Creator, Musician, Marketer
Every piece of content you make is like a brick.
Many people’s content ends up being a series of disorganized bricks on the ground, like a significantly less impressive and less organized version of Stonehenge.
Savvy creators organize their content bricks, build connections between them to fortify and support them, organize major central content pillars, and with intention, build something strong, cohesive, and engaging out of it.
Many hopeful creators want specifically to become streamers. Streaming is a ton of fun and a great way to connect with your community, but it is extremely unsustainable if your goal is to turn your creativity into a career.
We’ll discuss why that is and what you should consider instead to make streaming more sustainable.
Making money is important for turning your creative pursuits into your career, but money isn’t the only factor to consider.
This post will discuss reasons why you might not want to pursue sponsorships in their entirety or particular brand deals on a case-by-case basis.
I’ve been pretty depressed. I got laid off. And I got COVID. And you know what? I’m doing pretty great now.
You’d think having all this piling up at once would’ve been a lot more difficult, but instead, the opposite happened.
Getting laid off has given me better headspace to work on my mental health. Getting COVID has sucked, but it’s forced me to do a lot of resets with bad habits, and I have a much cleaner slate.
Today’s post is all about resilience, resets, and reinvention.
It’s a lot easier to go full time as a creator the more sources of income your content generates.
Many people pursue sponsorships to supplement that income, but there are many more ways to monetize your content without brand deals.
If you’ve ever had a company offer to sponsor your content, or if you’ve ever thought about getting sponsored by a brand or company, here’s something to consider: brands and companies WANT to work with creators because it benefits them too.
In fact, the company likely benefits from your sponsorship as much as (if not more than) you do. Here are some of the ways that companies benefit from sponsoring content creators!
How do you get brand deals? Here are four major factors to consider including: Fit, Content Quality, Consistency, and Community
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Hey!This page is outdated…Click on any of this text to check out the updated one I figure it’d be helpful if I assembled links for all the tech I use. That list keeps growing as I get more upgrades, so I knew eventually it’d make more sense to make a webpage rather than add moreContinue reading “My Creative Gear 2021”
We all get together backstage and walk on. play our first song, and the rest goes amazingly. Most other groups at MAGFest tend to be loud music you can dance to, and we were an exception. We play our full set for the concert and end up going a few minutes overtime
Andy Cormier