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I love this, David. Well done on all your success! And you’re right, our newsletter is a business. Great tips here, too. Thank you 🥳.

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Thanks Deni!

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I really enjoyed this post. Thank you David.

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Thank you!

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This is great advice, thank you for sharing 🙌🏾

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My pleasure!

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Sep 5·edited Sep 5Liked by David McIlroy

Thanks so much. Excellent. Please make a post explaining the difference between notes and chats and messages! For the life of me I cannot figure out how they work.

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Will do!

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Ha ha, for the too please

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Always good stuff, David. Have gotten a lot out of your work. Not that I care and don't assume that I do, but it looks like you gave away your politics in this post. In this day and age, I think if we're writing for the broad spectrum of the audience, we need to be mindful of not slicing away a significant chunk of our readers needlessly. Unless, of course, we have made a conscious decision to take a purposeful stand on one side or the other. Or someplace better.

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Did I? I must’ve missed where I did that.

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Let's see if anyone else catches it... :-)

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Sep 5Liked by David McIlroy

Really needed to hear this, David. And you bet I've liked and subscribed!

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Thanks so much! 🙏

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Loved this, David. Amazing value!

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Thank you!

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Thank you for sharing this with the rest of us struggling to grow our own little corner of Substack.

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Most welcome Dawn!

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really enjoyed and learned from that post – and i usually find it difficult to think strategically about my writing :) so thank you!

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My pleasure!

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Congrats on your success. This is a great write-up on how many things work. Put in the work to produce not only great content, but true engagement. I know I need to work on both things, even more so with my poor fiction one I let go to the weeds while pumping out a trilogy. However, I see this working out on my An Abundant Life that I have kept fairly regular and only miss a Monday here and there, like Labor Day. I'm still small, but have grown in engagement and have always had a great open rate with it. It truly is one step at a time.

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That’s it, just one small step at a time!

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Sep 5Liked by David McIlroy

Cool dog🐾🤛🏻

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Love this, David. Consistency is so important. I love to see how just making a small commitment to your craft, consistently, over several months, has had such exponential rewards!

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It certainly does James!

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Thank you for sharing. These are helpful pieces of advice 😊

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My pleasure Tami!

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Great solid sound advise. Glad to hear its about commonsense and showing up

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That’s at the heart of it all for sure!

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Sep 5Liked by David McIlroy

This is really helpful, thank you David.

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Thanks Andrea!

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Great morning read over my cup of coffee. Everything here feels so genuine, unlike other platforms that relay helpful tips but in a not so honest way. I’m super new here and truly thought this was simply a software to publish blogs (like a blogspot or something). I had NO IDEA it was an entire community-based social platform to house all of your writing! Incredible! Definitely taking this to heart (and taking notes feverishly), so my many thanks for sharing!

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Glad you found it useful! 😊

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