Are you just planning on sending a weekly or monthly newsletter to keep your subscribers/customers active? If so, choose something like Substack because it's free and is more like a community so you can leverage conversations. Plus, there's the opportunity for collaboration with similar creators if you'd like + the option to create a paid newsletter (or paid podcast).
Do you want to build out an email automation that nurtures subscribers and leads them to a sale? If so, choose something like FloDesk because it's a flat rate (independent of subscribers + emails sent), and you can choose what content you send based on subscriber data so everything is relevant and nobody gets content/offers they don't want.
It's important to be really clear on your intention going into a decision so you don't waste money (or worse, time).
(There's a way to combine both of these, which is what I do in my business, and I'm happy to share my BTS.)
Thank you for detailed explanation and recommendation.
* Yes, I have a weekly newsletter with 5K subscribers, and I was using Mailchimp before. Now, I want to combine my other subscribers from Gumroad (around 35K) and Lemonsquezy (3K) as well. Of course, adding all 35K subscribers at once would be too much, so I'm planning to start with around 10K subscribers for my weekly newsletter. I wanted to use Substack, but my designer instinct pushed me to create a custom email template instead of settling for Substack's standard layout. I'm looking for alternatives, and currently, I migrated around 5K subscribers to ConvertKit to give it a try.
Yes, planning to setup other email automation as well to send to all existing gumroad member. FloDesk, I heared first time.
Let me explore this. Thanks again. Sure love to connect and discussion further.
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Are you just planning on sending a weekly or monthly newsletter to keep your subscribers/customers active? If so, choose something like Substack because it's free and is more like a community so you can leverage conversations. Plus, there's the opportunity for collaboration with similar creators if you'd like + the option to create a paid newsletter (or paid podcast).
Do you want to build out an email automation that nurtures subscribers and leads them to a sale? If so, choose something like FloDesk because it's a flat rate (independent of subscribers + emails sent), and you can choose what content you send based on subscriber data so everything is relevant and nobody gets content/offers they don't want.
It's important to be really clear on your intention going into a decision so you don't waste money (or worse, time).
(There's a way to combine both of these, which is what I do in my business, and I'm happy to share my BTS.)
Hi,
Thank you for detailed explanation and recommendation.
* Yes, I have a weekly newsletter with 5K subscribers, and I was using Mailchimp before. Now, I want to combine my other subscribers from Gumroad (around 35K) and Lemonsquezy (3K) as well. Of course, adding all 35K subscribers at once would be too much, so I'm planning to start with around 10K subscribers for my weekly newsletter. I wanted to use Substack, but my designer instinct pushed me to create a custom email template instead of settling for Substack's standard layout. I'm looking for alternatives, and currently, I migrated around 5K subscribers to ConvertKit to give it a try.
Let me explore this. Thanks again. Sure love to connect and discussion further.