Inside the Mind of an Aspiring Content Creator

I learned something the other day that stuck with me. The truth is, every day of our lives, we learn something new. However, it often doesn't stick in our minds.

I didn't just learn lessons the other day, but also techniques.

For those who don't know because they don't read my posts, I'm currently trying out affiliate marketing. It's when you become an agent for a product sold online, and if you make a sale through your platform, you earn a commission.

Sample of my Affiliate Marketing Content on TikTok

Those basket with product names are the affiliate link. You can click the image to see it on TikTok App.

During my first attempt at live selling, I got lucky—I sold 10 products in 30 minutes. But after that, in my next tries, no viewers joined, it felt like TikTok just teased me with a sprinkle and then sent a message suggesting boosting my post. So, I quickly realized, that was just a tease.

Affiliate marketing isn't easy because you really need skills for it. You can't just post and hope someone will see it and buy. The skills you need, or at least need help with, are:

1. Market research - to check what products are good to affiliate.
2. Scriptwriting - you need to know how to make a script if you're using video or at least be good at writing captivating captions for the products you're affiliating.
3. Graphic Design - at least know how to edit pictures of the products to make them look good and catchy in others' news feeds.
4. Video editing, if your medium is video, you need to know this, including video recording and voiceover.

Those are the basics you need to know to affiliate properly.

Last week, my wife and I were talking about why some people have so many viewers. She told me that most successful affiliates are actually content creators first. Before they became affiliates, they built a fanbase. That's one reason why they always have many viewers during live sessions.

Since many people watch them, the site's algorithm pushes their content more, suggesting it to other users.

So, okay, I need to be a content creator first. I don't have a problem with that. I started my content creation journey on YouTube when I used to play Splinterlands.

I was lucky to gather 3500 followers back then, but it's slowly decreasing now because I changed my YouTube niche. Now, my niche is about dating, love life, and relationships.

While before, my videos reached up to 20,000 views per video, now I'm lucky if I get any views.

But it's okay, even if I'm deleting my Splinterlands and crypto tutorial videos from YouTube, I'm happy.

Because my current niche is what I really want.

YouTube hasn't removed my monetization yet, even though I'm deleting the videos that gave me more than 200,000 views.

These are the videos that remain, but every day I'll add one short video and at least one long video per week.

My story has gone so far from the original point of my post, what was the lesson I mentioned at the beginning of my post?

So yeah, I decided, okay, if I need to be a content creator and build a follower base in my niche, then I'll be a content creator.

I know it's not easy to be a content creator; you really need to have passion for what you're doing because if not, viewers will notice, and it will take a long time before you get recognized, or you might not get recognized at all.

So, what I did the other day was watch advice from famous content creators on YouTube, and almost all of them said:

You have to be passionate about this. If you're doing it just because you think you'll become famous and make a lot of money, don't continue because after 100 days, if you don't see any progress and still don't have subscribers, you might lose hope.

Second is consistency; you have to be consistent. You can't be diligent in posting today and then be lazy in posting tomorrow just because your posts aren't getting views.

In your first 100 videos, you might only get less than 10 views, and maybe some of them are from people you know.

This applies to all platforms with a follower system; if you have fewer followers, chances are you'll have fewer views.

So just keep creating, and make sure each video or content you start is better than your last one.

It's like an ex-relationship, it should be better than the last one. Hahaha!!!

You should be willing to build your reputation for up to 10 years; most famous content creators have been in the field for more than 10 years.

Yes, there might be special people who make it in less than a year, but those are special people, so for an ordinary person like me, I need at least 5 to 10 years.

And lastly, continue learning and researching; it's not enough to have the knowledge you have now, you also need to feed on others' ideas because if you don't, you won't grow.

So I told my wife, I'm determined to be a content creator first; I'll still squeeze in affiliate marketing, of course, but for now, I'm not really expecting much because who am I to expect? I'm just starting in this field. My wife, who's been doing affiliate marketing for 2 years now, still sometimes makes zero. So what more can I expect? Hahaha.

And lastly, discipline. I need to discipline myself to stick to the plans I've made.

If you're looking for secrets, there are none. Everything is hard work, discipline, and values.

If you've read this post, I hope you learned something, and I hope I've also inspired you in some way.

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