Substack for easier subscriptions

If you subscribe to this blog via email, you may have noticed a slight change in the format you receive, as I’ve recently moved the subscription part of this site to my new page at Substack.

From your end, essentially nothing should be different. However, if you have your own blog or other content that you produce, I thought I’d share a bit about why I switched. I was previously using MailerLite, and MailChimp before that, and both of those are great services. However, they’re both more powerful (and expensive) than I need, while Substack is a much better fit.

When I say “expensive”, both MailerLite and MailChimp cost <$20/mo, so it’s not like it was a big cost. Substack, though, is completely free. Substack allows you to create paid newsletters (which I don’t plan to add), and they make their money as a cut of that.

For my daily flow, after I publish a blog on my site I simply head over to Substack, copy and paste it there, and then send it out. That’ll let all of my email subscribers get a full copy, as well as keep a full copy in my Substack archiv e. We’ll see how it goes!

If you’ve not subscribed to get emails of my posts, you can sign up on Substack here. I’ll only send my daily posts, and the email will contain the full content of the post so you aren’t forced to click through or anything. I hope you find this helpful, and if you have your own content on Substack please leave a comment and share it with the rest of us.

Originally published at https://www.mickmel.com on June 27, 2021.