After all, everyone has email.
It all starts with a direct connection.
These days, we read and write on Twitter and Facebook.
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These platforms are limited to short snippets of text, not long, considered articles.
Theyre also poor places to publish long-form text.
Theyre easy to set up, and theyre speaking directly to their audience, who never misses a post.
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Substack has both driven, and hopped aboard, this trend.
That doesnt seem like much if youre just starting out, but it soon adds up.
Why, then, are writers so keen to use Substack?
It could just be desperation.
“A 10% cut is hefty,” journalistSharon Geltnertold Lifewire via email.
How Can Writers Make Money?
Writers want a direct connection to their audience, and they want the audience to pay them.
Giving Substack a percentage is one way to do that.
But Patreon, too, is a middleperson taking a cut from what could be a direct relationship.
It’s almost like the world has forgotten about blogs.
There are two things in the way of that, though.
One is that “current tech for running a small media business is janky and unimaginative.”
I think the publishing world underestimates how much loyalty readers actually have to bylines.
People who write and create for a living deserve better."
Everybody reads stuff on the internet.
Ideally, wed pay the writers we most enjoy directly, but who wants to do that.
Hopefully, Singels Outpost can fill the gap.
