Recently I had the good fortune of being featured on Substack’s Discover section for 4 days.
If you aren’t familiar, the Discover Section is located in the explore part of the site and app.
The Substack site is already a large contributor of subscribers to my work, so I was curious how much of a lift this would provide in new readers.
Here’s the comparing the previous month of subscribers driven by the platform relative with my 4 days of being featured:
Looking at my monthly average, being featured resulted in an additional 682 subscribers over 4 days on top of the 25 I’ve been adding a day from the platform. That’s pretty awesome!
How Do You Get Featured?
A reader of mine reached out to me to let me know that he recommended I get featured the Substack team. He had been featured himself and they asked what other publications are worth checking out.
If you’re reading this, no I will not ask them to feature you. lol. I already sent them 3 publications I think are good fits.
So what’s the takeaway here? Create good things and eventually opportunities will come your way.
Congrats on the spotlight! It's encouraging to see Substack highlight the content and subject areas you represent.
Good content wins. If my content doesn’t win I have to improve 🙂