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by Claire Venus
Stay Creative on Substack with tutorials, teaching, posts, threads, thoughts and tools. Special guest episodes with those who I massively respect and I know will help you sparkle up your Substack and find your true north on the platform! ✨ sparkleon.substack.com
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- 1 weeks ago23 min
What feels different after a summer break and trying on a new Substack for size...
Thank you Kate Harvey, Kendall Marie Platt 🌱, Claire Machado, Nance Scott, Jenny Karlsson, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.Sparklers... quick summary from my live… I deleted the Substack app the entire summer (still deleted, if I’m honest). I took a break then took Sparkle down to two newsletters a month instead of my usual cadence, same depth of content but flagging the archive more… And I said something out loud I want to say here too. My Substack growth had genuinely slowed to the point where I wouldn’t have had a business if I was relying on it alone. So I made a call - mastered content creation - grew my Instagram by over 2,000 followers this summer, something I’ve never really done before, and leaned into well-aligned summits instead of waiting for the algorithm to catch up adding 500 subs to my list.None of that is a Substack failure story more what building this actually looks like some seasons.If something in your setup feels stagnant right now, whether that’s your cadence, your day, or where you’re putting your energy... you don’t need my blueprint or anyone else’s. Change it?See what happens?Claire ✨Join our joyful growth to Substack bestseller challenge - on all of this week… Turn the Page Retreat - next weekend… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sparkleon.substack.com/subscribe
- Jul 31, 202634 min
Launching our 'Turn the Page Retreat'
Thank you Jennifer Zarin, LCAT, Angela Limb, Nance Scott, Alison Belsom, and many others for tuning into my live video with Toni Jones! Join me for my next live video in the app.Join us over here, simply subscribe to our brand new pop up Substack and we’ll make sure you get the updates. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sparkleon.substack.com/subscribe
- Jul 16, 202646 min
Let's audit a Substack live!
Thank you ✹The Unmasked Woman✹ (Hannah), Vera Lúcia, Rose Wippich, Lisa Conquet, Rita Riebel Mitchell, and many others for tuning into my live video with Bella younger! Join me for my next live video in the app.You can subscribe to Bella here…And I highly recommend following her on IG here…where you can also download the template I mention… * https://www.instagram.com/deliciouslystella * Her book The Accidental Influencer is here… https://www.amazon.co.uk/Accidental-Influencer-Likes-Nearly-Ruined/dp/0008402493Ai overview thanks ClaudeWhat this session was: a live audit with Bella Younger (author, “The Pug’s Ear” on Substack) covering identity/rebranding on the page, the about page, positioning.Old identity, new chapter: Bella’s wrestling with how much to reference her old “Deliciously Stellar” persona. Claire’s take: you can honour a past identity without leading with it; people don’t need to know who we are in the world, we can just be who we are.* The about page is prime real estate: a photo, a book link, and social proof (testimonials) belong there — and most people never find the edit button because Substack keeps moving it.* Subscribe buttons need repeating: one at the bottom isn’t enough. Put one early too, because people get distracted mid-scroll.* Say less than you’ll do: if you might publish weekly, promise two to three times a month instead — it protects you on a bad week and it’s fairer to readers who are giving you their attention.* Pricing is emotional, not just mathematical: low, easy price points (the “cost of a coffee”) bring in more subscribers overall, and subscriptions are often the first thing people cancel when they feel overwhelmed — a cheaper annual plan protects against that.* Momentum beats perfection: scheduling a post before it’s fully finished can be the deadline that actually gets it out the door. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sparkleon.substack.com/subscribe
- Jul 15, 202649 min
Abundance on Substack and Beyond with Mark Diacono
“Nothing has had such a revolutionary impact on my writing... than starting to write on Substack and staying on Substack. It’s an extraordinary thing.” Mark Diacono I don’t usually email my podcast out but I really felt called to share Mark’s beautiful episode with more of you. You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts!✨Mark Diacono is a writer, cook, gardener, walker and photographer who lives in the south west of England.He writes about life, mostly through food and everything connected with it. You’ll find stories, recipes and much about growing and cooking incredible flavours.He hosts Cafe Murano Book Club and Limewood Book Club, with the wonderful Angela Hartnett. He once led the garden team at River Cottage and I created the groundbreaking Otter Farm“People from around the world can increasingly find your words and there’s no gatekeeper and there’s no permission giver.”Mark writes monthly food column for The Sunday Times, and a monthly gardening column for Country Life magazine. If you’re not yet over here I’m running a Digital Detox this week and today we are organising our photographs - today’s video will be out at noon… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sparkleon.substack.com/subscribe
- Jul 7, 202637 min
Cha cha cha changes (on Substack)
We covered;* Substack Creator Kits - * How to be a Bestseller - no drama - https://clairevenus.substack.com/t/growth-to-bestseller-challenge * Perks! (article out tomorrow). Join me for my digital detox challenge next week?Thank you Kate Harvey, SuddenlyJamie, Liza Debevec, Learn English With Jo, Dominik Wieschermann, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sparkleon.substack.com/subscribe
- Jun 23, 202640 min
Substack Party Gossip!
