🚀💡 How The Daily Upside got to 300k Subscribers - IdeaEconomy💡 🚀

"He experimented with several growth channels, but his biggest break came when he established a partnership with a much larger and more established media outlet. That move supercharged his growth and opened the door to sponsorship opportunities"

Big Idea: The Daily Upside went from 3k to 300k by partnering with an established brand. Good example of how to think bigger as a creator. 

"A guide to how I've used a newsletter to attract clients and build a six-figure consulting business without doing any outreach."

Another Josh Spector knowledge bomb.

How Codie Sanchez got 10k subscribers in her first month. 

Codie's newsletter now has over 100k subscribers. Most of this growth has come through leveraging other people's audiences. 

via @paved

Sam Parr, the co-host of My First Million podcast and founder of The Hustle newsletter is interviewed by Jay Clouse.

My Big Insights:
► Why copywriting is the most important business skill and how to learn it.
► Why TikTok is the best place to grow your audience now and how MFM used contests to get millions of views.
► The importance of hiring to escape the creator prison of having to consistently publish new content.

Ash Ambridge lists the 7 things she would do differently if she were starting today.

Solid blueprint to jumpstart your creator career.

Big Idea: Start with an automated email sequence of your 12 best pieces of advice right from the beginning. That can help build trust and authority for everyone that discovers you.

via @fortheinterested

"After Lauren McManus built a profitable blog, she decided to teach others how to do it. Last year, their courses earned almost $1 million."

Actionable advice from Justin Welsh.

"I've spent the last 3 years growing past 315,000 social media followers on Twitter and LinkedIn. At the same time, I've watched other people write content every single day and struggle.

One of the main reasons is that they don't make a compelling case for why someone should follow them. What a wasted opportunity."

"In the past 45 days, I have grown from 1,000 to 21,000 followers on LinkedIn. By the end of the year, I bet I'll cross 100,000. Here's my growth playbook:— Nicolas Cole"

Big Idea: Repurpose your Twitter content for Linkedin.

Calvin Rosser and Steph Smith cover the rise of the creator economy -- both its promise and pitfalls.

Big Idea: While the creator economy is growing and more people are making a living with their content, it still is winner take all. The best creators earn a disproportionate share of the rewards. If you want to become a successful creator, you need to become one of the best in your niche.

Related link:
I covered these topics in my "Where there will never be a creator economy middle-class" article.

That doesn't mean it's impossible to make a living with your content. You just need to acknowledge the effort required and commit to making that investment.

Ex-doctor and popular YouTuber, Ali Abdaal talks about his plans to hit $6m in revenue this year and how he's leveraging a team to continue to grow and focus on the work he wants to do.

Big Idea: Ali shares how a creator needs to think more like a business. It's hard for solo-creators to sustain the level of effort needed to stand out.

The killer app for GPT-3 could help marketers lure clicks and game Google rankings.

"AS WE MOVE further into the 21st century, more and more aspects of our lives are being controlled by algorithms. Facebook decides which posts we see in our newsfeed, Google shows us the results of our searches based on their complex ranking system, and Amazon recommends products based on our past purchase history. It's no wonder then that online marketing is becoming increasingly reliant on algorithms to create effective copywriting. So what does the future hold for the web—will marketing be dominated by machines, or will human creativity always be necessary? Read on to find out …

No human wrote that intro. It was generated by software from the copywriting service Jasper, inspired by the headline on this article."

Big Idea: Artificial Intelligence keeps getting better and is being used for all types of content creation. Before this is widespread, there is an opportunity to leverage these tools to massively increase your content production.

via @freshvanroot

Here is a selection of the best links I've found this week to level up your creator skills.

The 6 Ways Pros Monetize Their Newsletters and How You Can Do It Too- newsletterglue via @rezzz

The 5 Most Important Skills in SEO - neilpatel

Free Course: Content-Led SEO with Brian Dean - semrush

How to rewrite your homepage for conversion - julianshapiro - via @marketermilk

How To Use TikTok: The Ultimate Beginners Guide - shopify