What makes an NFT valuable in 2023 💯

GM Friends 👋

Hope you’ve had an awesome week. In this episode I’ll cover:

🪂 Care-Package: How to build in public and grow an audience.
💎 How do you find hidden NFT gems in the bear market?
🧙‍♂️ Diary of a Founder: What makes an NFT valuable in 2023
🧗‍♂️ Building in Public: The Newsletter

🪂 Care-Package:

A weekly package to help you Grow Faster 💯

🧲 Attract an audience:

When you finish writing, re-write your ‘hook’ at least 5 times.

This helped me go viral earlier this week (With a thread that I link in the Diary of a Founder section below).

Something that I’ve been testing lately is at the end of creating a piece of content, I have to go back and re-write the first tweet, the title of a video, etc…

At least 5 times.

When we finish writing we often want to post right away.

But most people don’t care about our content, you have to hook them. MrBeast is known for creating 100+ different thumbnails for a video before posting.

He does that because he knows that the first idea that he has usually isn’t the best.

So the next time you create content - If you’ve spent 2-6 hours on a thread or video, make those hours worthwhile by pushing yourself to innovate the hook until it’s perfect.

🍄 Become Better:

Book of the Week - Show Your Work (About Building in Public)

If you want to turn your Web3 hobby into a full-time business, the best way to get there is to build in public.

But everyone says that right? What does it actually mean?

This book by Austin Kleon will give you a step-by-step breakdown on how to attract an audience that likes you for you, by sharing your journey in public.

As a Founder, I’ve found building in public to be a game changer in creating opportunities. (I even build this newsletter in public at the bottom of the page).

Get this book, share your journey (even if you’re just getting started), and you will be rewarded:

🌿 Feel f*cking fantastic:

Start your day with sunlight

I’ve always been a bad sleeper. When I go to bed, I find that my mind keeps bursting with ideas long into the night.

What I realised recently is that my circadian rhythm (body clock) has been out of sync.

So I changed one simple thing, and now I sleep like a baby.

I now get sunlight as soon as I wake up.

Your brain responds to sunlight to set its rhythms for the day, including when you feel tired 16 hours later.

For the next week, as soon as you wake up, go outside for 15 mins without your phone. You’ll sleep better and feel better. (Link)

💎 How do you find hidden NFT gems in the bear market?

This was a question I had as both a founder and a collector.

So I went digging ⛏️ 

Back to when people were holding CryptoPunks and other NFTs, purely because they loved them, not because they wanted to flip them within 2 weeks.

If you want a flashback to the past, and a breakdown of what to look for in longterm Web3 investments, this thread is for you:

🧙‍♂️ Diary of a Founder: What makes an NFT valuable in 2023

The reason an NFT is valuable in 2023 is very different to what made NFTs valuable in the 2021/2022 bull market.

In this week’s Diary of a Founder I break down what I learnt from the book Show Your Work and how it applies to the NFT Market that we see today.

🧗 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 business in 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 👇}

A solid week of growth after a viral thread.

This Week:
Subscribers: 2,311 (+65 Subscribers)
Open Rate: 42.4%

Tracking my goals:

🚂 Get my first sponsorship: Sponsorship confirmed. Working with another creator to share their newsletter. This should go live next week 💪

🚂 2,311 / 3,000 Subscribers: Steady growth this week off the back of a viral thread.

🧗‍♂️ [Updated Goal] Create a new internal template: Recently I created my first newsletter template. This has cut my writing time in half. As I look at my content, I feel like there is always room for improvement. I want to take some time to review and improve this template.

Let’s keep grinding and growing. Have a great weekend 💯 

— Alex

Thanks for reading this week’s episode of Grow Faster ❤️

I’ve been in Web3 for 8 years, ETH since $45 and am building on my NFT project Bricktopians every single day.

If you want to join my world, and be a part of a project that grows with me.

Grab a Bricktopian NFT and let me build for you 💯