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Q&A: How do I bypass the 5000 friend limit on Facebook?

Posted on November 13, 2022

Question from Alex: I’m a singer/musician who has a large semi-local following in my city and the surrounding areas.

I created a Facebook page and tried to use it to let my fans know about my upcoming gigs, but I recently found out that Facebook only shows my posts to a just a small percentage of my 8,000+ followers.

I’ve found that I do a lot better when I post the dates on my personal Facebook Timeline.

The problem is Facebook won’t allow me to have more than 5,000 friends and I have new people wanting to friend me all the time.

Can you tell me how to bypass the 5,000 friend limit on a personal account? [Read more…]

Q&A: Is Substack primarily a newsletter platform or a blog?

Posted on October 17, 2022

Question from Michael: Hi, Rick. I look forward to getting your newsletter every morning. I’m fairly tech savvy but I almost always learn something new.

I susbscribe to several other Substack newsletters in addition to yours and I’ve noticed something. In every case the newsletter homepage resembles a blog.

What I mean is all the old newsletter issues are listed there so people can read them online as articles.

So that brings me to my question: Is Substack primarily a newsletter platform or a blogging platform? [Read more…]

My best tip for quickly growing your Substack subscriber list

Posted on September 5, 2022

If you send out a Substack newsletter you might be struggling to figure out the best way to grow your subscriber list.

After all, it doesn’t matter how great your newsletter content is if no one is receiving it in their Inbox.

In this post I’m going to explain how I almost doubled the size of my Substack’s subscriber list from a little over 8,000 subscribers to over 14,600 in just one year. [Read more…]

Heads-Up: Big change coming to my Tech Tips Newsletter

Posted on September 7, 2021

I’ve been using a service called Constant Contact to write and deliver my daily Tech Tips Newsletter emails for about two years now, and for the most part it has worked out fine.

But recently I’ve been receiving reports from subscribers that they’ve stopped receiving my emails.

I did some investigating and found out that this seems to be a new, but quickly growing problem with emails sent via Constant Contact.

[Read more…]