You are on to something. I went over my articles with your guidelines in mind and the closer I accidentally got to your approach the better the responses.
There are other factors that I don't quite understand. It might be as obvious as more people are directed to things other than Substack on holiday weekends, election week, personal life things, etc. And then there is the mechanics of Substack. It's taken me a year to get partially comfortable. A brand new subscriber must sometimes be introduced to Substack in addition to my content.
You are on to something. I went over my articles with your guidelines in mind and the closer I accidentally got to your approach the better the responses.
Ah-ha! You are confirming what I observed!
There are other factors that I don't quite understand. It might be as obvious as more people are directed to things other than Substack on holiday weekends, election week, personal life things, etc. And then there is the mechanics of Substack. It's taken me a year to get partially comfortable. A brand new subscriber must sometimes be introduced to Substack in addition to my content.