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How does one build an audience on Substack anyway? It seems most of the successful authors there already had an outlet and a following in a major publication an
by DiscourseFan 2y ago
How does one build an audience on Substack anyway? It seems most of the successful authors there already had an outlet and a following in a major publication and took their readers with them.
- hammock 2y agoTwitter
- DiscourseFan 2y agoSeems contradictory to build an audience for long-form content from short form work.
- fullshark 2y agoTweets are brand advertisements.
- renewiltord 2y agoIt’s not. Long-form is easy to write. Every school kid specializes in expanding text into larger volumes. In an essay for my scriptures class I replaced “Jesus” with “Jesus, the only begotten son of God, who gave his life so that we might be saved from our sins” to make the word count. The key is to follow long-form writers who can be succinct. The quality of concise communication of concepts then flows into their longer writing.
- mandmandam 2y agoDoes it? Books catch attention with a cover, with interviews, with reviews. Building an audience requires a lot more work than people expect, and people's attention span is the shortest its ever been.
- femiagbabiaka 2y agoIt's not building an audience for long-form content, it's cultivating an ingroup of a particular ideological tendency that will absorb any content from the ingroup.
- layer8 2y agoTwitter can serve the purpose of an RSS feed for the long-form content.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoBut very poorly since their API is locked down and so is crawling it. Guest access too has gotten more restricted, nearly to the point of uselessness.
- krsdcbl 2y agothink of an artist posting to Instagram to eventually have successful gallery shows
- bdangubic 2y agolol
- Zamicol 2y agoI canceled my paid sub stack subscriptions because they started to send me unsolicited political advertisements. That crosses a red line for me and I will not support their business.