One article alone brought in about 2,000 new subscribers.

In this workshop he walked us through exactly how he did it, with his real dashboard on screen.

Before I tell you what he covered, I’m curious:

Ok, here’s what we covered:

1. How he set up his Substack and why

• Why he starts with identity (“who do I want to be?”) instead of “what should I write about?”

• How to attach your name to a movement people already care about and why

• The one question to answer before you post anything

• Why he turned on paid subscriptions even though he didn’t plan to, and what happened next

• Importing his email list: what it did for his numbers, and what it didn’t do

2. How he comes up with ideas for what to write next

• How he finds viral posts and Notes in his niche

• Using the Rising bestseller charts to find ideas

• Borrowing winning ideas from other niches and reworking them for your own topic

3. A full breakdown of his posts and Notes

• Posts:

  • His process from bullet-point talking points to a voice memo, then the draft, then editing it into something that holds attention.

  • How he layers each article with 7–12 relevant quotes and visuals

  • How he uses proofreaders and how this helps him

  • How much time each article takes him, and where this times goes

• Notes:

  • Why his Notes got under 10 likes at first, even when they had gone viral on X

  • The trick that took him to 50–100 likes per Note

  • His rule for comments

4. How he uses other platforms to grow his Substack

• How he sees Instagram, X, TikTok and YouTube, and the audience each one attracts

• Why Substack is his “think tank” and YouTube is his testing ground for ideas

• Why Substack is only about 2% of his views but his highest-converting platform

• How he grew inside other creators’ paid chats by giving value instead of self-promoting

• Promoting each post after it’s published: engagement, giveaways and reciprocity

Bonus: live Q&A

• What data to track, and when to stop looking at analytics

• How to choose your audience by zooming out one or two levels from your niche

• How to turn free subscribers into paid ones

• How he handled a major business setback, and why sharing struggles builds your brand

And so much more.

Watch the full recording, take one thing, apply it and tell me and Devon how it worked for you.

I can’t wait to celebrate your next milestone on a live!

Yana

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This is really one of those conversations that I didn’t want to end - we actually went for over an hour and I think we could have easily gone for three.

Dave has been building something on Substack that I think is a really good example of what the platform can actually be, if you approach it the right way.

Because Substack is not just a writing platform. It’s where you build your entire business.

For the people who don’t know Dave yet, he lives in Switzerland. He’s from the States originally, moved there 13 years ago for love, he’s married to a Swiss French coach, and he’s now a Swiss citizen as well.

His background is pretty interesting - he had a 20-year career in intelligence, then moved into organizational development, and then into coaching, and he’s been coaching for a really, really long time now. His Substack is called .

Now, there’s something Dave said very early in our conversation: “I knew nothing coming in. I was treating it like a blog.”

And then later he said, if he had to start Substack all over again, the first thing he’d do differently is this. He said, “It’s not a publication platform. It is an ecosystem or a community or, um, a village.”

Most people who come to Substack, especially people who come from Medium or WordPress or Mailchimp or Kit, treat it like a writing platform.

They write their posts. They publish on schedule. They get a few comments. They wait for growth to happen. And then nothing really happens, you know, because they’re basically waiting for an audience to come and find them. And the whole mindset of “if I build it, they’ll come,” Dave said this himself, that won’t work on Substack. You have to go out.

What’s inside The Pivot

is Dave’s framework, and the name itself is interesting.

He calls it like that because he’s not asking his clients to do a 180 shift, you know, to throw away everything they already know. He’s asking them to do what he calls a 45-degree shift - a small turn to make space for something new.

His clients are leaders, founders, coaches - anyone who feels like the success formulas that used to work for them, they just don’t work anymore. He has a very good phrase for this.

He calls it “changing the navigator, not getting new maps.”

Because that’s actually how I think about my Substack coaching as well. I’m not giving people a new map. I’m helping them become a different kind of navigator, you know, someone who can actually read the Substack terrain and move through it.

Now, inside The Pivot, Dave is building out quite a lot. For his annual and founding members, he has something he calls Pivot Kits. Pretty cool concept, so I want to share it with you.

A Pivot Kit is basically a bundle of a video, an audio, a PDF, and an AI companion.

All of them focused on one specific just-in-time problem that someone might have. For example, if you’re about to walk into a difficult meeting, there’s a kit for that. If you’re working through a dilemma and you don’t know how to approach it, there’s a kit for that too.

It’s tactical. It’s small. It’s not another course that sits on the shelf. People get it, use it in the moment, and move on.

And then from there, he has an online cohort for people who want to go deeper, and then one-on-one coaching with him for the people who want the full thing. And he’s now building a bigger program that combines an in-person retreat in Switzerland with a six to nine-month online component.

Substack is not just a newsletter. It’s is a business. The newsletter is one piece of it, but it’s really an entire ecosystem of ways people can work with you.

The ritual that stood out for me

Now, I want to tell you about one specific thing Dave is doing that I think is really, really smart, and I’m going to steal it (honestly).

Every Friday, he highlights four people he’s enjoying reading. He links their work. He invites them to drop whatever they want into the comments. And basically, you know, he’s publicly putting a spotlight on four of his favorite writers each week.

So think about what this does. For the four people he features, obviously it’s a huge gift, because he’s exposing them to his audience. For his readers, they get a curated list of people worth following.

For Dave himself, he’s building deeper relationships with the writers he admires, and he’s also telling his audience: “this is who I’m reading, this is my taste, this is my world.” It builds his taste. It builds his network. And it costs nothing to do.

That’s really important.

Because most people on Substack, they think the only way to grow is to pull people toward themselves.

Dave is doing the opposite.

