Sharing this trick I learned to get some time back Calls to action make the difference between selling and not selling. In a recent coaching session with Jamie Northrup, he brought up the idea of a content flywheel. Each component of your online empire promotes something else, leading people along their journey to eventually become … Read more
Here’s why. Milestones are fun. It’s feels great to earn your first subscriber, your 10th subscriber, your 50th subscriber, your millionth subscriber. Eight hundred subscribers is 80% of the threshold required for monetization. (The bigger deal is 4,000 watch hours per year. I’m barely a quarter of the way toward that one.) The Threads community … Read more
And SEO benefits as a nice extra Longstanding content creators have seen the Web explode and grow up over the past 20-plus years. The rules of how websites are found on the Web have also changed. It’s far more competitive now. Hundred-word opinions masquerading as articles don’t make the cut anymore. That’s barely a tweet … Read more
Decent results without spending a ton of time Recording videos yourself is a skill you develop with practice, just like anything else worthwhile. The first videos you create will likely take a lot of time to record and edit. (Heck, it may take a while for you to get used to hearing your own voice … Read more
One sign that you’re making a difference as a creator is that you get negative comments. My YouTube channel on cool and fancy serial numbers gets some hate because I encourage people to collect what they like, and not necessarily what is valuable. I’ve gotten some more “these bills are face value” and “these bills … Read more