Design a paid subscription tier for my newsletter
Pick what to put behind the paywall, set pricing and tiers, and plan the launch without alienating free readers.
The prompt
Help me design a paid subscription for my newsletter.
Newsletter: [TOPIC, format, how often it goes out]
Audience: [WHO reads it, subscriber count, open rate]
Platform: [e.g. Substack, beehiiv, Ghost, ConvertKit]
What readers value most: [replies, top posts, survey results]
Time I can add each week: [HOURS]
Goal: [e.g. "cover my costs", "replace part of my income"]
Give me:
1. Five models that work for newsletters (e.g. extra paid issues, full archive, community access, deep-dive reports, templates or tools, live Q&A), with an example of how each could look for my topic and the workload it adds.
2. My best-fit option: what stays free, what becomes paid, and why that split keeps free readers growing.
3. Pricing: monthly and annual price suggestions, a founding-member offer, and whether to add a higher tier - with the reasoning.
4. A simple revenue estimate using assumptions I can change (conversion rate from free to paid, churn), clearly marked as assumptions.
5. A launch plan: pre-launch survey or waitlist, announcement issue, and the first 4 weeks of paid content.
6. How to measure whether it's working and when to adjust.
Typical conversion and churn rates vary widely. Label any benchmark as a rough range and suggest I validate demand with my own readers before committing.
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What to fill in
- TOPIC, format, how often it goes out
- WHO reads it, subscriber count, open rate
- e.g. Substack, beehiiv, Ghost, ConvertKit
- replies, top posts, survey results
- HOURS
- e.g. "cover my costs", "replace part of my income"
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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