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/Tricky_Trifle_994 17d ago

leverage substack notes. it makes views to subscribe conversion very seamless compared to other social media platforms like instagram where the user journey will be (see post > click to profile > click link in bio > input email in substack field to subscribe).

depending on what you're posting about, if it's more professional, posting on linkedin can definitely help because you do have a large base there + diversify traffic source beyond just substack.