I chatted with some of the top writers on Substack recently.
Here’s their advice on growing a newsletter:
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Rusty Foster (@fka_tabs), @TodayinTabs
Get people with a bigger audience to mention you.
Will Lawrence, Product Life
Remix content for social channels.
Jeffrey Ding, ChinAI
Go organic.
Jeremy Caplan, Wonder Tools
Partner with other newsletters + write consistently useful posts.
Anton Howes, Age of Invention
Post regularly to increase the chance of sharing.
Ali Abouelatta, First 1000
Optimize content for organic search. Be active on Twitter.
(Ali’s newsletter is read by 20k+ people now! He shares about his journey from 0->2k subscribers in detail here: read.first1000.co/p/growing-firs…)
Thinking of starting a newsletter of your own?
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