post" or do it need to be manually deleted? thank you
"Coming soon" is a post and yes you have to manually delete it.
Has Substack since rectified the issue with website redirects which takes a viewer out of your Substack page when they click on an external link??? Thanks
No idea, I'm going to revisit Substack shortly and make an updated video.
Is it considered a plagiarism if you add some random TH-cam video ?
RSS is not dying XD XD that is like saying HTML is dying. And I mean if you consider where we are going with IPFS then maybe, but that still is a ways off. The point is that statement was blatantly false.
Good tutorial but like drinking from a firehose. Too much info too fast for real comprehension...at least for a septuagenarian. Looks like a good fit for our little professional organization.
What a great image. Exactly. I have just discovered Substack and it seems a good idea, but their website gives me no idea how it works and what it looks like, once you're up and running. They just invite you to 'get started' before you have a clue what you are letting yourself in for. There is, apparently, no link to a help-line for personal enquiries, only FAQs. This video is similar, it starts in the middle instead of on square one. I have given up after three minutes. Why the Hell can presenters of 'how to' videos on YT not realise that there are complete beginners in the world who need to have everything explained, word by word? This video has deterred me from signing up to Substack, not helped me.
RSS is not a dying technology.
Yea, maybe I was little dramatic there.