[Free course] How to grow on Substack by 500+ subscribers per month (2026 Edition)

Substack is getting (much) harder to grow on but hopefully this guide will help

Last year I published a free guide about growing on Substack. 5,695 likes. 619 comments. 516 restacks. I still get DMs about it almost every week.

But I got a few core parts of it wrong.

Not the fundamentals, but there were serious holes in the sections about writing that actually attracts subscribers. And I completely missed one of the most crucial parts of promotion. I didn’t include it because I hadn’t figured it out yet.

I’ve also grown a lot as a writer since then, and reading the old version back makes me cringe a little. So rather than patching it, I rewrote the whole thing.

This is the updated and slightly expanded edition for 2026. But it matters even more now than it did a year ago.

In the original guide, I predicted Substack’s growth window would close within 3 to 12 months.

It took three.

Celebrities like Gary Vee have joined the platform. Creators are posting five to seven notes a day trying to stay competitive. The algorithm that used to resurface your posts for a month now quietly hides them in a day.

I’ve had three DMs in the past month from creators telling me the same thing: “I was gaining 50 subscribers a day six months ago and now I’m getting less than 10.” The headwind is only getting stronger.

Before we get into it, I want to be upfront. This guide is genuinely free, and I’m going to make it as useful as I possibly can. But I’m not going to pretend I have nothing to sell. I just launched my article writing workflow to help you write your first really good article. My hope is that this guide helps you enough that you’ll want to check it out on your own. But I’ll let you be the judge.

This guide is not about growth hacks or gaming the algorithm. It’s about getting discovered by writing about the things you genuinely care about, can’t stop thinking about, and can’t help but share with the world. I’ve gained 8,000 subscribers in the past three months with only one piece of writing about Substack growth. Everything else is about my interests, my philosophy, and my craft. You don’t need to write about growth to grow.

This guide walks you through how to do that in three phases:

1. Position: who you are, how you’re different, and how you help people

2. Produce: how to create writing people subscribe for, not just read

3. Promote: the strategy (and the missing piece from the original guide) that creates predictable, repeatable growth

Let’s start with positioning...

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1) Position: Who Are You and Why Should I Care?

“Dude, I just checked. Your post hit 10 million impressions. That’s insane. How many followers did you get?” I asked.

“A few hundred. I’m a little disappointed, actually.”

I remember just sitting with that for a second. Ten million people saw his writing. Only a few hundred cared enough to follow. I felt that number in my stomach before I understood it in my head.

Part of that had to do with his writing (we’ll get to that in the Produce section). But most of it had to do with the fact that when people clicked his profile, they had no idea why they should follow him. That’s positioning. And it matters just as much on Substack.

A year ago, you could get away with “I help people live more intentionally” because there weren’t many people saying it. Now there are hundreds, maybe even thousands. Scroll through the Substack recommendations in any self-improvement article and you’ll see what I mean. You could swap the profile picture out for any of them. It would make no difference.

Put an apple next to an orange and the differences are obvious. But put two apples next to each other and now you’re squinting. Your reader needs to land on your profile and immediately see an orange. Or better yet, a grapefruit. Who you write for, how you help them, and what makes your perspective different.

Let me use my own positioning as an example.

I help people with multiple interests write about all of them while building a cohesive identity as a writer. I write about deep thinking, writing craft, worldviews, and many other things, as you can see from my bio:

But I break my own rules a little. Instead of telling you I’m an aspiring polymath, I’m just demonstrating it. Ideas and writing and creative work and worldviews and breathwork and biz and AI and psychedelics and manga. I’m sacrificing the specificity of the outcome I’m promising by having my profile set up this way. But I’m betting the sheer combination helps me stand out because nobody else on the platform is combining these exact things into one voice.

If you’re starting out, I’d recommend being more specific. And if you haven’t accomplished anything noteworthy yet, don’t pretend you’re an expert. Talk about what you’re actively learning, and we’ll get into exactly how to do that in the next section.

Your next steps: Define Your Positioning

Answer three questions, then rewrite them into your Substack bio:

• Who do you write for?

• How do you help them?

• What makes your perspective different?

Make sure your profile picture, banner, and welcome email match the answers. But don’t obsess here. It’s better to start posting and figure your positioning out as you go than to obsess over this and never post at all. You can’t grow if you never publish.

