Francis Zierer

Every tool/service has to make money somehow! I spend money on my hobbies. Honestly, the best free newsletter tool is just Gmail sent to BCC

This is the way to do it. Substack wants to own ALL your audience on its own tools. Beehiiv is like, “sure, put your chat on Discord and your videos on YouTube, we’ll make it all work out.”

Best of breed > suites. Every. Single. Time.

How to migrate from Substack to beehiiv - Knowledge Base - beehiiv In order to successfully migrate from Substack to beehiiv, you’ll need to do 2 things: Migrate your subscribers Migrate your newsletter content You can follo…

Have not done it myself but I know the beehiiv knowledge base has great documentation. LMK if there's anything more specific you're after. www.beehiiv.com/support/arti...

Ernie rules! Stoked to read it.

On Tasteland this week, @mikerugnetta.com joined us to talk about late-stage platformism, the rise of the agentic web, that the attention economy is a zero-sum game, how Hentai explains platforms, and heading to the library to avoid AI slop.

Full episode on all pod platforms! pod.link/1760333416/

🔴 Your audience wants to pay you How one former media executive is teaching creators to think like founders, not freelancers

What’s a creator journalist?

Liz is featured in today’s Creator Spotlight talking about how creator journalism differs from traditional newsrooms

www.creatorspotlight.com/p/liz-kelly-... @lizkellynelson.com

So fun to talk to @fzierer.bsky.social about my favorite topic!

YouTube video by Creator Spotlight How to Make a Living as a Creator in 2025

Full episode on YouTube here or on any pod platform, just search for The Creator Spotlight Podcast!

People ARE paying independent, creator-model journalists for their work.

@lizkellynelson.com is one of a network of leaders helping journalists make the jump from traditional newsrooms to starting up their own publications through her essential newsletter, Project C.

An essential episode today.

Today on Tasteland, @colenowicki.com joins @princessdaisy.bsky.social and I to talk about the state of the skate industry, Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (and the pitfalls of happinessmaxxing), the smell of skateboarding, and religion being big in skateboarding.
www.tasteland.fyi/ep-46-state-...

I forgot about this part of our conversation! If you do end up moving on, you've created such a rich body of work in the project, though. You're thorough!

Edith Birthday to you indeed, Eric

I'm so glad to hear it! Always my hope with this kind of piece, and I'm never *exactly* sure how it'll land among the readers. Pleased to give you something to chew on.

Love to hear it! Thanks for reading, glad you enjoyed it :)

Brand sillage｜Dirt Let it linger.

A good read for my fellow synesthesic freaks, as a person who often thinks of things that aren't smells in terms of smells, loved this from @fzierer.bsky.social!

That incubator sounds fantastic; you're learning from the best in the biz.

Brand sillage｜Dirt Let it linger.

Growth hacks like me are killing what’s good about the internet.

@fzierer.bsky.social has the antidote in his piece for Dirt on “brand sillage.”

dirt.fyi/article/2025...

lol

How could I pass up the opportunity to introduce Amanda (2025) to Amanda (2018)??

Fantastic interview with @fzierer.bsky.social for @beehiiv.com! Never before has an interviewer quoted one of my vlogs back at me 🫶🏻

YouTube video by Creator Spotlight How to Make a Living as a Creator — from a podcasting expert

“[What qualifies someone] to run a digital media company or be a digital media creator is making digital media.” — @amandamc.bsky.social on The Creator Spotlight Podcast today.

What Amanda, Eric, and co. are doing at Multitude is a blueprint for sustainable creator-first media businesses. Listen!

Ep. 37: In defense of hospitality ft. Colin Nagy This week Daisy and Francis talk to travel and hospitality writer, Colin Nagy. Colin is also the co-creator of the newsletter 'Why is this interesting?' Colin: http…

Today in TASTELAND, Colin Nagy joins @princessdaisy.bsky.social and I to discuss laundering credibility, who gets to decide what we remember, how cultural mores get baked into LLMs, fact-check literacy, "irrational hospitality," and more

There's only one piece of advice that matters imo: post, analyze, tweak, repeat

Ep. 34: Fragrance Rich ft. Trey Taylor This week Daisy and Francis are joined by Trey Taylor, Gen Z consumer expert who has recently pivoted into the world of fragrances and just launched their perfume b…

Today on Tasteland, Trey Taylor joins @princessdaisy.bsky.social and I to discuss his new fragrance brand Serviette, how he taught himself to make perfume, the art of selling a lifestyle, perception vs. perception vis-à-vis taste, Kelly green, and more.

Listen —

Atleti does rule though

Spurs moment

You read that Brian Morissey piece too, I see.

Wow, I haven’t thought about him in years

Eric. An absolute blast to pod with you. Never have I had a guest so befitting of the descriptor "sparring partner." You really have a knack for talking into a mic, which sounds silly, but it's true.

YouTube video by Creator Spotlight How to Make a Living as a Podcaster in 2025

Sworn enemy of video podcasts @ericsilver.bsky.social came on my video podcast and we talked about:

🎙️ How he teaches podcasting
🎧 Audio-only podcasts are still the future
🚫 Spotify toxicity
🤝 Building an ethical, creator-first business
🎲 Why "actual play" podcasts work so well

And more : )