u/GigMistress

Buying connects from the proposal page

The first time this happened, I thought it was a glitch. But it seems that when the proposal page invites you to buy more connects to bid or boost, the proposal page doesn't update to reflect those new connects--so, to use them, you'd have to refresh the page and start your proposal over.

I still feel like that can't really be how it works. What am I doing wrong?

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u/GigMistress — 20 hours ago
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Buying connects from the proposal page

The first time this happened, I thought it was a glitch. But it seems that when the proposal page invites you to buy more connects to bid or boost, the proposal page doesn't update to reflect those new connects--so, to use them, you'd have to refresh the page and start your proposal over.

I still feel like that can't really be how it works. What am I doing wrong?

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u/GigMistress — 3 days ago

The other day I saw something that said a mailing address was required in the footer of the newsletter, and it was showing an address in another state that is not mine--I'm assuming a default address they put there for legal compliance until you change it. But I can't find where I saw that information or how to change it. Can someone help?

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u/GigMistress — 7 days ago

I've been blogging since before that was a word, and I know that somewhere in the 15-17 years ago range, images became more or less mandatory--in part, that was legit because of the way social shares display.

I started a Substack recently, and haven't included any images. I've noticed that a lot of the authors I subscribe to don't use images unless they're substantively relevant, and I like that--I prefer the clean text for informational content.

Are images less important in this format (thus the examples I'm thinking of where successful authors use them very judiciously and not in most posts), or will sticking to text still cause problems?

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u/GigMistress — 19 days ago

Back in 2023, I set up a Substack to write about something I thought would be really useful.

This morning, I got around to making my first post.

And then I tried to post this and accidentally put it in the wrong sub.

So if you're feeling like you need to have your shit together to succeed in this industry, you can stop worrying.

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u/GigMistress — 21 days ago