The Weekly Kickstart #18 - It didn't take 48 Hours it took 7 Years!
All Good Things Take Time
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Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ll know that Justin Welsh recently moved his audience to Substack.
Everyone is highlighting that it took 48 hours to hit #1.
But here’s the line that people ignore:
“Earning the right to ask took 7 years.”
That’s the important part!
People want the result without the reps.
But it doesn’t work like that.
You have to earn trust long before you ever ask for anything.
One article. One story. One connection at a time.
Rinse and repeat every day.
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Yeah, I follow a few world class musicians still busking on the street despite having built a huge following on YouTube... Amazing the stupid comments... She's just lucky or why is she still begging on the street... They earned the right to perform where and what they feel led to perform and they don't ask they allow their audience to show appreciation...
Yes... this “Earning the right to ask took 7 years.”
There's no clever Substack strategies here - just persistent hard work building his skills and audience.