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2) Produce: Creating Writing People Subscribe For

A lot of the Substack growth advice I see focuses on notes. Post five notes a day. Make sure some of them are stories. Make sure others are about calling your mom.

But from my experience, notes aren’t the growth lever to focus on. Articles are.

A note might get a fair amount of likes and shares, maybe even bring in a few hundred subscribers. But an article that hits can bring in thousands of subscribers in 30 days. And I don’t mean one or two thousand. I mean multiple thousands from a single piece.

So we’ll save notes for dessert. We’re starting here because this is what you need to focus on.

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a) It Starts With the Idea

If you want people to subscribe, you have to get discovered first. And getting discovered starts with the idea.

People spend hours on their titles, their storytelling, their anti-AI formatting. But they don’t spend nearly enough time on actually having a good idea to write about.

A good idea is the difference between running a marathon on eight hours of sleep and running one after a few too many gin and tonics the night before. You can finish both. But one of them is going to hurt.

One of the biggest problems I see is that people start with a topic. They think, I want to write about productivity. Then they stare at the blank page because a topic doesn’t give your brain anywhere to go.

That’s because a topic is a container. You can’t write “productivity.” But you can write a specific claim about productivity, one that someone could disagree with, get curious about, or feel something about.

A topic is a container. An idea is a claim.

• “Productivity” is a topic. “Most productivity systems are designed to make you feel busy, not to help you do meaningful work” is an idea.

• “Harry Potter” is a topic. “Harry Potter isn’t popular because of the writing, it’s popular because of the world JK Rowling built” is an idea.

• “A boring life” is a topic. “A boring life doesn’t mean you lack excitement, it means you’re not addicted to dopamine crack candy” is an idea.

The test is simple. State it out loud. If nobody feels anything, it’s a topic. If people light up in agreement, disagree, or say “wait, is that true?” — it’s an idea.

This matters because the idea determines the ceiling for everything that follows. Your title, your hook, your first draft. If the idea doesn’t have tension, it’ll take damn good writing to save the piece. (Writing far beyond my current capabilities).

But when the idea is right, the writing pulls itself forward.

Btw, remember when I said at the top that I wouldn’t pretend I have nothing to sell?

Here’s the first time I’m going to mention it. Fair warning, there will be a few more. I built a 7-step writing workflow called The Weekly Writer, and Step 1 is specifically designed to help you find ideas with tension worth writing about. More details HERE.

Now back to the guide...

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b) Then Package It Into a Title

At my ghostwriting agency, we ran an interesting test:

The same piece, two different titles. One attracted over a thousand subscribers. The other got maybe forty. Same writing. Same idea. The only thing that changed was the title.

Three things you can’t afford to get wrong:

1. Only one job

Every title commits to one emotional job. Titles that try to do two jobs at once end up doing neither. Before publishing, ask: “Can I name the one thing this title is doing?” If you can’t, simplify.

There are five (main) jobs a title can do:

• Name a problem. “the cost of the unlived life” (Sydney Rheeder)

• Offer an aspiration. “The Elegance of Digital Disappearance” (Janu/Miss Typed)

• Call out an identity paradox. “if you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy?” (Naval)

• Diagnose a cultural behavior. “Nobody Has A Personality Anymore” (Freya India)

• Reframe something familiar. “The Art of Waiting” (James Lucas)

Pick one. Commit to it. That’s your title’s job.

2. The modifier test

One word is often the difference between a title that works and one that doesn’t:

• “The art of vanilla sex” — interesting.

• “The dying art of vanilla sex” — something I wish I came up with.

After writing any title, ask: “What single word would transform this?”

3. The verb does the work

The verb you choose reframes the entire topic:

• “How to prioritize your intellectual life” implies you already have one but you’re neglecting it. (Andrew Harker)

• “How to build your intellectual life” implies you need to create one from scratch.

The verb IS the insight. Don’t default to generic verbs like “build,” “create,” or “improve” when a more specific verb would reframe the whole piece.

Work through these three in order every time you write a title. Pick the job, find the modifier, choose the verb. That alone will give you a better chance than most writers on the platform.

If you struggle with titles, The Weekly Writer has a title generator trained on over 300 proven titles built into the workflow. It doesn’t just give you titles. It helps you find the one that’s most likely to get engagment for your specific idea.

But regardless, getting the click is only half the story. Now you have to write something worth subscribing to, which most people have never been taught how to do.

