From the course: Launching Your Newsletter on Substack

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Prepare for your launch

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From the course: Launching Your Newsletter on Substack

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Prepare for your launch

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- [Narrator] Launching your Substack can feel like a chicken or the egg scenario. You need posts in order to get subscribers, but you need subscribers to read the posts. And if you're starting from scratch, the best advice is to just get started. Let's get started with the basics. Let's create a really solid strong platform to help you prepare for your launch. Your first step is to get your audience ready. This means you're building anticipation, and you're letting your audience know what's up. If you already have an existing newsletter on a different service like MailChimp or Patreon, you'll want to clearly communicate to your readers that you're moving over to Substack. Let them know that you will be charging for subscriptions, but they'll also still receive free updates. And you're not going to want to skip this step, import your mailing list to Substack via your publisher dashboard. You'll need these subscribers…

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