Substack’s Recommendation Feature Grows Your Email List on Autopilot.

Quality content producers are rewarded.

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Here’s how Substack grows your subscribers on autopilot.

Someone reads one of your articles, and they like it. They see you as someone worth listening to in your niche.

So, they recommend you to their audience.

What happens when you get recommended on Substack?

When another publication or writer on Substack recommends you, your name will show up on their homepage.

Recommendation list on The Online Writing Guide homepage

Your audience is involved in helping you to grow your audience. Or, you can think about Substack’s recommendation feature as “word-of-mouth” advertising.

Pretty powerful stuff.

Also, whenever you subscribe to someone’s Substack, you’ll see a popup inviting you to subscribe to Substacks that writer recommends.

So if you subscribe to me, you have an opportunity to subscribe to:

• By Burk

• Kristina’s Newsletter

• Category Pirates

And you should subscribe to them, by the way!

Real examples from Substack’s recommendation feature.

Here’s a real example of what recommendations can do for your subscriber numbers.

I run another Substack called

Centered on Christ

, and these numbers come from its dashboard.

So far, I’ve received 14 subscribers and been recommended by 3 Substack publications.

Subscribers gained from publications recommendations

Substack also shows how many subscriptions you’ve generated for the publications you’ve recommended.

Subscribers other publications have gained from my recommendation.

My recommendation helped play a role in growing four publications. It’s pretty neat to see how the Substack community works!

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As long as you keep producing quality content, Substack’s features will help you grow.

So keep writing!