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c) Now Write Something Worth Subscribing To

Does the average person love Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, or do they love Einstein? Do they love the Mona Lisa, or do they love Da Vinci?

These aren’t rhetorical questions, Farley. Great writing isn’t enough to gain subscribers. You need to be someone worth subscribing to. The kind of writer who makes people think: “Damn, who the f**ck created this?!”

That means your writing can’t be a generic rehash of what everyone else has already said, nor should it have ever been. The writing that earns subscribers shows proof that you’ve done interesting or difficult things, and that you have a perspective worth paying attention to.

There are a lot of techniques for this, but I’ve found three that I consider non-negotiables. And one of them is a mistake I see almost every beginner make.

1. Do things worth writing about

This isn’t a writing principle. It’s a life principle. You cannot do nothing with your life and still write compelling articles. The source material has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is your actual life.

Learn in public. Build in public. Live in public. Think in public. Research in public (just please, don’t have sex in public).

Just do something, anything, and then write about what actually happened.

When I published the “$315,000 tiny writing business” breakdown, it wasn’t the same biz tips you’ve read on Substack before. It was “here’s what I built, here’s what it made, here’s what I’m doing next.” It brought in 524 subscribers and a high-profile podcast invite.

I do my best to post each week about the mistakes I’ve made, the money I’ve lost, and the embarrassing moments I don’t even like telling my therapist about. They’re genuinely hard to publish. But they almost always end up being the writing my audience loves the most. The same will likely be true for you.

But what if you don’t feel newsworthy?

You are. You just haven’t learned to see it yet. If you’re living at all, you have something to write about. Your audience just needs to know what you’re doing so they have a reason to follow along.

Every week you don’t share what you’re doing, learning, or building is a week where your future audience can’t find you. They’re on Substack right now, looking for someone doing exactly what you’re doing. They just don’t know you exist yet.

2. Get yourself on the page

“Man, your articles are good. The logic’s good, the ideas are good. There’s just not enough of you on the page, and it has to be on the page right away.”

That was the first thing a professional editor told me when I paid him to review my work. Then he rewrote my intro. I instantly thought, f*ck, he’s right. I’ve never written differently since.

This is a non-negotiable, and you’ll never be able to unsee it now that I’ve told you. Go read other people’s articles and see how many of them get themselves on the page right away. I mean right away, the first three f*cking sentences. Most don’t. And the ones that don’t feel like they could have been written by anybody, or worse, AI.

This is the single most common piece of feedback I give new writers:

If I read two paragraphs and it could have been written by anyone, I’m gone. Your reader feels the same way.

Get yourself on the page, or scrap it.

3. Be unexpected.

If someone can guess what’s inside your article before they read it, it’s not worth reading. End of story.

You need to know what people have likely already read about your topic, and you need to say it differently. Not necessarily something new. But said in your way, with your language, with a story only you could tell, while connecting ideas nobody else has connected.

Your articles should feel like a hit Netflix show where people can’t wait to see what happens next. Not because you’re withholding information, but because the way you think, the things you do, and the way you write about them is genuinely unpredictable. The reader should finish every piece thinking: I have no idea what this person is going to write about next, but I know I want to read it.

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d) Then Convert Readers Into Subscribers

When the first version of this guide started gaining traction, it was getting shares and likes but not nearly as many subscribers as I’d expected. But then one day, while lathering my hair with anti-dandruff shampoo in the shower, it hit me: did I even put CTAs in it?

I hadn’t. So I went back, added CTAs into three spots, and my subscriber count started climbing immediately.

Most new writers either never give their readers a reason to subscribe at all, or they slap a subscribe button at the bottom and hope for the best. I did the second one for months. Both fail. Because inviting readers to subscribe isn’t an afterthought. It’s something you consciously design into every piece.

For simplicity’s sake, there’s only three types of CTAs you need when starting out:

1) Soft CTA: Plant a seed

A sentence or two woven into the piece that makes subscribing feel like the obvious next step, without directly asking. You’re not selling. You’re just making it clear there’s more where this came from.

Example: “I break down a different writing principle like this every week. Last week I covered how to find compelling ideas that are likely to attract new readers to your newsletters.”

Put a subscribe button below it and that’s it. Some readers will think, oh, there’s more of this? I should probably subscribe.

