>> Maybe the best model is forums that require a token monthly fee
The exercise and nutrition spaces are full of trolls and charlatans. The person in question (Alan Couzens) said he was tired of wading through trolls and figured none of them would pay $5/month. He also made the call to run it on Discourse which requires a pretty powerful Google whatever instance (already had to bump up and the forum gets maybe a 15-25 posts a day).
Of course, there is this :-)
https://th3core.com/talk/marketing/travoli's-prediction-of-'everything-will-be-subscription'/I do get weary of subscriptions and I don't know whether I will pay long-term for that forum. I mostly wanted to make sure he had a successful launch. I do a similar thing with some people on Patreon where I'll do a year or maybe two.
The problem for me is that there are maybe 40 people/teams on Substack or doing podcasts or whatever that I think deserve $5 or $10/month for what they have given me. But at an average of $7.50/mo, that's $300/month.
Or put another way, are 2-3 Substacks per month (typical min price is about $7) worth more than the WSJ ($4/week) or NYT ($25/four weeks) or, for that matter, Netflix?
