Six steps to building a sustainable author business
You don’t need more tactics. You need the right order. This webinar breaks down the six-step sequence that turns subscriptions, retailers, and Kickstarter into a sustainable author ecosystem.
Evolve Without Burning Out Masterclass
How to realign your Substack, business, and creative work for long-term growth—without chasing dopamine, copying formulas, or losing the joy that made you start in the first place.
Rating popular Substack strategies
Honest takes on real Substack growth strategies. Russell Nohelty & Erin Shetron break down what actually works, what burns you out, and how to grow sustainably.
How to Build a World Class Substack in 2025 with Claire Venus
How modern creators are using Substack to build sustainable, reader-first businesses without relying on algorithms or burnout tactics.
How to automate importing Substack subscribers into Kit through Gmail
Discover how to seamlessly automate Substack subscribers to ConvertKit (Kit) for powerful email funnels, personalized segmentation, and a more profitable author business.
Is churn quietly killing your business?
A clear-eyed look at audience churn for authors—why it happens, why it’s normal, and how to build an ecosystem that outpaces it.
How 10K Secrets Came Together—And Why Anthologies Built My Career
A recording from Russell Nohelty and Philip Hofmacher's live video
Leading When You Feel Lost: Building Connection in a Weird World
A recording from Russell Nohelty and Alex Dobrenko`'s live video
Substack, Kit, and the Power of Automated Workflows
Discover how to seamlessly automate Substack subscribers to ConvertKit (Kit) for powerful email funnels, personalized segmentation, and a more profitable creative business
How to Build a World-Class Substack (and Pivot Successfully) Without Losing Sight of Your “Why”
Learn how to build a world-class Substack by balancing money as a means, niche experimentation, and strategic pivots that keep your creative business thriving
Why Substack growth posts work (and yours don't)
Learn why successful growth posts on Substack gain traction while yours struggle, and discover the four key barriers preventing your posts from reaching their intended audience.
5 Substack 'Secrets' To Take Your Publication To The Next Level
Effective strategies to grow and monetize your Substack faster than ever in 2025.
Why 45% of Substacks go inactive, and other findings from combing through 75k newsletters
Uncover the surprising patterns behind newsletter longevity, creator challenges, and the strategies that separate thriving publications from the rest.
How not to f*ck up your newsletter
Or: how to navigate the increasingly dark and deep sea of 2025 “growth hack” listicles
Creative Growth Strategies for a Sustainable Business
Growth doesn’t have to mean chaos. By focusing on what matters—your energy, your audience, and the systems you build—you can create a career that supports both your creativity and your well-being.
The five time-tested adoption decisions
Discover the five key adoption concepts—Relative Advantage, Compatibility, Simplicity, Observability, and Triability—that help entrepreneurs grow their audience and build lasting connections.
Secrets of Substack Bestsellers
Learn how to balance growth and monetization on Substack with expert tips on defining touchpoints, audience strategies, and sustainable publishing practices.
Are you running a low touchpoint or high touchpoint subscription?
There are two questions we don’t talk about much when it comes to creating a subscription. They impact how much energy you invest, how you price your offering, and how it fits into your strategy.
Substack Milestone posts
Here are all my monthly and important milestone posts in one place. I'm not curating this very well, but I'll keep it as current as I can.
How to compile your blog into a book
I’ve released multiple solo nonfiction books up to this point in my career and most of them were compiled almost exclusively or primarily through repurposing blog articles and Facebook posts.
Year 2 on Substack: Writing consistently without burning out (part 2)
Cut to a year later—I started to feel a tiny sense of dread each time I had to come up with my next piece.
Year 2 on Substack: Creating Sustainable Growth (part 1)
Months ago, a writer friend of mine asked me if it was worth it to start a Substack. Like me, she was working on a memoir. I told her yes, but it's a bit more complicated than all that.
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?
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.