🤔 Give away 95% of your content for free to earn more

Putting almost all your best content out for free sounds like a straight path to going broke.

But it's not that simple: it's not about how much you give away — it's about what goes out for free and what sits behind the subscription.

For free, you tell people what to do. And it's not just a dry how-to list — that part is worth almost nothing on its own.

The real value is elsewhere: your take, your firsthand experience, your read on what actually works and what doesn't. Your own experience is one of a kind — nobody else has it.
So giving away a lot isn't scary. The more someone connects with your perspective, the more they trust you — and the more they want the details.

And the details are exactly why they go paid. That's where you show how to do it: step by step, with the fine print, the pitfalls, tailored to a specific case. Those are the 5% that save people money, nerves, and time.

Here's an example.

A travel blogger shares trips in their public channel and says honestly where it's worth going and where it isn't. Subscribers love it — but they still don't know how to pull off the route themselves. A ready-made itinerary with addresses, places to stay, and tips on where to save — that's the members-only channel.

How to put it together:

Your unique take on what to do — in the public channel: it's free, it brings people in, sparks conversation, and gets them hooked on you

The how-to, with all the details — in a private subscription channel: Tribute grants and revokes access on its own

A trial period lets people look inside before paying — a couple of days, and the decision makes itself

So giving away 95% for free isn't generosity at your own expense. It's the foundation that gets people paying for the remaining 5%.

🔥 — if it's time to open your private channel
❤️ — if you're still growing the free one