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Earth Care Network and Substack
Substack describes itself as the app for independent voices: newsletter, video and podcast hosting with paid subscriptions built in. Earth Care Network gives your writing a home on your own site, next to the people who read it.
Where Earth Care Network fits
What's different from Substack
Your journal on your own site
Write in the journal and publish on your enterprise's site; readers subscribe with double opt-in.
More than a publication
Your writing sits beside your community, events, shop and Relationships, so a reader can become a guest, a customer or a member.
Replies from the network
Members of the Earth Care Network community reply to journals and thank them with one of the four ethics. No ranking.
Use together or replace
An honest split
What you might keep Substack for
- Paid subscriptions to your writing: Earth Care Network doesn't sell newsletter subscriptions.
- Podcast hosting.
What Earth Care Network can hold for you
- A marketing site on your own domain (Pro)
- A community with courses, badges and events
- Free RSVPs and paid tickets, with a door that scans them
- A shop with Stripe checkout and designs printed to order
- Relationships: people, enterprises, deals, forms and a team Inbox
- A newsletter with double opt-in, sequences and broadcasts
Moving over
Start without starting over
- Export your contacts as a CSV and import them into Relationships · People. An import never emails anyone or starts an automation.
- Paste your website on /start and Earth Care Network drafts your listing from it.
- Move one job at a time; nothing makes you switch everything at once.
What we say about Substack comes from its own public pages. Check Substack's site for its current features and prices.
Earth Care · People Care · Future Care · Fair Share
Bring your work home.
Start free on Starter. Move one tool at a time, and keep what still serves you.