This Is What It’s like to Be Singled out as a “Featured Publication” on Substack’s Homepage

An honest account of the good and the bad

Charlie Brown
Better Marketing
Published in
5 min readMar 13, 2023

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It took some digging to find out why I woke up to hundreds of new Substack subscribers. I had no idea.

Then the email came through. Substack had done me a solid and featured me on their front page, putting me in…

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Writer of opinions. Wine & food pro. Editor of Rooted, a Medium food & drink pub.. Niche-avoidant. Also at thesaucemag.substack.com