How to Use Substack to Build a Community With Your Customers The newsletter platform has emerged as a means for founders to engage more directly with their audience. Should you join?

If you enjoy writing or content creation, starting a newsletter business might be your calling. Here is how to make money with Substack.

03. Use Notes Many an eyebrow was raised when Substack announced Notes, its Twitter-esque feed, in 2023.

Substack has been expanding its chat tools, including launching a feature that lets creators add videos to messages.

Substack lets independent writers and podcasters publish directly to their audience and get paid through subscriptions.” There aren’t any ads on Substack, and it is free to use the platform.

So, use Notes. Introduce yourself. 04. Be weird In a viral (for Substack) essay, Emily Sundberg suggests that a lot of writing on the platform sounds the same.

Our goal is not to be a publisher that has a bunch of stuff. The whole point of Substack is that as a writer, you can use Substack to go independent, and we are spawning a million media companies.