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Hi friends
Creating content online is wild.
One day you’re king of the road, the next you’re down in the gutter.
Overly dramatically put.
That’s creator life 2023. A long road of ups & downs, highs & lows, self-doubt & surprising appreciation.
I am now a full-time content creator, relying on three main creation tactics:
Writing
Digital products
Marketing
Here’s how I make money as a full-time content creator in 2023.
1. Full-blown Medium-ness
I am a decent writer. Not a great one, but I don’t suck either.
I can’t hide the fact that English isn’t my native language, but I know my way around some words.
For the first 13 years of my online career, starting in 2008, I was exclusively writing and creating content in German. German blogs, German social accounts, German readers.
It wasn’t going anywhere, to be honest.
Then, I found Medium in 2021. I wasn’t sure what to expect. Boy, did I not know what to expect!
I jotted down my first (horrible) writing a…
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