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Running your own site, blog or newsletter: the craft, the economics, and what owning the channel actually buys you.

There is a quality some writers have that makes readers trust them within a paragraph and almost none of them can explain what they are doing

Most people overestimate how fast blogging pays and underestimate how long the money can keep coming once a good post finds its audience

Everyone is telling you to start a Substack. Blog Herald has been covering this industry since 2003 — here’s what we actually think

A Substack writer with 20,000 subscribers laid out her seven-step growth framework. Here’s what it reveals about how the platform actually works in 2026

10 communication skills every blogger should hone