Inspired Creators: Case Study pt. 2 (@hellotefi)

Welcome to our final episode in our six-part series on Inspired Creators, where we’re musing on recovering from burnout, embodying your ideal creator archetype, finding your energetic creation wave, and what the Witch Wound has to do with our intuition and creative output.

This week we’re doing a creator case study! We asked our lovely community to volunteer their work so we could riff on all the potential ways they might monetize, streamline, and expand their platforms to bring in greater financial flow and create with more ease.

Today’s episode will feature the ingenious creator @hellotefi

Show Notes

  • Making a lot of great content, yet not making money off that

  • Inspired Creators: Creator Case Study Part 1

  • The best form of paid content based on your archetype

  • How Tefi used to make money?

  • Knowing when to quit

  • Be a person. Don’t work too hard. Take a break.

  • Direct versus indirect paid content

  • Paid contents that might be effective for Tefi

  • How difficult it is to always deal with trolls and haters online

  • All the different ways that Tefi can start monetizing right now with the audience that she already has

  • How to build confidence while being somebody in the public

  • Learning different things from Tefi’s perspective

  • A good example of a one-stop-shop content for creators

  • Tefi as a great influencer!

  • Substack: the best platform for creators

  • Discover Michelle’s favorite newsletter

  • Transmuting your ideas from just an idea into something tangible that people can understand

  • How few audiences do you actually need to have a successful business

You got to test things out, and there’s no harm or shame in deciding to quit.
— Michelle Pellizzon
To recap, direct paid content is when you get paid directly through a transaction for the work that you’re doing.
— Michelle Pellizzon
Substack is an email platform where you can send out emails and podcasts, either gated content that’s behind a paywall, or it can be free. It makes it really easy for creators to both incentivize and grow their free audience and convince them to be a patron.
— Michelle Pellizzon
You don’t have to send the same thing out every week. You don’t just send the same newsletter out, you can send what you’re interested in, especially if you’re a creator like Tefi. And you have tons of different interests, as long as you ground people in why you’re sharing it with them, why you think it’s cool, that’ll work!
— Michelle Pellizzon

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