He’s actively pushing people toward others. And of course, when you do that in a generous way, the others come back and do the same for you. Pretty much how the whole platform works, actually.

DMing followers, not just subscribers

Another thing Dave is testing right now that I thought was really interesting, and this one I want you to pay attention to.

He’s not just DMing new subscribers. He’s DMing new followers.

Now, for the people who don’t know the difference, a follower on Substack is someone who follows your profile but has not subscribed to your publication. They see your notes. They can read your posts. But they haven’t given you their email yet. Most creators ignore followers entirely. We only pay attention to subscribers.

Dave is reaching out to his followers with a warm message. Just a hello, like “great to see you here, I’m curious what brought you in, any time you want to ask a question, shout.” Basically a warm handshake. Nothing salesy.

And he said more people have responded than he expected. A couple of them have led to real conversations. Some of them probably became subscribers eventually.

I was never a fan of direct messaging, actually.

But Dave’s version of it is really good because it’s genuine, it’s not transactional, and it meets followers where they are, you know, in that space where they’re still curious but not quite ready to subscribe. That’s a window most of us ignore completely. And it’s a huge missed opportunity.

I’m starting to experiment with something similar in my own publication. Will share more in the future.

The AI thing Dave almost lost

So we also talked about AI, because I always ask about it. And Dave said something that I think every creator should hear, really.

He said he got seduced by AI early on. He went too far in. He started letting it do too much. And he noticed his voice getting flat. He noticed it making weird conclusions. He noticed, basically, that he was starting to disappear from his own writing.

His exact words were, “Never give up your sovereignty.”

I love this phrase, actually, so much. Because it names something that most creators don’t talk about. AI isn’t just a productivity tool, it’s a thing that will absorb your voice if you let it.

If you dump everything into it without pushing back, if you take what it gives you at face value, if you let it make the decisions, you basically lose your voice.

And then nobody has a reason to read you, because you’re writing the same thing as everyone else.

So what Dave does instead is actually really smart. He uses AI as an interviewer. Not as a writer. He does morning walk-and-talks with Claude. Voice exchange, you know, where he’s talking out loud and the AI is asking him questions back. He’s using it to extrovert his thinking, as he calls it, not to generate his thinking.

That’s a really big distinction.

Because when AI is interviewing you, your voice stays yours. When AI is writing for you, your voice becomes AI’s voice. Two completely different workflows, two completely different outcomes.

Watch on YouTube:

So that’s Dave

If you want to see what it looks like to build a real ecosystem on Substack, not just a newsletter, go subscribe to . He’s one of those people who’s really showing what the platform can be when you don’t treat it as a writing platform.

And if you want to go deeper into his world, here are a few of the books he mentioned that have shaped his thinking (my affiliate links):

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, which he said will always be with him

• Anything by Isaac Asimov from his childhood

• Conscious Business by Fred Kofman, which actually informs a lot of his coaching work

Also, Dave and I agreed to do a Substack live together soon. We’ll talk about navigating fast-changing terrain and what it actually takes to build a sustainable creator business on top of a 9-to-5.

I’ll share the date when we have it.

Yana

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Because I’ll never stop repeating this: RETENTION is the name of this game. And most people realize this too late - when churn starts piling up so fast that it’s impossible to grow to the next bestseller tier.

Truth is you can avoid it from the very start.

So today’s one-pager has all you need about how to keep paid subscribers paying for longer:

• How to build your offers for retention

• How to run your promotions for retention

• What to do to keep your paid subscribers longer

• What are the early signals of bad retention you have to watch for

• What KPIs to track, how to measure them, and when to act upon them

And so much more.

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Here’s every question asked on the call and a short version of my answer, so you can jump straight to the part you need in the recording.

Substack pricing and positioning questions

How long until I know my positioning is working?

I want to shift my positioning - do I announce it to existing subscribers?

How do I know my paid membership description communicates the benefits correctly?

Why is your monthly price almost the same as your annual?

How to grow on Substack

What’s a realistic posting frequency for a one-person business?

How do I turn followers into subscribers?

Should I put links inside Notes?

Where do I share my posts and notes to get seen in this community?

How do I find an accountability buddy for the QUEST?

Substack monetization questions

Should I break my $997 course into my paid subscription?

Should I promote my course or the membership as a whole?

I have no testimonials yet. What do I use?

How do I attract coaching clients when I’m just starting?

I don’t know what to offer paid subscribers - my lead magnet leads to a 3-month 1:1 program.

Email marketing and automation questions

How is your Kit welcome sequence structured?

Can I build funnel automations inside Substack?

Does the Substack-to-Kit automation require Gmail?

Does Zapier also work for sending subscribers from Substack to Kit?

Substack features and setup questions

How do I make my homepage look like a magazine?

Where do I learn the technical setup - banners, images, design?

Can I paywall videos? And what about the new FreeWall?

What about podcasts - do they convert?

Can I reply to member questions with voice notes instead of a live call?

Why to choose Substack over Skool?

Should I mirror my Substack on my website (or GoHighLevel)?

Alright, that’s the majority of the question and there are some more in the video. See you on the next live, same time next month.

If your question didn’t make the call, drop it in the chat or book me for a strategy call.

I see you in the next one!

Yana

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So now we've connected everything we’ve built in the LIVES 1-4 into not just a “funnel” but a conversion engine that delivers revenue. Consistently.

So today’s one-pager has all you need about paywalls, paid posts, free posts that convert, launches, promotions, sales, and everything you need to monetize:

• What to paywall

• How to convert readers into buyers

• What to do when conversion is low or none

• How to launch or relaunch your Substack and when

• How to automate - on and off Substack, what to avoid and why

• What are the numbers you need to track and how to act on them

• What promo emails to write to new subscribers and what to existing ones

And so much more.

