Creating Accessible Content: Don’t Miss Out on Connecting with Your Audience
Seven Tips to Get You Started
Hold tight to your golden thread
How to stay oriented in the Substack wilderness
Are you finding arbitrage or building arbitrage?
When I first started building my career in earnest, Gary Vee was using the term “attention arbitrage” to explain what people needed to be concerned with in the then-nascent creator economy.
How can we survive and thrive in the new media landscape?
The same things that saved us in the old media environment will save us in the new media environment.
Birthing a Substack and giving it life with doula Nikko Kennedy
Nikko Kennedy is a perinatal quantum biology practitioner and certified labor and postpartum doula with a B.S. in Biopsychology. She is the mother of 4 children and lives with her husband in Oregon
Short circuiting the Substack burnout cycle
It seems like writers have a six-month burn rate where they come in excited, start to build, grind, and burn out. How do we live better lives in the meat grinder of capitalism?
What I Would Tell My Younger Self
About halfway through my first year as a yearbook adviser, I got a sinking sense of loss: why hadn’t
How to get over your sales phobia
If you want to sell more of your products, you must master two things: The thing you are good at and sales.
Why I'm Kickstarting my new book
It's not about money. It's about playing a bigger and better game.
The things you cannot influence
How creating your own podcasts, events, and publishing ventures can rapidly grow your audience and supercharge your creative career.
“My Name Is Satya And I Am A Substackaholic.”
How to get the best out of Substack without falling into compulsion
Why (and how) to do a roundup
The point of a roundup is to create community and highlight other people on Substack that your readers should also read to help you grow your network and your publication.
How to quiet down your negative self-talk
My 2024 goal is to better manage my negative dialogue. Here are some strategies to amplify your inner critic and quiet the doubts
Why (and how) I fell back in love with advertising
How I stopped fighting and learned to fall in love with spending money on ads for my publication.
A technologist's perspective on whether AI will replace writers
Today I’m thrilled to bring you the first of what I hope are many columns by my friend, publisher,
Building a brand from the ground up
Making sense of branding is helpful for anyone aspiring to establish a meaningful and memorable online and offline presence.
Kickstarter publishing category growth in seven charts
Working with Stat Significant, we were able to break down the history of the Kickstarter publishing category between 2013 and 2021.
Exposing Yourself For Fun and Profit
There's a trick to gaining True Fans...but it'll scare you to death.
Growth, (online) engagement, and the diamond ring
10x growth on Substack in just over a year with Claire Venus
The bullseye method for growing an audience
How I've been able to write very weird books AND sell enough to thrive.
How (and why) to build a personal brand to keep your books selling
Would you rather readers buy your book when it launches, or have many continued sales throughout the years?
Wannabe Press year one operating budget
A lot of people ask about building their publishing business. I just stumbled across our first budget, which might help visualize what a first year small publisher should expect to pay.
