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Chris Maffeo's avatar

This is super helpful! Thanks. It helps a lot.

Veronica Llorca-Smith's avatar

Awesome! That’s great to hear.

Graeme Crawford's avatar

Great explanation of the many options available to solopreneur creators once they have some great quality content behind them.

Veronica Llorca-Smith's avatar

Thank you, Graeme and you bring up a great point: it takes time to build a funnel and you need to focus on quality content first.

Ramon Salinas's avatar

Brilliant framework, I just started my Substack but as soon as I have enough content I will revisit this post, saving it.

Gracias Veronica.

Veronica Llorca-Smith's avatar

That's great, Ramon and good luck with your Substack!

I'm going to host a webinar in August about Substack strategy and monetization. It's for paid subscribers but I also have free resources such as this article about my own strategy:

https://veronicallorcasmith.substack.com/p/you-can-steal-my-substack-strategy

Good luck!

Holly A Brown's avatar

Thank you for sharing. This is something I’m thinking through hard at the moment. I turned some of my posts into an ebook recently after reading your book - but I’ve only sold one copy 😱 and I’m not sure how I could do a course based on the niche I write for… So, I love all the ideas - but need to think about how to translate them into my Substack world!

Veronica Llorca-Smith's avatar

Hi Holly!

I'm glad this gave you some points to think about.

I did a course on Substack by sending a weekly email to my paid subscribers on the topic of Personal Brand.

I would say don't overcomplicate it and get started.

Good luck!

Claudia Faith's avatar

very helpful, thanks for sharing :)

Veronica Llorca-Smith's avatar

You are welcome, Claudia.

Prince Matharu's avatar

Super valuable as always!

I am working on consolidating top 100 lessons from consuming over 500 podcast episodes for the newsletter and publishing that as an ebook on Gumroad.

Secondly, rolling out a cohort based monthly call for paid members. Focus will be to overcome the lack of implementation of ideas I discuss in my newsletter. Your post provided additional ideas as well. Thank you as always Veronica

Veronica Llorca-Smith's avatar

Those are briliant ideas and very aligned with your podcast, which is fantastic as you are building an ecosystem.

Good luck and I'm glad I gave you some food for thought ;)

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Veronica Llorca-Smith's avatar

Thank you for adding that, Hamza, and I couldn't agree more.

In my case, I have books, digital products, and I'm growing a library of content.

What type of income streams do you have?

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Aug 7, 2024
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Veronica Llorca-Smith's avatar

Thank you, Vladica, that's fantastic to hear and good luck with your launch!