PubStack Success
Karen Cherry, Simon K Jones, chris kalaboukis, Derek HughesStart, grow, and make an impact on Substack. Get one easy-to-follow, no-nonsense newsletter per week and grow without FOMO and overwhelm. By a writer who built a $30K+ publication that's not writing about writing.
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Aussie business owner. $112K+ revenue on Substack. Secret tree hugger. Writes Pubstack Success for Substack creators and The Rotten Apple newsletter for food industry professionals.
Writing and publishing serial fiction for over 10 years. Helping people write more. I wrote a weekly scifi/fantasy/crime serial here for over 4 years. Comms Manager at Creative PEC. European. Based in Norwich.
Futurist and digital nomad writing about AI, the future of work, longevity, and location-independent living—for builders, founders, and 50+ reinvention seekers.
Started at 51. No marketing background, no business background. 8,000 subscribers in 18 months. Now I coach other to do the same. One honest step at a time.
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