Advertise. But don't spam. Make freinds here on tap and use social media as a networking tool. Twitter is good and so is instagram. Facebook works too but only if youre branching out from a page otherwise its just your family and freinds...unless youre one of those people just accept anyone. Then use it to your advantage. Do fan art. Art trades make some freinds. Show the world what you got and just do it.
Here ya go, https://tapastic.com/series/3504125, I dislike the first and 2nd comics I made, because the first one feels offensive, and the 2nd one doesn't look nice, but here 
My advice would be this. Patience is a virtue. It has taken me well over a year to get to where I am now with 2k (and I was absolutely horrendous when I started, no clue how to draw whatsoever, Ikinda learned as I went along) Just keep going and more and more people will see it.
Also try drawing fan art and guest comics if you can. Ive found it gets you on people's radar and it can help promote you if done correctly (and it's really fun in general which is the main reason I do it XD)
One last thing, was your first subscriber named Owen3 with a dog or something for the profile? Just curious
I used to be in your shoes until a couple of months ago. Here's what I learned.
1b. Treat being a web cartoonist like its your job. Be frequent with your updates so you can get a steady stream of views for your comic and ad revenue if you have it enabled each week.
Sub to comics like you mean it. Talk with the creators of your favorite comics.
Being a forum regular never hurts. Post a link to your comic in the appropriate threads.
3b. If you don't know how to post links, go to your comic. highlight the url, copy it, click the chain link icon when typing up a post here in the forums, delete the http://, paste the url of your comic in the bar, click ok, and then type the name of your comic in the link below. For example my comic is named Life of an Aspie so if you did it right, it should look exactly like what you see below this paragraph.
Hope this post helps and I hope to see ya around
I really can't give any other advise than the old and worn "you must have patience". Aside from a few lucky gems out there that managed to get noticed immediately, most stories, even currently famous webcomics, started out with a small audience. Constantly working on it, updating regularly, and with quality content, that's the recipe if you ask me. I've been working on my current project for 2 months now, and just recently I've started to gain more attention, but still nothing to write home about yet. Slow and steady I tell myself, and I appreciate every new follower, every new view.
Advertising is important , but you shouldn't invest more time on that than on actually working on the comic. It's a trap I almost fell in, trying to find more platforms on which to post my work and get more readers instead of focusing of giving them something to read.
Pretty much what everyone else is saying here. Post often and post consistently. Promote as often as possible, in forums, social media, etc. Reply to any comments you receive on your comic and most importantly, be friendly. I like your comic so far btw, it's cute and fun! xD
4 ways:
-update your comic regularly. (for example a new page every 2 weeks)
- patience........lots of patience
- make an original and interesting comic
- friendship
If you've been at this a week and only have one subscriber, that honestly sounds pretty normal! Outside of Tapastic it's harder to say when I first got new readers, but I do know I had posted around 40-50 pages of my first comic before people other than my friends started commenting.
I often tell people not to worry about their subscriber numbers until they've been updating pretty regularly for at least a year or two. Before that point, you could be doing everything right and still not have many readers just because they haven't found you yet, and if you're doing all the right things already, there's nothing you can do to change that other than keep going!
Also, this is a small forum etiquette thing, but the forum might start limiting you if you reply to a bunch of posts individually all in a row. A good idea if you want to respond to a lot of people is to do something like this:
@itzewulf - [answer to one post]
@shazzbaa - [answer to a different post]
(if you type "@" and start typing the person's name, the forum will usually suggest people you might mean, so you don't have to type the whole thing out) and then you can just do this for every person you want to reply to in the same post!
or you can quote people by selecting text in their post and then clicking "quote reply," so you get something like this:
and then answer their post underneath!
That way you can answer multiple people in one post, instead of replying to each one with a separate post. :>
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