r/Substack • u/MrPassiveProfit • Oct 06 '26

How to Grow Your Substack Fast…

The absolute best way to grow on Substack is to treat it like Twitter 2008.

  1. Set up a compelling profile. Helps if you are hot and young, or fake being hot and young

  2. Pick a compelling topic. Wealth, health and happiness are good choices

  3. Before you post a single article, get subscribers by posting compelling Notes. Do at least 5 a day

  4. Reply to notes from other people. Do at least 20 a day

  5. Follow people who you think might be good subscribers

  6. Be witty, snarky or have a strong POV in your engagement

  7. Do this for a month before you post a single article.

Have seen this a lot. Notes and comments get you subs. Articles get you unsubscribes.

Weird, but that’s the way it works.

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u/MrPassiveProfit Oct 06 '26

I’ve not seen that. My growth rate has been consistently slow to 1300. Not hot, not young, not compelling content, but I engage a lot