Winging It: Recent Episodes
Winging It
We talk about 14 ways we know (or heard of) that creators can make money. We also share our experiences with some of them.
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We talk about note-taking systems. How we approach it and what we are trying to implement.
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We talk about the dangers of comparing yourself to other creators and how we are dealing with it.
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Our experience with flow state and talking about flow triggers from Steven Kotler.
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Janis Ozolins rants about his approach to social media content and branding.
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We talk about the other side of being a creator. Struggles we've faced that people don't talk about that much.
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We each pick 3 random ideas and we comment on them.
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Alex paid $1000 to join a community. We talk about communities, their importance, and how they helped us in our journey.
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All about starting a newsletter. Behind the scenes of how Alex and Janis is dealing with their newsletters.
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Zapier for course creators, working with Ship30for30, and creative life in general. Listen to the conversation with Daniel Bustamante.
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Twitter: @dbustac
Bio link: bio.link/dbustac
Learn to automate the tasks you hate, so you can spend more time doing what you love: busytoleveraged.com
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In this episode, we talk about our toolstack and the reason Janis has changed his quite a bit.
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In this episode, we talk about how we make money.
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In this episode, we answer 10 random questions. Just a fun one.
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In this episode, we talk about zone of competence vs. zone of genius
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We talk about all things personal branding.
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Janis shares his thoughts on why You don’t need to be a designer to explain ideas visually.
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In today’s episode, we share 2 random things we’ve each learned this week.
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In today’s episode, Alex breaks down how he built his last product in 8h and made 1000$…before even releasing it!
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In this episode, we share our thoughts on platform risk.
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In this episode, we talk about our experience in going full-time as creators.
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In this episode, we talk about our experience with perfectionism and how we have dealt with it.
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In this episode, we share our experience with the VV community and why we think there is tremendous power in online communities.
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Topics we cover in this episode:
- What content to consume
- Finding a balance between consuming and creating
- How to reduce time wasted on social media
- When to start monetizing
- Your ideal working environment
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Alex & Janis share their failures from their creative journey..
- 00:32 - Janis’s fail: Learn in seconds journal
- 03:20 - Failures and learning experiences. Some perspective
- 04:30 - Alex’s trying affiliate marketing and dropshiping
- 05:15 - Buying Quora ads and being naive
- 07:30 - Buying courses
- 09:08 - Look at the person only 2 steps ahead
- 10:15 - Be naive so you start. Stop being naive to succeed
- 11:27 - Action bias and taking action quickly
- 13:26 - Janis trying to get a job at Gumroad
- 15:04 - Shaan Puri power writing and being action oriented
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Alex and Janis share their thoughts on repurposing & recycling their content.
- 01:00 - How Janis thinks about content repurposing
- 03:29 - Why timing is important when repurposing content
- 03:57 - How Alex recycles content
- 04:57 - How Janis recycles content and fighting perfectionism
- 06:17 - You don’t need to create original content. A few examples from Alex
- 07:50 - How do we think about retweeting content?
- 10:53 - Alex on Instagram. How he thinks about repurposing his tweets
- 13:00 - How Janis thinks about repurposing content on LinkedIn
- 15:19 - Why you shouldn’t spread yourself too thin
- 16:58 - Why you should start on Twitter with content creation
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Let's talk visuals!
- 00:00 - Welcome and the weather
- 01:20 - What makes a good visual?
- 02:33 - You don’t need to be a designer
- 03:55 - Interesting ideas, delivered fast
- 05:40 - Two things that will make you a better visual creator
- 07:20 - Memes as a way of communicating ideas fast
- 07:50 - Why people worry that much about the tools instead of the idea
- 09:28 - Why ideas need to be delivered fast: burn as least calories as possible
- 12:38 - Visuals don’t have to be complicated. Janis’s viral tweet thanks to his wife.
- 14:35 - Again, you don’t need to be a designer to do visuals.
- 17:02 - Quick recap
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In this episode, we cover our 3 favorite creators and what we have learned from them.
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- 00:00 - Welcome, good morning and Janis getting to 20k followers on Twitter
- 00:58 - What do we do to get on our creative zone
- 01:45 - How Janis gets ideas
- 04:32 - How Alex gets ideas
- 06:26 - Embracing the chaos as a creator
- 06:51 - How Alex writes his content
- 08:11 - Voice to text ideas. Transcribing your thoughts
- 09:27 - Janis struggles with writing. Perfectionism and how we fight it.
- 11:19 - How Jerry Seinfield writes. His creative process
- 15:19 - Our best advice to get into the creative zone
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- 00:00 - Welcome
- 00:27 - Tweets on Demand, what it is and how it came together
- 08:50 - Ghost visuals
- 10:20 - How Janis got to work with Steven Barlett
- 14:40 - Creative work and attribution and assume good intent
- 17:05 - The imposter syndrome tax
- 20:10 - How Janis thinks about pricing his freelance work
- 21:35 - Alex rejecting a big money freelance gig and the reasons why
- 24:30 - Respecting your audience’s attention
- 28:56 - Content output: the balance between high signal and noise content
- 34:18 - Value dot app. Checking other people’s NFT portfolios
- 35:10 - Our experience with Web3, crypto and NFTs
- 41:10 - Random guy refuses to sell his bored ape. NFT conviction.
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