Get your one-pager worksheet with your assignment, and the QUEST Sparring Partner & Coach Custom GPT in the Unplugged Toolbox (VIP version).

And if you haven’t already, here’s the link to join the QUEST LIVEs:

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I see you in the next and final LIVE - retention!

Yana

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Larry helps people with their nervous system and energy. He spent the last 20 years developing something he calls the Pondera Process, which he describes as empowered self-help. He runs the Substack . He’s published two books. He does one-on-one coaching with the kind of guarantee most coaches won’t make:

Everyone who works with me gets results, otherwise they get their money back.

Here’s the question that reshaped how I think about creator burnout.

Most creators think burnout is a time problem.

“I don’t have enough time for Substack.”

“I can’t fit the posts in.”

“Life is too busy.”

Larry says this is wrong.

Think of your energy as being a well,” he said. “If you’re drawing buckets of water out of that well, it gets low. But we think that we need to do it through willpower, so we then push ourselves when the well is getting low. And we’re not learning how to refill that well.

The problem is that most creators are drawing from a well they never refill.

What I didn’t know about Larry

Now, Larry mentioned something on the call that I think gives this whole conversation a different angle.

About a year ago, he had a stroke.

He didn’t make a big deal of it. He just said it in passing, you know, like it was context. He was talking about what he’s learned recently, and he mentioned he had read a piece during the recovery period, and the piece reframed something for him that he’d been getting wrong for years.

Here’s what he said. “It’s not looking at how much you haven’t done or how much there is still to do, but rather realizing that you’ve taken the next step.”

I loved that so much.

Because here’s the thing. Most of us measure the gap.

The gap between where we are and where we want to be.

The gap between our subscriber count and the one we envy.

The gap between the posts we’ve written and the ones still sitting in our drafts folder.

And that gap can be infinite.

But Larry’s reframe is actually really simple.

You don’t measure the gap. You measure the step.

Did you take a step today? That’s it. That’s the entire question.

What Larry does differently as a creator

So one thing that was really interesting to me is that Larry hasn’t turned on his paid tier yet.

Now, you know me, I’m the person who says turn on paid immediately.

But Larry’s reasoning is actually really good, so I want to share it.

He said he’s not going to charge for something until he can really deliver on it. “I don’t want to overpromise and underdeliver,” those were his actual words.

And instead of rushing to monetize, he’s been building free resources, basically, around every single stumbling point he’s noticed in his coaching work.

He has one of the biggest collections of free tools I’ve seen on Substack.

A safe-space visualization. A “loving light” connection practice. A thing he calls the belief tree, where you walk from a behavior you don’t like, back to the emotion underneath, back to the belief that’s generating the emotion, back to the memory where the belief was formed.

Each tool is small. Each one answers a specific need. All of them are free.

How Larry uses AI

“I don’t give away my creativity. I don’t give away my brain. I don’t take what it tells me just at face value. It’s just the same way I used a copy editor.”

Before AI, Larry worked with a human book editor on his first books. The relationship was collaborative. He wrote the draft, she gave feedback, he revised. The process was his. The editorial support was hers.

And when AI came along, he just applied the same pattern. The output is still his. The AI is just the editor.

Most Substack creators deal with AI in one of two directions. Either they refuse it completely and fall behind anyone who uses the right way, or they outsource their thinking to it and lose their voice. Larry’s approach is actually much like mine - use the tool. Don’t become the tool.

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So that’s Larry

If there’s just ONE takeaway from this spotlight, it’s really just the energy question.

Because most of us, when we feel stuck on Substack, we default to the time problem. I don’t have time. I’m too busy. Life is in the way. And sometimes, yes, that’s true. But often, actually, I think more often than we admit, the problem is not time. The problem is that we’re drawing from a well we’ve never figured out how to refill.

If you feel that way right now, Larry’s work is the right place to look. He’s been studying this specific thing for 20 years. He has free tools for every stumbling point. His whole Substack is called Empowered Self-Help because of that very same reason: energy.

Now go subscribe to Larry’s Substack, . It’s free with full access to his resources. And if the energy framing lands for you, his two books go much deeper(affiliate links):

• Self-Help 2.0 (the first book, where he lays out the thesis that traditional self-help is incomplete without the energy dimension)

• Empowered Self-Help (the newer book, which turns the framework into something readers can actually practice on themselves)

Yana

P.S. Larry also credited Melody Beattie’s work on codependency as the “light bulb moment” that started his whole journey into energy psychology, back when he was first processing his divorce and his history as an adult child of an alcoholic.

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Your Challenge Resources:

1. Use this trick to personalize your posts - it will help you grow faster:

1. Make sure you check my growth SOPs, which I use to get to my first $20k month - these two posts compile all of it:

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4. And if you haven’t already, take my new data-driven online writing courses to convert at high rates and get recommended by AI:

Here’s what you need to do now:

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Here’s what you need to do now:

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Why?

Because Substack is the best place to monetize a book. And also get noticed and get a book deal from a publisher - like Kristina did just recently.

Kristina and I run two successful monetization models on Substack, both on the side of our jobs and both from outside of the US. We both made six figures and we’re giving you the entire system tomorrow on a Live Masterclass

We’ve prepared some bonuses! Join us here 👇

What we covered in the live yesterday:

• How authors (fiction AND non-fiction) can turn a book into a whole business on Substack

• Getting your first 1000 subscribers when you’re starting from zero: content around your book, strategic Notes, DMs, and showing up in chats with high-quality answers

• Why an email list beats followers every single time (you OWN it, no algorithm decides your income)

• The book-to-Substack flywheel: QR codes in your book, your book on your welcome page, extra stories behind the paywall

• Merch, Substack TV, livestreams, and all the monetization paths beyond the paywall

Watch the full video above, and make sure you join us on the monetization masterclass tomorrow, because tomorrow I’m sharing something I’ve never shared before: the exact email campaign that made me ~$20,000 in paid subscriptions in August with 16 emails, in 19 days, all written manually, no automations, and what my AI analysis revealed about what worked, what didn’t, and how to write them to sell confidently.

