Reiner Fuellmich also concluded that institutions are so corrupt that they needed to be discarded and that parallel institutions need to be created by we, the People. Please think of him as he is battling the corrupt judicial system in Germany.
I think your work is so vital. Especially now. I'm happy to do one off donations. It's the monthly payment I baulk at. Sometimes it's hard to cancel them. And just a few begin to add up quickly. As an author myself I understand you should be paid for your work. As already mentioned David Icke has a weekly dot connector where you watch for 30 minutes and subscribers go to Iconic for the rest of the show. Can your Substack bring in money other ways?
HI Cheryl - thanks so much for this. I don't know of other ways to monetise Substack but I am considering the 30 minutes free and full show paid option. Just not sure yet. But I really appreciate your input.
I find that things happen when I try to pay with Kofi which forced me recently to cancel a bank account. Where, as with some, there is a bank account, I donate. The person who I do that with has already got probably three years worth of subs in a few weeks..
Where the person writes a book I buy it.
Meryl I do hope that you continue to write and make it available but if you do not/cannot i will understand and look for my info elsewhere.
Thanks Robin - I will be posting my bank details on every post (except for the Voice for the Vaccine Injured posts - that just doesn't feel right to me) from now on thanks to suggestions like yours. Your kind words are also really appreciated and...humbling!
The problem with paywalls is only those with extra money can afford to know the truth, and that will never “save the world”, since so many are below poverty levels now. And as most podcasters are specific to certain areas and there are layers and layers of information to be learned, must one pay 20 different sites to understand what all is going on in this new world catastrophe?
I know- and that's why I have resisted this. When I first started a subscription on substack, I put most posts behind a paywall - for about 3 days! LOL It felt so wrong. So I am trying to find some middle ground. Soloman - where are you when I need you?
Sorry but no disposable income means no disposable income. We hate being reminded daily that we are second class citizens because we are poor. Makis has yet again posted a piece of critical information for people with cancer behind a paywall. He does it all the time, specifically targeting critical information for cancer, and what can be more evil than that? Last time 2nd Smartest Guy reprinted the entire article on his substack (no idea if he had permission) so I am waiting to see if he does it again today. It is the behaviour of these men that puts us on a very short leash for all paywall stuff. There is deep hurt and betrayal being triggered.
Meryl – I appreciate your work and am willing to make occasional small donations (as I have in the past using the ‘Kofi’ system) - but I will not commit to fixed-sum future payments. Let me explain a couple of reasons why. This will be long winded - but I think it important for you to understand what I have come to believe is the psychology that drives the disincentives that come into play when many people make ‘buying’ decisions (for any internet product). Note that I said ‘disincentives’.
Firstly – as background - I didn’t know that Substack existed until about 2021 - after the man-made Covid injectables crisis had got under way and I finally realised that there was something terribly wrong with my previous understanding of medical ‘reality’. I can’t remember what led me to your Substack in the first place – if was probably a referral from some other Substack author.
I am now on the ‘mailing list’ of many Substack authors, nearly all of which relate in some way to the Covid issue, ‘free speech’, government overreach, etc. Of these I have only committed to pay for a few, and I intend to stop the payments for these within a year. I decided to pay for these in the first place because of spur-of-the-moment decisions – the result of reading a really good article on them. But that has created a problem – I am now overwhelmed with information - and overcommitted – so I intend to cancel out before the renewal date comes up. Having said that, after some investigation I have found the inner workings of the Substack subscription payment system to be obscure, and sometimes contradictory, so I have yet to work out how to cancel the existing subscription payments.
A second problem is that the Substack system has opened the tap on a firehose of information - much more than I can possibly consume. The biggest limitation on consuming information from internet sources is that there are only 24 hours in a day, so the information stream needs to be throttled back to a trickle, otherwise it will take over one’s life. This is very different to how people consumed ‘The News’ thirty years ago – before the internet era. (Of course, I now realise that even back then it was actually ‘Fake News’ that I was consuming, which the corporate media still insists on pumping out). I don’t think many Substack authors fully understand how this time-availability limitation applies to their ‘customers’.
However - for me - the biggest inhibitor for signing up for to a paid subscription (for anything) is the ‘Automatic Renewal’ system which the vendors (of whatever) require - or if they don’t require it - they hide any available one-off ‘single-purchase’ subscription payment system. As far as I am concerned, although ‘Automatic Renewal’ payment systems may be ‘smart business practices’ for corporate businesses and credit card providers, I think that they are the Kiss of Death to a vendor who is trying to sell a product - especially if the prospective customer is already vacillating about making the purchase anyway. (I am an old person; I don’t want to leave a financial mess for my children to unravel when the time comes).
