From the course: Earning Money as a Creator

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Three things to avoid when monetizing

Three things to avoid when monetizing

From the course: Earning Money as a Creator

Three things to avoid when monetizing

- Here's three things to avoid when monetizing your audience. The number one most common mistake I see is frequency, so too many ads, too much monetization, too much revenue, too fast. You have to slowly introduce monetization into your audience and make sure you're keeping track of how many times you're asking for money within a given month and how many ads or branded-content deals you're posting. You need to start out slow. You need to start out in an organic way and make sure it feels right and doesn't feel like you're immediately going from zero to asking for way too much money. Frequency caps and calendars can really help you plan out how monetization is going on each channel and where it's landing within your month of content calendar. So focus on how to introduce it slowly, and how to have frequency caps, and understand how much monetization you can do in a month without hurting your engagement or getting…

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