The 4 Best Platforms To Build A Free Email List

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Why do you need an email list?

The most significant reason: Your own audience.

Take your readers with you from platform to platform. What if Medium dies tomorrow, what if you get banned from your most-used platform? Take your readers with you! Also, automate the export to have a backup of your subscribers.

Where can you take them, in case you want or need to switch?

Here are the 4 best newsletter platforms for writers, at least, the ones I’ve tried extensively so far. They all offer free plans.

1. Substack

Yeah, no surprise. Substack is still booming. They just released a mobile app.

Substack is great for writers. I like Substack for the following reasons:

The positives

1. It’s dead-simple. Sign-up, write, publish. Boom. Get some basis stats and show up consistently. The editor is flawless, the options are sparse, but the necessities are there.
2. It’s nicely-designed. I like a good design. Simple and straightforward with some eye-candy. You can customize your Substack site to an extent. Watch out for the “magazine” layout option when you set up your page. That looks awesome.
3. Substack gives you the…