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.

VIPs: You have new gifts👇

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 of the other members’ Notes. It will help you and them grow.

Grab your Viral Notes Writer GPT & post some highly engaging Notes.

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:

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.

VIPs: You have new gifts👇

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 of the other members’ Notes. It will help you and them grow.

Grab your Viral Notes Writer GPT & post some highly engaging Notes.

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:

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.

VIPs: You have new gifts👇

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 of the other members’ Notes. It will help you and them grow.

Grab your Viral Notes Writer GPT & post some highly engaging Notes.

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:

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.

VIPs: You have new gifts👇

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 of the other members’ Notes. It will help you and them grow.

Grab your Viral Notes Writer GPT & post some highly engaging Notes.

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:

That’s why this Challenge is so important.

Alright! Let’s now announce the winners from the last month!

WINNERS AWARDS

First, I want to personally congratulate all of the members who took their growth seriously last month and were active:

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Congrats to all of you! You’re ABSOLUTELY amazing!

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 Daniel !!! I can’t wait to jump into the session with him, and talk about all things Substack growth! 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.

Subscribe now

Time to kick off the ALL-NEW WRITING Challenge!

If you haven’t already, take my new data-driven online writing course to convert at higher rates and make your writing contagious:

And the all-new data-driven copywriting course to make your paid offer sell itself:

This new Challenge comes with a couple of my all-new Data-Driven Courses designed to help you sell (without selling). It’s short, it’s essential, and it’s zero fluff. For you, if you’re still struggling to “find your voice” or to get high-quality output from AI.

Why a Writing Challenge?

It’s clear: posts do get you new subscribers. And sales.

But it might be challenging to stay consistent.

And it’s often hard to find who or what to engage with to grow faster, especially when you search for a good read.

That’s why this challenge exists.

Within Unplugged, you have everything you need to grow your Substack:

• the monthly Notes30 Challenge where you grow your free subscribers,

• the weekly Write2Sell column where you convert them to paid and keep them paying,

• the Substack Quest to bring you to your first (or next) bestseller badge faster,

• the QUEST LABS with all the AI and automations, which helps you grow while you sleep, and…

• this monthly Writing Challenge where you apply the knowledge from the Write2Sell column and the Quest in practice and actually work to grow your paid subscribers,

• plus: the AI tools you can use to grow easier and faster (find the links below).

• and: the ALL-NEW Data-Driven Online Writing Course and the Data-Driven Copywriting Course to make your writing contagious + make sure it sells.

What is it?

It’s a challenge for writing.

But not just writing.

It’s built to help you convert more subscribers, applying everything from the Write2Sell column and the Quest in practice, and feed your automations with more sales. Because learning how to do things is nothing if you don’t take action.

So, in this challenge, we’ll take action.

The Challenge:

PARTICIPANTS:

UNPLUGGED PAID MEMBERS

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 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)?

• Take the ALL-NEW Data-Driven, NLP-infused, Online Writing Course and the Data-Driven Copywriting 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.

• Use my custom GPT 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 (link below) - 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 (I approve everyone).

• Make the weekly boost posts your daily engaging routine:

  • 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

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

• Link to the Accountability Tracker. If you haven’t already, add yourself now!

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

• Training courses from the Substack Quest: everything you need to nail positioning, product, growth, and sales.

• A mini workshop on how to Generate Stunning Midjourney Images without Prompting (link below)

• My custom personalized GPT CREATIVETECH Writer PRO trained on my viral stories to write high-quality long-form articles. Just updated with new training data. (link below)

• My custom GPT TITLE Generator 2.0 trained on 1000+ viral titles on Medium to generate titles that drive clicks. Just updated with new training data. (link below)

• My custom GPT High Converting CTAs Writer trained to turn your product descriptions into non-salesy CTAs you can use in your posts. Just updated with new training data. (link below)

• Dedicated Weekly Writing Challenge Sharing Post. I’ll ask you to share links to your posts, so that it can get even more traction. Comes every Sunday, you can share through the entire week. Make sure you also check other’s posts - that’s how we grow together!

