Writing Challenge: January 2025
This months theme: CONSISTENCY + RELATIONSHIPS + MONETIZATION [continued]
Happy New Year!!
New Year - New Writing Challenge!
[I’ll keep saying that] This is why joining a challenge is so important 👇
The December Writing Challenge is OVER!
Congrats to all participants who completed the Challenges and who already started to gain traction!!!
We made it!!!
Now let’s announce the winners!
WINNERS AWARDS
Winner from December Writing Challenge:
→ ←
Desiree is one of the very active paid members in the community, and I’m so happy to welcome her in the next session! She writes in a very narrow niche, but with high potential so I can’t wait to talk about that with her.
Congrats,
!! Looking forward to our spotlight session!Award:
→ A spotlight session to talk about your Substack. To give you and your Substack more exposure, I will share this session:
all subscribers
in the CREATIVETECH social media accounts
→ Watch all previous spotlight sessions here.
Why a Writing Challenge?
Now you have everything you need to grow your Substack:
the monthly Notes30 Challenge where you grow your subscribers,
the weekly Write2Sell column where you learn how to convert them to paid and keep them paying, and…
the monthly Writing Challenge where you apply the knowledge from the Write2Sell column in practice and grow your paid subscribers
If we look at the 5 elements you need to grow your Substack, this challenge covers the essential two of them:
content - where you deliver on your promise in your offer
relationship building - where you connect with your audience and keep them engaged
and if you’re into paywalling, it also covers:
selling - where you sell without selling, by using your content and the value it delivers
The Substack Monthly Writing Challenge - January 2025
What is it?
It’s a challenge for writing.
But not just writing.
It’s built to help you apply everything from the Write2Sell column in practice. Because learning how to do things is nothing if you don’t apply what you learn.
So, in this challenge, we’ll apply things in practice.
How?
Every month we’ll have a dedicated theme from the three elements:
Writing
Relationship building
Selling through value
As a reminder, the December theme was CONSISTENCY + RELATIONSHIPS + MONETIZATION
The Challenge in January 2025:
PARTICIPANTS:
The challenge is open to all subscribers! Anyone can:
join the challenge
share their post in the weekly thread
add themselves to the Accountability tracker
The supporting materials will continue to be paywalled. The WINNER AWARDS will also be for paid members only.
January THEME:
we’ll prepare and go for MONETIZATION
we’ll build on top of CONSISTENCY and RELATIONSHIPS
we’ll train some ACCOUNTABILITY - we’ll continue to have a tracker
WINNERS AWARDS:
The most active among the paid members will be entitled to join me in a spotlight session to talk about their Substack. To give you and your Substack more exposure, I will share this session:
all subscribers
in the CREATIVETECH social media accounts
Rules:
I’ll do these sessions monthly after the Challenge finishes.
I’ll invite one of the most active participants in the Challenge based on the Accountability Tracker. Rules:
1. must be in the Accountability tracker
2. must have completed the challenge (at least one post every week)
3. you can win the same challenge more than once but in different months
4. you can’t win both Writing and Notes challenges in the same month. If you do, I’ll invite the next most active person for a session
We’ll do the session only if you’re willing to. If not, I’ll invite the next most active member until I get a “yes”. Priority of inviting:
1. most active among the VIP members
2. most active among the annual paid members
3. most active among the monthly paid members
Announcement of the winners: start of next Challenge
When do we do the session: during next month upon your availability
How do we do the session: over Zoom. I ask you questions (we initially agree on the list), you talk :). You can prepare slides if you want to (not a must).
January’s Theme: CONSISTENCY + RELATIONSHIPS + MONETIZATION [continued]
What do you need to do?
CONTINUE
Write at least one post weekly and send it as an email to your subscribers
Share a quote from it on Notes (select some shareable sentence & restack quote)
Share a link to it on the Weekly Writing Challenge Sharing Thread: I will post one every Sunday - it will arrive in your inbox. Use the one from today to share your posts. And remember to read, like, comment and restack some of the other posts you like. This is how we help each other grow.
Interacting with people on the Substack app to pull some convertible subscribers (Apply everything described here).
Tracking your consistency: add yourself to the Accountability Tracker. Link here. I have a Prize for the most active!
START
[if you haven’t already] Build your Substack offer for 2025. Use the checklist available here.
Start delivering paywalled content. Use these three guides:
Start delivering paywalled content. Use these guides:
The goal?
Simple: start real growth.
Supporting Materials:
For all subscribers:
Link to the Accountability Tracker. Add yourself now!
For paid members (download link below):
Theme Insights. Every month I’ll give you some insights on where to focus based on the theme. This month we have consistency in writing, publishing and images + start building relationships + start real monetization.
My 19 Writing Rules for Highly Engaging Writing, that helped me get lots of stories go viral.
13 Ideas on How to Use Emotions with Examples of Uncommon, Emotional and Power Words to use in your writing - because emotions are a huge part of great writing.
A mini workshop on how to Generate Stunning Midjourney Images without Prompting (Midjourney made easy for writers).
My custom personalized GPT CREATIVETECH Writer PRO trained on my viral stories to write high-quality long form articles.
My custom GPT TITLE Generator 2.0 trained on 1000+ viral titles on Medium to generate titles that drive clicks.
Dedicated Weekly Writing Challenge Sharing Thread Post. I’ll ask you to share links to your posts, so that it can get even more traction. ALL SUBSCRIBERS can participate
All this will arrive in two short presentations (find the link below). Use this knowledge. Adapt the templates and guidelines to your niche and style.
Ready?
Let’s do this!
Here’s your Challenge pack of resources:
The challenge supporting materials are for paid subscribers. If you’re a free subscriber, upgrade your plan:
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