What happens when you hit 35k followers (& beyond)... 💯

GM Friends 👋

This week I’m breaking down the experience of being a mid-sized content creator:

🪂 Care-Package: LFTs, Content Businesses & Waking Up Early
🪴 What happens when you hit 35k followers (& Beyond)...
🧗‍♂️ Building in Public: The Newsletter

Let’s get into it 💯

🪂 Care-Package:

A weekly package of actionable strategies to help you Grow Faster through content, business & health.

🧲 Attract an audience:

Writing Long Form Tweets vs Threads

This is a quick insight from an experience that I’ve had over the past 2 weeks.

After writing 150+ threads and now experimenting with LFTs, I’ve noticed that in the past two weeks specifically, Twitter (𝕏) seems to be boosting LFTs and de-boosting threads.

A few months ago Elon mentioned reducing the reach of threads (because they’ve been OP up until now).

It appears that this change is starting to take shape.

I’ll keep testing and share my experience.

🍄 Become Better:

The path to turning content into a business

As I’ve shared recently, Jack Butcher’s content is next level when it comes to starting a content driven business.

If your goal is to turn content into a business, this video breaks down the core principles of layering the 3 pillars:

1. Sharing ideas

2. Attracting an audience around those ideas

3. Working with that audience to create a product that suits them

🌿 Feel f*cking fantastic:

How to wake up early.

I recently got out of sync with my early morning routine and found it hard to get back into rhythm.

I was staying up late and waking up later than I would have liked.

But now I’m back, waking up at 6:30 and starting work at 7:00am.

The trick I’ve found useful for getting back into my flow has been forcing myself to have 4 days in a row of waking up at 6:30am.

(Yes, waking up early as the trick to wake up early seems like it defeats the purpose, but hear me out).

The reason we often find it hard to wake up early is because we don’t feel tired until very late at night, so we stay up later, and the bad habit cycle continues.

By forcing yourself to get up earlier than is comfortable, and keeping this going for a few days, you end up feeling tired at 10:30pm.

When you feel tired, you fall asleep faster, which makes it easier to wake up early.

Rhythm restored.

This has worked really well for me, and if you’re struggling to wake up early, just know that it lies on the other side of 4x tough days.

🪴 What happens when you hit 35k followers (& Beyond)...

When I started making content, I only saw two types of content creators.

The people all the way at the top, starting businesses & shaping the conversation of Web3.

And then there were people like myself, starting out at around 2,000 followers, just starting to find our voice.

But no one ever told me what being in the middle part was like.

The part where you’ve built an audience, developed relationships and are starting to see the early benefits that come with creating content.

If you’re at the beginning of your journey and you want to know what the middle part is like, this story is for you:

🧗 Started from the bottom now we’re here…

^{If you’re new here, one of the core principles of the content I share is that a newsletter is the most linear and simple business you can start in Web3. It has high sponsorship revenue and can go from being a side hustle to a full-time businin under a year. I am building this newsletter in public, to share the progress each week so that you can be a part of the journey. Now let’s get into it 👇}

This week I smashed my longterm 3,000 subscriber target 💪

This Week:
Subscribers: 3,075 (+200 Subscribers)
Open Rate: 42.8%

Tracking my goals:

✅ Get my first sponsorship: (Complete)

✅ 3,000 / 3,000 Subscribers: (Complete - the final goal) 🎉

✅ Create a new internal template: (Complete)

It feels awesome to hit these goals that I’ve been chasing for a few months. Next week, it’s time to level up and set new targets 🏆

— Alex

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