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Dre Beltrami's avatar

What does this disclaimer mean? I can't blame YOU for the bonehead shit I try?? Well, fine. I guess I'll just have to ice cream my way out of the experiment myself. 😆🫶

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

Bahahaha throw in a hot dog with that ice cream and we're good!

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Essential Mel's avatar

Thanks for this. I am VERY new to Substack. I'm loving the community here. I'm lookinng forward to continuing to explore and create!

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

My pleasure, Mel! I wish you the very best in your journey and stay tuned for more tips. 😊

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Jeffro55's avatar

Kristi, I checked into the mixed up profile thingy...

I click on my picture, and sure enough, it comes up with "outforfun" as my handle, and leads to outforfun.substack.com.

Somewhere I saw the correct URL which is jeffro55.substack.com, but not there.

I tried to change it, but I get an error message that it's "not available." I'm assuming that's because I've already used it in the correct profile

Not sure how this happened, though once my "reader" profile and my "writer" profile got stuck together or something. I couldn't publish for awhile, even though I had the good sense to establish the accounts with different emails.

Do you have a clue how to fix it? (Being as there really isn't any tech support)?

Thanks for your help...

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

Unfortunately, I don't have access to personal profiles so i can't really see what's going on with yours. Did you try asking the chat bot in your dashboard for assistance?

I'm also out of town for the weekend starting this afternoon so I'm unable to take the time to dig into that at the moment. I'm almost full with client work today! 😕

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Jeffro55's avatar

Thanks, finally got some help, it's in progress. I have to close this account though, and from now on leave comments using my "writer's account.". I goofed up, cuz when I started "creating" I opened a new account with a different email. (Oh, I just realized, THAT'S why I couldn't use my nickname Jeffro on my creator account! I had to add "55" to it.)

But, I'm using the same profile pic. I think maybe I'll change it to just Jeffro. Maybe. But I won't change the URL

Thanks for ALL your help!

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Jeffro55's avatar

Kristi, you are so clever!

I hear and read (esp read) ppl misuse idioms all the time.

"Random axe of kindness" is hilarious, because it's not misused, it's a play on words.

Love it. 👌

And, I love the graphic!

👍👍👍

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

Heehee glad you liked it! If you axe me, I think it's brilliant 🪓 😆

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Frank McKinley's avatar

There’s nothing like social proof! 10 million Elvis fans can’t be wrong…

Congratulations on your success here, Kristi!

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

Thank you so much Frank!

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Xeroforhire's avatar

Can anyone verify that this works?

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

It would be difficult to quantify but I can tell you this...I have paywalled many of my older posts that have huge engagement numbers and when I published my 2024 roundup with links to my top 10 posts, my paid subscriber number drastically increased. So...there's that.

I would say if you're going to do this you'd have to find a way to guide readers to your older posts.

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Xeroforhire's avatar

do you do any creative works as well or mainly Strategist posts?

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Megan Walrod's avatar

So valuable! Thank you!

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

My pleasure, Megan!

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Maryan Pelland's avatar

Yep, this makes sense. Most of the other "make a million" on Substack stuff does not.

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Nina Medić's avatar

This is very useful. I feel that I rarely read concrete and easy-to-apply tips like this here on Substack. Thanks for sharing!

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

Nina, you’re very welcome!

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Michele Price's avatar

Yes, I received my first paid subscriber like this - started the podcast but didn’t upload any content yet. I had not even set up the account to accept payments yet, 🤣

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

Bonus! It's nice when that happens 😁

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Lizzie Wingfield's avatar

What a great idea – thank you!

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Smillew's avatar

Too bad people don't read the archives :D

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Melissa Scala's avatar

I read archives especially when someone links them at the bottom of their current post.

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

And I try to include the at the end of my posts...occasionally.

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Melissa Scala's avatar

I have found many good reads that way :-).

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

Depends if you push them or not. I don't push mine much but you never know.

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Teyani Whitman's avatar

You’re so very clever.😊 I’m pretty sure that your readers are paying you because of this and your awesome humor!

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

HA! Thanks Teyani. I have surprisingly few paid subscribers but I'm treating this as one big experiment!

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Sheryl O'Connell's avatar

So interesting - I am still new but, I have been pulling over to paywall or not to paywall. Thank you for sharing your very astute and clever insight.

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James J. Dollar's avatar

Well your strategy makes a lot of common sense. It's in front load post that garnered the most comments in likes you would think might have just occurred to me. Instead I was thinking once I put something under free it isn't right to turn around and charge newcomers, but I wasn't really thinking when I thought that, you definitely have some Hall of Famers, I hope I can mimic a little bit of your success. Thank you very much for the tip.

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

Thanks James. If you think about it, ANY post we paywall at any point will always be blocking someone out. Its the nature of paid content. So at some point we have to just make the call and be brave enough to do it.

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James J. Dollar's avatar

You're right, Kristi.

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KoosGuru's avatar

Hi, Kristi. You mentioned that you run three Substack publications. Is that from one account with different topics or did you open three separate accounts? I am thinking of expanding to another topic but do not want to stop with my current publication.

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

They're all under the same email address but totally separate Substacks. Makes it super easy to toggle between them if you create them all with the same email.

If you’re unsure how/where to do this, let me know and I'll fill you in. Or refer to the help docs or the chat bot in your dashboard.

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