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Congratulations!

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Thank you Charlotte, appreciate it!

Glad it works with 0 marketing spending & 0 hype ... simple and the best word of mouth ... .

Have a great Sunday evening!

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Ok, I added you!

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watch out, that was an impersonator/bot ... banned it now ... sorry, but can only ban them as fast as I can for now

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🥺😬 Thank you so much, I am sorry you were having this problem with somebody impersonating you. But I’m so happy you reached out to me to let me know. I will block them on Telegram. Fortunately my phone number doesn’t show so I never share it.

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Welcome, my apologies, it happens online. Now showing your number the best approach, kudos!

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FYI re your factoids re NVDA. Thanks!

https://nicholasvardy.substack.com/p/week-7-buying-nvda-what-are-you-thinking

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thank you, great take! thank you!

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Thank you Mav

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Welcome Gary, cheers!

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Hey man, great milestone, well deserved ! Would you mind sharing what you think has propelled your growth rate from July 2023 onwards ? Best - Julien

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Hey Julien, thank you, glad to hear! No problem, there you go:

1) I started to be more active and post more on Twitter/X - there more people started to share in general but also some big accounts

2) met some former banking colleagues, told them about the site, they had a look and did share it around with their networks

Therefore, active and word of mouth, hence organic growth as they say.

What I noticed how others do it but opposite of my approach:

1) pay twitter/x, youtube ads to boost their visibility and reach

2) pay big influencers/companies o so to boost their visibility and reach

I pay 0 for marketing, enough that I pay via my time and data/research tools ...

3) go on podcasts, twitter spaces and all that talking (I am not a big talker, but a do-er)

4) coverage but using fear mongering or hyping or both, hence polarisation (that is BS not research) ... for clicks, views, hence advertising money or shady sponsors ...

5) coverage of some cult like some cryptocurrency or some similar overcooked thingie where people flock in like there is a magic secret there

6) coverage of some niche (as I do research I need to remain flexible, open and also know and admit when wrong, not be obsessed naively with 1 single thing)

7) outright schemes and frauds with get rich quick messages

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Love it. Yeah I saw your work shared by pretty big accounts. And I'm not interested by most of the other tactics you describe either, although I talk about crypto a lot but from a rational PoV which is pretty paradoxal :)

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Glad to hear :). Crypto can be fine, not much for me, have nothing against it either :). What I do not like when I see it used as some magic wonder, that will make all rich ... the amount of fraud in the crypto space in general is huge! Your approach is cool in any case :). Cheers!

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Very well deserved :-) Keep on flying even higher!

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glad to hear, danke! I will do my best ... cheers!

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Merci!

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avec plaisir DGI

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Thanks Mav, appreciate it!

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welcome!

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Great overview, thanks!

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welcome!

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Congrats on your subscriber milestone...well deserved!

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Thank you bud, glad to hear ... appreciate it! Cheers!

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Top! Stellar growth on your followers base. 🚀 on- and upwards!

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Glad to hear, convexity for the win ;) ... 10,000 coming soon to town. Cheers!

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You have put in a lot of work and it’s evident. Engagements outside of the platform definitely yield results within the platform.

For someone with a very low followers on Twitter, how would you approach growth on substack drawing subscribers from Twitter?

I’ve been trying more genuine comments but my niche runs on a lot of hype, hence more traffic but less subscribers. I curate cryptocurrency ‘How to do task’ weekly and share via newsletter https://cryptofada.substack.com/

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If low Twitter following, I would focus on Substack notes & full articles and asking folks to share around

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Congrats, not surprised given the great work!

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