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My conversion rate is 5.7%.
The Substack average is around 3%. Most general-audience publications sit at 1-2%.
For a long time I assumed the gap came down to content quality or posting frequency or the...
Live look at Mia and the ROBOTS created by Mia!
Sometimes you can tell that a creator is destined to be a ‘big deal’ the first time you see their Substack.
That was instantly my impression of . When I first discovered Mia’s ROBOTS ATE M...
Late last year, I wrote a post for Paid subscribers detailing some of the main ways that Substack’s algorithm can work to categorize and boost your content. If you are in the Paid community, it’s worth a second look:
The reason why a lot o...
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Last week I wrote about how much growth I experienced in June.
Throughout the month I started asking some of my friends if they were seeing growth as well.
Almost all of them confirmed they were. Som...
This is the monthly recap I have been waiting 2 years for. And it actually started at the end of last month.
I wrote about it a bit in this post, but at the end of last month, I realized I had made a mistake. My plan since last Summer was...
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Backstage Pass is for curious people who want to peek behind the curtain & say “Show me how you did that!” Each issue shares everything I learn about how to grow so you can take my success and make it your own. All with a Southern accent. James 2:22
Shaping the narrative layer AI runs on. I help you build the world your work belongs to, then give the robots a real role inside it and expand what you can do.
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