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Oct 12, 2023Liked by Ramli John

Thanks for sharing some behind the scenes 🎬 always love reading your newsletter.

The landing page thing is particularly interesting to me. What tools did you use to build yours? I've been noticing a trend for people making separate landing pages outside of Substack to get people to subscribe and it seems worth it 🤔

Makes me wonder if Substack will ever incorporate more features like social proof or custom code blocks into their core landing page builder. For me, I miss the days of Myspace so more customizability the better 🙌 if I could add a custom cursor I absolutely would 😂

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Thanks so much, Meg! I see you all the time liking my newsletter. I really appreciate iit.

I totally agree! I think that's the thing with Substack—i don't know what my conversion is LOL. I can't find it in /publish/stats/ page. Is it there? I really do hope that they add more features like custom landing pages and welcome email sequences.

That page is just built on Ghost (the CMS for the podcast).

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I'm also curious how well the Substack landing page converts compared to your custom one!

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woohoo! congrats Ramli :)

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Thanks so much, Neal!

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Thanks so much for sharing what's worked for you!

I'm considering moving my newsletter over to Substack, so it's interesting to see that you still have a landing page outside of the platform. And also how much of a % come from within the platform.

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Super cool! How do you explain the sudden spike in May 2023?

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Thanks, Tom! That was when I signed up SparkLoop to pay for email subscribers.

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