I don’t know what the answer is for you to increase your revenue flow, apart from relying on expanding your non-paying subscriber base in the hope of converting enough to payers in the course of time – or boosting donations.
PS: I had a quick look at your ‘Under the Wire’ AVN website and the interviews. It looks great – but I was not previously aware that it existed. I suggest that you provide a short note & link to it in your every Substack post. James Corbett (‘The Corbett Report’) uses his Substack page mainly to provide a referral link to his website where the real articles reside. I think he does this as a backup in anticipation of Substack one day being taken over by those who do not like the competition that alternative media offers – that is, he is avoiding putting all his eggs in one basket.
Oh boy - can I ever relate! It's like a lolly shop here with so much to eat but not enough stomach to hold it all. I scan so much and pay for far too many subscriptions to support the other creators. But there is only so much time and money to go around.
As you say, there is so much information out there now and so many interviews, but everybody is unique and brings something different and special to the table - as you do with your wealth of knowledge and experience and your passion for the subject!
So yes, would love to hear more interviews from you. I remember a great interview you did with Del Bigtree!
Thanks Christine. That interview and the one I did with David Crowe are probably my two favourite interviews. Except for about 10 more that I'm remembering now... ;-)
I haven't heard your interview with David Crowe. In your interview with Del, I thought it was interesting the way he toned down his normally loud, explosive way of expressing himself, as if sensitive to his Australian audience. But he was no less effective! - in fact, maybe even more effective! It was really interesting hearing him speak that way and a really good interview!
Love to you Meryl 💜crazy clown world 💜love watching every thing you do especially when we did a story re my son Joshua also my life story would be extremely weird as well 💜Thank you 🌟💜
I had a friend from Coffs Harbour introduce my husband and I to him via VCR tapes LOL way back when. When I first heard him speak and for a long time afterwards, I would say - I can't BELIEVE this guy! Then, it eventually changed to. - OMG, I can't believe nobody else is listening to this! Except for the lizard thing which I still can't get my head around, he has been incredibly prescient and nearly always right. He would be an incredible person to interview. I'll do my best to get in touch with him though I don't know if he would have time for a little program out of australia?
I love your work, Meryl, and value it. And I really, really do understand that we all need to find ways to replace the income that we would make if we were not saving the world.
BUT democracy dies behind a paywall. How about a pledge of support that would be automatically sent from your pledgees so that you do not have a paywall and you do get paid? I would be happy to support your work, not just your interviews, that way.
I think that is what all of us should do, actually.
I love that idea, Rima! I kind of tried something like that with Kofi but it didn't work out. I will have a think about how that could be done. If you want to DM me wth your thoughts, I would love to hear them. As a 30+ year volunteer, I always feel...awkward - uncomfortable...asking for support. So another way around this would be fantastic!
For my own stack where i am trying to do an unofficial gofundme, I am finding every donor really is one-off rather than repeating, So my only choice, if I want to get the money to get to Mexico, is to keep expanding my subscription base by promoting my stack out on other social media - ie new people to donate once. And that's not working well at all as my profile on other social media is very low.
Thanks for your input Alice. I will definitely consider that when I do the interviews (If I decide to do them). I may paywall them for a couple of weeks and then make them freely available? I'm not sure yet. I feel so strongly that information should be available for everyone but I also feel strongly in getting paid for work... Of course, if I win the lottery, everything will be free! LOL
I want you to determine if Francis is Catholic, if he's Pope, and if church he's heading is Catholic Church.
You big bad conspiracy theory analysts are missing biggest conspiracy FACT out there. My deepest contempt.
Here's what Catholic remnant thinks of Francis and vice versa
https://novusordowatch.org/2024/03/francis-feels-sorry-for-sede-mushrooms/
Thanks for your efforts here Meryl, and everyone with some bravery. Would be good if we could be as loving we are brave 🙏 and never stop trying
Reiner Fuellmich also concluded that institutions are so corrupt that they needed to be discarded and that parallel institutions need to be created by we, the People. Please think of him as he is battling the corrupt judicial system in Germany.
Just a thought…some other substacks have a by donation charge, which seems to work really well ….im looking forward to your upcoming interviews 🌺
I think your work is so vital. Especially now. I'm happy to do one off donations. It's the monthly payment I baulk at. Sometimes it's hard to cancel them. And just a few begin to add up quickly. As an author myself I understand you should be paid for your work. As already mentioned David Icke has a weekly dot connector where you watch for 30 minutes and subscribers go to Iconic for the rest of the show. Can your Substack bring in money other ways?
