🚀💡10 Practices for Creator Success - IdeaEconomy💡 🚀

Inspiring video!

Author Ryan Holiday shares 10 key practices to become a successful creator that he learned from Casey Neistat.

1. Find your motivation - It's not about the money.
2. Make it count (Momentum Mori: "Remember you must die.")
3. Take risks - Do cool projects that you care about.
4. Do less things, better
5. Courage -  Fortune favors the bold.
6. Be a Craftsman - How you do anything, is how you do everything.
7. Make stuff for people where they are - It's not about you.
8. Do the right thing
9. Start journaling
10. Train the body and mind

Big Idea: Success is earned through hard work and focus. 

via @fortheinterested

"The job of an entrepreneur is to continuously identify and resolve the highest points of leverage in a business situation."

Interesting talk by Eric Jorgenson, the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.

Big Idea: There are four types of leverage: 

► Tools
► Products (Code and Media)
► People
► Capital

Media Leverage Example: The opportunity to write the book all started with a simple poll on Twitter that caught the attention of Naval.

Creating in public is an opportunity engine.

via @weekendbriefing
 

Alex Llull shares 10 ideas to grow your newsletter.

Here is the Twitter thread of the article.

Bonus Idea: Alex Llull's newsletter and Twitter feed are one of the best demonstrations of the power of design in your content. Succinct writing with clear visuals makes a big impact.

Adam Enfroy added 38k Instagram followers and 18k TikTok followers in 30 days of posting daily videos. He shares his advice and process in this video.

Big Idea: Video shorts are one of the most effective ways to grow your following now.

"When you are a Digital Writer, you are not writing for the person curled up in a nook next to a fireplace with a paperback book in their hands. You are writing for a distracted, hyperactive, 47-tabs-open, dopamine junkie. You are playing a game called: Catch Their Attention. And only if and when you catch their attention, and “sell” them on why they should listen to you, do you get to experience the luxury of entertaining a reader."
 

Ali Abdaal summarizes the key ideas in Tiago Forte's book Building a Second Brain.

Big Idea: In order to consistently create good content, you need a system to organize and synthesize all the ideas you discover.

"Making one dollar on the internet changes your entire mindset around building income. Once you realize you can make $1, you know you can make $10. If you can make $10, you can make $1,000."

"4 major challenges when it comes to monetizing:

► They don’t understand people’s problems
► They have grown zero social media audience
​​​​​​​► They don’t have a collection of interested people to sell to
​​​​​​​► They overcomplicate the process, especially the technology"

Read The Unconventionals – the first-ever report on content entrepreneurs based on a survey of more than 1,400 respondents – to find out the minds, motivations, and aspirations of content entrepreneurs.

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

How to Create and Use GIFs in Your Twitter Marketing - socialmediaexaminer

Subheadings: The Deceptively Simple Trick to Effective Copywriting - copyblogger

Tool: Use AI to speed up your video creation - supercreator

The benefits of writing one sentence per line - dereksivers

How Much  Medium Pay Per 1,000 Views - bloggingguide
 (Hint:$14 to $18)

Design your content for sharing - brettdash via @jasonressnick

What ad creative gets the best results? - taylorlagace