The other great advice was to customize the welcome email asking subscribers to tell me why they subscribed. I've developed some meaningful relationships from that alone!
Perhaps the only piece of advice that really matters in the end: Substack is a long game--think in terms of years, not months, i.e., keep going!
The best part about staying with your Substack and not giving up is that the more you write the better a writer you become, so there's absolutely no downside. What we're doing here as writers is old-school learning on the job the way the masters did before graduate programs took over and (arguably) made people think writing had to look and sound a certain way. We're right where we're supposed to be.
To be consistent, and to support others’ work and build a community of writers alongside building your Substack. This has changed the way I think and work.
The best advice I got was to stay consistent and not too much all over the place. So that your readers can expect what you’ll be posting. And also appreciating every single subscriber without focusing too much on your numbers. Every single subscriber shared their email information with you, or they gifted you some of their daily time to leave a comment. In today’s fast-paced world genuine interaction, without any hurry, seems more rare.
Best advice: Write truly, honestly and authentically, and also: Promote your work! Don’t buy into the myth that it’s ‘bad’ to self-promote. That seems to be a new trend. Don’t be spammy; don’t just not engage and add your links to everything. It’s not a binary. Engage and add something meaningful to someone’s post and also promote your work if it’s appropriate, meaning if you wrote something connected to the topic you’re commenting on. No one else will do this work for you. Most of us will never have 10,000 subscribers. We build slowly. We advocate for ourselves.
Recently a reader reminded me that the lack of distance between writers and readers does not make the readers Managing Editors. It's a good piece of advice, as following reader preferences too closely could lead the author astray.
Obviously it's important to listen to feedback and engage, but dramatically altering a newsletter because of the loudest fans may be a major mistake.
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The other great advice was to customize the welcome email asking subscribers to tell me why they subscribed. I've developed some meaningful relationships from that alone!
Perhaps the only piece of advice that really matters in the end: Substack is a long game--think in terms of years, not months, i.e., keep going!
The best part about staying with your Substack and not giving up is that the more you write the better a writer you become, so there's absolutely no downside. What we're doing here as writers is old-school learning on the job the way the masters did before graduate programs took over and (arguably) made people think writing had to look and sound a certain way. We're right where we're supposed to be.
The best piece of substack advice? Well, a dear friend told me to start a substack, and that was solid advice.
To be consistent, and to support others’ work and build a community of writers alongside building your Substack. This has changed the way I think and work.
Best advice: when you get feedback or a comment, ask a question back to keep the engagement going!
Write weekly!
The best advice I got was to stay consistent and not too much all over the place. So that your readers can expect what you’ll be posting. And also appreciating every single subscriber without focusing too much on your numbers. Every single subscriber shared their email information with you, or they gifted you some of their daily time to leave a comment. In today’s fast-paced world genuine interaction, without any hurry, seems more rare.
Best advice: Write truly, honestly and authentically, and also: Promote your work! Don’t buy into the myth that it’s ‘bad’ to self-promote. That seems to be a new trend. Don’t be spammy; don’t just not engage and add your links to everything. It’s not a binary. Engage and add something meaningful to someone’s post and also promote your work if it’s appropriate, meaning if you wrote something connected to the topic you’re commenting on. No one else will do this work for you. Most of us will never have 10,000 subscribers. We build slowly. We advocate for ourselves.
Michael Mohr
‘Sincere American Writing’
https://michaelmohr.substack.com/
Recently a reader reminded me that the lack of distance between writers and readers does not make the readers Managing Editors. It's a good piece of advice, as following reader preferences too closely could lead the author astray.
Obviously it's important to listen to feedback and engage, but dramatically altering a newsletter because of the loudest fans may be a major mistake.
Consistency is key.
To keep expanding yourself thru your writing
According to Substack, the best advice is to be famous and an established successful writer with a massive following.
Only then will you be featured and...well, grow your audience more!
https://substack.com/@writersatwork has really great tips for the fundamentals of the substack platform!
No advice received yet via Notes in particular, but I’ve gotten a couple restacks that way, which is nice.
Advice received and repeated many times - Keep writing, and post regularly.