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Mercedes de Santiago's avatar

I just want to congratulate you on this anniversary. I will read your post later and comment if I have something more to say. 😁

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The Common Centrist's avatar

Thank you.

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Mercedes de Santiago's avatar

Hello again. I have read it already. So, you're just saying what every frank guy says here: there is no growth overnight, you have to be consistent and you have to understand that people will subscribe and unsubscribe. That way only the most interested in what you actually have to say are going to continue being there.

I really hope you're successful enough to live from this and continue making music. There is a need of human made art.

So congratulations on a year well spent. 😁

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The Common Centrist's avatar

Thank you. Best wishes to you, too.

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MaKenna Grace's avatar

Happy anniversary, friend! And congratulations on the growth numbers! That’s fantastic!

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The Common Centrist's avatar

Thank you.

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Alex Ilex's avatar

Happy Substack Birthday! And such a rare birth date, a leap date of the Leap year so you'd only have birthday once in four years!

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The Common Centrist's avatar

Thank you…

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avi's avatar

Happy birthday!!!

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Horace Wah-Pole's avatar

It helps to write about a "passionate" topic in what I term the "opinion world". Opinions are often fleeting, momentary without any real analyzing going on. What that means, to make it in some "numbers" I guess, say three people reading consistently, you have to post regularly and happen to hit on a "trending" topic. And the back log of subjects you covered on make people interested from the happen-stance to followers and eventually, subscribers.

That hard to do in a short attention span world. And sometimes, if you cover only niche topics which are necessary such as national debt, you will never achieve fame.

Anyway, a passionate topic just to define terms is referring to Liza Libes "leave Literature alone" which is topics literature-nerds has either thought about, noticed, or it in the head but said nerd is not conscious of it. Sometimes, it only take articulating the very "thought" on everyone's head.

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