A new beginning!

I was talking to you about it half-heartedly a few weeks ago, I thought a lot about my online presence following an exchange with a reader.

It all started with small annoyances with Substack, the platform I used for my newsletter, and over deckabges

🧐 A little return in back

When I wanted to launch my newsletter in 2020, I wanted a easy to use and free solution (most services charge based on the number of subscribers).

Substack the platform that was starting to attract a lot of people caught my attention. One of the features that particularly interested me was the management of archives which are available via a mini online site making them easier to search. I like the idea that a person arriving on my site can consult my old content before deciding to subscribe.

Over time my needs have diversified:

• Being able to group certain newsletters by theme (social media, applications, etc.)
• Being able to group together under one roof articles that I had published on other platforms without this generating the sending of emails. emails
• Being able to communicate on podcast without generating an e-mail each time to people subscribed to my newsletter...

Substack quickly found itself limited in the face of these new needs.

I therefore ended up developing a site in addition to the newsletter to house certain articles and group together the main applications mentioned in my Newsletter.

It allowed me to offer a more structured vision of my content than what Substack offered but on the other hand I had to maintain two different platforms which did not communicate with each other.

The solution was not ideal because:

• I was not powering not systematically my site which could remain for months without updating
• The connection with the newsletter was not practical in my opinion copying and pasting the contents, not practical to make a visitor to the site a subscriber…

And the situation only got worse when I launched the podcast with Rémi: Encore Unpodcasttech/">Encore Un Tech podcast with a need to frequently share audio extracts without forcing the visitor to leave the newsletter or leave the site.

That's where Olivier, a reader, told me about Ghost and the reasons why he was thinking of switching his newsletter from Substack to this platform.

I then took a look and after a few hours of testing it was obvious, I had to move.

🚀 The advantages of Ghost

Here are some of the features that I found particularly interesting:

• It is both a site and a newsletter platform
• I can finally dissociate the publication of content from the sending of an email (post without email, email without post and post with email)
• There are dozens of themes that allow you to finely personalize the experience
• The possibility of reserving certain sections of the site for subscribers only
• Access to the registration button from any page
• No more worrying about the security of my platform (I received hundreds of intrusion attempts on my poor Wordpress)

🔥 Gregtaieb.com: the unique address to remember

Now it's simple, everything that concerns me can be found on a single address: gregtaieb.com

• The newsletters of course!
• The articles
• The podcasts

In addition to that everything is classified according to different transversal themes so when I talk about AI, that this either in an article, a newsletter or a podcast you will find the information in the corresponding section.

And if you are looking for a particular content or theme, good news there is an excellent search engine.

🥳 More interactive content

One of the other reasons why Ghost is a solution that caught my attention is the variety of formats offered in the editor and the layout options.

Inserting a podcast episode 👇

Inserting a link 👇

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The VergeRichard Lawler / @rjcc