💬 Ask Me Anything [September 2026 Edition]

Your monthly collection of paid-subscriber questions, answers, strategies, and advice.

Welcome to this month’s Ask Me Anything!

These are the questions paid subscribers asked in the Chat this month, along with my answers.

I’ll be adding a new edition every month, so this post will become part of the growing archive of Q&As available to paid subscribers.

You can find them all in the Premium Content Library.

Here are the questions we covered in this edition:

1. I am thinking about a kind of interactive tool for planning the content - articles, notes, remarks... do you know if such a thing exists?

2. What do you think contributes to your monthly views the most? Yours is 20x mine.

3. Do you have a recommendation for online sales platforms for digital products and services?

4. I would like to ask all the paid subscribers how they attract, communicate and explore their audience. Do you think you found your tribe?

5. The last two months none of the paid subscribers showed up for the monthly Q&A, which has caused me to rethink the positioning. I would welcome any thoughts based on what has worked for you or others on this thread.

6. I have noticed a couple of Substacks that I subscribed occasionally when I open their work, it will have my first name in it. Have you used this feature and if so, where is it and how do we use it?

7. How do you structure things better for conversions?

8. I read an article that Substack’s algorithm only starts pushing your notes to strangers eyes when you already a few hundred subs. Is that your experience too?

9. I see lots of people have the “buy me a coffee”, option. How do you stand against this?

10. I opened my paid tier few days ago. My primary question is about the settings... can you explain shortly.

Here’s my take on each of them: