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Jun 14Liked by Amanda B. Hinton

What a great initiative! Will answer & share!

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Thank you, Amy!!

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DONE.

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Done ✅

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Yesss Judith! Thank you!

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✅🫶🏻

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🫶

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Survey completed! I hope a lot of Substackers will fill it out so we can get some statistically useful data! Thank you for putting this together Amanda!

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Thanks for your help and enthusiasm, Amy!

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Done! My favorite was "staring at the publishing statistics and wondering what they all mean." Have you been spying on me?!? Hahaha.

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I loved that one, too. ;-)

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I didn’t complete the survey. Reason…Answer #1. I don’t use social media (Notes wasn’t included as social media. Q: What is your primary reason for using social media. A. I left it unanswered.

When I went to submit, I was told that question required an answer.

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Thanks for giving my survey some consideration, Dan! That question intentionally doesn’t include Notes because I’m trying to understand Substack readers’ relationship to social media outside the inner sphere here. ☀️

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I understood that about Notes. My difficulty was choosing the reason I use social media when I don’t use social media.

Not trying to give you a hard time—just wanted to share why I got stumped.

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Oh, I see! Thanks for clarifying! I really appreciate this feedback. ☀️

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This is a common poll modeling issue. Have to make it flexible enough so it doesn't force people to lie, which I had to do on a couple questions just so I could complete and submit it.

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Thanks for this feedback! We definitely know there's always room for improvement! Maybe we should hire you for next year's survey. : )

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Great idea!!! Completed, and looking forward to reading the results.

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Q: What inspires you to sign up for a paid subscription?

A: Would I pay this much for a tiny e-book with the same amount of information they put out each month?

Most stacks are overpriced. They'd make more by charging less and getting more subs, and the platform should allow for tiers, and encourage people to start at $2 or $3 a month if they're just blogging, like most.

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There's still time to take the survey - I've been meaning to for days now and finally did it. You can too!

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Thanks so much for putting this together Amanda! I hope you meet your data quota!

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Done!

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Done! I’m curious about the what happens next stage. 😄 Will you be sharing the findings with Substack?

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Jun 29Liked by Amanda B. Hinton

I'm interested in hearing the results too.

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Done. Fascinating.

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Just responded!

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Jul 1Liked by Amanda B. Hinton

Done 😃 great questions too!

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