#2640 - Q&A: “How much content do I put behind a paywall?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In today's episode, we tackle the challenge of monetizing a blog through paywalled content. Learn how to balance free and paid content on your site, ensuring you continue to grow your audience while providing clear value to paying subscribers.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
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Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:20.0 | Does work chat will sound like gibberish to you? |
| 0:22.3 | Find collaborative articles with tips from the LinkedIn community |
| 0:25.0 | to help you get through those tricky conversations. |
| 0:27.0 | Making work makes make sense, LinkedIn knows how. How much content should you put behind a paywall? Welcome to Sidesle School, it's Chris Gallabow here. |
| 0:45.0 | Got a listener from Boston. |
| 0:46.0 | She's at this moment that many content creators face, |
| 0:49.0 | at least if you have a blog or some other kind of content |
| 0:52.0 | where you have a free version and a paid |
| 0:53.7 | version so there's this premium kind of thing going on and there's a paywall that |
| 0:58.1 | people have to well pay to get access to whatever is beyond the free content. |
| 1:03.4 | And you can usually set that paywall at any point. |
| 1:06.2 | You can give away a little bit of content, 10% and make 90% of it |
| 1:10.8 | behind that paywall. |
| 1:11.8 | You can flip those ratios, you can do anything in between, and it's a decision |
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