Audience Building for Creators: Advice from a Writer with 130K Followers

You’ve heard the advice before but now you can watch me try (and probably fail) to put it into practice in real-time.

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I asked Medium’s #1 Top Writer in Mental Health, Nick Wignall, who has 133,000 followers on Medium if he had any advice for a new writer. He asked what my biggest challenge was currently.

Here’s what I said and his response:

To: Nick Wignall

From: Me

Nick,

Building an audience.

My completely unreasonable goal is to build an email list of 50,000 over the next 12 months in preparation for self-publishing a book. Today, I have less than a thousand.

Thanks so much for getting back to me.

Best, Matt

To: Me

From: Nick Wignall

My first thought: Build in public

My completely unreasonable goal is to build an email list of 50,000 over the next 12 months in preparation for self publishing a book. Today, I have less than a thousand.

That’s a pretty compelling tweet/headline/whatever right there!