Writing Challenge: March 2025

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The February Writing Challenge is OVER!

Congrats to all participants who completed the Challenge!!!

We made it!!!

Now let’s announce the winners!

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WINNERS AWARDS

Winner from February Writing Challenge:

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Raj Sidhu

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Raj is one of the most active paid members in the Unplugged community and in the challenges, so now I’m happy to welcome him to the next spotlight session!

Congrats, Raj!! 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

• my atomic newsletter

• my social media accounts

→ Watch all previous spotlight sessions here.

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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 actually work to grow your paid subscribers

The Substack Monthly Writing Challenge - March 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

• Sell without selling: Monetizing through value

As a reminder, last month’s theme was ENGAGEMENT.

The Challenge in March 2025:

PARTICIPANTS:

This challenge is now open for paid members only!

That’s one of the changes this month. I opened it for all subscribers for about three months, and now this “free trial” is officially over :)

Paid and V.I.P. members can:

• Join the challenge

• Share their Note in the weekly thread

• Add themselves to the Accountability tracker

What do you need to do?

• 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. And remember to read, like, comment and restack some of the other posts you like. This is how we help each other grow.

• Interact with people on the Substack app to pull some convertible subscribers (Apply everything described here).

• Tracking your consistency: add yourself to the Accountability Tracker. I have a Prize for the most active!

March theme is MONETIZATION:

This month we are doing something new.

We’re bringing our Substack game to the next level!

I believe we’re ready!

So let’s make some $$$!

The GOAL?

Simple: CA$H!!

High engagement = high growth = more $$$

What’s NEW?

I’m adding a simple strategy I use to paywall my posts - it helps me maintain the 6.5% conversion ratio and grow paid subs.

You can find it in the presentation and the end of this post, or read the Write2Sell post about it.

And don’t forget to maintain the momentum from the previous challenges: continue everything we have already implemented in:

• Engagement

• Consistency

• Relationships

You can find it all in the presentation attached at the end of this post.

WINNERS AWARDS:

The most active 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

• my atomic newsletter

• in my social media accounts

I know a lot of creators are inviting other popular creators who are already successful but I think people also want to know about the people who are just starting. Not just another success story. Real people with real struggles, real challenges, and real growth insights.

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).

The Challenge includes (download links at the end of this post):

• Link to the Accountability Tracker. If you haven’t already, add yourself now!

• [NEW] Theme Insights. Every month I’ll give you some insights on where to focus based on the theme. This month we have MONETIZATION - find my paywalling strategy inside ;)

• 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 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:

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