You’ll also get our tools, cheat sheets, and worksheets to apply our model to your own Substack, plus live Q&A at the end.

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Can’t wait to see you inside!

Yana

P.S. Here’s everything we’ll cover in the Masterclass:

• What we sell, from inside our backends. Paid subscriptions, digital products, courses, coaching, services - the full offer stack of both businesses, with real prices and what each stream actually earns - with exact revenue breakdown.

• How we package offers people say yes to. How a paid tier, a product, a course and a coaching offer each get built in our backends, where they sit on the value ladder, and how the content sells them so we don’t have to.

• How we launch.What a launch really looks like behind the scenes: the emails, the timeline, the daily promotion rhythm — including the exact campaign, including [and I reveal for the first time] the full breakdown of my 202-paid-subscribers-in-19-days campaign - every email, every number, what sold and what leaked (never shared before, not even with paid members).

• How we promote, each in our own way. Kristina’s engine: YouTube, BootCamps, coaching and a community that pays for her. Mine: automations that bring me half of my paid subscribers while I’m at work, plus what I’ve learned running paid ads to Substack.

• My backend - where the six figures come from, stream by stream

• Kristina’s backend - her Online Writing Club model, built on community and bootcamps

• How we both run this on the side of a job - where the hours actually go, what we automate, what we don’t

• Substack features most people miss that drive conversion and growth - including Lives with multicast to YouTube

• How to use AI to write faster in your own voice, automate Notes, and turn long-form into short-form

• Strategies that work across all 32 Substack categories, not just the money/writing niches

• Live Q&A (~30 minutes, but I booked 60 just in case) - your Substack, your offer, rapid-fire backend checks

• The recording, slides, checklists and resources, plus links and discounts for the tools we use - and you get lifetime access

  Grab Your Seat Here

So today’s one-pager has all you need about Notes, free posts, engagement, collaboration and how to make them work to grow your audience:

• What to write about

• How to grow your audience

• What to do when growth is slow

• What’s the growth rate you need to have

• How to find potential buyers and bring them in

Get your one-pager worksheet with your assignment, and the QUEST Sparring Partner & Coach Custom GPT in the Unplugged Toolbox (VIP version).

And if you haven’t already, here’s the link to join the QUEST LIVEs:

Join QUEST LIVEs Here

I see you in the next LIVE!

Yana

P.S. The QUEST LIVEs are focused on optimizing Substack for a high conversion rate. If you need help optimizing your entire funnel on the back-end, your AI workflows and automations, check this page.

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I mean August.

And also September, but in August I was absolutely crushing it.

I got my orange bestseller badge.

I made almost $40k in total revenue.

And I passed the $100k/year milestone for this year.

So it’s official: I now run a six-figure business on the side of my 9-5 job. Can you believe it? Honestly, it still feels a bit surreal to me.

I know, I know, you’ll ask again how I do all this, so I decided to run a live Masterclass and invited to join me because she also runs her Substack business on the side. This Friday we’ll share everything we do behind the scenes and give you exact steps and tools on how you can implement. You can join us here 👇

For today, as usual, I have all the specifics about the last two months:

• Content: strategies I implemented and their outcome

• Distribution: platforms I used and how they performed and why

• Monetization: what I did to sell, how much I earned (total & by channel)

• Outlook: what I plan to start in September and what’s still cooking

Let’s do this!

Content & Distribution

Last roundup was pretty boring - same old $20k/month, nothing new, just keep the engine running.

It was the same story in August, up in till 14th.

And then….I hit the 1,000 paid subscribers mark! First I celebrated with a Note. It went viral. Brough me hundreds of new subscribers.

But I haven’t got the badge yet - I got about 100 comped paid members which don’t count towards the badge numbers.

100 is a LOT. I was growing with about that number per month, and I needed to get my orange badge in August, so that I could celebrate my birthday properly.

So I decided to start a promotion for my paid tier.

I usually don’t do these because of my automations, but my birthdays are always an exception. And this time it was not just another birthday promotion.

I decided to do it properly:

• with a deadline set at the end of the month

• a significant price increase after that deadline, and

• a new, revamped paid membership launching on 1st of September

Here’s what I did in a nutshell:

I announced the new paid membership, valid as of 1st of September:

1. Launched the next big thing in the QUEST - QUEST Lives for VIPs only. I go live on Zoom for 6 weeks, every three months, where I help my VIPs implement the Quest strategies and optimize Substack for a high conversion rate.

2. A new GPT / Claude skill for VIPs inside of the QUEST Lives. It combines all my thinking, my QUEST strategies, everything I published, my courses and my experience into a self-coaching tool and a sparring partner. Imagine having my brain available to you anytime you need to talk through a decision. It has three modes - self coach (a virtual coach Yana), sparring partner (based on the QUEST) and a Substack optimizer (based on all of my VIP reviews I’ve done so far, and the QUEST LIVEs). My VIPs are impressed:

   

   And they use the f-word A LOT:

   

3. The Unplugged TOOLBOX: A growing library of tools, worksheets, templates, cheat sheets, SOPs, including my custom GPTs and Claude skills (I call them my minions). Some of those I already shared with my VIPs and coaching clients. It also has the Unplugged Hall of Fame with all of my viral Notes and those from Unplugged paid members - so you see what currently works on Notes. VIPs will have access to my personal custom GPTs & Claude skill library - I shared this for the first time. It has two versions - for standard paid members and for VIPs.

