The price you pay for not using Notes
And how you can automate the entire process of writing and posting Notes
You can still grow your subscribers without Notes.
But do you convert?
After analyzing hundreds of newsletters (both bestsellers making millions with Susbtack alone, and newbies), I found a clear pattern.
Notes make a huge difference for conversion.
Looking at my data, I can see why:
Subscribers coming from Notes and the App in general are much more likely to convert to paid.
That’s because they are native users to Substack, which is not always the case for Recommendations. And for sure not the case for imported accounts.
You’ll stay at a low conversion rate - that’s the price you pay for not using Notes.
People who count mainly on external growth sources like paid ads or organic social media content gravitate at 3% conversion rates.
People who focus on Substack sources go beyond that.
I’ve seen 18% and even above 20%!
And it all starts with Notes.
The problem is how to find these people on the platform.
What type of Notes to write?
When to post them?
That’s what we (me and Finn Tropy) solve with the AI-powered Chrome extension the Substack Pro Studio GPT Bundle.
In this video I described my exact workflow with this extension, and ever since I optimized my posting times, I got a steady growth of new subscribers:
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“You’ll stay at a low conversion rate — that’s the price you pay for not using Notes.”
Such a sharp insight. Notes really are the engine of discovery on Substack.