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Zoki’s Creative Universe's avatar

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!

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Deb Burns's avatar

😆Don’t overthink it. You have one chat with multiple threads (which are different topics). I wouldn’t put my whole life in there, make it relevant to your content. I’ve actually dropped the ball with my chat because I’m creating a paid product for/with my paid subscribers and there just isn’t enough time for everything. I haven’t posted in my chat for a while and haven’t focused on notes. My views are down but subs are up, with even some paid ones. I focus where I get paid for my work😊

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Zoki’s Creative Universe's avatar

Yeah, my problem is, that I can't find few hours for Substack every day, what should include creating new posts/articles, plus interracting, socializing, commenting, replying, etc.. I can find only maybe few hours in whole week, because I'm into so many projects online and I will be soon incredible busy for many hours just every day, probably for months - and I won't be able to get out of that not even a cent, because I will work only to pay taxes (for my future retirement), plus my company will be very probably blocked again for months.

So I just have to make my Substack working, but then I just can't find time not even for continuing with creating new stuff, not mentioned then all the other interactions, which I should also care about.

And, as it just nothing works for me, in terms to bring me some constinent money, it can easy happen that I will just starve to death in the future, in front of dead computer, because I won't have money even for electricity, not mentioning for all the other bills which goes into many thousands...

So yes, I need a miracle, or at least some more traffic to my various stuff which I have posted online (not just in Substack, but also from Amazon to Youtube and to pretty much dead recently Medium too). :O

Thank you for reading!

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Deb Burns's avatar

Wow 🥴that’s a lot !!. Sounds like you may need to simplify and choose to work on your most profitable (or potentially profitable platforms). I would start by dropping medium. Unless you have a huge following it’s just not profitable anymore.

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Zoki’s Creative Universe's avatar

Yeah, I still post on Medium from time to time, shortest novels.

But in the past, I was posting a lot of stuff which were not novels, but more guidelines and help to improve someone's life in various ways.

I'm also often very busy on Fiverr, where I offer video editing service. That's sometimes 2 or 3 times per day, each time for few hours...

One my recent project, one facebook page, where I post quotes, with links to my Substack articles.

But then I can't find time to post also images of those quotes (without direct links to Substack) on many FB pages with quotes.

But whenever I did, I noticed I got nice feedback in various ways.

Thank you!

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Keanisha Johnson's avatar

Yes getting the tools together

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Marcus Musick's avatar

I always forget about my chat!

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Deb Burns's avatar

You would be a great chatter

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Larry C. Brown's avatar

My chat is a ghost town. (Actually BOTH of them.) So I welcome any company who wants to drop by. 😆

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Deb Burns's avatar

I need a link I can’t find it🥴

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Larry C. Brown's avatar

Solo Prime Copywriting Chat: https://substack.com/chat/3554381

LCB Chat: https://substack.com/chat/3240057

Stop by and say hi. I am trying to be more active in both.

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Deb Burns's avatar

Goods, lets support each other 👍

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Deb Burns's avatar

I think yours would be great, promise I’ll be there 👍

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Shlee's avatar

Hi Deb, I haven’t taken the opportunity to utilize chat yet, but I’m open to it :)

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