Important announcement
New business model
Dear readers,
We are writing to announce a few important changes to Geopolitical Dispatch.
Paywall
From today, 1 July, Geopolitical Dispatch will become a paid newsletter. We have been writing now for over a year and have been very pleased that so many of you have been reading our work closely. But the next stage in our evolution — including offering more analysis and services — requires us to move over to a paid model. We hope you will join us in this journey.
You will be able to subscribe to our Daily Dispatches for $19 per month or $190 per year. This paid tier will give you access to all five analyses of the most important geopolitical developments every weekday.
We will also have a professional tier that will give you access to Week Signals, our Saturday essay that takes a step back and examines both the week in review and the week ahead, including five things to watch out for.
Subscribing to our professional tier will also give you access to a monthly webinar with Michael Feller, our Chief Geopolitical Strategist and main author of Geopolitical Dispatch, that will also occasionally feature invited guests. We will be using the webinar to go into even more depth and explore what the context, relevance and significance of the month’s (ever changing) geopolitical developments.
GD Professional will cost $390 per year.
The first story from our Daily Dispatches will otherwise remain for free subscribers on our mailing list. And all free subscribers will receive a one-week trial period for the full paid product.
All prices are in US dollars, but you can pay in a range of local currencies (using a range of credit cards and payment methods) through the very easy and very secure Substack payment feature, which uses the world-class payments processor, Stripe.
Special Offers
We will also be offering a range of discounts, including for you, our original readers.
Groups of two or more people will receive a lifetime 25% discount. So please do consider if there are any friends or colleagues you would like to team up with. Please note that this discount only applies to the standard paid tier, not the GD Professional tier.
Membership-based business groups, such as chambers of commerce and industry associations, will also be eligible to offer a 25% discount to their members. So if you work in an organisation with members who you think could benefit from our geopolitical monitoring service, please do not hesitate to get in touch: damien@geopolitical-strategy.com.
Students and academics subscribing with educational institution email addresses will also be eligible for a 25% educational discount — all you need is an email from an educational institution.
And finally, those of you who are already subscribed and upgrade to a paid account before the end of July will be eligible for a lifetime 25% discount by using this link.
Referral System
We would also like to offer our readers the opportunity to benefit from a referral system and to help us grow our readership.
We will accordingly set up a system whereby if you refer one person, you will receive one month of complementary access; if you refer five people, you will receive three months complementary access; and if you refer twenty-five people, you will receive six months complementary access.
Sharing, after all, is caring.
Again, we hope you will join us in the next stage of Geopolitical Dispatch and wish you a wonderful week.
All the best,