From Wix Premium To Free Google Sites! Ditching The Monthly Fee!

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Alina Pitt
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I recently decided to create and publish a website, www.alinapitt.com (work in progress), and because I was not 100% sure how much I would actually need and use it, I didn’t want to invest too much money into it.

Over the last 7 years, I have only used Wix.com, and even though I was okay with that, I felt the costs became too much over time for what it could do. I had a Premium Wix.com account and also used the newsletter interface and the interface for purchases of services.

As a writer on Medium, I decided to extend my output with a free and weekly newsletter on Substack — ESCAPE THE MATRIX — where I will also publish a podcast (coming on the 11th of April) and a few online products on ConvertKit, such as my Microdosing Guide, so I don’t need a Premium Wix.com package anymore. I have outsourced with Substack, ConvertKit, podcastle.ai, and Canva.

This time I only needed a landing page.

So I thought I’d give Google Sites a go, and I must say, I am positively surprised. It has everything I need but is more intuitive and cleverer. The design just looks better (I don’t have any…

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Alina Pitt
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Alina is a writer, yoga teacher, digital nomad, ex-marketing and sales manager. She escaped the 9-5 rat race and became a microdosing and biohacking advocate.