Find the links below. Use this knowledge. Adapt the templates and guidelines to your niche and style.

Ready?

Let’s do this!

Here’s your Challenge pack of resources:

You’ll never get a price increase in the future! You can unsubscribe at any time.

Link to Challenge Resources

Read more

And I can’t wait to announce the WINNERS from the previous month 🤩

WINNERS AWARDS

Before I announce the winners, I want to personally congratulate who got multiple viral Notes in the Unplugged Hall of Fame, which also got her a bunch of sales of her newly published book!

And of the members who took their growth seriously last month and were active:

, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Congrats to ALL of you! You ARE ALL AMAZING!

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

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 winners are….

….drumrolls please.…

Winners from last month’s Notes Challenge:

This month’s awards are brought to us from who is so kind to grant 10x14 Days free of the Enterprise edition of his amazing Notes scheduling & analysis tool WriteStack. And now, since Substack enabled native scheduling, you don’t need to keep your PC open anymore!

So the winners are:

1. SPOTLIGHT SESSION + 14 DAYS FREE WriteStack Enterprise

   → ←

2. 14 DAYS FREE WriteStack Enterprise:

BIG Congrats to all the winners!!! I can’t wait to jump into the session with Vinayak, to talk about all things Substack! Looking forward to it!

The WriteStack Enterprise Award

Look for a DM from me about how you get the 14 days free.

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 new Challenge!

Challenge PARTICIPANTS:

This month for the last time: again, I’m gonna run the weekly sharing boost posts for ALL UNPLUGGED MEMBERS - you can all add yourself to the accountability tracker and participate in the sharing posts, but all training materials and AWARDS are reserved for PAID MEMBERS ONLY.

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

So this month, you have a fully automated workflow for Notes (paid members only):

1. Write with my custom GPT using the Viral Notes Writer System

2. Schedule using Orel’s Write Stack or Finn’s Studio Pro - now you don’t have to keep your PC active

3. 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 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.

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 ), 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 custom Viral Notes Writer GPT the way I described in this video (the link to the GPT is below the video). It will turn your idea into 5 viral-ready Notes, you only need to edit and publish. Takes less than 15 minutes/day. Brings you subscribers (as many of you reported). Check out the latest update here.

• Use Write Stack to schedule and Substack Pro Studio GPT Bundle to analyze, optimize and schedule your Notes. Posting in the right times is crucial.

• 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.

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.

It’s time to make the most out of your paid subscription and get a proper return on your investment! Join that challenge!

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.

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 (link at the end of the post) - 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.

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

    • ChatGPT Prompting Strategy to help you write more relatable Notes based on data collected for your audience with the standard ChatGPT 4o model.

    • 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

      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. The majority of these rules also work on Medium, X, LinkedIn, Quora. You can use them anywhere.

    • And how to use the Custom GPT 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:

Read more

This post stays active for one week, so make it your daily engagement routine. Share your posts, but also read and join the conversation in the comments of the other members’ posts. It will help you grow, it will help them grow.

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

VIPs: YOU HAVE A GIFT👇

Do you use my custom GPT that generates viral headlines? I just updated its data training, PLUS - it now gives you subtitles as well!

Have you tried the High Converting CTAs custom GPT? It will help you sell more with your posts. It also got a fresh, new data-driven training update optimized for conversions.

If not, NOW is the time to start!

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

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!!

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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:

This post stays active for one week, so make it your daily engagement routine. Share your Notes, but also read and join the conversation in the comments of the other members’ Notes. It will help you grow, it will help them grow.

So grab your Viral Notes Writer GPT & post some highly engaging Notes.

