Back-Office Operations Support/ Signposting. Navigating Substack: 'What helped me...' Part 1: First 3 months.

A Newbie's Quick Tips and personal approach.

I learnt a lot in the first three months on Substack (October 2023 to January 2024). This article still holds valuable tips, but some links to other publications/writers are now broken.

I recently wrote ‘Publisher’s Directory’ to signpost Carer Mentor readers to Substack Experts:

Publisher's Directory & Intro to the Back Office Support/Signposting. (CM Boss)

This Back Office Operations article is now part of the Build2Care section. There are 25 tips listed—the Table of Contents links to a brief explanation within this article behind the paywall.

Table of Contents for this article

(NB. Functions mentioned at the time of publication may change)

1. Videos, Clips, Tips with Q&A

2. Make a backup - safety measure

3. Find Connections (aka Sarah Fay's Parties)

4. Leverage the activity and 'likes' of those you follow

5. Taming the inbox explosion

6. My 2 storage sites of articles I want TO READ (this is not my permanent reference library)

7. Carer Mentor 3-month goals achieved. Newbie in for long haul!

8. Below 1000 words recommendation from @Sarah Fay

Other learnings Jan 25 - March 7 2024

9. Tips for when you cross post and interlink articles.

10. Dashboard ‘New Thread’ versus Chat ‘Start a new thread’ button

11. When to Publish What highlighted by Russell Nohelty

12. Karen Cherry’s 3 Substack Frustrations I Endured This Week (and 2 excellent moments!)

13. Sarah Fay’s Friday Parties! Feb 2nd ‘The Best Substack Advice!’

14. What I’m going to call

    Claire Venus
    ’Claire’s Infinity Loop of Community.’ shout outs to creators facilitating the community and networking.

15. Changing the Channel

    Kirsten Powers
    Welcome to the open-to-everyone Friday Thread!

16. Emma Kriskinans shared a great idea about ‘Likes’

17. Safety net: hack - Substack drafts saved in cloud.

18. Karen Cherry Surveys on Substack: What you need to know

19. T Sebastian great tip ‘Glasp’ and ‘Snipd’ to transcribe and clip - how cool!

20. Publishing to Everyone versus to Subscribers

21. Steve Goldberg
    Asked how I do my Evergreen & TOCs

22. Substack landing page for new readers a question from Jody Day at Sarah Fay’s Friday Ask Us Anything (AUA) thread. How to add recommendations received and customise ‘not now’.

23. Hero Post by

    Karen Cherry
    at PubStack Success

24. DM Profile Privacy Settings - Clue - it’s not your Writer Dashboard settings!

25. Brilliant Gem Alert!!! Staged & controlled - Review, soft launch and broadcast

The other Back office operations articles

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