When something bad happens, we ruminate on it for hours. When something good happens, we forget about it in a second. Small steps of appreciation are powerful!
I didn’t know this was called a milestone post, but I wrote mine in Sunday’s newsletter. CulinaryWoman’s third birthday was this week. culinarywoman.Substack.com
Fantastic advice. My publication, Invariant, recently crossed the 1-year mark. To commemorate, I wrote a piece celebrating and sharing my (partly unconventional) process and journey, which many have said is helpful:
Yes, I do an every 6 months review of the Most Viewed articles (clickable), Most Commented newsletters, and also the Wine Wanderings statistics on viewership that Substack provides. 42 States and 45 countries....This gives my subscribers a chance to catch a newsletter they may have missed. I put a bit of a teaser to each article with a photo. At the end of the review, are the most "clicked" wine recommendations for the 6 months. Cheers!
I've created 2 milestone posts since I started my substack at the start of this year! The first was mainly to explain why I created a substack and the second was to celebrate my first 100 subscribers. My 6th month mark will be in July but I think I'll wait until the 1 year mark or 250 subscribers to write another milestone post 😊
When does everyone decide to share a milestone posts and how often do you share one?
It would never occur to me to make a post about it. I did do a Note on the 100 milestone, though. Hmm. Food for thought. Nothing wrong with celebrating a milestone, after all.
Thank you for putting this post together--I found it really inspiring and am filing it away for my next milestone (hitting 1,000 free subs soon and one year on Substack in Oct/Nov).
For anyone else, I’d recommend focusing on the celebration, excitement and magic that you feel about people inviting you into their inbox ✨ Whether people care about your experiences with Substack or not, they will resonate with that sense of celebration + excitement, however you express it :)
Thanks for sharing this advice. I have shared my milestones on Notes and received applause from other writers. But next time onward, I will also share it with my readers.
Well, I am one subscriber away from having to write one of these posts (999 subscribers). I have been pleasantly surprised by how many people have wanted to hear my rather niche thoughts on agricultural philosophy and Wendell Berry!
This past year Substack has become a blog / newsletter hybrid for me. I've really loved writing longform and having a robust commenting system for discussions.
When something bad happens, we ruminate on it for hours. When something good happens, we forget about it in a second. Small steps of appreciation are powerful!
https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/messyaction1#details
I didn’t know this was called a milestone post, but I wrote mine in Sunday’s newsletter. CulinaryWoman’s third birthday was this week. culinarywoman.Substack.com
Fantastic advice. My publication, Invariant, recently crossed the 1-year mark. To commemorate, I wrote a piece celebrating and sharing my (partly unconventional) process and journey, which many have said is helpful:
https://invariant.substack.com/p/writing-for-the-long-run
Yes, I do an every 6 months review of the Most Viewed articles (clickable), Most Commented newsletters, and also the Wine Wanderings statistics on viewership that Substack provides. 42 States and 45 countries....This gives my subscribers a chance to catch a newsletter they may have missed. I put a bit of a teaser to each article with a photo. At the end of the review, are the most "clicked" wine recommendations for the 6 months. Cheers!
I've created 2 milestone posts since I started my substack at the start of this year! The first was mainly to explain why I created a substack and the second was to celebrate my first 100 subscribers. My 6th month mark will be in July but I think I'll wait until the 1 year mark or 250 subscribers to write another milestone post 😊
When does everyone decide to share a milestone posts and how often do you share one?
It would never occur to me to make a post about it. I did do a Note on the 100 milestone, though. Hmm. Food for thought. Nothing wrong with celebrating a milestone, after all.
I’m not sure my audience would care about my milestones on substack. Maybe, they would. Not sure.
Thanks for the feature everyone, I think this is my first Substack feature!
Thanks for the mention!
We used a 12-year birthday Milestone post to move our whole publication to Substack! :) Celebration is enlivening.
https://everydaypoems.substack.com/p/every-day-poems
This was my post celebrating 250 posts 🤓💗💗🤓 https://open.substack.com/pub/creativelyconscious/p/happy-summer-solstice?r=506nf&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Thank you for putting this post together--I found it really inspiring and am filing it away for my next milestone (hitting 1,000 free subs soon and one year on Substack in Oct/Nov).
I wasn’t sure about doing a milestone post myself, but did one at 6 months-ish and it was really fun with lots of good conversation: https://open.substack.com/pub/astridbracke/p/lessons-from-six-months-on-substack?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
For anyone else, I’d recommend focusing on the celebration, excitement and magic that you feel about people inviting you into their inbox ✨ Whether people care about your experiences with Substack or not, they will resonate with that sense of celebration + excitement, however you express it :)
I'm just trying to get to 10 subscribers lol.....quickstockwriteups.substack.com......Have a wonderful weekend everyone
Thanks for sharing this advice. I have shared my milestones on Notes and received applause from other writers. But next time onward, I will also share it with my readers.
Well, I am one subscriber away from having to write one of these posts (999 subscribers). I have been pleasantly surprised by how many people have wanted to hear my rather niche thoughts on agricultural philosophy and Wendell Berry!
I recently shared 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Blogging: https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahshotts/p/10-lessons-from-10-years-of-blogging?r=836c5&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
This past year Substack has become a blog / newsletter hybrid for me. I've really loved writing longform and having a robust commenting system for discussions.