HI Cheryl - thanks so much for this. I don't know of other ways to monetise Substack but I am considering the 30 minutes free and full show paid option. Just not sure yet. But I really appreciate your input.
I love what you do.
I like to chat with others.
I find that things happen when I try to pay with Kofi which forced me recently to cancel a bank account. Where, as with some, there is a bank account, I donate. The person who I do that with has already got probably three years worth of subs in a few weeks..
Where the person writes a book I buy it.
Meryl I do hope that you continue to write and make it available but if you do not/cannot i will understand and look for my info elsewhere.
I wish you all the best. You are great.
Thanks Robin - I will be posting my bank details on every post (except for the Voice for the Vaccine Injured posts - that just doesn't feel right to me) from now on thanks to suggestions like yours. Your kind words are also really appreciated and...humbling!
The problem with paywalls is only those with extra money can afford to know the truth, and that will never “save the world”, since so many are below poverty levels now. And as most podcasters are specific to certain areas and there are layers and layers of information to be learned, must one pay 20 different sites to understand what all is going on in this new world catastrophe?
I know- and that's why I have resisted this. When I first started a subscription on substack, I put most posts behind a paywall - for about 3 days! LOL It felt so wrong. So I am trying to find some middle ground. Soloman - where are you when I need you?
Sorry but no disposable income means no disposable income. We hate being reminded daily that we are second class citizens because we are poor. Makis has yet again posted a piece of critical information for people with cancer behind a paywall. He does it all the time, specifically targeting critical information for cancer, and what can be more evil than that? Last time 2nd Smartest Guy reprinted the entire article on his substack (no idea if he had permission) so I am waiting to see if he does it again today. It is the behaviour of these men that puts us on a very short leash for all paywall stuff. There is deep hurt and betrayal being triggered.
did you get my email?
I've replied in Chat - are you able to see that?
This is today's article he has blocked.
https://makismd.substack.com/p/olive-leaf-extract-and-cancer-new
Meryl – I appreciate your work and am willing to make occasional small donations (as I have in the past using the ‘Kofi’ system) - but I will not commit to fixed-sum future payments. Let me explain a couple of reasons why. This will be long winded - but I think it important for you to understand what I have come to believe is the psychology that drives the disincentives that come into play when many people make ‘buying’ decisions (for any internet product). Note that I said ‘disincentives’.
Firstly – as background - I didn’t know that Substack existed until about 2021 - after the man-made Covid injectables crisis had got under way and I finally realised that there was something terribly wrong with my previous understanding of medical ‘reality’. I can’t remember what led me to your Substack in the first place – if was probably a referral from some other Substack author.
I am now on the ‘mailing list’ of many Substack authors, nearly all of which relate in some way to the Covid issue, ‘free speech’, government overreach, etc. Of these I have only committed to pay for a few, and I intend to stop the payments for these within a year. I decided to pay for these in the first place because of spur-of-the-moment decisions – the result of reading a really good article on them. But that has created a problem – I am now overwhelmed with information - and overcommitted – so I intend to cancel out before the renewal date comes up. Having said that, after some investigation I have found the inner workings of the Substack subscription payment system to be obscure, and sometimes contradictory, so I have yet to work out how to cancel the existing subscription payments.
A second problem is that the Substack system has opened the tap on a firehose of information - much more than I can possibly consume. The biggest limitation on consuming information from internet sources is that there are only 24 hours in a day, so the information stream needs to be throttled back to a trickle, otherwise it will take over one’s life. This is very different to how people consumed ‘The News’ thirty years ago – before the internet era. (Of course, I now realise that even back then it was actually ‘Fake News’ that I was consuming, which the corporate media still insists on pumping out). I don’t think many Substack authors fully understand how this time-availability limitation applies to their ‘customers’.
However - for me - the biggest inhibitor for signing up for to a paid subscription (for anything) is the ‘Automatic Renewal’ system which the vendors (of whatever) require - or if they don’t require it - they hide any available one-off ‘single-purchase’ subscription payment system. As far as I am concerned, although ‘Automatic Renewal’ payment systems may be ‘smart business practices’ for corporate businesses and credit card providers, I think that they are the Kiss of Death to a vendor who is trying to sell a product - especially if the prospective customer is already vacillating about making the purchase anyway. (I am an old person; I don’t want to leave a financial mess for my children to unravel when the time comes).
