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How did Tangle get to 70k+ paid subscribers?

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Do you need a pro tier?

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A love letter to my paywall

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Is it time to raise your subscription price?

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Everyone is thinking about subscriptions wrong
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Everyone is thinking about subscriptions wrong

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How to ask for paid subscribers when it's a bad time to ask for paid subscribers
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How to ask for paid subscribers when it's a bad time to ask for paid subscribers

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To live and die by your membership
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To live and die by your membership

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The care and feeding of paid subscribers
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The care and feeding of paid subscribers

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This *one thing* worked to grow my subscribers

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I needed to make this newsletter work. There was no backup plan.

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