Plus, more secrets of successful creators! — Here’s the latest edition of my For The Interested newsletter, a collection of inspiration and actionable ideas to help you produce, promote, and profit from your creations. Most creative entrepreneurs (myself included) try to solve too many problems for too many people. All you need to do is identify one…

Plus, more secrets of successful creative entrepreneurs! — Here’s the latest edition of my For The Interested newsletter, a collection of inspiration and actionable ideas to help you produce, promote, and profit from your creations. An exercise to try: Write 10 sentences that start with “I want…” Write 10 related sentences that start with “I don’t want…” You’ll…

Plus more secrets of successful creative entrepreneurs! — Here’s the latest edition of my For The Interested newsletter, a collection of inspiration and actionable ideas to help you produce, promote, and profit from your creations. I launched my I Want To Know podcast this week! The feedback has been amazing: “So many gems.” — Marcus Manderson “A great…

Plus more secrets of successful creative entrepreneurs! — Here’s the latest edition of my For The Interested newsletter, a collection of inspiration and actionable ideas to help you produce, promote, and profit from your creations. I admit it: I’m jealous. Jealous of how well these people do things. (In a good way.) Now, on to this week’s ideas… The Starting Five …

Inspiration for your next blog post, tweet, video, or podcast. — I try something. I do something. I learn something. Here’s how I turn those somethings into uniquely valuable content that serves and grows my audience. And how you can too. 1. Teach people something they can do in a few minutes to get a result they want. Actionable content is valuable content. If you can give people specific directions to follow that will get them something they…

Plus more secrets of successful creative entrepreneurs! — Here’s the latest edition of my For The Interested newsletter, a collection of inspiration and actionable ideas to help you produce, promote, and profit from your creations. Everyone does something the same way. Then someone does it different and it hits big. So everyone copies what they did. But it…

The truth just sounds different. — 1. “Do I have to focus on a niche?” No. You’re welcome to do it the hard way if you want. 2. “Why do other people’s tweets do so much better than mine?” There are 3 possibilities: Your tweets suck. (Probably not.) They’re using engagement groups, ads, or some other thing to boost their tweets. (Maybe?) What they’ve done off Twitter got them more followers than what they do on Twitter…

Plus, more secrets of successful creative entrepreneurs! — Here’s the latest edition of my For The Interested newsletter, a collection of inspiration and actionable ideas to help you produce, promote, and profit from your creations. I’ve shared a lot of advice to help creative entrepreneurs monetize their expertise. This may be the most powerful of it. Now, on…

Based on how I’ve monetized my own. — You have Andrew Methven to thank for what I’m about to share with you. Andrew writes the Slow Chinese newsletter, which helps people improve and maintain their Chinese language skills in 10 minutes a week. There’s a free version of the newsletter and a paid membership — he hired me…