Substack or Beehiiv?
I have both @Substack and @beehiiv newsletters. Both have pros and cons. But honestly, I don't know what one to commit to. Substack only makes money when I make money but is feature lite. Beehiiv is kind expensive for me (5,000+ subs) and feels like it could even be feature obtuse. Do I need all those features? Do i need any of them? I end up flip flopping every year. So it leads me to this question.
Do you use Substack or Beehiiv? And why?
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I used to have Mailchimp (it is good for analytics and more targeted campaigns).
I wanted to increase my CTR by incorporating polls within the newsletter – Beehiiv and Substack have this option but for Beehiiv it is paid and at that time I didn't have profit for my emails so I switched to Substack where it is for free.
Spoiler alert: I used that poll feature on Substack only 2 times in my whole life. :D
TL;DR: If you do not have so much profit from this project at the moment, go for Substack and when you scale it up a little bit, you can switch to Beehiiv anytime. :)
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I'm from the beehiiv team, but we only build features that are useful to the majority of creators. I can't think of a single major feature that we offer that's not incredibly useful. There's a lot, but that's because we're building a platform for you to run a full digital content business with.
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