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🕹️ The Year of the Creators

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🕹️ The Year of the Creators

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Eve Arnold
Dec 31, 2022
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In the mail 📧

  • The story 🎒: Creating alongside your full-time job.

  • Small ideas 💡: Part-time creator ideas to ponder.

  • Web highlights 🌍: The founder of ConvertKit.

  • Stories of the week: A selection of my best stories this week.

Read time: 2 minutes

👋 1,928+ part-time creators.


THE STORY

Creating Alongside Your Full-Time Job is the Cheat code

The new creator economy of 2023
Photo by KAL VISUALS on Unsplash

2023 the year of the creator

But not in the way you think.

Not the creators that want to get rich and famous. Not those seeking validation from external sources. 2023 will be the year for those who have got something to say and have the courage to say it.

The cool club

Back in the day, people used to get excited by salaries, the Rolex flex and status. Some people would take out a loan to buy a car they didn’t need to impress people they didn’t like. It was all gravy until 2020 when the pandemic put things in perspective.

2020 reality check…

…the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world with a bang. All of a sudden many of us were forced inside, to spend time with our families, and to work from home. It meant no rush-hour traffic, no stale lunches, little office chatter and more time at home.

It leads to a new way of thinking

As the months crept into years, people started getting used to this way of life. More time and less stress became a lifestyle. It became something to hold on to. We switched to social media and saw people all over the world making a different kind of life for themselves.

  • Dan Koe built a business advising other creators.

  • Dakota Robertson creating a Twitter ghostwriting agency.

This new world of opportunity opened up but not one was about more hours, more status, or more pay. One about something much more admirable.

The time wealth

The pandemic made us realise that life is short. The digital creator economy made us realise that opportunity is vast.

In 2023, I predict that everyone with a day job will start to create on the internet. They’ll do it to creatively fulfil themselves and to put a little extra in their pocket. Not for the fancy things, oh no. For time.

They’ll go down to 3-days a week and create on the side.

They’ll create a lifestyle for themselves.


Small ideas:

  1. If you give everything away for free, at least at some point, are you freeing yourself from expectation and reward?

  2. Imagine if you could genuinely just play for the love of the game.

  3. Things taste sweeter after difficulty.


Stories 📚

  • The Dead Simple 30-Minute Writing System Helps Me Publish Crazy Amounts of Content

  • The Real Reason Nobody Is Subscribing to Your Newsletter

  • I Wrote An Article a Day for 950 Days Here’s What Happened


Whenever you’re ready, two ways I can help 🧩

  • Top 100+ headlines on Medium - the best headlines on Medium (it saves me 1 hour a day).

  • 100,000 Words: How to write online alongside your 9-5. If you’re working a full-time job and want to write on the internet, read this.

Get access to all my articles, and lessons on writing online, building a part-time business and creating writing systems for FREE at www.parttimecreatorclub.com.


Around the web 🌍

  • David Perell talks to Nathan Barry

  • Lewis Capaldi shares Shell Rowe’s story.


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Ron Wilson
Jan 7

Love your style, I will be following you more closely, just getting started, wanting to learn all I can with

the help of creators like yourself. Thank you. Ron Wilson

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David Loewen
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Jan 4

Nicely laid out and written Eve. It's a great title PTCC. Like that you included your Medium articles and links. I clicked and read them. Keeps traffic moving across your distribution chain. 🚀

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