10k Substack Experiment: April Results
8000+ subscribers, 17 paid + #60 on Culture bestseller list!
My current manifestation experiment is manifesting 10,000 subscribers on Substack + 100 paid members.
Every month, I’m sharing a full Lab Report on what manifesting those 10,000 subscribers looks like: the results, the movement and the receipts. I’ll be breaking down what clicked, what didn't, and my thoughts on it all.
April Results:
8000+ subscribers (most transferred from my email list)
17 paid subscribers!!
#60 on the Rising in Culture bestseller list
I got 3 recommendations + 2 new accounts recommending me!
Another paid sub through a Note!
33 new subscribers from Notes alone
Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram & Youtube bringing external traffic
Other accounts bringing new subscribers including Jenna Kutcher and Gina Devee
I wrote a post for my paid members on exactly what I’m doing behind-the-scenes — the mental diet and mindset practice, internal shifts, moving through the resistance, how I think, choose and act — don’t forget you can become one for just $9!
Ready for the receipts??
🎉 8563 total subscribers + 17 paid subscribers
🏆 #60 on the Rising Bestseller list for Culture
🤝 3 recommendations + 8 new subscribers!
Huge shout out to Sophia from Becoming Her | The Blueprint for recommending Girls That Manifest! She has some great articles you’ll love so make sure you check her out!
🤑 I got another new paid subscriber from a Note!
📝 Notes brought me 33 new subscribers!
💞 Gina Devee & Jenna Kutcher sent new subscribers
Month #2 done and dusted!
I’m really proud of what I’m doing on here. I enjoy it so much and my results are reflecting that. My mental diet is working! And to be fair I’ve been a little lax on it the last couple weeks because I’ve been sick but I’m almost back to 100% so I’ll be amping that up again.
Every single one of these wins started as a shift in my identity. It started with me choosing to move, think and act as the woman who already has those 10,000 subscribers - even though I don’t even freaking have them yet!
If you want to stop watching from the sidelines and start mastering these internal shifts for yourself, so you too can manifest the shortcuts and rapid results, I’d love to have you in our paid community to show you what I do.
Now that that’s all out of the way, let’s chat about what I learned this month.
🔎 What Worked, What Didn’t & My Personal Notes:
8000+ subscribers! I transferred over 8000 subscribers from my email list. This number will drop down as some people won’t want to be on two newsletters (understandably) + don’t understand subtack. I hope it levels out quickly. I’m also averaging around 3 - 5 new subscribers per day through substack which I’m very happy about that.
17 paid subscribers!! Up 8 from last month which is AMAZING to me since I didn’t actively promote the subscription to my audience. It’s just letting the content speak for itself + using some clever hacks to encourage people to become paid subscribers. Because honestly why tf wouldn’t you? What I share is absolute gold! Transformative, results-getting gold!
You can see how people found you and what made them subscribe. It could be a note, a restack, a post.. anything, and you can track the path of how that person found you. I love that. It helps you get an idea of the type of content that’s working well for you and to replicate the formula of it for future posts.
Paid subscribers can be brand new to you. It blew me away that some paid members became brand new subscribers + paid at the same time. Meaning, they had no idea who I was before they subscribed. It was a post or a note that converted them into paid. That’s crazy amazing to me. It’s showing me that if people are already on substack and using the app or website daily, they’re already primed to become paid subscribers to publications they like. So much of the heavy lifting is done for you on here.
Genuine comments have an immediate ROI. The amount of subscribers that came through just from leaving genuine comments on Notes has been really eye opening. If you’re following accounts you naturally read + relate in some way to the topics you write about on your publication, it’s a very simple and genuine way to have get new aligned subscribers. For instance, I follow Jenna Kutcher and Gina Devee, who are MASSIVE names in the industry. A comment I left on Jenna’s post and a restack of my comment that Gina shared brought me new subscribers. Where else could you get that?
Pinterest is starting to pick up. I haven’t been doing much with Pinterest but a couple of pins have popped off and now traffic is beginning to trickle in. It’s nothing WILD yet, but I’m learning what’s working, what gets shared, what doesn’t etc.. It’s so different to how it used to be. I’ll share more on this in the future.
Trackbacks. What are these? I can’t figure it out. I’ve gotten 3 trackbacks from different accounts and I can’t find how they’re somehow linking to me. If anyone knows, please tell me! Lol.
I still don’t think anything “didn’t” work. I know I’m still relatively new and still may be fully delulu but I don’t see anything that didn’t work. It’s still unfolding perfectly. And I know I’m being led to the right moves for me to reach my desired goal!
💬 Share Below:
I’d love to hear from you in the comments: Which of these results surprised you the most? And do you have a Substack or did you come over here from my list and have no idea what this is?
Elise xo
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