Conquer the “Is There Anybody Out There?!” Stage of Your Publication

It too shall pass

Karen Cherry
5 min readDec 2, 2023

You’re a few months into your new newsletter venture. You’ve been writing, writing, writing…. And publishing, yes that too.

But no one seems to be reading. You listen for a sign that someone is out there. But all you hear is

Crickets.

I call this the “Is there anybody out there?” stage of a newsletter.

It will pass.

How to make it through this stage (with your sanity intact)

Firstly, give yourself a pat on the back. To get to a point where you are writing and publishing consistently takes major effort.

Most people give up before they send their 6th email. Hell, most people never get around to starting a newsletter at all.

So yay for you, and your consistent posting.

Celebrate where you’ve come from

At this point, you might feel like you are going nowhere but you have actually learned plenty and achieved a lot already.

  • You’ve learned that newsletter creation takes a lot…

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Karen Cherry

Substack writer. Secret tree hugger. Aussie business owner with >$19K revenue on Substack. Refusing to dumb it down.