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Own your audience.

Plain guides on turning followers you rent into fans you own. New pieces as we publish them.

HIIPEComparison · Capture

Linktree alternatives 2026: which one keeps the contact?

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Spotlight

Every list of Linktree alternatives ranks them on themes, blocks and click charts. None of that survives a platform change. One column does.

Ana Santos··7 min readRead →
HIIPEComparison · Pricing

Email marketing cost: what a 10,000 contact list really bills you

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Most tools charge for holding your list, not for using it. If you send a few times a month, you are paying rent on people you barely message.

Dan El Baze··3 min read
HIIPEPoint of view · Fan CRM

What a fan CRM is, and what it is not

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A sales CRM follows a deal towards a close. A fan CRM follows a person across events. Same word, different object, and the difference decides what you can do next.

Dan El Baze··7 min read
HIIPEPoint of view · Live events

Your RSVP list is next month's audience

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The cheapest audience for your next event is the one that came to the last one. Most organisers let it walk out of the door.

Dan El Baze··3 min read
HIIPEPoint of view · Ownership

First party data: the receipt is the part nobody owns

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Everyone agrees you should own your audience. Far fewer own the part that makes an audience worth anything, which is what each person actually bought.

Dan El Baze··3 min read
HIIPEPoint of view · Capture

How to turn Instagram followers into an email list you own

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Followers live on someone else's platform. A list lives on yours. Here is how to move people from one to the other without asking them to leave the app.

Dan El Baze··3 min read
HIIPEPoint of view · Capture

Link in bio: the meaning, and what it does not do

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It routes clicks. It does not tell you who clicked. That gap is the whole difference between renting an audience and owning one.

Dan El Baze··3 min read

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