4. Paid member perks: huge discounts and special offers from other Substackers, and my collab products I create with some of them. VIPs now have the right to have one offer there, which I will promote as paid member perk.

5. Monthly calls for all paid members. Live on Zoom we get together to talk about all things Substack. We do it on Saturdays so that my Asia friends can also join. If you’re a paid member you can book your spot here.

This came with a significant price increase, especially in the VIP (from $210 to $600 a year), as it requires a lot of my time - it’s now my group coaching program.

Of course, I also started daily emails, but this time I wrote them differently.

I tested a new approach for a sales sequence which actually worked pretty well - it brought 202 paid members (from the 371 I got this month) within 19 days and I sent a total of 16 emails from Substack, not Kit.

I’ll deep dive into this on the Monetization masterclass I’m doing on Friday with my friend Kristina God. Book your spot here, you have two more days:

For now I can only say that a lot of people unsubscribed, but I expected that. And I got some pretty big fuck-up due to a Substack bug, but shit happens and even with it, it worked amazingly well. You’ll learn everything on Friday.

Last but not least, I also pumped up my ads budgets so more people come into the funnel.

Results?

All of the above got me a total of 371 new paid subscribers joined this month.

On August 21st, just 3 days after my 43th birthday, I finally got it:

I’m now one of the ONLY 3 Substack experts with an orange badge 🤩

August was my first $30k month (almost $40k to be exact - see numbers below), which pushed my total revenue for 2026 to above $100k and made it official:

I now run a 6 figure business on the side of my job!

Who does that?! 👀

And in September I reached another huge milestone: 20k subscribers in total:

I honestly thought that September will be slower in revenues - normal after a big promo push, but it wasn’t.

Let me give you the actual numbers with the full breakdown.

Monetization

Ok, now the most juicy part, I know you might be scrolling down to see this exact part.

Here it is.

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If you’re serious about your Substack monetization, make this post your daily engagement routine. Share your posts, then read and join the conversation in the comments of the other members’ posts. This is how we grow!

If you’re not yet in the Writing Challenge, NOW IS the best time to join.

Your Challenge Resources:

1. Use this trick to personalize your posts - it will help you grow faster:

1. Make sure you check my growth SOPs, which I use to get to my first $20k month - these two posts compile all of it:

3. And if you’re still struggling to get high-quality output from AI, here’s my most complex protocol for using AI for writing so that I get 100% human checks on Pangram:

4. And if you haven’t already, take my new data-driven online writing courses to convert at high rates and get recommended by AI:

Here’s what you need to do now:

1. Add yourself to the Accountability tracker, so that you have a chance to win the award (a spotlight with me to get more exposure of your Substack)

2. Share a link to your posts in the comments below so that we can find it, read, comment, like, and share it!

3. Make this challenge for your daily engagement workflow - Check other people’s posts in the comments of this post. Find something you like to read more about and give it a like, comment and share - that’s how you grow faster (and you help others grow too).

Anyone from the Unplugged community can participate.

Let’s do this!!

Subscribe now

Share your link now 👇

P.S. If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you. If you haven’t already, Join the Writing Challenge if you’re serious about growing on Substack.

P.S.S. If you’re not taking the Challenges, you can opt-out from receiving these weekly posts without unsubscribing for the rest of the content - do this from your settings here:

If you’re serious about your Substack growth, make this post your daily engagement routine. Share your Notes, then read and join the conversation in the comments on the other members’ Notes. It will help you and them grow.

Notes are essential for your Substack growth. If you’re not yet in the Notes Challenge, NOW is the best time to join.

Here’s what you need to do now:

1. Add yourself to the Accountability tracker so that I consider you for the prizes.

2. Share a link to your Notes in the comments below so that we can find it, read, comment, like, and restock it!

3. Check other people’s Notes in the comments. Find something you like to read more about and give it a like, comment, and share. Make this challenge your daily engagement routine - it helps you, as well as the other members in the community, grow faster.

PLUS: if you have a Note with 100+ likes, DM me with a link, so that I can add it in the Unplugged Hall of Fame :)

You can share your Notes here throughout the whole week, until the next sharing post on Saturday.

Anyone from the Unplugged community can participate.

Subscribe now

Let’s do this!!

Share your link now 👇

P.S. If you haven’t already, Join the Notes30 Challenge if you’re serious about growing on Substack.

P.S.S. If you’re not taking the Notes Challenge, you can opt-out from receiving these weekly posts without unsubscribing for the rest of the content - do this from your settings here:

When a post goes viral, it brings new subscribers for months. Notes are quick burners, you get a viral effect for 1-2 weeks and then silence. But posts? One post can become your growth engine for months!

And if you approach your writing strategically, it can become your money-making machine that brings a predictable income. One that compounds.

This is what I used to grow my Substack to 1,300+ paid subscribers, get my orange badge and turn this into a six-figure business on the side of my 9-5.

It’s also what I use to help you - my paid, VIP members and my coaching clients.

I wrote about how I do it here:

Posts bring subscribers - free AND paid.

That’s why this Challenge exists.

To help you replicate my methods and grow your revenues.

First, let’s now announce the winner from last month.

WINNER AWARDS

Now, to select the winners, I have to see you in the Accountability tracker AND in the comment section of the weekly sharing posts, and since not all of you added yourselves to the tracker, I’m gonna honor that and select ONLY among the ones who did.

Ok, so the winner is….

….drumrolls please.…

Winner from last month Writing Challenge:

→ ←

BIG Congrats to Giselle!!! I can’t wait to jump into the session with her and talk about her amazing Substack! Looking forward to it!

The Spotlight Session Award

→ #1 Award is a Spotlight Session to talk about your Substack and more. To give you and your Substack more exposure, I will share this session:

• all subscribers

• my YouTube channel

• my BiTES atomic newsletter

• my other social media accounts

→ Watch all previous spotlight sessions here.

Time to kick off the ALL-NEW WRITING Challenge!

Your Challenge Resources:

1. [NEW] Use this trick to personalize your posts - it will help you grow faster:

2. [NEW] Make sure you check my growth SOPs, which I use to get to my first $20k month - these two posts compile all of it:

3. [NEW] And if you’re still struggling to get high-quality output from AI, here’s my most complex protocol for using AI for writing so that I get 100% human checks on Pangram:

4. And if you haven’t already, take my new data-driven online writing courses to convert at high rates and get recommended by AI:

The Challenge Rules:

PARTICIPANTS:

The weekly sharing boost posts are for ALL UNPLUGGED MEMBERS - you can all add yourself to the accountability tracker and participate in the sharing posts, but all training materials, AI tools, and AWARDS are reserved for PAID MEMBERS ONLY.

As usual, Paid and V.I.P. members have their private access to the GPTs, and the Data-Driven Online Writing Course, the Data-Driven Copywriting Course and the Data-Driven SEO & AI SEO Course with all templates, cheat sheets, formulas, checklists, data banks, and supporting materials.

What you need to do:

• Write and publish at least 1 post per week.

• Join the challenge by adding yourself to the Accountability tracker

• Make this challenge your daily engagement workflow: share your posts in the weekly thread (you can do that every day until the next post comes on Sunday), read, like and comment on other people’s posts - it helps them, AND YOU grow.

How to do that (faster)?

• Use this trick to personalize your posts, it will help you grow faster.

• Use my engagement SOP with this challenge, it will get you more eyeballs.

• Write a pillar post and use my method to get more visibility - it will bring you consistent new subscribers for months.

• Take the ALL-NEW Data-Driven, NLP-infused, Online Writing Course, the Data-Driven Copywriting Course, and the Data-Driven SEO & AI SEO Course to make your writing contagious, AND make sure it sells for you (without selling).

• Watch the Positioning, the Product, and the Content Strategies from the QUEST: to make sure your content matches your audience's needs.

• [NEW] Create your own custom GPT or Claude skill and use my AI writing protocol to get 100% human checks on Pangram.

• Or use my custom GPT or Claude Skill the CREATIVETECH Writer Pro (free for paid members - use the link below) for outlines. I give my GPT one of my notes and ask it to expand it into a 1000-word article. I then edit and post for free. It works.

• Make sure you add links to other posts, so that people keep reading (or start buying if they are paywalled - that’s what I did)

• Add a compelling headline, one that opens a curiosity gap. Use my custom GPT the TITLE Generator - give it your entire article and it will come up with 10 titles suggestions.

• Make sure you have a CTA at the end of your post, selling your product in a non-salesy way. How? Use my brand new custom GPT High Converting CTAs Writer (link below). Just give it the product description and it will generate you 10 non-salesy CTAs that convert. If you don’t have products to sell, become my affiliate and earn 30% from each sale. Apply here for my AI tools and here for the SUBSTACK QUEST (I approve everyone).

• Make the weekly boost posts your daily engaging routine - I publish them every Sunday:

  • Share a quote from your post on Notes (select some shareable sentence & restack quote)

  • Share a link to it on the Weekly Writing Challenge Sharing post: I will publish one every Sunday - it will arrive in your inbox.

  • Read, like, comment and restack some of the other posts you like. Make this Challenge your daily engagement routine - it will help YOU and other Unplugged members grow faster.

• Track your consistency: add yourself to the Accountability Tracker. I have a Prize for the most active!

The GOAL?

Real CA$H!!

Sales is what I do best, and in this newsletter, I help you do it too, without the fear of failure or alienating our audience. It’s all in the Quest.

WINNERS AWARDS:

Spotlight Session with me to talk about you and your Substack.

Rules for the winners’ selection:

• I’ll select one of the most active participants in the Challenge based on the Accountability Tracker and your activity in the sharing posts. Rules:

  • 1. must be in the Accountability tracker and stay active in the weekly sharing posts

  • 2. must have completed the challenge (at least one post a week)

  • 3. you can win the same challenge more than once but in different months

  • 4. you can’t win both Writing and Notes challenges in the same month. If you do, I’ll invite the next most active person for a session

• Priority of selecting winners:

  • 1. most active among the VIP members

  • 2. most active among the annual paid members

  • 3. most active among the monthly paid members

• Announcement of the winners: start of next Challenge - 2nd day of next month

• When do we do the spotlight: during next month upon your availability. We’ll do the session only if you’re willing to. If not, I’ll invite the next most active member until I get a “yes”.

• How do we do the spotlight: over Zoom. I ask you questions (we initially agree on the list), and we discuss :). You can prepare slides if you want to (not a must, nobody did so far :D). I’ll do the spotlight sessions monthly after the Challenge finishes.

• To give you and your Substack more exposure, I will share the spotlight session:

  • all subscribers

  • my YouTube channel

  • my BiTES atomic newsletter

  • my other social media accounts

Ready?

Let’s do this!

