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Dre Beltrami's avatar

I was like... did she accidentally Substack butt-tag me? But then, this. What a big ass warm + fuzzy treat for a newbie who thought she was in the void all by her lonesome. THANKS, girl!! 🥰

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

😂 🥰🥰🥰

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Louise Tilbrook ✨'s avatar

As someone who is forever butt-dialling my husband, the thought of a Substack butt-tag made me chuckle.

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

I only just clicked what they meant 😂

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Annalisa Caminarecci's avatar

Oh wow ! Thank you 🤩🤩🤍

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

✨💕✨💡✨

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Alexander Lovell, PhD's avatar

Your story about the yoga class encounter resonated with me deeply. It's a great reminder that the online world can be a tricky landscape to navigate. Your advice to keep seeking genuine connections, even in the face of setbacks, is so valuable. It's easy to get discouraged, but your words remind us (particularly ME) that there are wonderful people out there who appreciate our work.

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

Oh so many of them Alexander. I always worry about missing messages now for that reason. I know I definitely have and I hope it hasn’t impacted anyone negatively. Substack is built on generosity it’s simple to seek it out. ✨✨🤩✨✨🗝️

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Louise Tilbrook ✨'s avatar

Exactly this. In my experience the positive encounters far outweigh the negative ones - even though the latter are the ones our brains tend to dwell on.

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

Yes it’s moving through it all isn’t it that’s the tricky bit but once you become a bit more practised you make the decisions quicker which helps the whole process I find. ✨

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Jo Thompson's avatar

Recommendations really are effective - I’d definitely embrace this

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Robin Taylor (he/him)'s avatar

This was such a fun post to read this week. Thanks for sending love back to the community, Claire!

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Mary Austin (she/her)'s avatar

This answers something I’ve been wondering about, whether recommendations make any difference. Also, does that make the tag line that people see for your publication that much more important? Thanks for the wise and fun way you do this work!

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

Yes exactly! That’s why I’m running a workshop on it next week Mary. Soulful Micro Copy. ✨

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Mary Austin (she/her)'s avatar

Oooh, excellent!

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Louise Tilbrook ✨'s avatar

This is such a fabulous post, thank you Claire.

I'm learning more and more about what hides behind that seemingly simple list of subscribers (short answer - much more detail than I ever realised).

Thanks for the inspiration.

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

Aw you are super welcome Louise! 😍🥰

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Louise Tilbrook ✨'s avatar

I just went through my list and found some super commenters on my posts for Aug, so I gifted them a months comp and sent them a little thank you note.

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

aww love this

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David Barton's avatar

Super ideas! I’m really loving recommendations, but they do go in fits and starts. An awful lot of my new subscribers at the moment are coming from notes! 🤷‍♂️✨

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

Is that a good thing? Do they feel aligned with your work David?

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David Barton's avatar

Mixed…I think time will tell.

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

Ok good well if your graphs go wobbly don’t worry about it. ✨🙏

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Anna McNuff's avatar

Super helpful, as always. Thanks Claire! 🧡

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

You’re welcome ☺️

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Eva Lydon 🌿's avatar

Love this! ❤️ Great detail and super useful info 👌 Don't ever let anyone get you down.. they're just selfish and possibly jealous 🙄 You and what you have built here are absolutely FABULOUS!! ✨️ 💖

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

Oh thanks my love! 😍 ✨✨✨✨ excited for your new thing!

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Mika's avatar

I love, love, love getting gift subscriptions for Sparkle on Substack to giveaway! Thank you so much for offering that! I wasn’t sure how come I was getting them, but it looks like it because of the referrals. ☺️

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