Substack Tips

Tips For Your Substack Home Page

A few tips that will help you get more people to stick around to check out your writing instead of looking and leaving

Mar 14 •

The Best Way To Use Substack Tags

If you want to get more views and find more readers, tags can really help but you need to know how they work and it might not be the way you think!

Feb 26 •

Coming To Substack From Medium? Here's What You Need To Know.

“You attract what you need like a lover” ~Gertrude Stein

Jan 24 •

45% Of Substacks Fail, And The Letter Fitzgerald Sent His Daughter

"Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to" ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jan 10 •

Want To Try A Substack Experiment, Maybe Make A Splash Together?

We are almost 5000 strong, maybe we can make a tiny splash in a big ocean.

Dec 6, 2024 •

The Biggest Problem On Substack

Sometimes email from my readers are pennies from heaven. Like today.

Nov 22, 2024 •

Paywall Pain On Substack

Paywall pain is different to readers and writers on Substack. That's because Substack isn't Medium and Medium isn't Substack.

Oct 18, 2024 •

The Problem With Both Medium And Substack Isn't The Platform

A plate of cookies might make you rethink your strategy on writing platforms

Sep 20, 2024 •

If You're Just Starting On Substack, Don't Make The Same Dumb Mistake I Did

Same applies if you're starting a newsletter anywhere, really.

Jan 27, 2023 •

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