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Mansi Kwatra's avatar

Hi Kristina!

Only just came across this post of yours. It’s funny, I thought I was subscribed to your newsletter all this while but I wasn’t? Anyway, did it now.

Notes changed my life. I had just over a 100 subscribers in Jan this year after nine months of writing on Substack. With the help of Notes, my subscriber count is close to 900 today. My newsletter experienced a spectacular boom, however things seem to have slowed down now. I wonder if that has happened with most people or just me?

I would love some advice on how to still use Notes to our advantage.

Thanks in advance though ✨

Florian Martinon's avatar

I love your article Kristina! And the interview with David is wonderful.

It has really motivated me to keep g(r)o(w)ing here!

I started two days ago and I am still editing the platform, but I am now super inspired in how I am going to use it.

Thank you!

Juan Gonzalez's avatar

Thanks for sharing this. Gonna dig into it.

Sharon Sinclair-Williams's avatar

I’m trying to get the hang of notes in the sense that I have 2 newsletters on here. Without posting links how will followers know which newsletter to follow? I have one I’m more active on than the other. I read not to post links to recent newsletters as that’s not the way to do it 🤷🏼‍♀️

Ed Sharrow's avatar

Twitter/X is highly “curated” and continues to select voices. I hope Substack never moves in that direction.

Sandra Pawula's avatar

Thank you, Kristina and David. This was very valuable information. I've been on Substack for a few years, but I'm just learning about Notes and Recommendations now.

Marple's avatar

Good to see success!!!

Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Hmmm. Had one note go viral, 0 subscribers from it. I do enjoy Notes and will continue participating.

Bryce Payne's avatar

Ok so that's a pretty compelling collection of screenshots... maybe it IS time to up my Notes game.

Robin Motzer's avatar

Thanks for inspiring and sharing tips, Kristina, grateful I subscribed to your helpful newsletter!

I'm looking forward to people discovering my mission to Restore Soils and Souls.

Notes = a fun, informative and community building way to engage and grow!

Jezz Lundkvist's avatar

If only ”followers” was removed, the Notes would been godlike!

Salvador Lorca 📚's avatar

There IS a problem or two. Notes are not indexed by Google. And it is not possible migrate our notes. It is rented land for now.

🅟🅐🅤🅛 🅜🅐🅒🅚🅞's avatar

Nice! Good info Kristina!

Annalisa Caminarecci's avatar

Very much unbelievable! I write a gratitude daily note and more, but still in the early days .. a few likes are better than none 🤪 but I do it because I like it, more than likes. I do like when people respond as I feel more helpful and a tiny tad proud of myself too 😁

Marie Vandoorne's avatar

Thanks to Notes, my audience DOUBLED in the past 7 days. From 162 -> 350 and counting 🤯🤯🤯 Absolute bonkers!!! I had 2 'viral' notes that did it.

Annalisa Caminarecci's avatar

How did you do it! Well done 👏👏👏

Toni Jones's avatar

Thank you for sharing. I had a question on how to share Substack news on INSTAGRAM. Any time I try and mention SS over there I get shot down/ things don’t work/posts disappear.

🫠 Would you recommend screenshotting as per X? Any advice gratefully received 💛

Kristina God's avatar

Hi Toni, really?

On Medium also sometimes strange things happen if I write about Substack.

It's definitely a competitor.

But I heard from my tribe and Insta influencers that Insta hates it if you link somewhere else. More then ever.

I'd do the same.

Screenshot and don't mention the word Substack 😂

Let me know how it's going!

Keep going!