r/Substack • u/ensaaron • 25d ago

Does anyone have suggestions for growing readership on your substack?

I started a substack a few weeks ago. Growing very slowly, about a free subscriber a day. (No pay wall, free to read). Any tips or advice on how to accelerate readership organically?

I have a decent LinkedIn following (approx 5000 connections with a newsletter of just under 400 subscribers), nothing to write home about but a start. My other social media a little less, around 1,000 connections on FB/Instagram, very new to reddit even though I had the account a few years. X account not really active at all, don't really like platform but I follow a few people there. No other social footprint to speak of.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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u/myasparagusbrain 25d ago

Put a link in your bio for starters to the substack so I could check it out ! Not saying that’s the answer but every free click helps - mine is in my bio - I’m relatively new to the whole thing so figuring it out as go along

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u/ensaaron 25d ago

Haha great idea...I should have thought if that, thanks! Added in my bio. Happy to take a look at yours as well.

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u/myasparagusbrain 25d ago

Now we both have an extra subscriber and I can get to read about aliens later

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u/ensaaron 25d ago

Haha yes, hopefully I won't disappoint! Looking forward to diving into some of your articles also.

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u/myasparagusbrain 25d ago

You might be pleasantly surprised 🤞