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2) Hard CTA: Ask (with conviction)

A direct ask at the end of the article. Tell them what they’ll get by subscribing, why it matters, and make it easy. One rule: WHY before WHAT. Creative audiences need to feel why something matters before they hear what’s inside.

A meta-example: Remember at the top of this guide when I said I wouldn’t pretend I have nothing to sell? Well, I’m shootin my shot again...

Because if you’ve read this far, you’re not someone who just wants to read about growing on Substack. You want to actually do it. That’s why I built The Weekly Writer.

A 7-step writing workflow that sits with you through every stage of writing an article, from finding an idea worth writing about to hitting publish. It’s not a course you watch and forget. You go through it once, you have a finished article. You go through it every week, you have a writing practice. If you’re serious about actually doing this, check it out HERE.

3) Story Bridge: The piece IS the ask

The entire article builds toward subscribing as its natural conclusion. The writing creates the desire. The ask just opens the door. This is your most powerful conversion tool, and sometimes the hardest to pull off naturally.

Example: You write a 400-word article about realizing you waited too long to start publishing on Substack. The story lands. Then you close with: “I write about this every week. Getting over writer’s block. Coming up with ideas. Editing messy drafts. If that sounds useful, subscribe below.” (Or better yet, grab your copy of The Weekly Writer, doors close April 6th).

The story did the selling, naturally. The CTA just gave them a door to walk through.

Use soft CTAs weekly. Use hard CTAs once or twice a month. Use story bridges whenever they fit naturally. The key is consistency. People often subscribe not the first time they see an ask, but the seventh or tenth.

Oh, and one more thing: you don’t have to write CTAs into every piece from the start. Write your articles. When something starts performing well above your average, go back and edit the CTAs in. That way you’re not cluttering every piece with asks, and you’re only adding them where new readers are actually showing up.

Now that you know how to write articles people subscribe for, let’s talk about what to do between articles. Because while you’re waiting for your next piece to hit, there’s a way to grow every single day.

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Notes: How New People Find You (Consistently)

Articles are where trust gets built, and if you write them well, they’re where most of your growth will come from. But while you’re waiting for your next article to pop-pop, you can start growing every single day with notes. Even 8 to 50 new subscribers a day, depending on whether you’re writing notes that get shared or notes that get subs.

But most beginners don’t understand the difference between a note that gets subscribers and a note that just gets shared and liked. And if they do, they often don’t know how to write them correctly. They’re not the same thing, and confusing the two is why many new writers post every day and watch their subscriber count move at the pace of a human in Wall-E.

There are two types of notes:

1) Notes that get shared

They get your ideas in front of new people. Opinions, reframes, observations, universal truths. The reader gets the full value from the post itself. They share it because sharing says something about them: “I’m thoughtful.” “I’m informed.” “I prefer the quiet, slow life over the fast and superficial.” Great for reach. But reach alone doesn’t grow your subscriber count.

2) Notes that attract new readers.

They make people curious about you. Transparent reveals, behind-the-scenes, persistence stories with data, milestone updates. These posts are incomplete on purpose. They create a “who IS this person?” reaction that makes the reader click your profile and subscribe.

The data makes this obvious.

My viral note: 1.5K likes, 69 restacks, 49 subscribers.

My transparent reveal: 233 likes, 7 restacks, 31 subscribers.

Now... The viral note got more subscribers. But compared to the amount of engagement, it wasn’t much. The reveal got way more subscribers relative to the amount of people who saw it. That’s the power of personal moments.

You need both. Share notes expand your reach. Subscriber notes turn that reach into people who actually read you every week. But if you’re only writing one type, that could be the reason you’re not growing.

And if you struggle to consistently write notes, The Weekly Writer includes a Substack Notes assistant. You drop your article in, it extracts the most noteworthy moments, and guides you through rewriting them as notes optimized for shares and subscribers. Plus a full Notes Playbook that goes way deeper into notes than I go in this guide.

Grab a copy here if it suits you.

How to Structure a Note

Every good note follows three beats:

1) Hook

Your first sentence. It stops the scroll. Write it in their language, not yours. If your target reader would say it to a friend while venting or type it into a search bar at midnight, it’s in their language.

2) Shift

Everything between the hook and the landing. You challenge a belief, name something they’ve felt but couldn’t articulate, or build intensity toward the landing.

