⚡ 💡 Building an Audience in the Creator Economy - IdeaEconomy 💡⚡

Massive creator economy guide from Srinivas Rao of Unmistakable Creative. This will get a lot of shares.

"This comprehensive guide will walk through building an audience in the creator economy, creating great content, and attracting fans that love what you do."

Great advice from Josh Spector.

Interesting look at the tactics YouTuber Beluga used to add millions of subscribers in a few months.

via @ebizfacts

Here is a large directory of creator economy tools and websites. It was a number #1 product of the day on ProductHunt last week and has been promoted widely online.

Big Idea: Nicely formatted resource directories are a great way to get a large amount of shares and backlinks.

Newsletter OS is another example of this.
 

"David Perell is the Founder of Write of Passage. In this conversation, David and Anthony discuss the importance of writing publicly, downfall of mainstream media, what blogging did to transform the traditional journalism landscape, how the internet is enabling individuals to become a self-sustaining business instead of working for large companies, why we will start seeing teenage billionaires within the next decade, and the shift in education from traditional methods to online-based eLearning courses."

Further Reading: How David Perell writes an essay

Dan and Ian of the TropicalMBA have been leaders in the digital nomad space for more than a decade. They reflect on the movement now that it has become mainstream.

Great insights into topics like remote work, pivoting business models, promoting on social media, crypto, digital nomad families, and location-independent business models.

Chris Dixon of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and Naval Ravikant of AngelList have a great discussion about all things Web3 on the Tim Ferris Show Podcast.

Great overview of the upcoming opportunities with Web3. This is definitely worth a listen.

Visual explanation of what the metaverse is.

Big Idea: I love visual newsletters like this. I can see more of these getting popular.

New Creator Manifesto is another example of the power of great design.

Here are 12 top money making blogs killing it online. Discover who owns the blog, how much they earn, and how they are doing it.

via @ebizfacts

"If you want to learn how to build a local media business, this article will teach you how to start, scale grow and monetize."

Big Idea: Creating local content for your city is a great creator opportunity. Andrew Wilkinson of Tiny Capital is doing this in Canada.

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

How to Create & Optimize Landing Pages for SEO - ahrefs

How to create content that ranks in 2022 - neilpatel

What if we had spent a decade worth of paid advertising budget on something else? - jailhouse via @marketercrew

How to Become a Better Writer: 16 Expert Tips - semrush

Open secrets about HackerNews - bengtan via @robstretch

How Kyle Roof from Page Optimizer Pro gets big results from on-page SEO - nichepursuits

Out of Content Ideas? 10+ Tools to Help You Change That - thetilt

Improve your headlines with CreatorHooks - creatorhooks

How to tell great stories - julianshapiro - via @producthabits