I love how most advice about being an artist/creator is like “sign up for my newsletter and also pay me $ for advice on what to do instead” and the “instead” is basic business & project management advice
This is exploitation.
If anyone really cares about artists & the arts, we should be sharing as abundantly as possible with the entire community. The most vulnerable artists are often ones who can’t afford courses or coaches but may not have other ways to gain this knowledge. Especially when those courses cover basics that everyone can/should know for the betterment of society overall.
I try to not do this by sharing publicly what I try that works & doesn’t work for me on this website. I can do more to organize these findings, but they’re there for anyone to read. If you find this useful or want to support me sharing more of this, you can optionally buy me a coffee or some kind of recurring donation.
For context, I adapted this idea from my employer Buffer, where we share a ridiculous amount of knowledge about social on our public blog (which is not completely overrun with ads, clickbait, or other garbage), with the hope that people find it genuinely useful and consider trying our product. It’s working well for us.
More “creators” should consider this model.