If you want to join me for my free challenge Digital Detox (13-17 July 2026) - by Claire Venus 💫 ✨Thank you Claire Machado, Amy I Beeson 🐝, Angela Limb, Holly Bailie (she/her), Rachel Joy 💖, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.✨Links’ people mentioned;* My Substack book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Build-World-Class-Substack * My visioning class for 2026 - * Amy I Beeson 🐝 London writers summer picnic in Kensington - https://luma.com/coimrglv * Emma Gannon, Farrah @Substack and their podcast recording - * My friends Emma Simpson, Jo Hutton, Selina Barker, Toni Jones * Other mentions - Beth Kempton, Mark Diacono, Abigail Bergstrom, Jess Pan, Katie Clapham and the podcast I recorded with her yesterday - * My mentor Leonie Dawson * Co-founders of Substack - Hamish McKenzie & Mills Baker * The piece I wrote sharing more about my insight of the Substack Bestseller’s Party * Kate Harvey from Letters From Therapy and her gorgeous nervous system, mindset work. * Jesse Jean - https://www.instagram.com/jessijeanhome/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sparkleon.substack.com/subscribe
- Jun 12, 20261h 5m
War and Peace - a world wide reading experience & full time job with 46k readers live on Substack
“It became acceptable. It’s okay to ask people to pay for your creative work... every minute that you spend working on these projects is valued.” Simon Haisell I sat down with the wonder that is Simon Haisell in Spring to chat more about his patron model here on Substack (the one I always use as an example). It was such a precious conversation about the magic of Substack and community. I know you’ll be super inspired. If you’ve not heard of Simon - you’ll be enchanted to meet him - he’s the creator behind Footnotes and Tangents on Substack which is now in year 3. He’s based in the North East of England (like me) and I always adore supporting North East creative minds - this conversation was just an honour. Simon runs slow read-alongs of classic and literary fiction (his flagship being a chapter-a-day of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace across a full year).He started the book club on Instagram before moving to Substack around end of 2023. “You read a chapter (of War and Peace) each day and you’re living the life with the characters rather than racing to the end... it does allow you to make connections with your own life.”The conversation covers his journey from passion project to full-time Substack creator, how word of mouth (including a major Gretchen Rubin (!!) shoutout) drove lots of his growth.We talk about why he uses a “soft paywall” model including complimentary subscriptions for anyone who can’t pay, and how he intentionally stays off the leaderboard numbers to protect the soul of his work. We also touch on how we manage our nervous systems in relation to ‘leaderboards’ and ‘being’ online. The episode ends with exciting news: Simon has just signed with literary agency Curtis Brown and been in conversation with Penguin, directly because of his Substack presence. What a well deserved whirlwind. I can’t wait to see what happens next!! “If I chased the numbers and tried to make the world’s biggest book group, all of the soul would suck out of it very quickly... what comes across in my writing is my love of the books, that’s why I’m here.” Simon Haisell War and Peace Daily - https://footnotesandtangents.substack.com/s/2026-war-and-peace-dailyFree Masterclass with me - The four types of monetisation on Substack. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sparkleon.substack.com/subscribe
- Jun 9, 202655 min
(Live) How to write a book using your Substack!
Join us - it’s free https://www.creativelyconscious.co.uk/12-chapters-club This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sparkleon.substack.com/subscribe
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