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Janet Tamez's avatar

Thanks! I hadn't thought of starting with notes. I was working on content first, but that process can take up time, especially with rewriting and editing. Do you recommend writing a note first thing in the morning? Do you just wing your notes or spend a day or two planning your notes?

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Claudia Faith's avatar

I usually just wing them - whenever I’m online. I’m aiming for 2-3 per day. Usually get inspired going through my Substack as well :). I would totally recommend starting with notes as soon as possible as it’s really one of the best ways to get started here

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Rock Around The Web's avatar

Thank you, Claudia. As one of your paid newbie subscribers, I look forward to helpful posts like this from you. Perhaps in a future post you could discuss how to differentiate among your publication short description, your publication introduction, your profile bio and your about page. What works best to maximize each of these and how should they fit together?

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Claudia Faith's avatar

amazing, thank you! this is such a great advice as I sometimes just don’t know what people would like to know. will totally do that!

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Rock Around The Web's avatar

Claudia, if you write about this, I'm sure it will be interesting because all of your posts are interesting. Also, I enjoyed your discussion with David McIlroy.

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Claudia Faith's avatar

thank you very much! :)

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Renee (@msha.ke/truediva)'s avatar

I appreciate these prompts Claudia. Very candid information for us robust stackers! I also viewed the webinar earlier, it was good 👍 keep paying it forward:) & keep restacking RELEVANT content people.

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Claudia Faith's avatar

thank you, Renee! so glad that this was helpful!

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Janet Tamez's avatar

Thanks so much! 👍

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Claudia Faith's avatar

🧡 very welcome!

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Kathleen Thorne RN, LMT's avatar

Claudia, you deliver as usual. Going through all you r I of to make sure I did not miss anything. Looking forward to Tuesday 🚀

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Claudia Faith's avatar

amazing, thank you, Kathleen!

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Raven Turner's avatar

I’m very interested in reading this. Thanks for this post.

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Claudia Faith's avatar

so glad it helps :) 🙌

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bud seigel's avatar

I still feel like my stuff is all separated. I’m just using my phone not a computer… I want to be able to do it just with the phone if possible. I am on Substack because of Jessica Reed Kraus her houseinhabit, as she’s published all kinds of audios of mine, and some other things of mine she incorporated into her pages… there’s a story behind how we met, which is also a Videos she took outside of UCLA last year, meet bud seigel is the title… it’s also the head of a letter she wrote about me and her top 20 things of 2024 post…. She got me to download Substack, and also to get on Instagram, which I made my first post of my life last October because of what Jessica was doing with my material…. So I’m wondering what should I do with this wonderful thing that she has given me… I sure would like to create some things daily to go along, compliment, and also engage with many of her followers, who have commented, and mini who have been messaging me especially on Instagram, hundreds of them mostly women, moms, lots of Christians… it’s really remarkable… so I’m wondering what to do. And I do not know what I’m doing technically on this platform…. And I even have some childhood friends from the Jersey shore, who are following me I guess… I can’t really tell the followers… it’s not like Instagram…. Though, this platform seems like a serious thing, I certainly like it…. And Instagram does not feel this way…. I want to build something on this platform for sure….. and of course, connected to the hundreds of people that are following me on Instagram from Jessica Reed Kraus. Anyway love to hear any thoughts about this that you may have. Thank you….

Bud Seigel

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Claudia Faith's avatar

if you have multiple content areas you'd like to write about, it might be good to write in different publications on here :)

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bud seigel's avatar

I’m more of a commentary person… I don’t see as much value in just writing my thoughts alone, as I do in the thoughts that I get when I read other peoples material…. The things I would like to say to people after reading what they write…. I think it’s more relevant…more reactionary, and then, when I see how people respond to me, I can share things that I think they might like…. I have a lot of audio. I don’t know how to incorporate that here either….. and I’m wondering if I should just be engaging with Jessica’s followers, which I have been…. I have some likes that they’re giving me on some of my comments….. doesn’t look like I’m doing anything correctly on here compared to watch some other people have… like Jessica Reed Kraus has really wonderful organized feeds…. I would like to do something like that it’s just not happening when I try, and also, it seems like everything goes to some kind of notes, or not…. Lots of pages…hahaha

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bud seigel's avatar

Different publications on here? Like it seems like there is so much different stuff here, are there separate publication platforms within this platform? Also, how do I make audios like I do on Instagram? I can take my 15 minute voice notes turn it into a file, then into iMovie, and then into an Instagram reel…haha

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JaffaBranding's avatar

Thank you so much for sharing this. This has helped me a lot!

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Claudia Faith's avatar

amazing, so glad it helps :)

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Karlene Roberts's avatar

Thank you. I'm new to substack and this is very helpful!

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Claudia Faith's avatar

awesome, happy it helps! :)

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Sarah Louise's avatar

Thank you for this! I found this helpful.

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Claudia Faith's avatar

amazing, thank you!

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keeley Burton's avatar

This is really helpful advice, I'm charging my laptop as I never use it for social media , thanks for the tip. 👍

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Claudia Faith's avatar

glad it helps! :)

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Fiana's avatar

thanks for the videos

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Claudia Faith's avatar

🙌 very welcome!

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Pamela Webb's avatar

Thanks for the video.

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Claudia Faith's avatar

glad it helped! :)

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Cymbeline's avatar

I don’t know how to get to “welcome to your dashboard “…🙄

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Claudia Faith's avatar

try to click on your profile picture in the upper right corner and scroll down to settings

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themba Emmanuel's avatar

Hello I'm new on here and very nervous, for me I just don't know where to start really.

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Cymbeline's avatar

Thank you! gracias! I’m still trying to figure this out

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