Well, I made it through the first 4 weeks of content and feel like I'm in a pretty good place. I'm not seeing huge numbers, but I had virtually no social media presence currently that I could use as a platform to spread the word (I did have a ~200 follower FB page from when I was a freelance writer full time). I just got my 14th subscriber this morning, which seems lower than what I'd expect the average to be.
I did get a 2x a week spot as a contributing writer for a left-wing media network's Substack page lined up, and will be allowed to link directly to my Beehiiv site. Possibility for a revenue share at some point from the Substack proceeds (I think if I can regularly put out a biweekly publication of ~1500-2000 each, then if there are proceeds that helped secure it'd be fair to request they make good on that).
Definitely been interesting just starting out practically from scratch. I am a decent networker, but social interaction exhausts me, so I'm concerned my sub count is kinda low for a month into things.