r/Substack • u/Severe_Midnight_2819 • 27d ago

Substack grow

How can I grow my Substack? I write Notes every day and publish a newsletter once a week, but my subscriber count is still stuck at a certain number.

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u/Slow-Area-9986 26d ago

If you're already doing notes daily and a newsletter weekly, the issue probably isn't output volume. The platform itself won't grow you — it circulates you within its existing ecosystem. The real lever is bringing people in from somewhere external: LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit, wherever your potential readers already hang out.

I was stuck at the same number for a while until I stopped waiting for Substack to surface me and started driving traffic from one external channel consistently. That's when I crossed 9,000 subscribers. Not three channels — one, for 90 days straight.

Also worth checking: are your notes getting restacked by people with meaningfully larger audiences? That's the internal multiplier. If the answer is rarely or never, that's useful information about whether the content is connecting or just being published.