Time to Try For More Paying Members for More Visibility
January yearly subscription discount and my first and easily surmountable paywall
2024 was a great year for my little Substack column. I went from about 300 subscribers to over 1400!
Thank you all, and that’s great, but my paying subscribers have hovered right around 20 all year. I would like to do better. I’m retiring later this year, so I really need to do better. I’ve noticed that if one doesn’t have at least 100 paying subscribers, one doesn’t get as much visibility as those who do, so I’m going to conduct an experiment to see if I can get closer to that magic orange checkmark.
I can’t lower the monthly subscription price below $5 because Substack won’t let me, so that’s unchanged. For the rest of January only(and maybe past Ground Hog Day if I forget, which is entirely possible), you can now subscribe to Ohio Barbarian’s Revolutionary American Commentary for just $30 for a whole year!
It is literally the best I can do. There also has to be some incentive. I wanted to have free comments for a time and then have them automatically paywalled, but Substack won’t let me do that, either.
It will let me paywall older posts, and that’s what I’ve done. Effectively immediately, only paying subscribers can view my posts older than 90 days, which is a lot longer than many other posters allow. If you want to read something older than that and are flat broke, I understand. Send me a chat and I’ll ask
or someone how to comp you in.Please let me know what you think about this, especially if you are a free subscriber now. If it doesn’t work, I can always change it.
As always, thank you for reading, good day or night, and good luck.
Afraid of commitment? No worries. You can help immensely with a one-time donation.
Hi Mr B. Though I do understand the paid sub thing, I find paywalls very disheartening. Especially when they're put up by writers seeking alternatives to what ails us.
I've lived as far outside of the system as it's been possible to get for a very, very long time now (over 12 years). And, though I live an incredibly blessed life in that I don't pay for rent, mortgage, electric, water, etc, I also don't own any property and don't have a bank account.
*For me the choice has been between faith in the Divine, or faith in the system. I've found that all of my needs, and more besides, are met in abundance as soon as I drop the stress and the fear-driven need to be in control outcomes.*
But not having any money (my hubby shares his meager pension with me, hence internet access) or bank account means that even if I wanted to buy subscriptions I couldn't.
Comping helps! One writer, Frank Wright, has given me a complimentary subscription, (I just had to drop him an email) which I really appreciate. And Ahnaf comped me in for a short time after I shared some of his work on telegram once which was nice. So comping is a good way to go for those of us outside of the matrix - or inside it but poor!
Anyway, that's my tuppence worth, for what it's worth. 😉
With love and gratitude. 🙏💚🪷
I'll try for a yearly subscription when my S.S. comes in at the end of the month. Chris, (aka "Chknltl") Chick