How To Create A Content Library On Your Substack
A simple way to offer mini-courses or just a neat and tidy directory for your readers.
This week, I’m highlighting a couple of cool projects I’ve done for fellow Substackers because you may have been wondering if this is possible but haven’t found a how-to yet.
This will come in handy if you:
A) Teach bite-sized lesson content, or…
B) Want to neatly catalog certain information in one place.
Some of you might be like, “Duh…that’s not rocket science,” but I’ve learned through helping others that NOTHING is obvious to everyone. We’re all at different places in our journey and we’re all still learning all the things.
Some of you are even teaching me things!
So here we go….
When Mindfulness Coach,
presented me with the idea to do a massive reorganization of her lesson content, at first I was like:
Trust me, with the amount of preexisting content she had, it all felt like trapezoids and formulas in a physics lab.
But once we hashed it out and got into a groove, it was a really smart move on her part and a great learning experience for me. We also need to give credit where it’s due and shout out
who originally planted the seed for Teri.Now I’m here to pass it on to you.
Step One: Go look at Teri’s mini-course library. That’s what I created out of her content. It’s a fantastical aggregation of all her course material complete with custom cover images.
Step Two: Now, go look at her homepage and scroll through it. Beautifully organized, right? Those groupings are all accomplished through TAGS. If you never thought tags had a real function on Substack, now you know better.
What Teri does is write a regular weekly teaser post to send to her subscribers. She gives you a very generous introduction to the course content she’s going to teach that week and then inserts a call-to-action link to “Your homework.”
That link leads you to her corresponding paid course material.
I have done similar aggregation pages for
. We’ve built a content catalog of what her members get access to over at Sparkle On Substack.