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The #1 Hidden Substack Tip to Get Your Newsletter Read
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The #1 Hidden Substack Tip to Get Your Newsletter Read

Did you know that some (or in my case LOTS) of your emails are not reaching your free subscribers?

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Claudia Faith
Mar 04, 2025
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Oh Open Rate - You give me sleepless nights 😴

When I started on Substack, I had great 30 days open rates.

45%

40%

35%

30%

You see the trend? The more I grew, the less people opened my newsletter.

Here is the thing: I want subscribers, that actually read what I write. In order to increase my open rate, I just recently deleted 200 “dead” subscribers from my list (you can read more about that here).

Well, spoiler alert, that did not really impact my opening rate a lot.

So I started thinking what else I could do in order to have people read my posts.

I started an experiment: I signed up with my private email to myself to see what the emails actually look like that I sent out to my free subscribers.

And what I found was pretty surprising.

I want people to read my posts, too


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Here is what I discovered

Let’s not beat around the bush and get straight to the point:

I basically found out 2 things that went wrong.

  1. Substack is buggy as shit. Half of the emails I sent out to my free subscribers simply would not arrive?! What the hell?!

  2. If an email miraculously did find its way to me as a free subscriber, it would not end up where I expected it to be. In the promotion folder. Sigh.

Alright, well at least I got to the bottom of this.

Now I “only” had to figure out what I could do to avoid this.

And I actually came up with 2 work-arounds that work quite well.

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