Your A-Z of Sparkle on Substack Membership ✨

Hi, I’m Claire - I’m an Engagement Consultant and Mentor and I’ve been teaching creatives who also write about Substack since February 2023.

Here at

, we are a community of creatives, writers, journalists and wellbeing practitioners that want to grow JOYFULLY and SUSTAINABLY on Substack. We lean into experiments, I share what works for me and my clients, we explore what’s possible and how Substack fits with our ecosystem. It’s a tonne of fun and there is so much potential for you too.

🌟 The FREE Sparkle on Substack Podcast is here and not catalogued below. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and feel free to leave me a 5 star review if you’ve enjoyed it. 🌟

- A-Z of Substack Education Resources

About Page

Audit - if you are Diamond Member, here’s the place to book your audit.

Audio on Substack

Bio (writer and publication)

Branding

Boost (Substack Boost)

Chat

Categories

Collaboration for GROWTH

Connection

Content Pillars/ Cadence

Coupons

Set up a special offer coupon. NB - anyone on a coupon counts toward best seller.

Design

Delivery Rates

Diamond Membership here at Sparkle on Substack

Duplicate Posts

FAQs

Ask in the subscriber chat anytime and the community will get back to you. (Paid members only)

Founding Memberships

GDPR

Goal Setting

Going Paid

Guest Workshops

Headers and Footers

Homepage

Homepage Blocks

Importing Subs via CSV file

Instagram to Substack class

Illustrations / Visuals for your Substack

Know your why for Substack

Leaderboards/ Explore Page

Mindset

Money Mindset

Nervous System

Notes (Substack’s inbuilt (kind) social media)

Organisation (sections and tags)

Open rates

Pages

Page breaks

This arrive in your welcome email but if you missed it and want to grab the canva template it’s here. Top tops - Make a copy and play around with your brand colours - download it with a transparent background.

Paywalls

Pledges

Podcasts

PR (Public Relations)

See

speak here too - https://sparklesummit.substack.com/p/how-to-hype-yourself-and-your-book

Referrals

Referral, recomendations interview with Suzy Walker

Recommendations / Referrals

Running Two Publications

⭐️ Watch on YouTube - Running Multiple Publications at once

Sections

Settings

SEO

Site design

Smart notifications

Scroll to the bottom of this post to see how to turn those on

Special Offers

Watch the youtube video on how to set up coupons for special offers for your paid content.

Subscriber Retention

Tags

TAX

Threads

Unsubscribes - turn off unsubscribe notifications (thank me later)

Welcome emails (free, (monthly/ annual) paid, founding and imported subs)

Writers room in Discord.

Wordmarks (Publication Title)

You can use this canva template but honestly wordmarks are just hard to get right! Please change the colour and the font to your brand colours and pull the design to the edges, graphics don’t work so well. You can employ someone to help.

Professional services that can support you on Substack are listed here -

Video

Visuals

Meet your colleagues in weekly chat or in one of these threads;

You can also get Substack support from lots of brilliant assistants, editors and creatives here;

Thanks to

for her efficiency and time in pulling together this list with me.

Sending so many sparkles for your Substack journey ahead,

Claire x

PS - Join the Sparkle Membership and get live support to set up and grow your publication joyfully and sustainably. We’d love to welcome you.

PPS - Lastly, here’s a 14 point check list I made for Substack newbies to help you work through setting up your Substack at your pace. We have time, there is so so much time.

Sparkle Up Your Substack
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