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Substack: Getting Financial Support from Your Readers

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Substack offers a platform for writers of all kinds to form a direct connection with their readers—and for readers to financially support writers whose work they love. Whether you’re a journalist, an essayist, or a literary writer looking to monetize your blog or newsletter, you might find Substack to be the perfect fit for you.

In this 30-minute webinar, Money Matters host Erin Lowry chats with Linda Lebrun about using Substack and various strategies you can employ to create a consistent revenue stream from a regular audience of fans.

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Linda Lebrun is on the Writer Partnerships team at Substack, where her job is to cultivate Substack’s relationships with finance, investing, and economics writers and help them launch and develop successful independent publications on Substack’s platform. Prior to working at Substack, she was employed in the investment industry as a portfolio manager, and previous to that was a research analyst at a boutique investment bank.

Erin Lowry is the author of the three-part Broke Millennial series, including: Broke MillennialBroke Millennial Takes On Investing, and Broke Millennial Talks Money: Scripts, Stories and Advice to Navigate Awkward Financial Conversations. Erin’s been featured in The New York TimesThe Wall Street Journal, and on CBS Sunday Morning, CNBC, and The Rachael Ray Show. She has written for The New York Times, USA Today, and Bloomberg Opinion.