Tips for building your community on Substack, courtesy of Bailey Richardson, who helped shape the communities around Instagram, IDEO, and Pop-Up Magazine.
Substack writers, you need a website!
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Thoughts on Communities | unDraw Blog
Even with the best intentions and people eager to join, most attempts to create communities fail and will continue to do so.
Introducing recommendations: simple cross-promotion for writers
A new way for writers on Substack to recommend each other and discover more great work
Building Welcoming Communities
Building a community that encourages people to use, contribute to, and evangelize your project.
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A free newsletter by Balaji. Click to read balajis.com, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
Substack Writers Concerned as Subscriptions ‘Plummet’ Due to Follow Feature
Substack writers are expressing their concerns about the platform’s following feature on social media, which some argue is suppressing their subscription growth.
Get Together: How to Build a Community with Your People
A practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community, online or IRL.Although communities feel magical, they don’t come together by magic. Get Together is a practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community. Whether starting a run crew, connecting with fans online, or sparking a movement of K–12 teachers, the secret to getting people together is this: build your community with people, not for them.In Get Together, Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto of People & Company share true stories of everyday people who have created thriving communities, both in person and online. They provide clear steps to untangle the challenge of getting passionate people together, helping individuals and organizations navigate the intricacies of leading a community, including: - How to rally the first people - How to get people talking - How to attract new, authentic folks - How to develop leaders and expand globally.The People & Company team reminds us that we each hold the potential to spark a community. Get Together shows readers that if we join forces—as company and customers, artist and fans, organizer and advocates—we’ll do more together than we ever could alone.
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Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You
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Wrote a quick guide and checklist for those leaving Substack. Come to my free event tomorrow and we'll talk through it paidnewsletterplaybook.com/how-to-migrate-from-substack/
How to: Migrate away from Substack
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