3) Landing

Your final sentence. This is the most important sentence in the note, and most people get it backwards. They obsess over the hook and treat the ending as an afterthought. But the landing is what’s sitting in the reader’s mind when they decide whether to scroll past or share. I’ve tested this extensively. If your strongest line is buried in the middle, restructure the whole note so it becomes the ending. Otherwise you’ll get 1 or 2 shares instead of 10+.

The Weekly Writer includes a Substack Notes assistant where you drop your article in, it extracts the most noteworthy moments, and helps you rewrite them as notes optimized for shares and subscribers. Plus a full Notes Playbook that goes way deeper into notes than I go in this guide.

What to Post and How Often

Post two to five notes per day. At least one should be a subscriber note.

Think of your notes as a series, not random posts. Each week should follow a mini-arc:

Now: “Here’s what I’m building or testing this week.”

Next: “Here’s what I’ll report back on next week.”

How: “Here’s exactly what I did so you can either avoid the same mistakes or achieve the same results.”

When your notes follow this rhythm, your writing stops feeling like isolated posts and starts feeling like a show people tune into every week.

A Note on Podcasts and Lives

There are other things you can create on Substack:

• Podcasts

• Substack Lives

• Subscriber-chat posts.

I haven’t found any of them to be major growth drivers compared to articles and notes.

That doesn’t mean they aren’t valuable. They just serve a different purpose, which is why we’re coming back to them in the next section with a new lens. They’re less about attracting new readers and more about expanding your network and raising your credibility through association with other creators.

I started interviewing other creators at the end of last year. Recorded about 20 episodes. What surprised me wasn’t the new subscribers (there weren’t many). It was that I became genuinely close friends with these people. We chat on WhatsApp now. It just took doing a podcast to break the ice. That network has been worth more than any growth hack I’ve ever tried, and you’ll see why in the next section.

Your Next Steps: Produce

For articles:

Start with the idea, not the topic. Find a claim someone could disagree with. Package it into a title using the one job, modifier, and verb framework. Get yourself on the page in the first three sentences. Write something no one could have expected. Add CTAs into anything that starts performing.

For notes:

Post two to five notes a day. Mix share notes and subscriber notes. Structure every note with a hook, shift, and landing. Put your strongest line at the end, not the middle. Think in weekly arcs, not random posts.

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3) Promote: Get People To See Your Work (& Subscribe)

“It’s like you’re running a marathon and you got that initial burst for the first four or five miles. But now you’re in mile six. You’re getting tired. No one’s cheering for you anymore. And you have a long way to run.”

That was one of my coaching clients last week. He’s a great writer. Strong ideas, many of them far better than mine. Credible positioning. Publishing consistently. But not seeing nearly enough engagement on his work.

He doesn’t have a writing problem. He has a promotion problem.

I know because I experienced the same thing. For four months, I posted on Substack with little to show for it. By month three, I started to think I was wasting my time. I was a few days away from giving up entirely. But then the collaborations started. Natasha Tynes invited me on her podcast. Then Jari Roomer. Then Claudia Faith. Each one introduced me to an audience that already trusted them, and that trust seemed to transfer. Seemingly overnight, my growth went from hoping anything would get seen to growing by 500 subscribers per month. I’ve hit that minimum every month since.

I deeply believe that really good writing alone might be enough for the top 1%. But for the rest of us, we do have to learn how to promote our own work without feeling that ick after we hit publish.

For those writers, there are three ways to get discovered on Substack. The first two are important. But the third one has had the biggest impact on my growth over the past four months.

1) Algorithm Visibility

When you publish on Substack, the platform shows your writing to a small handful of people it thinks will like it. Some of those are your subscribers, if you have them. Others are people who don’t follow you yet. If enough of those people engage, the algorithm will show it to more people.

Think of it like being the new kid at school. The teacher introduces you around and helps you fit in. But it’s slow, unpredictable, and you never know if someone’s going to make fun of your brand new cardigan. It also favors writers who already have bigger audiences.

If you’re a beginner, I wouldn’t depend on it alone. The next two methods are what I’d recommend focusing on instead.

2) Manual Visibility: Building Real Relationships

I did this for four straight months before a single piece of mine performed well. It felt like shouting into the Grand Canyon and not even having an echo bounce back. But it works.

a) Commenting (15-30 minutes daily)

Commenting isn’t one activity. It’s three:

• Layer 1: Reply to comments on your own writing. Every comment should get a reply. It shows the algorithm your writing is getting people talking, and it builds the kind of community that makes readers want to stay.

