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Thank you! Several ideas here I am hanging onto…human connection is so much more valuable than shooting for sheer metrics!

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Metrics have their place but they aren’t the food for writers!! 🫶🫶

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Jul 3Liked by Amanda B. Hinton

I love this and it’s everything I stand for. You spoke to the exact reasons the marketing/copywriting world has never worked for me. I’m loving embracing this new way of doing things. Thankful to have found you too. 😌

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Thankful to have you here. 🫶

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This is perfect, and it's what I needed to read to encourage me. I'm hoping to publish some poetry in '25 or '26, and I SUCK at marketing, because I hate to spam people. I'm a soft marketer, but I'm also learning how to slip it in without just bombarding people.

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Yes, I feel this!! I do find it helpful sometimes to think of our writing as a medicine for people. Our job is to make sure people know it’s there — and then they can decide for themselves if it’s right/nourishing for them. 🧡

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Yes, and I take the same approach in selling my art and vintage. I let them know it's there and otherwise only bother people if there's a change or I run a sale.

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YES! My "day job" is copywriting and I've also been giving myself "permission to quit marketing and instead begin playing." It's an industry that likes to make it seem like there's a way to get it "right," but I believe the only way to get it right is to lean into self-trust.

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I tried spending time on LinkedIn for a few months and it was loathsome. 😂 Everybody had the right answer and were so proud of themselves. I love the Substack waters so much.

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😂 it's true! I'm working on taking some of the "X ways" and "step-by-step" posts and using them as a form for hermit crab poems to shake things up over there!

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As someone who is still hanging on by her fingernails after 17+ years the marketing game as a freelance writer (send memes!), I feel this so hard. I didn't realize how HUNGRY I was for connection - not only with readers, but also with other writers. Launching my Substack reminded me how much I loved the inspiring and energizing sense of camaraderie I felt back in the Golden Days of Blogging. I'm so, so glad to be back!

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There will never be a substitute for human connection. I know somebody that just wrote this very statement in her latest post. 😉

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Oh fantastic! Share the link here?

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Jul 5Liked by Amanda B. Hinton

Once again, I find myself so grateful for the way your mind works, and how you shift my perspectives. You are right! At least for me, human connection is an enormous part of all I do. I'm not sure I could do this without it ...

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