Did you know that you’re actually supposed to “launch your Chat”?🤷🏻♀
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I found a TL;DR guide about it buried somewhere on Substack but it isn’t talked about much.
Like me, most people write a few things in their Chat, get frustrated with the lack of response and leave them to collect dust.
(I know. I did that and I see others in my sidebar like ghost towns with tumbleweeds.)
Let’s do This Differently.
Why Launch a Chat and Why Bother Working it?
Because Chat is important. Especially with big players like Lewis Howes. Justin Welsh and Gary Vaynerchuk showing up here.
Our competitive advantage is in our quirky uniqueness and the communities we can build via Chat.
There’s a saying, not mine but worth remembering:
People subscribe for the content but stay for the community.
Chat is where we build that community.
Email is great—but it’s slow.
And Notes are fun—but they’re still a broadcast.
Chat is the closest thing Substack has to a real-time campfire.🔥
It’s where we get to swap ideas, ask silly questions, cheer each other on, and connect as humans—not just writers building “publications.”
My Chat
My Chat is going to be where I take off my lab coat.
I created a persona for my publication that’s fun and flippant because that’s the way I like to learn and I thought others might like it as well. But there’s more to me than a quirky lab-chick trying to figure out Substack.
There’s me the: -
The expat Gran
The weightloss champion
Bi-polar survivor
Lover of dystopian and cli-fi fiction
Gardener
Preschool teacher
…and they’re just the tip of my iceberg.
My Chat space is where I bring more of that me.
Here's How to Jump In
Let me know if you’ve started a Chat because I’ll be there for you so you’re not talking into a void.
You can Reply with your link to this, or, even better leave a link to your chat on mine.
Let’s make this thing less lonely, more human, and way more useful.
See you in there? 🧪💬 Substack Lab Chat
—Deb
Substack Lab – where the experiments don’t just get messy, they get chatty too
Yes, you might be right!
I haven't started my own chat yet, so that's still grey area for me.
- Should I start more chats? Is one chat as one thread only, as for example comments below one post?
- Is there only one chat per one publication, what we can have?
- I still want more to give than to share. I know, sharing myself is important, so people know me better. But, should they really know all my 20+ or 30+ areas of my life, which have just nothing in common to what I want to give in Substack? Like, you go to restaurant to eat. And there is a waiter or the chef, who bothers you or they just invite you to look also to other stuff in their life... Funny? Yeah, I think so... ;)
Otherwise, yes, you are right, I should start my chat too. ;)
Thank you for inspiration!
Yes getting the tools together