Growing a Newsletter: What Moves the Dial
Insights from a newsletter with 85K+ subscribers
Hey everyone,
Today I want to share a super-helpful post by Ali ABOUELATTA who writes about what he learned during his first four years on Substack. During that time he built up his subscriber numbers to more than 85,000 (w0w!) and posted 120 times.
Ali and I disagree about what is the best post frequency for growth. Ali’s audience seems to appreciate bi-weekly posting, whereas I recommend most writers stick to once per week.
But we definitely agree about one thing: consistent posting is very important to subscriber growth.
Here’s Ali’s take on it (click the preview box below to read his post)
Enjoy!
Hi Karen - thanks for sharing! I grew rapidly by high quality of content, posting 3-5x per week and offering free posts together with daily engagement on Notes, comments and posts. There as many variants as there are topics so I hope this helps someone else as well! Best, Jayshree
I hate that he has his comments closed lol.
One thing I wonder when he touches on brevity...how does anyone know how brief the post is before opening?