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A guide to growth with subscriber referrals

The new subscriber referrals feature is a simple way for you to grow your audience on autopilot. In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to set up…

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Introducing Substack Notes

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Now live for all: Substack Notes

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How we change the internet

Apr 7 • Chris Best, Jairaj Sethi, and Hamish McKenzie

Introducing a new writer dashboard

May 31

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Why writers return to Substack

“We learned on the open market that Substack had offered us much more than we’d realized”

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Hamish McKenzie

Toward a better media system

You can’t rely on social media.

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Hamish McKenzie

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To writers impacted by layoffs

If you’re a writer who has had enough of the turbulence of ad-supported media, and you’re sorting through your options for what’s next, we’re here to…

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Grow: How Katelyn Jetelina turned a side hustle into a safety net

Advice on growing a Substack from scratch to a subscriber base in the hundreds of thousands

Jun 28

Grow: How academic Rob Henderson spun a side hustle into a primary income by sharing his ideas

Rob Henderson is a faculty fellow at University of Austin who says Substack is a primary source of income and a testing ground for ideas and his…

May 3

Grow: How Perfectly Imperfect’s snowball growth started with word of mouth

By featuring the tastes of “if you know, you know” creatives in New York City, Perfectly Imperfect has built a community of tens of thousands.

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