“And I absolutely hate how LinkedIn'y it is, everyone is on their best behaviour there because it's all a grift, and fishing for engagement. Which wouldn't even be that bad, if not for the fact that the only people reading all that, are just the same as you, hah.”
“How did you manage to direct people to Substack from social media? Platforms like Twitter or Facebook are suppressing links leading outiside their platforms.”
“FYI for my first six months I basically treated substack like another full time job - i.e the engaging and interacting portion of it - while posting the 1-2x a month as i said above. Just wanted to make sure i did mention that.”
“I have a substack account that uses blog@mydomain.com which was working fine but in the last week when I tried logging into substack, I never got any of the emailed login links (it uses that instead of a password because I never set up a password). Nothing in my spam folder either.”
“I feel a bit frustrated by the fact that my feed is stacked with "Dear Substack, connect me (...)", since we jointly decided to take ourselves too seriously and not to do that.”
“substack is, in a way, intended to be sued as a newsletter manager/creator, and for me it works that way, selectively. i prefer not to scroll like at all”
“Substack may have once been an "if you build it, they will come" sort of platform in its early days when it was the Hot New Thing, but that's not the reality anymore. People with existing platforms outside of the Substack space will always grow faster.”
“substack is basically a gym where everyone’s newsletter is about going to the gym, and the actual secret is having an audience somewhere else already”
“Engaging with creaters on it same like LinkedIn which is frustrating to the writers who don't know how to communicate or don't like so much engagements...”
“No one tells you how much of writing on Substack is NOT actually writing! Managing a publication incurs additional responsibilities. You will spend a lot of time choosing your headlines, answering comments, posting Notes, meeting other writers, watching your analytics, and figuring out what to write about.”
“Through doing what you said mainly engaging on people’s notes and reading their stories (which actually is easy because I enjoy it), and posting a note each day I’ve got 43 subscribers. I’m hoping it keeps increasing with this method so by the time I start the serial I have at least a little group.”
“I recently got Substack and I’ve been trying to find a way to get a bit more exposure. There is this chat thing where a few people send their articles and then we read it and share our thoughts on other peoples pieces.”
“I want to enable paid subscriptions on Substack, but if you're in India, you cannot do it directly, and you need some kind of invitation. And when you go to the invitation form, they ask you for a "work email." I cannot buy a domain.”
“I'm a bestseller with 4.2K+ subs and growth has been almost entirely through Substack alone - mostly through consistency, quality content, and making genuine connections.”
“people are saying that it isn't somewhere you can grow etc. but ive grown my newsletter to over 6000 subscibers this year through substack alone, on the platform. no outside account with followers that i shared to.”
“My click rate to my substack from Instagram is low. Should I just make content on Instagram directly rather than encouraging them to go to substack right off the bat?”
“I’ve found it quite easy to grow on Substack with followers coming from notes or discoverability on Substack. I’m a month in and getting at least 10 free subscribers a day.”
“Another thing I did was search for serial fiction (novels in your case) on Substack to study how others were doing this. Most follow the structure in the link to some extent, but it’s not a cookie cutter world.”
“I feel like I see less action on notes than posts across the board, even for people with moderate subscriber numbers. I'm not really clear on the intended function of notes. My best guess is they're to dampen funneling onto other social media by giving a low stakes outlet for people who want to keep their subscriber content more curated.”
“You could create a section instead of a second Substack. That way, your readers can decide for themselves if they want to get both and opt in or out each section, and you don’t double your work and have to promote two stacks.”
“But starting a second publication when you’re only a few months in is a lot of work, and both Substack and your readers are going to get confused about which one is which.”
“I brought my subscriber base to Substack but over time began losing as I changed, but strangely have gained no significant new numbers although there for years now. Something seems to be happening across the social media space in general though, it’s like people are low key exhausted”
“And Substack is for long form essays, articles and stories. If you just want a lot of eyes then stick with Reddit which is not suited to long form anything.”
“But ironically it’s the notes that get attention, not the long form writing which is the original point of substack. I post notes about 5 days a week but an article only once a week.”
“I've posted probably 1000+ comments to Substack, and have gathered maybe 40 followers there. My notes all get like 1-5 likes. Perhaps I am stupid and boring--but I did get the "top 1% commenter" award for this subreddit once.”
“I just realized that this need for Substack papers could be me showing up curiously for myself instead of subconsciously 'waiting around' while trying to get my life back together anyway. Not to fix it and not to create a certain outcome related to her, but to explore what is currently unseen within myself - and within others as well.”
“Not really. Substack can be useful for growing a newsletter, but converting readers on one blog platform to a personal blog almost never work unless you're big enough you can have exclusives that actually entice readers.”