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🌟🚀 Success on Substack

It’s ok to grow slow Happy September! It’s good to be back at my hot desk with some entrepreneur energy, art, dogs, and stuff happening around me. I’ve missed it.  Coastal Currents art festival opens today – fully independent this year, with no Arts Council funding – go Tina & team! 👏 I keep trying to […]

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Inside the Elon-Substack drama

This week, Substack rolled out Notes, a new way to share short-form content on the platform to help drive discovery. Not the quiet product launch they were expecting! Elon dubbed it ‘the Twitter clone,’ which they deny – and apparently began to restrict promo and visibility for tweets with links to Substack posts (The Verge). So […]

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Thinking about a rebrand

Test your brand name; Own a piece of Substack; The Shift Hot 5 ‘What’s in a Name? Gift Cards, more than just a gift’ – a panel session at a industry conference I worked on recently. New research and a whitepaper exploring whether the name ‘gift card’ is still relevant today. Gift cards are much more […]

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The Newsletter Grand National ’23

Get ready for the world’s most famous steeplechase… Afternoon, all. Here we are, then, the Newsletter Grand National!  AND THEY’RE OFF AND RACING! Substack into the lead, the clear favourite.  There’s LinkedIn hot on its heels, looking determined. Beehiiv coming up on the inside… We have some serious contenders in this race. WhatsApp coming up […]