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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

Pietro, there's always room for growth without social media. I started here in Sept (5 months ago) and have not shared any posts socially but I'm on track to hit 400 subs by next month.

Slow and steady, pay attention to your audience and fully engage with them. It'll definitely pay off.

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Kristina God's avatar

Btw keep me posted because I'd love to include your growth in a video, if you like to?

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

I will, definitely. I'm also planning to reach out to you shortly with something else. Stay tuned!

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Kristina God's avatar

I guess your coaching business?

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

No, actually I've just started doing virtual assistant work for Substackers. I love it!!

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Kristina God's avatar

That's what I meant! You're a VA or VC now 👍

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

Yes ma'am! More of an assistant than a coach. I love doing the back-end work.

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Kristina God's avatar

Hey Kristi, I guess you raise an interesting question. Is Notes here on Substack social media or not? I saw yesterday's challenge and the results of 30 subs came through Notes, so some say it's social media. There's even an algorithmic ranking there 😁 some are afraid Substack will turn into a social media platform.

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

I mean, I guess Notes is a social platform for sure. But there's a huge difference between Notes and other ones because it's internal. Everyone on Notes is part of the Substack writing community. We don’t have to go outside of it if we don't want like we would have to with Medium. There's nowhere to share and have conversations on Medium.

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Kristina God's avatar

100% that's why I love it too

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Kristina God's avatar

Mastodon? 😂

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

Ah yes...heard of it but I had already lost interest on Medium when it came out.

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Pietro Macorig's avatar

Thanks Kristi. I'm so happy about your 5-month journey, and it's giving me hope.

I'll follow your advice, and I can't wait to get to the end of the year to see the results.

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Kristina God's avatar

Hi Pietro, sure! Take my YouTube channel for instance. I started it at around the same time as my newsletter but due to pregnancy and other stuff I didn't manage to pump out one video per week. I'm at 30 long form videos now but now have 1,000 subs which is awesome. If I wouldn't have started 2022 I wouldn't be where I'm now.

It takes a while. we need to be patiente On Substack you belong to the top 6% of publishers when you manage to write 40 newsletter issue.

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Pietro Macorig's avatar

Hi Kristina! It's inspiring to hear about your YouTube growth. I remember watching your videos before deciding to start my newsletter. Aiming for that top 6%! 🚀

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

You're welcome! Enjoy the journey ✨️

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