Love your newsletter, and find every issue useful! I am looking for a service to simply send emails (not newsletters) to 5000 contacts about once a month....a much wider list than my subscriber list on substack. Can you recommend a good provider that would complement (not replace) substack?
I agree that Mailchimp's UI is clunky and it's expensive. Also, email is not so much customizable. If the number of subscribers is small, I think it's okay to keep using it, but if it exceeds 5,000, we realized it's costly.
Personally, I've been using Substack and Revue for my newsletter, but each of them has pros and cons. The pros of Substack are clear UI, easy to write, and more advanced analytics. But cons are acquiring subscribed. Substack recommends writers on the Home page, but readers don't go to that page often. So, unless you have a lot of followers or subscribers on other platforms, writers need to do marketing a lot.
The pros of Revue are that they are integrated with Twitter and can display it on their Twitter profile page. Then, it's relatively easier to acquire subscribers. The cons are that Twitter doesn't promote a tweet that includes a link to a Revue post, which is kind of wasting the available resources, And easiness to write on Revue is not good compared to Substack.
Love your newsletter, and find every issue useful! I am looking for a service to simply send emails (not newsletters) to 5000 contacts about once a month....a much wider list than my subscriber list on substack. Can you recommend a good provider that would complement (not replace) substack?
RIP: Revue is being deprecated as of January 2023. I have imported my subscribers to Substack
I agree that Mailchimp's UI is clunky and it's expensive. Also, email is not so much customizable. If the number of subscribers is small, I think it's okay to keep using it, but if it exceeds 5,000, we realized it's costly.
Personally, I've been using Substack and Revue for my newsletter, but each of them has pros and cons. The pros of Substack are clear UI, easy to write, and more advanced analytics. But cons are acquiring subscribed. Substack recommends writers on the Home page, but readers don't go to that page often. So, unless you have a lot of followers or subscribers on other platforms, writers need to do marketing a lot.
The pros of Revue are that they are integrated with Twitter and can display it on their Twitter profile page. Then, it's relatively easier to acquire subscribers. The cons are that Twitter doesn't promote a tweet that includes a link to a Revue post, which is kind of wasting the available resources, And easiness to write on Revue is not good compared to Substack.