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What I Learned from a Guy Making $977,000 on Substack After 6 Months | Tim Denning

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I wouldn’t have believed it either. But it’s 100% true. Unfortunately, I can’t share the American writer’s name as they showed me their Stripe account in confidence. What I can share is how they made so much money so fast. Their main driver of readers to their Substack is X (Tw1tter). This isn’t uncommon. So I was sure they’d have been writing on X for years like most of us. Nope. They began on X in April 2023. They’ve made almost $1M on Substack in the last 12 months. The only way I could see this would be possible is if they bought followers or paid some heavy hitters to share their posts. So I asked them. Nope. They haven’t spent a dollar on attracting readers. One reason they didn’t want to trade reshares/retweets with other writers is it would make their X timeline and profile full of other people’s junk. They wanted theirs clean. So what did he do? They found longer form tweet threads on X worked the best to get attention. They always made the last tweet a link to their newslette

What I Learned from a Guy Making $977,000 on Substack After 6 Months | Tim Denning What I Learned from a Guy Making $977,000 on Substack After 6 Months by Tim Denning | Mar 31, 2024 | Writing [FSM_featured_image size=full] Almost $1M on Substack sounds like bullsh*t. I wouldn’t have believed it either. But it’s 100% true. Unfortunately, I can’t share the American writer’s name as they showed me their Stripe account in confidence. What I can share is how they made so much money so fast. The social media strategy I was sure was rigged Their main driver of readers to their Substack is X (Tw1tter)

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