# 395: Help Spread the Word
To Help My Substack Grow I Could Use A Little š©·
I joined Substack five years ago. At that time it was a much smaller platform than it is today. In those first years it was a thrill to see my newsletter on the best seller list regularly but as the platform has become mainstream it is big name writers, celebrities and influencers with millions of followers who are in those spots. Truly this is great for Substack as it needs the big folks to bring in money to keep the platform going for ALL of us with smaller āstacks.ā But, when I speak with others who joined early many of us are finding a fairly large drop in subscribers. I was thrilled when I reached 5,000 subscribers but thereās been a drop of over 500 these last few months. Perhaps this is because of ānewsletter fatigueā when one subscribes to so many newsletters and that unsubscribing from all may feel the only way to get an Inbox back under control. Truly I hope you will stay with all of us who have smaller āstacks.ā
Substack is my home and as a one-woman show, writing, copy editing (which I admit Iām not great at), recipe development, photography, commenting, chats and brainstorming with myself to keep it all going can be a lot. Sure I would be honored if you would consider a paid subscription but paid or free the most important thing to me is that you are here.
š©· I Need Your Help š©·
So, my friends, to grow my subscription base, I need a little help from you. If you enjoy or find meaningful something Iāve written, it would mean a lot to me if you would like, post, share, link and recommend it on your own social media platforms so Substackās algorithms will āseeā me. Sharing with family, friends and neighbors would be wonderful, too. š©·
A Reminder of Who I Am and What I Write About
Iām an elder-crone-wise woman or whatever you want to call one who has stopped caring about wrinkles and silver hair. I write of my Pie Cottage home, garden and apple orchard, walks, recipes to cook and bake, books Iām reading, music Iām listening to, my beloved dog Mr B and thoughts about aging as gracefully as I can. I feel that it is important to pass on as much as I can about what I have learned, what I care about and in what I believe.
My hope is to provide a place of hope, joy and encouragement for all, and no matter what these challenging times bring I will continue to write from my heart.
With much gratitude and love,
Comments are open to all.
Love Kate McDermott and the pie cottage !!! It is a privilege to learn from her through her instruction, storytelling and kind insight. She is fun āļøš„§
I live (well) on a very tight budget controlled by my super-CFO wife, and any more subscriptions are forbidden. I canāt even subscribe to $1 a month newspapers and depend on AP and BBC online for news! I pay $5 a month for Medium, where I have published hundreds of storiesāand that is in danger. From providing enough income to cover its modest cost, and sometimes a nice surplus on Medium, for the last year, dollars have become pennies. I will most probably stop publishing anything at allāreaders (and I have almost 2,000 "followersā) are getting as scarce as the pennies! I enjoy reading you as a non-paying subscriber, but usually canāt comment since that is for subscribers only. Good luck. Perhaps people have simply stopped reading (not you, but anything at all) out of information overload? From me, you have the love!