How to get 10 000 Substack Subscribers, and other Math Problems. (As a Creative who Hates Math)
Avoiding the trap of sleep walking through weeks and months, and finding breakthroughs in long and short timeframes.
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Artist hate Math.
Which is why it took me 3 Decades to go from knowing I wanted to be an illustrator to actually becoming one. I spent one of those decades working in a startup, which thought me how to do the math.
For example,
If I can get 3 new subscribers a day for 30 days, that’s 90-93 a month.
If I do that for 12 months that’s 1095 a year.
If I did that for 9.1324 Years that’s 10000 subscribers.
My literal goal when I started was to have 10000 subscribers in 10 years, so the math worked out. Most days I get more than 3 subscribers which is what brings me to 4000+ Subscribers 3 years in way ahead of schedule, and infact I need to tweak my goal to not get complacent.
I’m getting at something here, there are some numbers that you really need to think about…
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I’m Adam Ming, I write creative prompts, thoughts on building a creative practice, illustration career growth advice and about how life supports art and not the other way around.