Top 3 Lessons I Applied To Kickstart My Content Creation Journey

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So you’ve decided you want to give this whole “content creator” thing a try, great!

At the time of writing this, I’ve only been creating content seriously myself for 6 months. Although it may be short comparing to how long a actually plan on doing this (for the rest of my life), I believe my experience and lessons I’ve learned so far would still provide you with some value.

Most YouTubers don’t start from being vloggers and just talk about whatever they wanted to talk about (unless they were already famous before they even start a channel).

To tell the “harsh truth”, if you’re of no value, you won’t get any kind of attention.

Thus, the first step of becoming an effective content creator is always building an audience.

Why?

Because audience = credit

You messing up = some audience leave = your credit is decreased

Precisely why people with higher follower counts can influence you in a certain direction more than a small account could.

They simply have more credit.

When you have enough of those “credit”, you can start posting whatever you want to post, and people will still consume them. All because of the credit you’ve built up from before.

If you’ve been providing your viewers immense amounts of positive influence and/or value for the past 3 years, you’ve built up so much credit by now that whatever content you will post next, will automatically be deemed valuable.

With that concept in mind, we will be able understand the different phases we need to get through, and plan the most optimal route for your content creation journey that will eventually lead to monetization.

providing value should always be the top of the pyramid. It gives your accounts growth and it’s the quickest way to meaningful monetization.

As a beginner, your primary focus should be on growth by providing value.

Value comes in different forms and shapes, they can be pure entertainment, education, money, self-improvement, and much more.

When you’re a nobody, give people a reason for them to listen to you, by providing value. And the easiest way by far is to help and solve problems.

People will listen to you when you have a potential solution to their problems.

And believe me when I say that there are plenty of problems to be solved, ranging from health, wealth, relationships and happiness.

You might object and say that you don’t know what problems to solve, and my response for you is this:

You don’t have to figure out how to get people to the moon, plenty of people are barely making it on Earth.

It’s a good thing that we all want to solve big problems, but as beginners making content with not much life experiences under your belt, it’s perfectly reasonable to start small, which leads to my next point.

A concept called “The Experience Model”

The Experience Model

The experience model is simple to understand but not so simple when it comes to execution.

The gist of it is this:

Use your own experiences as content, solve your own problems, then write content on “How I solved X”.

People with similar problems will start seeing your content, and all you do all day is just rinse and repeat.

Example:

Problem = I want to make money from home without having to interact with people.

The process of how you solve that problem, from figuring out what jobs can match that description, which one of those jobs are most suitable for you and why, and what you had to do or learn to land that job, how did you prepare for the interview, they’re all potential content material.

All of a sudden your audiences are now composed of people who are looking for ways to make money from home without having to interact with anybody. Then you can expand from there.

Another way to use the experience model is simply, to apply things you learn from others to yourself, then write about your experience with the thing.

Content is abundant, the real problem is the lack of balls to post them. Plus never really sitting down and write.

What platform to start with?

I highly recommend twitter because that’s where I started. I have never used Twitter before I decided to become a content creator about 6 months ago and I already have over 1000 followers.

The barrier of entry is a lot lower than other platforms, such as YouTube and Instagram.

Depends on your business or goal, Twitter really is more than enough in the beginning.

Word of caution, just because the barrier of entry is low, does not mean it doesn’t take any work or new skills you need to acquire.

Luckily there are plenty of resources out there to help you survive Twitter as a content creator, the hard part is to weed out the lower quality guides, and when you’re a beginner, it’s hard to tell what is good and what is bad, so I highly recommend soaking in information from many different creators that are out there.

I will probably be coming up with my own version of Twitter guide as well, and hopefully you will have enough trust in me to consume them in the future if you do decide to start creating content.

Bottom line is this, quit looking for shortcuts, all good things take work, and you must be willing to put in the work for any field you decide to dabble in. Content creation is no different.

Hopefully my personal experience and world view has some kind of positive influence over you. If you’re still not sure what’s right for you, don’t hesitate to reach out to me on any of my socials at http://drburgerflipper.com

How I can help you:

Here’s the planner I made and used everyday to help myself achieve my daily goals:

Feel free to reach out to me for emotional support as well, especially if you’re a medical student or doctor going through BS. Trust me I know, and I am here for you.

Email me if you are interested in becoming a content creator, and we’ll figure out a way to get you started