Here’s your Challenge pack of resources:

Links to Challenge Resources

• Use this trick to personalize your posts

• Use my engagement SOP

• Write a pillar post and use my method to get more visibility

• The Data-Driven Online Writing Course

• The Data-Driven Copywriting Course

• The Data-Driven SEO & AI SEO Course

• Create your own custom GPT or Claude skill and use my AI writing protocol

• The custom GPTs / Claude skills are now part of the exclusive paid member perks - find them all in the Unplugged Toolbox

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Notes keep crushing it for many Unplugged members. shared in our recent live how she got more than 650 subscribers from this Note

Here’s the link in case you missed it:

My Notes? I have multiple virals but I also have hundreds of Notes that got me just one subscriber. I shared the ONLY 5 Notes templates you need to turn likes into subscribers here:

Notes work, if you use them the right way.

That’s why this challenge exists.

Ok, first things first - let’s announce the WINNER from the previous month 🤩

WINNERS AWARDS

As a reminder, I select the winners based on the Accountability tracker AND activity on the weekly sharing posts. Thanks to and his StackContacts I can now very easily extract the data and see who was the most active in my comment section.

Ok, so the winner is….

… .drumroll please.…

Winner from last month’s Notes Challenge:

→ ←

BIG Congrats to Carole!!! I can’t wait to jump into the session to talk about her amazing Substack! Looking forward to it!

The Spotlight Session Award

→ A Spotlight Session to talk about your Substack and more. To give you and your Substack more exposure, I will share this session:

• all subscribers

• my YouTube channel

• my BiTES atomic newsletter

• my other social media accounts

→ Watch all previous spotlight sessions here.

Time to kick off the new Challenge!

Challenge PARTICIPANTS:

The weekly sharing boost posts are for ALL UNPLUGGED MEMBERS - you can all add yourself to the accountability tracker and participate in the sharing posts, but all training materials, AI tools, and AWARDS are reserved for PAID MEMBERS ONLY.

As usual, Paid and V.I.P. members also have their private access to the GPT, Claude Skill, and the Viral Notes Writer Course with EVERYTHING below.

So now you have a fully automated workflow for Notes with all new Paid Member Perks:

1. Write and schedule Notes directly from the chat in Claude using my brand-new skill and the tool from Finn Tropy.

2. You can also write with my custom GPT and Claude skill using the Viral Notes Writer System (you got 50% off)

3. You can also schedule using Orel’s Write Stack (you’ve got 30-day free) or Finn’s Studio Pro (you got 50% off) - now you don’t have to keep your PC active.

4. Automatically re-post to social media using my automation app so you can grow even beyond Substack

What you need to do (short version):

• Join the challenge by adding yourself to the Accountability tracker

• Use my Claude skill or custom GPT to write and publish at least 3 Notes per day.

• Share your Notes in the weekly thread posts and make them your daily engagement routine - interact with others (you can do that every day until the next post comes on Saturday). The more activity, the greater the chances to win a Spotlight.

WINNERS AWARDS:

I’m gonna select 1 from the most active people who will win a Spotlight with me.

Rules for the winners selection:

• I’ll select the most active participants in the Challenge based on the Accountability Tracker and the activity on the sharing posts. Rules:

  • 1. must be in the Accountability tracker AND be active in the sharing posts (the more you share AND interact with others, the higher chances you have). I now extract data automatically (thanks to Finn and his StackContacts), so there’s zero chance for error.

  • 2. must have completed the challenge (at least three Notes every day)

  • 3. you can win the same challenge more than once but in different months

  • 4. you can’t win both Writing and Notes challenges in the same month. If you do, I’ll invite the next most active person for a session

• Priority of selecting winners:

  • 1. most active among the VIP members

  • 2. most active among the annual paid members

  • 3. most active among the monthly paid members

• Announcement of the winners: start of next Challenge - 1st day of next month

• When do we do the spotlight: during next month upon your availability. We’ll do the session only if you’re willing to. If not, I’ll invite the next most active member until I get a “yes”.

• How do we do the spotlight: over Zoom or Substack Live — whichever you prefer. I ask you questions (we initially agree on the list), and we discuss :). You can prepare slides if you want to (not a must, nobody did so far :D). I’ll do the spotlight sessions monthly after the Challenge finishes.

• To give you and your Substack more exposure, I will share the spotlight session:

  • all subscribers

  • my YouTube channel

  • my BiTES atomic newsletter

  • my other social media accounts

The Substack Notes30 Monthly Challenge - Full Description

Your fully automated Notes Growth Engine step by step:

• Add yourself to the Accountability tracker.

• Post at least THREE Notes every day. One is not enough, especially if you’re new to the platform. If you have a few thousand subscribers, you can do one/day - you’ll still grow, but you’ll grow much FASTER if you post more. The effect compounds. As you saw in my examples from above, I get just a few subscribers from each Note => MORE Notes = MORE Subscribers!

• Take the Viral Notes Writer course. It’s beginner-friendly and it’s only 3 hours of bite-sized easy to digest lessons.

• Take the SUBSTACK QUEST Growth strategies - because it all works together as one engine.

• Use my brand new Claude skill or custom Viral Notes Writer GPT the way I described in this video. It will turn your idea into multiple viral-ready Notes, you only need to edit and publish. Takes less than 15 minutes/day. Brings you subscribers (as many of you reported).

• Use:

  • Notes for Claude bundle (you have 50% off perk),

  • Write Stack (you have 30 day free perk), or

  • Substack Pro Studio GPT Bundle (you have 50% off perk) to schedule and analyze, optimize and schedule your Notes. Posting in the right times is crucial. No need to keep your computer active.

• Or use these 5 templates if you want to write Notes by yourself.

• Engage daily with at least 5 to 10 Substack members. Apply everything described in this video from the course, and this video from the QUEST.

• Share your Notes in the weekly Notes boost post: I will post one each Saturday, you’ll get it in your inbox. The next one comes next Saturday (post on the most recent one till then). I also share it in the chat. And remember to read, like, comment and restack some of the other Notes you like. Make this challenge your daily engagement routine - it helps YOU and other members grow faster.

