With a little creativity and hard work, there’s an abundance of ways you can make money online. If you have a podcast, there are multiple options to turn your hobby into a business and your business into your full-time job.

Finding the best goal tracker is a lot like dating: you need to get to know different tools to find your perfect match before eventually finding one that motivates you to be your best self.

When touring came to a sudden halt in 2020, musicians found themselves in a bind. Ticket sales from tours and playing live shows—one of the biggest revenue streams artists have in the modern music industry—nosedived almost overnight.

Video is the #1 type of content consumed today. At the rate we’re going, we’ll see more than one billion videos uploaded every second by 2022.

Getting your music on Spotify is a rite of passage for musicians in the modern era. And that's not a bad thing. Music distribution used to be a difficult task, but now all you need for your music to be accessible to the masses is a decent internet connection and a DistroKid subscription.

The creator economy is booming. More people indicate they want to be creators these days than ever before. As of 2021, there are around 50 million people working in a creator capacity—as musicians, artists, freelancers, podcasters, photographers, chefs, athletes… the list goes on and on.

Making money on YouTube doesn’t happen by amassing a large following and relying on YouTube to pay you for views. While you can earn some money that way, it won’t lead to an income big enough to quit your day job.

Filming a YouTube video is easy – essentially all you need to do is just grab the closest camera and press record. But if you want to film a good video that people will enjoy watching and makes them want to stick around for more… there’s a little more to it.

You’ve spent the past several months writing your book. Now it’s time to switch gears and go from writer to publisher/marketer. You’re eager to get your manuscript into the hands of your future readers, but you just don’t know how to do it.

When you first launch your creative business, it can feel like you’ve finally escaped the 9-5 grind. The irony is that you often end up working more hours than you would in a full-time job—and the stakes are much, much higher when you work for yourself.

If Instagram Reels haven’t sucked you down an hour-long rabbit hole yet, we have to assume you have superpowers. Reels are Instagram’s latest foray into video. The quick, vertical videos are taking over newsfeeds worldwide as more creators hop on to the trend.

To say your podcasting business has a lot of moving parts is an understatement. You have to come up with ideas, find guests and sponsors, write your script, record each episode, edit everything, and then promote it. Growing your podcast and engaging with your audience is exhilarating.

Would Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” have become the number one most streamed song of 2021 if it hadn’t been for TikTok? TikTok loved it.

If you’re a full-time creator—or you’re rocking a creative side hustle—you know how overwhelming it can be. With so many creators out there and so many channels to spend time and money on, where do you even begin?

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok…the list of social media channels to master continues to grow. Social media is a natural starting point to promote what you’re doing—after all, it’s where your customers are.

One of our values at ConvertKit is to work in public. We strive for transparency, which is why we share information that is typically kept private, such as our finances. When messages are sent, they can be delivered, or they can bounce.

Being a creator means freedom, flexibility, earning good money, and shaping your life the way you want. But, it’s not all rainbows. Most creators start with the aim of selling high unit volumes of low-ticket offers. But, this is only sustainable for building an audience in the initial stages.

Doubling 100 subscribers is doable. Doubling 10,000 is daunting. As your creator business matures, it won’t be sustainable to grow your audience at the same rate you used to. That doesn’t mean you have to accept your new plateau and abandon your goals.

Media and attention tend to flow to extremes—overnight millionaires or the archetype of the starving artist. Just because the creator economy middle class doesn’t get all the glory doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. And it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t strive for it.

Who was the first creator? It’s popular opinion to say Justin Hall, an undergrad who created the first blog. He called it his personal homepage and used it to share HTML examples. Today, there are 2+ million professional creators.

Ready to become a professional creator? You’ve put the time into creating content that makes people value your brand and building an audience (even if it’s only a few hundred people!).

It’s a known (yet unfortunate) fact that women earn less than men in the workplace. But many creators don’t realize a gender wage gap exists in the creator economy. Despite women setting their own rates and naming their own prices, they’re still earning less than men.

There are two types of creators. Those who anxiously search everything they can about the death of third-party cookies.

For every minute you invest in building your audience and business, the right tools can make the impact go further. With the seemingly endless options of apps, automations, and software available, it can be hard to tell what you need and which to choose.

Real talk: intuition is not a solid business strategy. While there is something to be said about creative instinct and passion, you alone can’t steer your business ship into the harbor of success.