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Sam H Arnold's avatar

Another effective way of doing this is to offer a link to the a free version of your article from Medium that is hosted on your Substack. It further encourages people to give you their precious email address and allows those that don’t want to pay for Medium to read your article.

I normally put the link at the top of the article that way it appears on the free portion of the article that Medium shows non members before they read.

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Bryson Mundia's avatar

This is an interesting theory. Share my Substack link on medium so that my readers there get to be on my email list on Substack.

Then keep providing value on both Medium and Substack but, much more value to my email list on Substack because I can monetize it there. I'm I correct?

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Angelina Radulovic's avatar

I thought we need to choose: Medium VS Substack, Substack VS Convert Kit, X VS Note. But we don't have to, we just need to find that fine art of repurposing content and flow between different platforms. Great reading.

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Jamie Northrup's avatar

I like to do both. Link to my newsletter on Medium, and link to my Medium stories in my newsletter, keep them both feeding each other :)

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Falak's avatar

Interesting idea! I like how you frame Substack and Medium as complementary platforms, and using social media to drive traffic to both. Looking forward to your thoughts on finding writing communities online.

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Noah Warren's avatar

I'll take a crack at medium again because of this. Thanks!

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Stephen Sovie's avatar

This is exactly what I was looking for. I am new to Substack and was wondering if it was advisable to link Substack to Medium and vice versa. Thanks.

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Sadia Maqsood's avatar

I like these insights. Medium already has an audience that you can tap into and funnel into your Substack newsletter building your own audience this way. How effective has social media been for you and what social platforms do you think are the most effective for writers to be on?

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DV Homeless Hub's avatar

Thank you for sharing these thoughts 💜

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Karen Michaels 🦋's avatar

Yes yes yayyyy! This is *close* to what I’m doing too and I love the way you’ve shared it. I’ll make sure I’m following you on Medium too. ☺️🦋 pS thanks for the special pricing I just signed 🆙!

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Pat Sgro's avatar

Well put, this is a great straightforward method for writing. My name for this is ‘marketing redundancy’ and you’ve encouraged me to draft an article on it, thanks man

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