Why I Switched From Substack to Ghost for my newsletter website blog

Start your own Ghost newsletter site here: gotothis.page/...
In this video I show Why I Switched From Substack to Ghost for my newsletter website blog.
My original Substack website.
startandgrow.s...
My new site on the Ghost platform with my own domain.
www.startandgr...

[@filetmignon23]

Hi Craig, great video. Just a heads-up, you might want to blur out the email addresses of your subscribers when you are discussing the "Members" tab. For their privacy.

[@StartAndGrowShow]

Thanks for the heads up.

[@StartAndGrowShow]

Just added the blur. Should take a bit to process. Thanks again for pointing this out. Was easy to fix using the KZbin editor.

[@vPeteWalker]

Thanks for the video, bud. I am brand new to blogging, and to Ghost. I went with the self-hosted option for right now, to putz around with it. This has been very helpful. Best of luck to you, and take care.

[@StartAndGrowShow]

Thanks Peter. Glad you found some value in it. Let me know if you have any questions and would love to hear more about your journey with Ghost. :)

[@vPeteWalker]

@@StartAndGrowShow Oh thanks man. I am hoping to start playing with it today, and see where it takes me. Appreciate the offer, and I promise not to abuse it! :)

[@dougscott188]

I find the observations about Google search interesting. I wonder if that has to do with it being a subdomain and maybe Google does not like that aspect seeing it more as a newsletter than a website. Maybe Google has a bias and maybe Substack cripples it in favor of its own discovery feature. Ghost I find intriguing and like that they have templates but there is no discovery feature.

[@mettaz2]

Thanks for the helpful overview of both platforms. Much appreciated If you've begun testing Ghost's new Comments feature, I have one quick question: I would like to have the option of allowing free members to read comments, while requiring paid membership for those who want to make comments. Is this an option with Ghost's new commenting feature?

[@StartAndGrowShow]

Thanks for watching. I have not started testing comments yet but will soon.

[@mathiasblack]

Hey Craig - thanks so much for this informative video.🙏 I recently joined Ghost and am still setting things up, so your examples from your own biz have been extremely helpful. Especially how you set up your course. 👍Our of curiosity, how have you managed content in your Ghost course? Is it a mix of copy and video, and if there's video, how do you integrate it with ghost as a blog/newsletter service for paid subscribers?

[@StartAndGrowShow]

Glad you found it helpful Mathias. The course has mainly written content with some videos and downloadable workbooks and guides. For video, you can link unlisted videos from KZbin and it embeds them. You can also use a service like Wista too.

[@mathiasblack]

@@StartAndGrowShow thanks for the tip - appreciate your response and looking forward to digging into more of your videos 👍

[@StartAndGrowShow]

If you have any questions about ghost or Substack please leave a comment below.

[@TheDigitalQuillPress]

I believe in investing in what I want to do with my life. Would you say that growing an audience through Ghost is possible? $9/month may be worth it.

[@StartAndGrowShow]

@@TheDigitalQuillPress Yes of course. Growing an audience using ghosts is a viable approach.

[@jamess5542]

Hey Craig, how do you create courses on Ghost?

[@StartAndGrowShow]

On Ghost you can create paid posts. That is the only way to really create a paid course. Ghost is great for creating memberships communities where you can charge your audience to access some of your posts while other posts can be public.

[@jamess5542]

​@@StartAndGrowShow so create posts and then hide them behind a paywall? But can you price the courses separately/differently?

[@StartAndGrowShow]

​@@jamess5542 You can set up membership tiers. ghost.org/help/tiers/

[@jamess5542]

@@StartAndGrowShow Thank you so much. Also, is this option available on the 'Starter' plan? So once I connect Stripe account, I'd be able to create tiers? This is not clear on Ghost pricing page :(