🎉🍾🥳 How The Starfire Codes Made It To 10K Subscribers On Substack!

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If you are reading this, I would like to give you our sincerest thanks in helping our team to grow this publication to 10k subscribers!

We couldn’t have done this without you and we’re excited to keep growing and to see what the future holds!

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How did we get to 10K?

We’ll keep it simple….

1. Post consistently. Our readers know they are getting at least two posts per day, and the rest of our posts drop on a weekly or monthly basis with additional supplementary posts dropping in between as necessary.

   With our content, this works well for us, but your own content might not be conducive to maintaining that kind of schedule.

   Back when I was still participating in life in Normielandia, I came from a content creation and management background and managed the production and dissemination of millions of dollars in client content each year.

   Also, my readings cook for an entire year before they see the light of day. Our team is extremely organized and we do everything ahead of schedule.

   That said, when you’re looking to develop your own schedule, don’t use ours as a model unless you want to go hard because it will be too robust and feel too oppressive for most publications who are growing as hobbyists, want to keep it fun, and are hoping to someday shift into writing or creating content full time but aren’t ready to take the leap yet.

   Develop your own schedule that feels correct for your own life - and fits the way you want to live it - but remember that the important thing is to remain consistent with whatever structure you have set up.

   Whatever your subscribers expect, that’s what they signed on to receive - so stick with it. If you make changes, let them know - especially if you’re adding something new or removing something old.

   Your readers will be very happy that you’ve communicated clearly with them what they can expect.

   

2. Keep your audience in mind. For the majority of writers on Substack, this is an easier concept to lock down than you think it is.

   So resist the urge to make it harder by overthinking it.

   Writers tend to do that. Stop.

   Your ideal audience is likeliest to be a slightly younger version of yourself who hasn’t learned yet what you already know.

   You’re probably writing to your past self.

   So, “be the leader you wish you had” applies here.

   What do you wish someone told you sooner?

   Write from that vantage point and you will attract people who genuinely value your perspective.

   Also, loyal, engaged subscribers are better than faster growth. Let the publication and the people taking the ride grow with you.

   Your Ride Or Dies will always be your greatest evangelists because they are getting massive value from your content.

   So, your focus should always be on providing value for your Ride Or Dies.

   

3. Use

   Substack
   Notes. Engagement and subscriptions skyrocketed for us when we became active on Notes.

   Remember, if people aren’t signed in and active, they can’t engage with your posts.

   So even if you have a large email-based audience, your traffic might be higher than most, but your on site engagement will be minuscule.

   You’ll probably want to encourage your people to get more active on Notes.

   Also, something that people tend to get wrong: You are NOT in competition with the other writers.

   It’s an ecosystem, not Thunderdome. Notes is still very young and growing. Support your fellow writers. Cheer on their successes. Help them grow and be seen.

   Friends of SFC will tell you straight up that the rising tide lifts all ships - we fully support each other and we’ve experienced in action the results of that focus on mutual and reciprocal growth.

   That said…. Jealousy? Envy? There’s no place for that here, and if that’s your attitude, you’ll only be shooting yourself in the foot.

   People who are ahead of you in numbers should be seen as examples and mentors, NOT competition.

   Collaboration is the name of the game - and not at anyone else’s expense. Learn to play nice in the sandbox.

   Being genuinely friendly and helpful is really all you need. Don’t make it harder than it is.

   Focus on being a supportive member of the community by doing what comes naturally to you and you’ll grow organically without even thinking about it.

4. Use Recommendations. If you see life as a toxic bloody cage match, I recommend shadow work.

   But if you’re already a healthy and well-adjusted adult who sees life as an ecosystem and likes to watch others succeed, use the recommendation engine to promote the writers you truly enjoy reading, and as a result, the audience reading you, who are likely similar to you in many ways (as we discussed above), will be happy to find and access other people who have takes you find valuable to read.

   By listing them, you’re providing a service to your readers by offering them an index full of value.

   And as others recommend you back, your audiences will cross-pollinate.

   It’s an aggressive win/win and a massive value add. There’s no downside.

   

5. Focusing on other platforms doesn’t really help your subscriber base grow as much as focusing on Substack does. Unless you’re looking to boost your traffic/impressions metrics, it’s a waste of time.

   And even then, with X “reach suppressing” Substack links and Facebook acting like a walled garden from day one, you’re unlikely to hit massive pockets of traffic unless you happen to have an article go viral.

   Also, my last few viral articles got SFC deplatformed from Twitter in 2021, so depending upon how mainstream friendly your content is, your mileage may vary.

   I’ll still post my links to the platforms I tend to utilize (not X - here’s why), but overall, my new subscribers are coming from Notes and Recommendations inside Substack.

   

6. Encourage people to download and use Notes. In general, making a commitment to do your part to grow the Notes platform will help to grow everyone’s subscriber bases.

   People follow a favorite writer over into Notes, and then they tend to subscribe to additional publications once they decide they like the platform, so making a concerted effort to encourage your existing subscriber bases to become more active on the platform side will serve to grow all publications over time.

   

   Special thanks to the entire SFC team and to all of our wonderful subscribers! Sending my love!! 🙏🏻💜💫