Publishing helps people find you. Genuine conversations give them a reason to remember you. ✨ You’re publishing on Substack. Maybe you’re writing articles, posting Notes and sharing your ideas consistently. You’re doing what you thought you were supposed to do. But your reach still isn’t growing as quickly as you hoped. Here’s the piece many people miss: Substack isn’t simply a publishing platform. It’s a relationship platform. 🤝 Publishing gives people something to discover. Commenting helps you become part of the conversation. And that conversation is often where growth begins. 🌱 📝 Posting Notes is only half the strategy I recommend posting Notes every day. If you can post three times a day without making it feel like a full-time job, even better. You don’t have to sit in front of Substack all day to do that. Use the Notes Creation Engine #🤖 Create Better Notes w/the Notes Creation Engine to turn your existing ideas, articles, podcast episodes and stories into several Notes. Then schedule them so they appear throughout the day. ⏰ Your three Notes might include: 1. 💡 A short idea, observation or belief 2. 📖 A story or lesson from your own experience 3. ❓ A question or invitation that encourages conversation 4. This keeps you visible without requiring you to create everything in real time. Substack has reported that writers and creators who published at least three thoughtful Notes during the week they launched gained 50 percent more total subscribers than those who didn’t. That doesn’t mean three Notes a week or three Notes a day is a magic formula. It does show that participating in Notes can contribute to discovery and subscriber growth. But publishing your Notes and disappearing is not enough. The part that makes this work is what happens next. 💬 Comments are where visibility becomes relationship Think about how you would respond if someone shared an interesting statement or personal story while you were having coffee together. ☕

Please give me a minute... Gotta gather my brains back up - @Bo McCoy blew my mind yesterday in the Mastermind as he explained how to make an extension using Chatgpt and Claude. And the extension part was just the beginning! He also shared about dashboards and agents and then my mind was off to the races about possibilities. If you missed it, you can still catch it here: https://youtu.be/2wxeeE8p0lI 🌿🎈☘️😎☘️🌿 About the Lives thing - I'll create a category for Lives - It'll be called EVENTS and you can share your links to Substack lives there but also remember to share them here - in the notes boost thread too. Make sure you do more than just dropped the link - tease us a bit and give us dates and times - it's okay to put in the same link in a few days in a row - We're all busy and if we have notice it's easier to get things scheduled. 🌿🎈☘️😎☘️🌿 Speaking about lives - They are a simple way to grow on Substack because they get pushed out to your audiences. Here's a quick overview: 🎥 LET’S TALK ABOUT GOING LIVE ON SUBSTACK Have you tried it yet - or does the thought make you a little nervous? Substack Live lets you connect with your audience in real time without sending people to another platform. Why go live? ✨ Build trust faster by letting people experience the real you ✨ Answer questions and learn what your audience needs ✨ Invite another creator and introduce each other to new audiences ✨ Offer public sessions, subscriber-only events, or paid-member experiences ✨ Turn the recording into a post for people who couldn’t attend live And you don’t need a fancy production. HOW TO GO LIVE: 📱 From the Substack app: 1. Tap the orange + button 2. Choose Live 3. Add a clear title 4. Choose who can watch: everyone, subscribers, or paid subscribers 5. Go live immediately or schedule it for later 💻 From your computer: (and this is a fairly recent thing we're able to do - @Deborah Oppenehim remember last year we had to go live with our phones?)

This week is all about getting traction with our Skool communities - which may sound odd considering this is mainly a Substack Community - but in my world view this is how I see the process working - and all the pieces need to be optimized for the system to work: Substack - the hub where you post your long form content Socials & Youtube - where you are syndicating the content from Substack to Skool - where you deliver your offers & form community Everything needs to point to the place where people can give you money ultimately. If you don't have a Skool community (totally fine and I didn't while still monetizing Substack in the beginning) Then you simply point everyone back to Substack. Today's monetize you mission mastermind is happening at a special time today to make it easier for those down under to join us and because @John Missikos is going to be our featured guest today. He has created a post here that will help him address the finding the bottlenecks to MRR flow (monthly recurring revenue). 4:30 mtn here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82173053137?pwd=LvWmj0jftv7dmZv7xB0lKcaarU1YHs.1&jst=2 On Tuesday we did the Skool Community Profit Path Finder workshop with Adam McCollough which should have given you a step-by-step outline of what to do next - This mastermind will help you with the tools to make sure you have the gaps closed where leaks can occur as you implement the steps outlined for you with the Profit Path Finder Tool Of course, you're going to want to make sure your Substack is optimized by going through the Substack Setup Intensive which we will be running again on the 18th of August #🎯START HERE

What a productive weekend. Feels like I got a lot done and still feel rested which is always a win in my books. We got the camper sanded down for revarnishing, the fan working top back off the corvette (my husband's toy - he redid the convertible top but the weatherstripping stuck to some paint that was cured before having lots of pressure added between it and the weather stripping.) Repotted some plants and redid my youtube channel. Youtube is one of those platforms that has evolved into a you could spend all your time on it sort of places and do so much with it beyond just posting videos. Though I would like my youtube channel to start pulling its weight more. I have to say I've learned so much being part of Des's and Karl's communities around Youtube If you're looking to up your youtube game I seriously suggest these two communities... Content Revenue Lab Youtube Mastermind ✒️🖍️🖊️✏️📝✏️🖊️🖍️✒️ This week is going to be jam packed: Today is the VIP Mastermind 3pm mtn - we are working through the Client Attraction Masterclass - a course designed to facilitate the setting up of/restructuring of your business so that it is designed to attract clients systematically. You can learn more about that here: #Introduction Today is also the Soulful Marketing Magic Summit kicks off here (I'll share more about this in another thread) Tuesday we are doing the Substack Setup Intensive Live at 10am - If you have been through this yet and you're wanting to monetize on Substack - this is for you. #🎯START HERE

Man, yesterday was a really productive day for me - in the real world. We finally got the electrical worked out so the fan we installed several weeks ago thinking we would "just" hook the Romex (the wiring) from the fan through the ceiling of our 125 year old house right across the floor of the attic and then drop it down the wall to the outlet ... Have you ever done any home improvement project where it was just like you expected it to be and took you 20 minutes? To begin with apparently there is a second floor in the attic which one accesses through a small hole in the closet of my bedroom which is part of the 3rd addition to the house. Once you go through the hole you have to squeeze through another section and then there is the actual roof off the original house - that's as much as I can see from the opening of the hole cause there is no way in hell I'm going through that hole... My husband and one of my sons ran the wire a full weekend project in itself - the next weekend was just getting the fan attached to the ceiling. This weekend for rewiring the porch light so that we could get power to the switch and be able to run the fan - and it will be another weekend when I will work on putting the dry wall back over the space. I did get a new porch light out of the deal too and am really happy with it. Today I'm going to take it easy - I slept in as long as the dogs would let me - my husband got up first which never happens and they were all confused. Did you have a productive Saturday too or did you get to hang out and relax? 🌼🪴🍁🌴🪴🍁🌼 This week is going to be jam packed: Monday is the VIP Mastermind 3pm mtn - we are working through the Client Attraction Masterclass - a course designed to facilitate the setting up of/restructuring of your business so that it is designed to attract clients systematically. You can learn more about that here: #Introduction Monday the Soulful Marketing Magic Summit kicks off here