Psychology, coaching, and content strategy for building Substack paid tiers with soul.
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Why People Love Your Substack But Won’t Pay for It
Substack writers have three offer types available to them when they create a paid tier: Outcome, Information, and Proximity. The Flow’s framework helps determine whether any of them is strong enough to convert.
Most paid-tier pitche...
I Reviewed 3 Real Paid Offers. Here’s What I See.
A creative business strategist, a nonfiction writer, and a coach walk into The Flow Room.
I put three real Substack paid-member offers through our paid-tier test. Here’s what I’d change, what I’d keep, and why the answers look completely d...
Things I Accidentally Taught Myself This Week #17
This week, I hosted my first Flow Room Zoom, a live gathering for my paid community.
I came with a plan, a solid outline, and had even rehearsed where the mute-all button lived. Then the call started; I lost the button and set down the out...
I Hit Bestseller on Substack. Here’s What They Forgot to Mention.
I thought getting to 300 paid subscribers would be the hard part. It turned out that was only the beginning.
Substack built an incredible engine for helping people find each other, but it hasn’t yet built the infrastructure for helping the...
Most Paid Tiers Fail the Same Test
Three questions. Most paid tier offers can’t answer all of them.
What actually gets someone to upgrade to a paid subscription? Three questions to run your own offer through before we meet in our Zoom Group on Aug 12th. And no, it doesn’t n...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Half psychology, half cosmic wink. Supporting thoughtful creators to build paid Substack communities people genuinely want to belong to. Together.
For founders living the chaos and operators cleaning it up. Startup systems, founder psychology, practical tools, and the occasional side-eye.
Devoted student of how the world organizes itself. Mischievous insurgent where it gets us wrong. Fractional CMO by trade, rabbit hole seeker on the fly.
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