If you’re not yet in the Notes Challenge, NOW IS the best time to join, because THIS MONTH YOU WIN:

🎁 This month: Win FREE WriteStack Enterprise 🎁

This month I’m selecting 10 winners!

1. TOP 1 most active: Spotlight with me + 14 Days of WriteStack Enterprise 🎁

2. Next 9 people: 14 Days of WriteStack Enterprise 🎁

Rules available here.

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.

PLUS: if anyone has 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:

This post stays active for one week, so make it your daily engagement routine. Share your posts, but also read and join the conversation in the comments of the other members’ posts. It will help you grow, it will help them grow.

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

VIPs: YOU HAVE A GIFT👇

Do you use my custom GPT that generates viral headlines? I just updated its data training, PLUS - it now gives you subtitles as well!

Have you tried the High Converting CTAs custom GPT? It will help you sell more with your posts. It also got a fresh, new data-driven training update optimized for conversions.

If not, NOW is the time to start!

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

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:

This post stays active for one week, so make it your daily engagement routine. Share your Notes, but also read and join the conversation in the comments of the other members’ Notes. It will help you grow, it will help them grow.

So grab your Viral Notes Writer GPT & post some highly engaging Notes.

If you’re not yet in the Notes Challenge, NOW IS the best time to join, because THIS MONTH YOU WIN:

🎁 This month: Win FREE WriteStack Enterprise 🎁

This month I’m selecting 10 winners!

1. TOP 1 most active: Spotlight with me + 14 Days of WriteStack Enterprise 🎁

2. Next 9 people: 14 Days of WriteStack Enterprise 🎁

Rules available here.

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.

PLUS: if anyone has 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:

This post stays active for one week, so make it your daily engagement routine. Share your posts, but also read and join the conversation in the comments of the other members’ posts. It will help you grow, it will help them grow.

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

VIPs: YOU HAVE A GIFT👇

Do you use my custom GPT that generates viral headlines? I just updated its data training, PLUS - it now gives you subtitles as well!

Have you tried the High Converting CTAs custom GPT? It will help you sell more with your posts. It also got a fresh, new data-driven training update optimized for conversions.

If not, NOW is the time to start!

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

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:

This post stays active for one week, so make it your daily engagement routine. Share your Notes, but also read and join the conversation in the comments of the other members’ Notes. It will help you grow, it will help them grow.

So grab your Viral Notes Writer GPT & post some highly engaging Notes.

If you’re not yet in the Notes Challenge, NOW IS the best time to join, because THIS MONTH YOU WIN:

🎁 This month: Win FREE WriteStack Enterprise 🎁

This month I’m selecting 10 winners!

1. TOP 1 most active: Spotlight with me + 14 Days of WriteStack Enterprise 🎁

2. Next 9 people: 14 Days of WriteStack Enterprise 🎁

Rules available here.

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.

PLUS: if anyone has 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:

This post stays active for one week, so make it your daily engagement routine. Share your posts, but also read and join the conversation in the comments of the other members’ posts. It will help you grow, it will help them grow.

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

VIPs: YOU HAVE A GIFT👇

Do you use my custom GPT that generates viral headlines? I just updated its data training, PLUS - it now gives you subtitles as well!

Have you tried the High Converting CTAs custom GPT? It will help you sell more with your posts. It also got a fresh, new data-driven training update optimized for conversions.

If not, NOW is the time to start!

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

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:

This post stays active for one week, so make it your daily engagement routine. Share your Notes, but also read and join the conversation in the comments of the other members’ Notes. It will help you grow, it will help them grow.

So grab your Viral Notes Writer GPT & post some highly engaging Notes.

If you’re not yet in the Notes Challenge, NOW IS the best time to join, because THIS MONTH YOU WIN:

🎁 This month: Win FREE WriteStack Enterprise 🎁

This month I’m selecting 10 winners!

1. TOP 1 most active: Spotlight with me + 14 Days of WriteStack Enterprise 🎁

2. Next 9 people: 14 Days of WriteStack Enterprise 🎁

Rules available here.