• Use this automation to repost them to social media, so that you grow even more from external sources (as recommended by Substack).

• And if you have a Note with 100+ likes, DM me with a link, and I’ll add you to the Unplugged Hall of Fame (part of the Unplugged Toolbox)

If you follow all of the above, I’m confident you’ll pump your subscriber growth and you’ll see the effect immediately. People who do already report significant progress.

The goal?

To gain subscribers who are engaged with your writing and who can (and will) be converted to paid subscribers later.

How?

Follow my system from this short but powerful course: The Viral Notes Writer System. I created it for you. It’s how I get to that high conversion rate. It now runs on both - ChatGPT and Claude.

The Challenge includes (links at the end of this post):

We’ll simplify everything with the course, now you have only 3 things:

• Link to the Accountability Tracker. Add yourself now!

• PAID MEMBERS ONLY: The Unplugged Hall of Fame - in the Unplugged Toolbox - I’ve set a place to display all Notes from the Unplugged paid member community that received 100+ likes. If you have a Note with 100+ likes, DM me with a link, and I’ll add you. [NEW] It also includes all of my viral Notes.

• PAID MEMBERS ONLY: Link to the The Viral Notes Writer System course - it’s only 3 hours, and it has EVERYTHING you need to implement my system. In it you’ll find:

  • My exact system I used to triple my subscribers growth in a month (takes just 15 minutes per day to write the Notes).

  • How to use my custom GPT to adapt it to your niche and audience (+ prompts)

  • How to use my custom GPT to grow outside of Substack (+ prompts)

  • As well as:

    • My brand new Claude skill for writing viral Notes

    • The only 5 Notes templates you need to turn likes into subs

    • My custom GPT Notes Writer trained to write Substack Notes that go viral. I just upgraded its training using tons of data to sharpen it even more.

    • The right way to use the Notes Writer in order to turn likes into subscribers (like me, Jeff and Daniel and many more). Three SIMPLE steps to achieve it (you do the first two only once).

    • AI Prompting Strategy to help you write more relatable Notes based on data collected for your audience.

    • My Content Strategy: what type of Notes get the most traction - I incorporated this in the custom GPT.

    • My Engagement Strategy to attract new subscribers that are convertible to paid. You’ll have three modes:

      • EASY: engage with at least 5 new accounts per day

      • HARD: engage with at least 10 new accounts per day

      • TURBO: engage with at least 15 new accounts per day

    • A set of 11 Notes Templates (including the one that got me 10 200 likes and 167 subscribers) I’m using with a short guide on how to write them and an example from my Notes:

      • Image [with Canva template]

      • Opinion

      • Mini story

      • Mini listicle

      • Mini how-to

      • Mini analysis

      • Success story

      • Personal update

      • Personal Story (based on my first viral Note with 10k+ likes)

      • Journey (based on my second viral Note with 2k+ likes)

      • Comparison

      • Plus all the templates I incorporate in the Viral Notes Writer Claude skill

      Image with simple text are performing well. They are highly re-stackable. I’ve prepared a Canva template you can easily edit (see resources below).

    • My Notes Guiding Principles on how to use Notes to gain convertible subscribers. A set of short rules about:

      • How to write powerful hooks

      • What types of Notes to write currently

      • How to engage with others on the platform

    • List of 17 types of Notes Ideas you can easily craft. If you don’t want to stick to my templates, you can use these as references in case you get stuck.

    • My list of 17 Rules of Short Form Writing I’ve proven to be working on Substack. I used them to train the GPT and to create the Claude skill. The majority of these rules also work on Medium, X, LinkedIn, Quora. You can use them anywhere.

    • And how to use the Viral Notes Writer for X, Bluesky and LinkedIn

• Link to the automation template that helps you automatically repost Notes to social media.

You have all this packed in The Viral Notes Writer System course (value $197).

Here’s your Challenge pack of resources:

Links to Resources for Paid Members:

• Link to The Unplugged Toolbox where you’ll find the Unplugged Hall of Fame - a swipe file with Paid Member Notes that got 100+ likes as well as all of my viral Notes

• Link to the Viral Notes Writer Claude skill and scheduling tool bundle (you got 50% off).

• Link to the custom GPT Viral Notes Writer and a training how to use it. Also link to the entire course The Viral Notes Writer System - it’s a must watch.

• Link to the Substack Pro Studio GPT Bundle and a training how to use it (you got 50% off).

• Link to WriteStack to schedule and analyze your Notes (you got 30 days free).

• [From the LABS] Link to the automation template that helps you automatically repost Notes to social media.

• Link to the entire SUBSTACK QUEST - a must watch (and absorb) if you want to convert these subscribers at higher conversion rates.

Happy Noting!

May this month bring you many new subscribers!

Yana

P.S. If you need a personalized Claude skill to write Notes that sound like you, I can build one for you.

I’m walking you through all the touchpoints of your buyer journey - the way your potential buyer sees them.

Again, I wrapped it all up into just one pager with everything you need to do to optimize your Substack so that it builds trust and converts:

• Before they subscribe

• After they subscribe, and

• The always-on conversion engines

Get your one-pager worksheet with your assignment, and the QUEST Sparring Partner & Coach Custom GPT in the Unplugged Toolbox (VIP version).

And if you haven’t already, here’s the link to join the QUEST LIVEs:

Join QUEST LIVEs Here

I see you in the next LIVE!

Yana

P.S. The QUEST LIVEs are focused on optimizing Substack for a high conversion rate. If you need help optimizing your entire funnel on the back-end, your AI workflows and automations, check this page.

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