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Since launching
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and
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surveys
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, we’ve seen a number of writers and creators find tremendous success using these tools to build real communities that fuel robust businesses.
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Publications with active chats are growing their revenue at two times the rate of publications without them.
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This week we also
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Read more:
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A guide to Substack Chat
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,
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Introducing Chat paywalls
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We spoke to some of these writers and creators to inform this guide on how to cultivate a thriving community that helps grow your business and deepen your connection with subscribers.
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In this guide, we look at the following strategies:
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How launching with a Chat drives conversion
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How paywalled Chat threads are boosting paid subscriptions
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How regular Chat participation is increasing retention
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Writers and creators are introducing a subscriber chat as part of launching their Substack to spark engagement and encourage paid subscriptions. One in four of our most successful launches in the past year employed Chat to welcome their subscriber base during a launch period.
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This tactic works particularly well when you are moving a podcast or publication to Substack from a space that lacks robust community tools, such as a Mailchimp newsletter, a podcast distributed on Spotify or Apple, or an Instagram account.
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When the creators of
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,
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a publication that covers the beloved TV show Top Chef, moved their flagship podcast to Substack, they mentioned in their launch post and podcast episodes that community discussions were a key reason for listeners to sign up for their Substack. Soon after, they hosted a call to join their
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“When we decided to launch the Pack Your Knives Substack, we wanted to expand our offerings beyond our flagship recap podcast episodes. One of our goals was to create a Pack Your Knives community, where fans of Top Chef could come together and chat about the show, because the two of us aren’t the only ones with strong opinions about who should’ve gone home last week.”
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Their Chat drove more than 400 responses in an hour from fans around the world, helping establish their Substack as a destination for Top Chef fans that goes beyond their podcast feed.
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migrated to Substack from a website without comments, and launched
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announcing
</a>
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that paying subscribers could now chat with each other. Longtime supporters were happy to migrate to the Substack for the deeper interactions. (They are also hosting
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@Katie Sturino
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, she
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Hi everyone! WELCOME! I am going to be using this space to dive deeper. Deeper into my real thoughts on not only body image, but also life in general (travel! life without kids! best of shopping! entrepreneur real talk! what its like to write a fiction book! etc…
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It is a little bit hard to believe it but April marks just over six months on Substack. I know that I rave and rave about how much I love this platform, but it’s the truth. It reminds me SO much of old school blogging, which brings me a lot of joy. Thoughtful conversations, a robust comments section, making new “friends” via the platform… it all makes m…
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A guide to switching your newsletter to Substack
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How to switch your podcast to Substack
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Switching from Patreon to Substack
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Some of the most remarkable spikes in paid subscriptions we’ve seen this year have come from writers and creators who introduced a paywalled chat.
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Walk Like an Artist. Let's use this thread to share the drawings inspired by our awe walks (or awe looking-out-the-window if spring has not sprung in your part of the world.) Can't wait to see what you see/experience.
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“It was a Herculean task to write, draw, publish, and moderate every day in real time for an entire month, but well worth my little team’s effort. Hundreds of Grown-Ups Table members said the 30 days of drawing was life-changing for them, especially the community element. It was for me too. I can’t wait to do it again next year.”
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Citrini Research
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Eliant’s Exploits
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<span>
,
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
Left’s Newsletter
</a>
<span>
, and
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
Godzilla Trader
</a>
<span>
(who gives paid subscribers a “24/7 chatroom” as a top perk for subscribing).
</span>
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@Suleika Jaouad
</a>
</span>
<span>
and
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@Elizabeth Gilbert
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</span>
<span>
are both using paywalled chats for subscribers to get personal with the author and with one another.
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
In her chat space
</a>
<span>
, Elizabeth offers personal musings, invites subscribers to share the “letters of love” they’ve written, and communicates information about subscriber meetups, all via paywalled chats. Suleika encourages subscribers to respond to prompts
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
in a paid-only chat
</a>
<span>
.
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@Summer Brennan
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</span>
<span>
recently started a
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
Year of Writing Dangerously
</a>
<span>
project, which includes a
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
mostly-paywalled chat
</a>
<span>
.
</span>
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<strong>
Read more:
</strong>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
Paywalling a chat thread
</a>
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Writers and creators who have ongoing chat spaces are
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12% more likely
</strong>
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to retain paid subscribers.
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<a style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: none;">
@Hunter Harris
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<span>
calls her chat “my favorite part of running my newsletter.” She initiates each conversation with short prompts about pop culture topics and live events—“the night of the Oscars, the early-morning hours after Netflix drops a batch of Love Is Blind episodes, or even the day everyone’s Spotify Wrapped drops.” The space is thriving, with some posts getting more than a thousand replies.
</span>
<strong>
</strong>
<span>
Hunter says the chat “feels like the roped-off VIP section of a nightclub, or the group chat of all the kids who got cellphones early: you really just have to be there.”
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More from Hunter:
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“The chat is a rapid-fire conversation of memes, hot takes, unpopular opinions, ruthless inside jokes, and earned (and sometimes unearned) shade. There’s no better low-effort, high-reward way to engage with all my readers. Sometimes I use it as a scratch pad to work through some ideas (‘would anyone care if I wrote about this?’), sometimes it’s a highly customized well of inspiration (a polite way of saying my audience assigning me to write about a trending topic), but it’s always a meeting point for like-minded pop culture obsessives. ‘Starting the new drop of [Love Is Blind] episodes that released *17 hours ago* only to see 400 messages already in the chat,’ one person messaged. ‘
</span>
<strong>
We come to this place for magic.
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<span>
’”
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<span>
If hosting chats regularly yourself feels daunting, consider letting your subscribers host their own conversations by visiting the
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
Chat section of your Settings page
</a>
<span>
and selecting “Everyone” under “Who can start threads?”
</span>
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Here are some of the publication chats where subscribers are hosting their own ad hoc conversations themselves:
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<span>
Many fashion writers, like
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
Subrina Heyink
</a>
<span>
,
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
Meg Strachan
</a>
<span>
,
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
Leandra Medine
</a>
<span>
, and
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
Laura Reilly
</a>
<span>
, have subscribers liberally sharing great finds and sales with one another.
</span>
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<span>
Food writer
</span>
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<a style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: none;">
@Caroline Chambers
</a>
</span>
<span>
encourages subscribers to share tips and tricks
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
in her Chat
</a>
<span>
.
</span>
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<a style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: none;">
@Hetty Lui McKinnon
</a>
</span>
<span>
has an ongoing thread called
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
the Choy Love Club
</a>
<span>
for paid subscribers to swap food knowledge.
</span>
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@Simon Haisell
</a>
</span>
<span>
’s
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
Footnotes and Tangents
</a>
<span>
launched a “slow book group” for reading Leo Tolstoy and Hilary Mantel. Participants jump into
</span>
<a rel="" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); text-decoration: underline;">
the chat
</a>
<span>
to share their reflections on each chapter and discuss them with one another.
</span>
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