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Selling premium memberships with recurring revenue
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Selling premium memberships with recurring revenue

For creators and aspiring entrepreneurs looking to generate a sustainable recurring revenue stream from their creative work, Ghost has built-in payments allowing you to create a subscription commerce business. Connect your Stripe account to Ghost, and you'll be able to quickly and easily create monthly and yearly premium plans for members to subscribe to, as well as complimentary plans for friends and family. Ghost takes 0% payment fees, so everything you make is yours to keep! Using subscrip

Jamie Larson

Jamie Larson

March 18, 2021 · 1 min read

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The Businessman & The Fisherman
FablesFiction

The Businessman & The Fisherman

An American businessman took a vacation to a small coastal Mexican village on doctor’s orders. Unable to sleep after an urgent phone call from the office the first morning, he walked out to the pier to clear his head. A small boat with just one fisherman had docked, and inside the boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish. “How long did it take you to catch them?” the American asked. “Only a little while,” the Mexican replied in su

Cameron Almeida

Cameron Almeida

August 12, 2014 · 2 min read

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A Full and Comprehensive Style Test

A Full and Comprehensive Style Test

Below is just about everything you’ll need to style in the theme. Check the source code to see the many embedded elements within paragraphs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heading 1 Heading 2 Heading 3 Heading 4 Heading 5 Heading 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, test link adipiscing elit. This is strong. Nullam dignissim convallis est. Quisque aliquam. This is emph

John O'Nolan

John O'Nolan

September 1, 2012 · 5 min read

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I Have a Dream
Speeches

I Have a Dream

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years lat

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

August 28, 1963 · 6 min read

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The Purpose of Education
Speeches

The Purpose of Education

As I engage in the so-called "bull sessions" around and about the school, I too often find that most college men have a misconception of the purpose of education. Most of the "brethren" think that education should equip them with the proper instruments of exploitation so that they can forever trample over the masses. Still others think that education should furnish them with noble ends rather than means to an end. It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

December 12, 1948 · 2 min read

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Out to Sea
Fiction

Out to Sea

I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale. When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of m

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

July 24, 1912 · 6 min read

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Looking-Glass house
Fiction

Looking-Glass house

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it:— it was the black kitten’s fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it couldn’t have had any hand in the mischief. The way Dinah washed her children’s faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

March 18, 1871 · 10 min read

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Down The Rabbit Hole
Fiction

Down The Rabbit Hole

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getti

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

November 26, 1865 · 8 min read

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Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg Address

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

November 19, 1863 · 1 min read

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