How To Get Help (The Right Way) When Starting Out As A Content Creator

You’re probably busy and overextended because you’ve got a 9–5 and your content creation game is a side hustle.

You need a lot of help because you want to turn this side hustle into your main!

So how do you get it?

Don’t Ask For It

This seems counter-intuitive, but you’re better off waiting before you ask everyone and their mom for help.

Show up first. Put in work. Show you’ve started something.

No one owes you their time & expertise before you’ve taken your first steps.

Let Me Further Explain The Deeper Issue Here

I once had a friend who would text me, “How are you,” like they actually cared.

Once they’d ascertain I wasn’t dying, they’d hit me with incessant long texts like it was a game of 20 questions. They’d pick my brain, I’d share my expertise — then they’d not take it to heart. They were crowdsourcing their every move.

They were afraid to take any step without verifying it was “the right one” first with the crowd.

Why Is This Bad? What To Do Instead?

You ruin your reputation before you even get any skin in the game.

You don’t want to become known as the needy time/energy vampire before you do a single thing. Instead, get some work done. Put up that website or make whatever move you’re wondering about.

Just freaking do it because you’ll make progress.

How This Works With My Own Business Mentor

I have an awesome business mentor I meet with (for free) by signing up through the SBA/Score.

I tell this guy everything I’m doing and he listens. He sees I’m doing actual work here and then ponders it a bit. Then, he hits me with ideas and perspectives I’d never thought of before!

You wouldn’t take a test without doing the homework first, right?

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