How to grow on Substack from zero

Smarter Substack | Jun 29, 2026

The hardest part of Substack isn't the writing — it's getting the first hundred people to notice you're there.

Here’s what’s worth your time today:

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📈 Growth

How to Grow on Substack From Zero — Most growth advice quietly assumes you already have an audience, a list, or a head start. This one begins at actual zero and maps the path from empty publication to real, compounding subscribers.

👉 Read it here

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🧠 Strategy

The Simplest Substack Growth Advice — Most strategies get more complicated the longer you read them; this one goes the other direction. The single principle that quietly drives more subscribers than any stack of tactics.

👉 Read the breakdown

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💡 Idea Worth Stealing

10 Types of Substack Notes Every Creator Should Know — Posting Notes without a plan is why most creators stall on the feed. A swipeable mix of formats that consistently pull in new readers — pick a few and rotate.

👉 Steal the formats

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