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Olivia/O. J. Barré's avatar

Thank you for this. I’m going to check out Gumroad.🙏💙

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Mike Rogers's avatar

Perfect timing on this as I was looking for e-commerce solution, love they are merchant of record. As new to all this trying to eliminate distractions so I can focus on creating.

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Digital-Mark's avatar

Very insightful combination and very informative too.

I never knew that I can integrate selling on substack with sidestack. Great addition to my knowledge.

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Igor Skoglund's avatar

Good information.

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Karen Michaels 🦋's avatar

I’ve used Gumroad and liked it ok but Sidestack looks VERY interesting! 👀 Excited to dive into that and check it out. Thank you for sharing that!! 🦋

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Page Huyette's avatar

I used to use Gumroad for selling digital products, but didn't realize it had these other capabilities. Ima gonna check it out again!

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Tom Dausy's avatar

Thanks for the article and practical suggestions! I appreciate the clarity on how Substack and Gumroad can complement each other. I will think how I might change my own publishing and product setup.

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Gunnar Habitz's avatar

Besides running Gumroad for years, why would a new Substacker use that over Stan Store etc.?

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Burk's avatar

Well, up to preference of course. I do prefer that Gumroad doesn’t come with a monthly fee. Also for me, the fact that Gumroad acts as a merchant of record and handles The tax requirements automatically is a huge plus. Doing this on my own would be a huge pain. Or an expensive tax person to pay.

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Gunnar Habitz's avatar

Good point with the monthly fee - and thanks for the tax topic! Compared to my favourite tool Kajabi, Gumroad allows unlimited number of products.

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Noel Carlson's avatar

This is great info, thank you! I've been looking for something similar and I'll definitely check out Gumroad now.

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Rosemary's avatar

Thanks! Very helpful!

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Adam Troudart's avatar

Love your approach, Burk. I didn't know Gumroad had email automation capabilities. Are you happy with its conversion rate?

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Joel Salinas's avatar

Gumroad truly opens up the business landscape for a newsletter

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Julie Ott's avatar

Do you have an automation in place to share email addresses across platforms or doing manually? I’ve got a similar set up but with Beacons.

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Burk's avatar

What do you mean?

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Julie Ott's avatar

Someone subscribes to your Substack. Are you putting them into your email automations within Gumroad?

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Burk's avatar

Oh I see. Sorry. No I usually don’t do this automatically. I use this differently.

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Julie Ott's avatar

Okay, thanks!

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