I used to believe the growth guru agenda… “Post 3x a day, comment 100x a day, send 20 DMs a day!” I wasted 6 months grinding doing this and made $0. It sucked. (Keep reading to learn what you should do instead) // I used to think you needed thousands of followers to make money and told myself “oh you’ll monetize eventually once you get some more followers”. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Then I said fuck that, and went all in on monetizing. 6 months later and my business is making $10,920/month. (consistently) Now if you’re smart your questions probably will be: - What did you change? - How did you monetize? - What is your business model? - WTF, I thought this group was about growing an audience on 𝕏? Great questions! Here’s the answers you have been looking for: The problem with growing an audience is that it takes YEARS not months to master. And even if you do master it, most creators with thousands of followers struggle to pay their bills… They didn’t learn how to monetize early on, and now all those months spent commenting and posting were wasted. They fell victim to the trap of cheap dopamine… The cheap dopamine trap: Increased engagement from spamming posts and comments that doesn’t actually result in any cash in the bank. Here’s the steps I took when I said fuck that and decided I wanted to earn cash, not likes with my time: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STEP 1: Identify problems ━━━━━━━ Most people rave about ‘ideas’. But ideas are useless. Your. audience. does. not. care. about. your. ideas. They care about themselves, and how you can help them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STEP 2: Solve problems for free ━━━━━━━ Once you have found a common problem start solving it. (More on the best way to do this later) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STEP 3: Collect Case studies ━━━━━━━ Every problem you solve for free is worth thousands of dollars. Why? You can use it to sign 10x the amount of paying clients later on. Likes ain’t cash. Case studies are cash. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STEP 4: Build an offer