Here's what happened!?

On Friday, Substack invited me and seven other newsletters to a closed beta for their new referral system. This has come at a great time—I’ve been wrestling with keeping the newsletter small and valuable while also needing to actually promote it in order to pay the writers.

In a dream world, I never need to blast these articles out on social media. The hope is that readers will find this content valuable and share it directly with their magic friends—and if you’re sharing One Ahead, I might as well reward you.

Overall, referrals allow me to focus on delivering a more stripped-back and high-value experience. I trust you to only invite dedicated magicians to join us.

Here's how it works!?

The system automatically attributes subscriptions from your shares to you. When your shares generate a new subscription (free or paid), you'll get one entry into a $1,000 magic bundle giveaway. Yep, $1,000 to celebrate the new referral feature.

I can see a spreadsheet with everyone’s progress and entries. There's no limit to the number of entries you can earn by sharing posts. You can share this post or any of your favorite One Ahead posts from the archive. You must be subscribed to take part.

What will you win!?

I texted Andi Gladwin at Vanishing Inc., and he said they’d sponsor the raffle with a massive $1,000 prize bundle of fabulous new and rare magic tricks.

The prize bundle includes products like:

• The Boy Who Cried Magic ($50)

• 5x Magic Masterclasses ($375)

• The Melero Rings ($45)

The winner can choose any five Masterclasses, like Asi Wind’s, David Regal’s, or Chris Kenner’s. We'll announce more of the magic trick prize items throughout the month. You can always browse their entire selection of magic products here.

The rules!!

The giveaway runs all of June only. Share posts you enjoy with your magic friends and followers and encourage them to subscribe. Make sure you're subscribed and logged in (or reading in the Substack app/your email inbox) and share via any share buttons on the page, like this one:

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To kick things off, I will also personally send out five $10 Vanishing Inc. gift cards to random readers who refer a friend to the newsletter in the next 24 hours.

Best of luck!

— Rory