Substack Success Foundations Course
Unlock your potential
Feeling lost on Substack?
Substack can be overwhelming.
You have so much to share, but building an audience feels like an uphill battle.
I get it.
Your potential on Substack is huge, but unlocking it isn't easy.
In 4 transformative sessions, you will:
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Design a Substack set up to grow—financially, professionally, and creatively
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Learn what content works on Substack and will turns your audience into devoted fans
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Explore the paid strategies that work (including the 9 proven things people will pay for)
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Access the key Substack growth strategies
About Sarah Fay, your Substack expert
I bring you my expertise as:
- The leading Substack Growth Strategist
- The creator of two bestselling, featured Substacks
- The founder of Substack Writers at Work, a Top 3 bestselling Substack, globally
- A mentor to thousands of Substack writers
- An award-winning, bestselling author at HarperCollins (Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses)
- A freelance writer at The New York Times, The Atlantic, et al.
- A literary scholar with an MFA, MA, PhD
- A member of the faculty at Northwestern University
- A former advisory editor at The Paris Review
- A Substack writer with 29,000+ active subscribers
- The go-to Substack expert
This blueprint is also what I used to gross $100k in ten months.
How I've helped hundreds of my private clients:
Working with me, my client, Kate Hill, increased her revenue from $21,000 to $26,000 in a little over a month.
My client Jeannine Ouellette increased her paid subscribers from 560 to over 1000 in just 70 days.
What students are saying:
A fantastic course for writers on Substack
Allison Conway
Really helped me understand Substack as a landscape, how to navigate it, and where my writing fits into the "ecosystem" here. Highly recommend if you want to pursue writing here with a bit more structure and focus. Thank you, Sarah Fay!
Really helped me understand Substack as a landscape, how to navigate it, and where my writing fits into the "ecosystem" here. Highly recommend if you want to pursue writing here with a bit more structure and focus. Thank you, Sarah Fay!
Read LessGetting traction on substack
Carlyn MontesDeOca
I found this course very well put together. Lots of important info! Glad to have this resource as a guide.
I found this course very well put together. Lots of important info! Glad to have this resource as a guide.
Read LessA fantastic course for writers on Substack
Allison Conway
Really helped me understand Substack as a landscape, how to navigate it, and where my writing fits into the "ecosystem" here. Highly recommend if you want to pursue writing here with a bit more structure and focus. Thank you, Sarah Fay!
Really helped me understand Substack as a landscape, how to navigate it, and where my writing fits into the "ecosystem" here. Highly recommend if you want to pursue writing here with a bit more structure and focus. Thank you, Sarah Fay!
Read LessGetting traction on substack
Carlyn MontesDeOca
I found this course very well put together. Lots of important info! Glad to have this resource as a guide.
I found this course very well put together. Lots of important info! Glad to have this resource as a guide.
Read LessA fantastic course for writers on Substack
Allison Conway
Really helped me understand Substack as a landscape, how to navigate it, and where my writing fits into the "ecosystem" here. Highly recommend if you want to pursue writing here with a bit more structure and focus. Thank you, Sarah Fay!
Really helped me understand Substack as a landscape, how to navigate it, and where my writing fits into the "ecosystem" here. Highly recommend if you want to pursue writing here with a bit more structure and focus. Thank you, Sarah Fay!
Read LessGetting traction on substack
Carlyn MontesDeOca
I found this course very well put together. Lots of important info! Glad to have this resource as a guide.
I found this course very well put together. Lots of important info! Glad to have this resource as a guide.
Read LessWhat people are saying...
“Within 24 hours of executing Sarah’s suggestions, my subscription base expanded to include countless new readers who not only pressed the “subscribe” button but also took the time to engage with the material and write encouraging and insightful comments on the posts. ”
Kimberly Warner, Unfixed
“Before I signed up with Sarah, I was clueless about how my posts were landing on Substack. She is a superb teacher. The result has been an improvement in the quality of my posts and a surge in subscribers. I'm also having a lot more fun as a Substack writer. ”
David Roberts, Sparks from Culture
“I highly recommend Sarah for anyone serious about building their newsletter with more joyful ease and less frustration. Sarah is brilliant and knows Substack inside out.”
Jeannine Ouellette, Writing in the Dark
“Within 24 hours of executing Sarah’s suggestions, my subscription base expanded to include countless new readers who not only pressed the “subscribe” button but also took the time to engage with the material and write encouraging and insightful comments on the posts. ”
Kimberly Warner, Unfixed
“Before I signed up with Sarah, I was clueless about how my posts were landing on Substack. She is a superb teacher. The result has been an improvement in the quality of my posts and a surge in subscribers. I'm also having a lot more fun as a Substack writer. ”
David Roberts, Sparks from Culture
“I highly recommend Sarah for anyone serious about building their newsletter with more joyful ease and less frustration. Sarah is brilliant and knows Substack inside out.”
Jeannine Ouellette, Writing in the Dark
“Within 24 hours of executing Sarah’s suggestions, my subscription base expanded to include countless new readers who not only pressed the “subscribe” button but also took the time to engage with the material and write encouraging and insightful comments on the posts. ”
Kimberly Warner, Unfixed