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.

PLUS: if anyone has 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:

That’s why this Challenge is so important.

But first, let’s announce the winners from the last month!

WINNERS AWARDS

First, I want to personally congratulate all of the members who took their growth seriously last month and were active:

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Congrats to all of you! You’re ABSOLUTELY amazing!

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 Jennifer !!! I can’t wait to jump into the session with her, I’m sure it’s gonna be lots of fun! 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.

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Time to kick off the ALL-NEW WRITING Challenge!

If you haven’t already, take my new data-driven online writing course to convert at higher rates and make your writing contagious:

This new Challenge comes with the all-new Data-Driven Online Writing Course designed to help you sell (without selling). It’s short, it’s essential, and it’s zero fluff. For you, if you’re still struggling to “find your voice” or to get high-quality output from AI.

Why a Writing Challenge?

It’s clear: posts do get you new subscribers. And sales.

But it might be challenging to stay consistent.

And it’s often hard to find who or what to engage with to grow faster, especially when you search for a good read.

That’s why this challenge exists.

Within Unplugged, you have everything you need to grow your Substack:

• the monthly Notes30 Challenge where you grow your free subscribers,

• the weekly Write2Sell column where you convert them to paid and keep them paying,

• the Substack Quest to bring you to your first (or next) bestseller badge faster,

• the QUEST LABS with all the AI and automations, which helps you grow while you sleep, and…

• this monthly Writing Challenge where you apply the knowledge from the Write2Sell column and the Quest in practice and actually work to grow your paid subscribers,

• plus: the AI tools you can use to grow easier and faster (find the links below).

• and: the ALL-NEW Data-Driven Online Writing Course to make your writing contagious + make sure it sells (coming in your inboxes shortly).

What is it?

It’s a challenge for writing.

But not just writing.

It’s built to help you convert more subscribers, applying everything from the Write2Sell column and the Quest in practice, and feed your automations with more sales. Because learning how to do things is nothing if you don’t take action.

So, in this challenge, we’ll take action.

The Challenge:

PARTICIPANTS:

This month again: I’m gonna run the weekly sharing boost posts for ALL UNPLUGGED MEMBERS.

As usual: Paid and V.I.P. members have their private access to the GPTs, and the Data-Driven Online Writing 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)?

• Take the ALL-NEW Data-Driven, NLP-infused, Online Writing 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.

• Use my custom GPT 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 (link below) - 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 (I approve everyone).

• Make the weekly boost posts your daily engaging routine:

  • 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

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

• Link to the Accountability Tracker. If you haven’t already, add yourself now!

• ALL-NEW Data-Driven, NLP-infused, Online Writing Course to make your writing contagious, AND make sure it sells for you (without selling)

  • My FRAMEWORK for contagious writing

  • My TOP 6 RULES OF CONTENT

  • MY NLP TACTICS + 13 EMOTION TECHNIQUES & THE NLP WORDBANK

  • 12 RULES of AESTHETIC WRITING

  • The 3 VIRALITY PATTERNS & VIRAL WRITING CHECKLIST

  • The WRITING CHECKLIST

  • THE SUBSTACK PUBLISHING CHECKLIST

  • The POWER WORDS CHEAT CHEET

  • TOP 3 POST TEMPLATES

  • 30+ PROVEN HOOK FORMULAS WORKBOOK

  • 21 COMMON DOs and DON’Ts

  • 12 RHETORIC TECHNIQUES CHEAT SHEET

  • My 19 Writing Rules for Highly Engaging Writing, which helped me get lots of stories go viral (previously a supporting material to this Challenge)

  • 13 Ideas on How to Use Emotions with Examples of Uncommon, Emotional and Power Words to use in your writing - because emotions are a huge part of great writing (previously a supporting material to this Challenge)

• Training courses from the Substack Quest: everything you need to nail positioning, product, growth, and sales.

