How to Use Substack to Build a Community With Your Customers The newsletter platform has emerged as a means for founders to engage more directly with their audience. Should you join?

Some Substack creators are using direct messaging to build communities and retain paying subscribers. The publishing platform has rolled out chat features to help creators connect with their ...

Substack is a rapidly growing method of publishing email newsletters. If you want to set one up for yourself, we take you through the process, step-by-step.

Substack is great at helping writers build direct relationships with readers through its newsletter-first approach. With ...

So, use Notes. Introduce yourself. 04. Be weird In a viral (for Substack) essay, Emily Sundberg suggests that a lot of writing on the platform sounds the same.

03. Use Notes Many an eyebrow was raised when Substack announced Notes, its Twitter-esque feed, in 2023.

But some of the most successful Notes I've seen on Substack are simple 'Hello' posts explaining who someone is what their publication is about. So, use Notes. Introduce yourself.

For Substack CEO and cofounder, Chris Best, the future can’t repeat the mistakes of the past. “The way we ended up, where we have these ad-supported, attention-monster social media feeds ...

Our goal is not to be a publisher that has a bunch of stuff. The whole point of Substack is that as a writer, you can use Substack to go independent, and we are spawning a million media companies.