What is The Substack Investigative Series?

And why these sanity-saving workshops are the best thing since Substack.

Are you confused about how Substack works?

Feeling frustrated that you can’t find that page you saw once and haven’t been able to locate since?

Do you know there are features of the platform you’re not using to their full potential?

Join the Substack Investigative Series (SIS), where we answer your questions, decode mysteries and teach you how to work smarter, not harder on the platform.

Every month, we’ll host a live Zoom session where your hosts, Andrea Hoffmann, Dre Beltrami and Jennie O’Connor, will unpack Substack tech, content & growth strategy, branding, storytelling and more.

Sessions will last approximately 45 minutes, will be recorded and will include time stamps to make the lessons searchable.

Here’s what people have to say about SIS:

“Thank you so much, ladies. This was a wonderful exercise in quality control. I learned how to get recommendation blurbs on my subscribe page. That alone was golden!”

Jessica Shepherd, Soft Human Words

If you’d rather someone else do the investigating on your behalf, become a paid subscriber today!

Check back for details on our next session!

Paid subscribers can access the Zoom link here.

Recent Workshop: Paywalls

»When to turn them on. You’ve heard it before: “Don’t paywall anything until you hit XYZ subs.” Depending on your goals, your audience and your readiness to own your value, this case may prompt you to set fire to this advice. Proceed with caution.

»What to offer. If your current strategy is “I’ll figure it out once I have more subscribers,” you’re leaving money on the table. We’re sharing creative paid subscriber perks you may have never conceived of. Think mini-audits, vaults of weird and wonderful extras, custom art pieces or gorgeously surprising snail mail. Your publication can be more than just a newsletter—it can be a grown-up Disneyland of irresistible goodies.

»How to do it all in a way that feels good. Hate when posts get cut off halfway down the page? Yeah, us too. If conventional paywalling feels icky or just not you, this section is your liberation. We’ll walk you through a buffet of alternative strategies so you can find your unicorn method.

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