4 mistakes keeping you under 100 subscribers

Smarter Substack | May 13, 2026

Wednesday. 3 resources. Here’s what Substackers need to know today:

🎯 Case Study

Collaboration on Substack — A deep dive into what makes collaborations actually work on Substack — the outreach approach, how to structure joint content, and the specific types of partnerships that compound into real growth.

👉 Watch the replay

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📈 Growth

4 Mistakes Keeping You Under 100 Subscribers (And Why #4 Is the Hardest to Fix) — Two months of daily Notes and consistent publishing, still stuck under 50 subscribers — it turned out four specific things were quietly killing the growth. If you’re putting in the work and not seeing movement, this is worth your time.

👉 Read it here

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📊 Data Drop

I Used Notes Templates Every Single Day for 90 Days. Here’s What the Data Actually Shows. — 30+ templates built from the highest-performing Notes, tested daily for 90 days, with over 1,000 new subscribers gained in a single month. The key finding: templates don’t make your Notes sound the same — they make your output consistent.

👉 Read the breakdown

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P.S. Want a library of proven Notes templates ready to use? 365 Notes Templates gives you a full year’s worth of Substack Notes templates.