Dear Friends,
I hope you are well. Earlier today,
, contacted me. He is my supportive protege and an editor, curator, and media coordinator of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium and Substack. He said he completed Level 3 and started creating Level 4 for his remarkable training program, From Zero to Substack Hero Training. He wanted me to share the intro with you via this newsletter.I will upload many modules he has created so far to this publication, Content Marketing Strategy Insights. Paid subscribers will have access to all levels of this course. It will be around 65 modules. Each video includes his curriculum and relevant audio chapters from Substack Mastery and the new advanced book.
Level 1 and Level 2 of From Zero to Substack Hero Training have already been published on Udemy and will be released to other platforms, too. However, none of those platforms can beat the cost of my publication as I will offer the entire course, all my current and upcoming book chapters, and my years of premium content for freelance writers and content entrepreneurs for only a $5 monthly subscription.
Finding such educational resources in one place with this low cost does not look possible. My goal is to help as many writers as possible to master Substack and other platforms in an integrated way for sustainable success.
In addition, until the end of this month, I made a mega deal. Anyone joining this unique publication will be automatically updated to my founding membership level for 12 months, which is the value of $500 annually. My founding membership is more expensive than our other publications because I provide additional online coaching services via the Illumination Slack Workspace and also allow all the benefits of Tier 3 educational and promotional services of Substack Mastery Boost Pilot. This program will be a global freelance education and marketing service in 2026.
As I also value our free subscribers, from my personal publications and the community ones, we will offer most of our educational content for free as 70% of our members cannot afford monthly subscriptions, and I have full empathy for them. Our goal is not to make a profit, as our efforts/time are not profitable, but to channel what we get from those who can afford it to those who cannot by providing privileged service to paid groups. I will explain the details in our monthly newsletter soon.
As mentioned in a previous post, the advanced Substack book was published on 1 January 2025. I will share the chapters in this publication. Here are the links to the latest 3 posts for aspiring book authors who might have missed them:
If you are interested in health and fitness, I wrote a 20-minute story on Medium about successful fat loss. You can also check it on my Health and Wellness publication here.
Now, I’d like to highlight two quick and important actions that can bring you many benefits in 2025:
Action 1 - New writers missed Illumination Slack as auto invitation failed. Our Slack workspace is free and moderated by 175+ volunteers. It brings many benefits, such as logging delayed stories, connecting with editors easily, sharing story links in multiple channels to get more views, promoting your Substack newsletters for free, having social conversations about growing your networks, and many promotional channels in which you can promote your businesses.
Action 2 - In 2024, I opened my website to guest bloggers to help them post teaser posts for their Medium stories and Substack newsletter. This is an excellent opportunity for writers to get more traffic to their content and create strong backlinks. I created a Google sheet, and your applications will automatically captured, and our administrators will give you author access to be a guest blogger on our community blog site. I explained the importance and value of guest blogging for writers on Medium and Substack in a previous article. If you are interested, please fill out the form linked to the end of the application form using the attached button.
Action 3: Please also consider subscribing to our YouTube channel, ILLUMINATION Substack Mastery, as we will publish educational videos and podcasts there. Aiden will invite YouTubers and freelance writers to educate us. You are also welcome to post your own videos by sending your application here. You can promote your videos and podcasts in Aiden’s publication on Medium.
My editorial team and I do everything from our end to guide our writers. Sometimes, passing my messages is not easy because some writers don’t read my posts, don’t check out our submission guidelines, or don’t even look at the master onboarding pack. Then they complain about why their store is not published or delayed. Some writers don’t even check the private messages left by volunteer editors, delaying their drafts for a long time.
Please review the attached submission guidelines below before sending your first drafts so that our editors can publish them in a timely manner. We now support 35,000+ writers, and your diligence can ease the tremendous workload of our volunteer editors. Here are the links:
ILLUMINATION, Curated Newsletters, SYNERGY (Newsletter Booster), Technology Hits, ILLUMINATION Book Chapters, Readers Hope, and Magnetic Newsletter Pro.
We will send monthly updates and new year plans from the ILLUMINATION Library for Freelance Writers soon. We have several exciting projects to help our writers in 2025. One of them is ILLUMINATION Writing Academy which is a first-of-a-kind publication to support freelance writers.
Please feel free to contact me when you need help on Slack, here, or via my website. I will do my best to support your writing journey.
Thank you for being part of our exciting journey. I wish you a very happy, healthy, and prosperous new year. ❤️💡🙏🎉
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