The Substack Success Podcast

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Substack has fundamentally changed—and that'…

Rufus Griscom’s Substack Author Insider is one of the Substacks I read or listen to/watch every single week. We’re so inundated with AI-generated slop about creativity, writing, and publishing. Autho…

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Too often, when we try to get subscribers or likes or conversions, we don’t even know who we’re trying to enga…

Very excited for tomorrow’s 7-Day Notes Boost Challenge.

Take an hour and get all your Notes ready for the seven days in advance, so you aren’t scrambling during the Challenge.

* I take you through s…

I love getting to do this with all of you.

This goal-setting session is the best 40 minutes you can spend. I’m not just saying that. I did it this morning, too.

Participating in this session will trans…

Substack offers many features when it comes to posting. In this quick-guide, we go through them all.

Some of the many highlights:

* All your content is distributed simultaneously as both blog posts and…

So many writers want to be featured by Substack.

It can bring thousands of new subscribers. Being featured signals you're producing authentic work, not AI content. It puts you in excellent company wit…

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Main takeaway: We have to ask people to pay. Yup. No way around.

Some of us just expect people to pay. And writers and creators/crea…

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Are you feeling confused, overwhelm…

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I’m so happy you’re here—always. I’m amazed by the work you are and everyone in Substack Writers at Work is doing. So committed.

Now is the time to go all in on your Su…

In case you missed our live with two amazing Substack writers and humans, who are also my clients, I’m going to give you the full recap (below) and the replay (above).

Emma Vivian is the creator of At…

Notes Boost Challenge

* (00:00:22) Introduction to the Notes Boost Challenge

* Created when Substack introduced notes

* Notes is now 2 years old and offers phenomenal growth potential

* (00:01:21) Purpo…

Thank you all for being on our live about why Notes and a carefully chosen community are the key to real Substack growth.

Our amazing guests also shared how going viral—when done right—can lead to me…

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Today, we talk about subvocalization and how important it is to reading and voice and how important it is to writing. Voice is one …

I loved getting to talk about the importance of really (really) tending to your mental health on Substack.

Mental health is a word that gets thrown around a lot. It’s different for all of us. We get …

A summit on what it means to have a 100% human-produced Substack with Rosana Francescato and Matthew Long!

Thank you Joy Sullivan, Henry Oliver, Danielle Bean, Britany Robinson, Aimee Liu, and many others for tuning into my live video with Seth Werkheiser!

Should Seth and I turn this into a regular show?

I…