I don’t know what the answer is for you to increase your revenue flow, apart from relying on expanding your non-paying subscriber base in the hope of converting enough to payers in the course of time – or boosting donations.
PS: I had a quick look at your ‘Under the Wire’ AVN website and the interviews. It looks great – but I was not previously aware that it existed. I suggest that you provide a short note & link to it in your every Substack post. James Corbett (‘The Corbett Report’) uses his Substack page mainly to provide a referral link to his website where the real articles reside. I think he does this as a backup in anticipation of Substack one day being taken over by those who do not like the competition that alternative media offers – that is, he is avoiding putting all his eggs in one basket.
I hope this information is of use to you.
Oh boy - can I ever relate! It's like a lolly shop here with so much to eat but not enough stomach to hold it all. I scan so much and pay for far too many subscriptions to support the other creators. But there is only so much time and money to go around.
As you say, there is so much information out there now and so many interviews, but everybody is unique and brings something different and special to the table - as you do with your wealth of knowledge and experience and your passion for the subject!
So yes, would love to hear more interviews from you. I remember a great interview you did with Del Bigtree!
Thanks Christine. That interview and the one I did with David Crowe are probably my two favourite interviews. Except for about 10 more that I'm remembering now... ;-)
I haven't heard your interview with David Crowe. In your interview with Del, I thought it was interesting the way he toned down his normally loud, explosive way of expressing himself, as if sensitive to his Australian audience. But he was no less effective! - in fact, maybe even more effective! It was really interesting hearing him speak that way and a really good interview!
All I want to know is the truth and I honestly beleive that you do everything to deliver it.
Thank you for providing all this essential information so that I may decide. All kudos to You Meryl.
That is a huge compliment, indeed! Thanks so much :-)
Love to you Meryl 💜crazy clown world 💜love watching every thing you do especially when we did a story re my son Joshua also my life story would be extremely weird as well 💜Thank you 🌟💜
That's so good to hear, Tracey :-) And the whole world is weird - so why shouldn't we be too? How boring would it be if we were normies? LOL
David Icke puts up his Dot Connector videos first half free and have to subscribe to watch second half. This works well I think.
Excellent! I would love to interview David Icke on the show too. Anyone have his contact details? I've been following him for about 30 years now. :-)
I would love to hear you interview David Icke! I'm pretty new to him.
I found it! It's not on the AVN's website right now because it's being updated, but it is on Rumble:
https://rumble.com/vafmfj-under-the-wire-time-isnt-a-friend-of-tyrants.html
Such a lovely man and his death was a terrible, terrible loss to our community :-)
I had a friend from Coffs Harbour introduce my husband and I to him via VCR tapes LOL way back when. When I first heard him speak and for a long time afterwards, I would say - I can't BELIEVE this guy! Then, it eventually changed to. - OMG, I can't believe nobody else is listening to this! Except for the lizard thing which I still can't get my head around, he has been incredibly prescient and nearly always right. He would be an incredible person to interview. I'll do my best to get in touch with him though I don't know if he would have time for a little program out of australia?
He came to Australia many times before he was labelled anti semetic and banned. Even went to Uluru with some lucky Australians.
I saw him being interviewed by Rinat Strahlhofer about a year ago so maybe he would.
I love your work, Meryl, and value it. And I really, really do understand that we all need to find ways to replace the income that we would make if we were not saving the world.
BUT democracy dies behind a paywall. How about a pledge of support that would be automatically sent from your pledgees so that you do not have a paywall and you do get paid? I would be happy to support your work, not just your interviews, that way.
I think that is what all of us should do, actually.
I love that idea, Rima! I kind of tried something like that with Kofi but it didn't work out. I will have a think about how that could be done. If you want to DM me wth your thoughts, I would love to hear them. As a 30+ year volunteer, I always feel...awkward - uncomfortable...asking for support. So another way around this would be fantastic!
For my own stack where i am trying to do an unofficial gofundme, I am finding every donor really is one-off rather than repeating, So my only choice, if I want to get the money to get to Mexico, is to keep expanding my subscription base by promoting my stack out on other social media - ie new people to donate once. And that's not working well at all as my profile on other social media is very low.
Can't afford to pay
Thanks for your input Alice. I will definitely consider that when I do the interviews (If I decide to do them). I may paywall them for a couple of weeks and then make them freely available? I'm not sure yet. I feel so strongly that information should be available for everyone but I also feel strongly in getting paid for work... Of course, if I win the lottery, everything will be free! LOL