How to tell if your Substack has the foundation you need to grow
» Your weekly expert guide to Substack with leading Substack Strategist Sarah Fay.
Today:
How to tell if you have the foundation you need to grow on Substack + What to do next + My wordmark template for you (and what a wordmark is and if you need it)
Housekeeping:
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Your Substack Foundation
Having worked 1:1 with thousands of Substack writers, I can tell pretty quickly if someone’s Substack has the foundation needed for real, long-term growth.
It’s not their subscriber count. Or Notes. Or even their dashboard.
It’s that their Substack feels vague or generic.
The person behind the Substack isn’t vague or generic at all. (You’re far more interesting than you think you are.)
Their Substack may be designed beautifully (they had some sort of “audit”), but there’s no substance. There’s the sense that nobody’s home.
What most people get wrong
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