• Layer 2: Comment under 5-10 writers you admire. Leave comments that add a personal story or real nuance, not generic praise. The goal is to make people curious enough to click your name.

• Layer 3: Comment under the active readers of those writers. This is where you’ll gain the most subscribers. Find the people leaving thoughtful comments who don’t get much engagement on their own writing. Go to their profiles. Read their latest post. Leave a genuine comment. They notice. They click your name. They often subscribe. High-conversion, low-competition attention.

b) DM Outreach

Anyone who consistently engages with your writing should get a direct message. But don’t ask them to read your work or subscribe to your newsletter. (For God’s sake, please just stop with this). A genuine thank you and conversation starter is all you need.

Send 3-5 DMs a day. Keep it simple, keep it human. You’re just chatting with people like friends.

3) Collaboration Visibility

Collaborations grow your subscribers through borrowed trust.

a) Restack Swaps: The Missing Piece

This is what I got wrong in the original guide. I left out the single most predictable growth lever on Substack because I hadn’t accidentally stumbled into it yet.

Make friends with other writers, genuinely support each other’s work, and when you publish something you’re really proud of, ask them to restack it. This isn’t an engagement group. Just writers who genuinely support each other.

It tends to form organically. You comment, you DM, you read each other’s work. Some of those people become actual friends. At some point the conversation happens naturally: “Hey, I really enjoy your articles. Want to do the occasional swap?”

When one of my articles performs above my average, I treat it like an event. I reach out to as many friends as I can and get as many restacks as possible. Publish a high volume to find the ones that resonate. When something hits, push it. That’s what has led to me getting over a thousand subscribers from multiple single articles.

But this has to be reciprocal. When friends message me saying they’re proud of something they wrote, and it’s a fit for my audience, I restack it without hesitation. Be confident in your work. Be willing to ask. And honor the people whose work you love by doing the same for them.

b) Newsletter Recommendations

Substack has a built-in recommendation feature that suggests your publication to new subscribers of other publications. This runs in the background and compounds over time. From my experience, it’s added about 50 new subscribers a month without any ongoing effort. Not huge in the grand scheme of things but it helps.

c) Cross-Promotion

This is a feature on Substack that allows you to send someone else’s article to your subscribers’ inbox, and vice-versa. Use this sparingly, once every couple of weeks at most. (I personally don’t do it at all).

d) Substack Lives

Invite a writer with a similar or slightly larger audience for a live conversation. This builds credibility through association, and their audience sees you in a trusted context. I recently did a 7 hour live with another creator. People were laughing that they went to the gym, came home, made dinner, and we were still going.

Your Next Steps: Promote Yourself

1. Spend 15-30 minutes a day commenting thoughtfully. On your own writing, on writers you admire, and on the active readers of those writers.

2. DM 3-5 new people a day to connect, share ideas, and build real relationships. Over time, some of those people may become friends you trade restacks with.

3. When an article performs above your average, treat it like an event. Get every restack you can.

4. (Optional) Do one collaboration every two weeks: Substack Live, cross-promotion, or recommendation exchange.

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Okay, one last time...

Everything in this section has set the foundations of promotion...

The Weekly Writer includes a Self-Promotion Playbook as a free bonus that goes deeper on these strategies with additional techniques I didn’t cover here. If you’re serious about growing on Substack, it’s worth checking out.

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Growing on Substack is not as easy as it used to be. But it’s also not as hard as it’s going to be. Every week you wait, the cost of the same result goes up.

Don’t just read this once. Come back to it. Run it through AI and have it help you improve your own writing using the principles in here. Every growth strategy I’ve seen work on Substack exists somewhere in this piece. If you find something I missed, DM me. I genuinely want to know.

Not every niche can grow by 500+ subscribers per month, nor should you want to. But regardless of what you write about, this guide still applies.

The writers who win on Substack aren’t the ones who posted the most. They’re the ones who started before it got hard and kept going after it did.

You’re reading this while there’s still room to grow. That matters more than you think.

If you have questions about anything in this guide, DM me on Substack. I’m happy to help.

This was fun. Thanks for reading.

-Taylin (with edits from Dale)

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