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What's your tip jar for?
Sep 06, 2025

What's your tip jar for?

5 ways to actually make money from your tip jar featuring independent publishers using them well

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Is it possible to NOT have a paywall?
Aug 30, 2025

Is it possible to NOT have a paywall?

The 51st shows us how it's done...with a warning that it's not as easy as it looks

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Lex Roman
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Should you try this hidden revenue stream?
Jul 19, 2025

Should you try this hidden revenue stream?

Ernie Smith from Tedium offered something new to his readers this year. Here’s how it went.

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Guide: Revenue Streams You Can Use to Fund Your Journalism Work
Mar 01, 2025

Guide: Revenue Streams You Can Use to Fund Your Journalism Work

In this guide, you’ll find 13 different revenue streams to support your writing and reporting.

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Calculator: Project your revenue
Mar 01, 2025

Calculator: Project your revenue

How many revenue streams do you need and how much will you make from each? Use this revenue projection worksheet to figure it out!

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Lex Roman
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Book paid partnerships the 2025 way
Jan 25, 2025

Book paid partnerships the 2025 way

Subscriptions moving too slow? How 'bout getting into sponsorships!

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Lex Roman
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Pay per article: Does it work?
Jan 18, 2025

Pay per article: Does it work?

I asked Rascal how pay $1 for this story was working for them and how it competed with subscriptions on the paywall

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Lex Roman
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The price is right when the advertiser pays. 100% free for readers.
Jan 11, 2025

The price is right when the advertiser pays. 100% free for readers.

Why Andy Dehnart landed on ad-supported as the revenue model for "reality blurred"

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Choosing the right revenue streams for you
Jan 04, 2025

Choosing the right revenue streams for you

Writers love coming up with reasons they can’t get paid. Here's 13 ways to make money on your terms.

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Lex Roman
Get more of your subscribers to go paid. The play by play of reader-funded news.

Journalists Pay Themselves

Get more of your subscribers to go paid. The play by play of reader-funded news.

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