All my content at this Substack has been free to read since I eliminated the paywall back in late 2022.
As I discuss in the video above, I started the Substack in August of 2021 using the same ‘pay-to-read’ subscription model that many Substack content creators use.
But after about a year, I decided this was not the way I wanted to do things. Not during this Great Awakening. So I took the paywall down in November of 2022.
Since that time, I have relied on people who choose to be paying subscribers to support my fulltime writing & researching.
As you can see from the screenshot below, it took a long time, but my paying subscribers have finally dipped below 1,000.
I do need a certain amount of income from this Substack to continue to do what I do full-time. I am hoping to stave off having to get a part-time job that will eat into my time.
As many of you may recall, from mid-2018 thru late 2019, I did both writing/researching and a newspaper delivery job for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
I was ecstatic when I was able to leave that newspaper delivery job - which I’d had since 2009 - to write for The Epoch Times & Uncover DC full time.
When my column writing for both publications stalled in the summer of 2021, I launched this Substack in an attempt to avoid having to get a new full time job to pay the bills.
The Substack succeeded beyond my wildest expectations.
People love the original content & the outside-the-box coverage I am able to provide.
But like I said: after the first year, I was no longer comfortable using the pay-to-read model, and decided to move to pay-to-support model.
Of course, I understood what was going to happen when I did this, especially since the country was deeply in the grips of ‘Bidenomics’
When you make something FREE, people have less incentive to pay for it.
And that’s perfectly understandable. So a lot of people who were paying the $5/month cancelled their subscriptions because why pay for something that is being provided to you now free of charge?
The slow bleed of paying subscribers did not affect my ability to pay bills or write/research full-time until it dipped below the 1,000 mark just over a month ago in early November.
We are headed into a very exciting time where a lot of the issues I’ve been covering as a journalist since 2018 are going to begin ‘paying off’, as it were.
I am hoping to have the financial freedom to attend certain trials and events in person over the next few years. That’s why I have set the goal of getting the paying subscribers back up to 1,000+.
If you are currently one of the 23,000 or so people who read my Substack for free, and ** you can afford it** in the present economy, I would humbly ask that you consider switching to being a paying subscriber for $5/month.
Thank you all for reading and God bless you!
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