• A mini workshop on how to Generate Stunning Midjourney Images without Prompting (link below)

• My custom personalized GPT CREATIVETECH Writer PRO trained on my viral stories to write high-quality long-form articles. Just updated with new training data. (link below)

• My custom GPT TITLE Generator 2.0 trained on 1000+ viral titles on Medium to generate titles that drive clicks. Just updated with new training data. (link below)

• My custom GPT High Converting CTAs Writer trained to turn your product descriptions into non-salesy CTAs you can use in your posts. Just updated with new training data. (link below)

• Dedicated Weekly Writing Challenge Sharing Post. I’ll ask you to share links to your posts, so that it can get even more traction. Comes every Sunday, you can share through the entire week. Make sure you also check other’s posts - that’s how we grow together!

Find the links below. Use this knowledge. Adapt the templates and guidelines to your niche and style.

Ready?

Let’s do this!

Here’s your Challenge pack of resources:

You’ll never get a price increase in the future! You can unsubscribe at any time.

Link to Challenge Resources

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And I can’t wait to announce the WINNERS from the Last Month Notes30 Challenge.

WINNERS AWARDS

Before I announce the winners, I want to personally congratulate all of the members who took their growth seriously last month and were active:

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Congrats to ALL of you! You ARE ALL AMAZING!

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

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 winners are….

….drumrolls please.…

Winners from last month’s Notes Challenge:

This month’s awards are brought to us from who is so kind to grant 3x1 Month free of the Enterprise edition of his amazing Notes scheduling & analysis tool WriteStack.

So the winners are:

1. SPOTLIGHT SESSION + 1 MONTH FREE WriteStack Enterprise

   → ←

2. MONTH FREE WriteStack Enterprise:

3. MONTH FREE WriteStack Enterprise:

BIG Congrats to all the winners!!! I can’t wait to jump into the session with Kathleen again, I’m sure it’s gonna be amazing! Looking forward to it!

The WriteStack Enterprise Award

Look for a DM from me about how you get the 1 month free.

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 new Challenge!

Challenge PARTICIPANTS:

This month: again, I’m gonna run the weekly sharing boost posts for ALL UNPLUGGED MEMBERS - you can all add yourself to the accountability tracker and participate in the sharing posts, but AWARDS are reserved for paid members ONLY.

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

So this month, you have a fully automated workflow for Notes (paid members only):

1. Write with my custom GPT using the Viral Notes Writer System

2. Schedule using Orel’s Write Stack or Finn’s Studio Pro

3. 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 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.

WINNERS AWARDS: 🎁 WRITESTACK GIFTS 🎁

I’m gonna select 10 from the most active people who will win a spotlight with me (top 1) and 14 Days of WriteStack Enterprise 🎁 - no credit card required (brought to you by ):

1. TOP 1 most active: Spotlight with me + 14 Days of WriteStack Enterprise 🎁

2. Next 9 people: 14 Days of WriteStack Enterprise 🎁

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 ), 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. 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 custom Viral Notes Writer GPT the way I described in this video (the link to the GPT is below the video). It will turn your idea into 5 viral-ready Notes, you only need to edit and publish. Takes less than 15 minutes/day. Brings you subscribers (as many of you reported). Check out the latest update here.

• Use Write Stack to schedule and Substack Pro Studio GPT Bundle to analyze, optimize and schedule your Notes. Posting in the right times is crucial.

• 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.

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

It’s time to make the most out of your paid subscription and get a proper return on your investment! Join that challenge!

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.

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 (link at the end of the post) - 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.

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

    • ChatGPT Prompting Strategy to help you write more relatable Notes based on data collected for your audience with the standard ChatGPT 4o model.

    • 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

      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. The majority of these rules also work on Medium, X, LinkedIn, Quora. You can use them anywhere.

    • And how to use the Custom GPT 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:

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