My Honest Thoughts on Substack & Growth, After 3 Months

Growth on Substack or any social media is not for everyone, I get that. If you don’t care about it, this post is not for you. It’s designed for newbies who don’t come in with a shit-ton of fans from outside the platforms. It’s meant for the puzzled ones, those who don’t know where to start. Of course, I know that I’m still an absolute Substack newbie on the scale of things, but I can still share what I’ve learned so far. Enfant Terrible is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is not really a ‘guide to success’ post. I don’t pretend to have the secret sauce to anything and I’m not a successful Substacker (yet). These are just my observations and my two cents. It's been almost three months since I started my Substack from scratch. I came in with zero subscribers and invited maybe 3 people who didn’t use Substack to subscribe to my blog. So, all the subscribers I have now, came from the platform itself.

Growth on Substack or any social media is not for everyone, I get that. If you don’t care about it, this post is not for you. It’s designed for newbies who don’t come in with a shit-ton of fans from outside the platforms. It’s meant for the puzzled ones, those who don’t know where to start. Of course, I know that I’m still an absolute Substack newbie on the scale of things, but I can still share what I’ve learned so far. Enfant Terrible is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is not really a ‘guide to succes