Interesting to see this data, Miguel - thank you for sharing your experience. I'm curious what percentage of your free subscribers were considered inactive (rated as 1 or 2 stars in Substack stats)?
Also, using this strategy seems to mean that your 'inactive' free subscribers will no longer get emails from your publication. Perhaps they use a privacy-protective email client which doesn't report to Substack when they actually are (or were) opening your emails?
Hi Karen, I would say about 45% of my subscribers had less than 3 stars. I mentioned in the post that every so often I send a free post to all the subscribers. That way any new subscribers will have a chance to build their activity stars. I do understand the email privacy features affect the activity stars. I suggest experimenting with other filters like “days active” or “comments (all time)” to find the subscribers that are active with your publication. Note: I prune my subscribers who have not shown any comments, reads or like within 90 days. I hope that helps. Let me know if try a similar approach and how it goes.
Thanks for the explanation, Miguel. I likely won’t try it on my newsletters though. I’m not comfortable with throttling deliveries to my free subscribers who may be using privacy-aware email clients. Good luck to you with your newsletter!
That’s super interesting, thanks for sharing !!
Sure thing! I hope it helps.
Interesting stuff to try out! Thanks, Miguel!
Sure thing! Let me know how it goes.
Such a valuable insight, It's certainly a method I have to get a closer look at.
I hope you find it useful. Let me know how it goes.
Interesting to see this data, Miguel - thank you for sharing your experience. I'm curious what percentage of your free subscribers were considered inactive (rated as 1 or 2 stars in Substack stats)?
Also, using this strategy seems to mean that your 'inactive' free subscribers will no longer get emails from your publication. Perhaps they use a privacy-protective email client which doesn't report to Substack when they actually are (or were) opening your emails?
Hi Karen, I would say about 45% of my subscribers had less than 3 stars. I mentioned in the post that every so often I send a free post to all the subscribers. That way any new subscribers will have a chance to build their activity stars. I do understand the email privacy features affect the activity stars. I suggest experimenting with other filters like “days active” or “comments (all time)” to find the subscribers that are active with your publication. Note: I prune my subscribers who have not shown any comments, reads or like within 90 days. I hope that helps. Let me know if try a similar approach and how it goes.
Thanks for the explanation, Miguel. I likely won’t try it on my newsletters though. I’m not comfortable with throttling deliveries to my free subscribers who may be using privacy-aware email clients. Good luck to you with your newsletter!
Sounds good. Thanks.