Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

What No One Tells You About Substack Growth

Notes in 1 hour a week...

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Sarah Fay, PhD
Jun 30, 2026
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» Helping you declutter your brain and life and focus on what matters, so your Substack can actually grow.


Substack growth still primarily happens on Notes and most people are getting distracted by the wrong things.

There are many ways to get likes and even comments and restacks (i.e., dopamine hits) but only one way to get quality subscribers who become engaged readers who become paid subscribers, and this is it.

Notes in 1 hour a week. Exactly as I outline below.


As a paid subscriber, you always get the best. Notes Hour One is working across the board for my clients and my Premier members:

  • Jane Trombley gained 137 subscribers (including paid) in 2 weeks.

  • Lisa Kelly Zuba grew from 603 to 777 subscribers in 2 weeks.

  • Another client grew by 1,000 subscribers in two months—even though his Notes feed was crickets—because he focused on exactly what I give you here.


Who this is for:

  • This isn’t for you if you’re after likes and dopamine hits that don’t bring subscribers or enjoy churning out AI-generated content or think you have to post five times a day or are caught up in whatever hack has been promised elsewhere. What I’m about to give you doesn’t produce a superficial high and may not feel right or even good at first.

  • It is for you if you want to use Notes (i.e., not be used by yet another social media platform) to get engaged, paying subscribers you actually want to be in conversation, make Substack more of your home, and spend your time making your Substack one of the elite few who produce substantial revenue.


1. How this works

Below, I take you through exactly what you need to do step by step in a video tutorial—plus, you get my Notes in one hour a week, a cheat sheet and checklist to make sure you’re on track


2. Getting started

If you’d like to get Notes Hour One without upgrading, you can do so here for $35. You get the full tutorial, all the steps exactly how to attract quality subscribers, my cheat sheet, and accountability checklist.

Purchase Notes Growth for $35

Or commit to my guidance for one year by becoming a paid subscriber. Substack information is everywhere, and you can get it from ChatGPT. But this is the only place where paid subscribers get proven strategies based on four years of pattern recognition across 1,000+ of my private clients and tens of thousands of Substack Writers at Work. You and your Substack are worth it.

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