$15,000+/month as a creator?
No social following required
There has been a major shift in the creator industry. Now anybody can potentially make a full-time income creating and sharing stories for brands, no social following required.
What if you could make $5K, $10K, or $15K per month creating short-form videos like you see on Instagram reels or Tik Tok?
Well today, that’s possible.
How to make money as a content creator
A content creator is someone that creates content for a community or audience.
These could be static posts, short-form videos, or long-form videos.
Networks that welcome content creators are social media communities like Twitter, Tik Tok, YouTube, and basically, just about any social channel you can think of.
Creators are storytellers.
They create excitement, bring value, educate, entertain, and inspire their audience.
And they serve many diverse communities from people parenting special needs kids, caregivers, teachers living/working abroad, wannabe digital nomads, crypto enthusiasts, etc.
Up until now, the way to make it as a creator was to build up a huge social following and monetize that following with ads, affiliate links, brand partnerships and selling products and services.
The door was open to everyone to become a creator but not everyone can succeed. It takes patience, dedication, consistency, and most importantly, skill, to become a creator and make a full-time living at it.
Many times, creators exchange the 9-to-5 work life with stable income and benefits for an unstable career where they might work weird hours, travel for 20% of the year, and make their paycheck from PayPal.
Their life is anything but traditional but the six figure paycheck you earn makes it worth it. And the perks of working for yourself, being able to sleep in, travel when you want, and work with your favorite companies is well worth the trade-off.
How to create UGC content and make money
UGC content is user-generated content.
When you visit a brand’s social media account on Instagram or Tik Tok, those posts very well might be created by a UGC content creator. They hire creators to make these social posts.
It’s a smart way to outsource this activity to creators who can showcase the brand the way they envision. The company doesn’t want to learn how to create content. They’d rather hire someone else to do it.
This is where work for UGC content creators come into play.
Where to find these jobs?
Head to freelance job boards and websites to find these gigs.
Places like Upwork, Freelancer, social networks like Facebook, Linkedin and others are sites to check out.
You can also search for companies that work with creators and reach out to them via cold outreach to pitch UGC creator work.
And, if you’re interested in becoming a paid creator where you can work with brands and create social posts on your own account, here’s how I built a full-time income as a paid content creator.
The recipe I followed to become a creator full-time…
- Choose monetization
- Pick a niche
- Create content
- Get paid
Step 1: Choose monetization
How will you make money?
- Sponsored posts
- Affiliate marketing
- Selling products
- Selling services
Pick your poison here and then keep it in mind when picking a niche.
Step 2: Pick a niche
What will your niche be?
Is a niche required?
Nope but, it certainly helps. Decide what topic you’ll tackle and then start cranking out content.
Step 3: Create content
Be consistent, create a calendar, take this seriously.
Think of this like a full-time job and you’ll see results.
Step 4: Get paid
Go through step 1, step 2, and step 3 and then here, in step 4, you get paid!
Takeaways
There are many opportunities to become a content creator, with no social following required. If this is something you would like to pursue, take action and do it!
If you want to go the route of growing your own personal brand and monetizing it, these steps above are exactly what I followed to grow a $72,000/month business on social media with just one of my new social media accounts, in less than a year.
If you want to replicate my strategy, check out my new ebook.
What do you hope to gain from making money as a content creator?
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