Do your big ideas need a better strategy? Tommy Mallen was the Chief Product Officer behind Ali Abdaal's $2 million product launches. From profitable side-hustles to millions in revenue, Tommy helps creators efficiently build, effectively launch and authentically sell their courses. In today's episode of Creators on Air, Tommy Mallen shares everything you need to know about monetization, including how to choose what products to build, how to have a successful launch, and how to go about pricing....
Mar 01, 2024•55 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Does the fear of pursuing a solo career strike fear into your heart? Ole Lehmann is the founder of AI Solopreneur. He grew from 0 to 100,000 followers on Twitter in just 65 days and built a six-figure business in the space of four months. In today's episode of Creators on Air, Ole Lehmann shares how he successfully launched digital products as a solopreneur, the loss that led to greater gain and how he plans to grow. Follow Ole: 🐦 Twitter 👥 LinkedIn 📰 Newsletter Follow Akta: 🎥 YouTube 🐦 Twi...
Feb 21, 2024•36 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Are you spending endless hours trying to make your content stand out? Niharikaa Kaur Sodhi is a Content Creator working just 2-4 hours each day. She gained 75,000 LinkedIn followers in just twelve months and became a Top Writer on Medium. In this episode of Creators on Air, writer Niharikaa Kaur Sodhi shares her advice on honing your craft, building better balance and standing out from the crowd. Follow Niharikaa: 🐦 Twitter 👥 LinkedIn 📰 Newsletter 🎥 YouTube Follow Akta: 🎥 YouTube 🐦 Twitter...
Feb 14, 2024•27 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Tired of spending hours optimizing your YouTube content only to end up with a low conversion rate? Ed Lawrence is the Founder of Film Booth. He helps over 13,000 newsletter subscribers with actionable tips to grow their channels and YouTube businesses. In this episode of Creators on Air, YouTube educator Ed Lawrence shares his advice on the power of storytelling, the value of editing as a content retention strategy, and how to craft engaging, data-driven content that converts. Follow Ed: 📸 Inst...
Feb 07, 2024•40 min•Season 5Ep. 5
If you’re feeling overwhelmed as a creator, it may be time to streamline your workflow. Nat is the founder of Brand Nat and Future AI Lab. She helps businesses to implement humanised automation to save time and grow revenue. In this episode of Creators on Air, Nat shares her advice on automating content creation, how to effectively use CTAs, and how to work with sponsors. Follow Nat AI: 📸 Instagram 🐦 Twitter 👥 LinkedIn 📰 Newsletter 🎥 YouTube 🎶 TikTok 🖱️ Facebook Follow Akta: 🎥 YouTube 🐦...
Jan 31, 2024•28 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Are you feeling overwhelmed as a creator? Are you worried about your growth, products, and roadmap? Here’s where systems can help you scale your growth in 2024. Sara Loretta is the founder of SYSTMS™ - helping creative entrepreneur scale their businesses without burning out. In this episode of Creators on Air, Sara joins us for a discussion on the most common issues creators face, and how you can make the journey easier for yourself in the long term. Follow Sara: 🐦 Twitter 🎥 YouTube Follow Akt...
Jan 24, 2024•43 min•Season 5Ep. 3
What are the best ways to niche down as a creator? Or balance making content you love vs. what your audience wants? How about the best ways to navigate uncertainty? Rowena Tsai started her YouTube journey in 2016, creating content on personal development and productivity, and has over 700,000 subscribers on the platform to date. In this episode of Creators of Air, we talked about many of the common problems creators face, including niching down, balancing passion and monetisation, burnout, and f...
Jan 17, 2024•40 min•Season 5Ep. 2
How can you build and monetize a newsletter that attracts the right audience? Dru Riley, the founder and CEO of Trends.vc, joins the podcast this week to break down proven methods for growth online. Dru Riley has built his Trends.vc newsletter to over 60,000 subscribers - with an audience of founders, investors, and thought leaders in companies like Apple. In this episode of Creators on Air, he joins us to discuss how to grow your newsletter, convert readers to paid members, and work with sponso...
Jan 10, 2024•38 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Ali Abdaal’s 4.5 million subscribers is impressive But what’s more impressive is his business is projected to make £5 million this year So how exactly has he scaled? Ali Abdaal went from making YouTube videos in his spare time to building a creator business that's projected to make £5 million this year. But how exactly has he done it? Meet the man who helped make it happen: Angus Parker, the CEO of Ali's company. In this episode of Creators on Air, we spoke to Angus about what’s moved the busine...
Oct 04, 2023•36 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Unpopular opinion: in order to succeed as a creator, you need to do LESS. A few signs that you’re overcomplicating the creator journey: You’re posting on too many platforms You’re not sure who your content is for You feel overwhelmed Being a creator doesn’t have to be difficult. Make it easy for yourself. Josh Spector has over 50,000 subscribers for his newsletter, “For The Interested”. He also hosts the “I Want To Know podcast”, helping creative entrepreneurs to simplify audience and business g...
Sep 27, 2023•50 min•Season 4Ep. 11
What are the growth tactics behind the world’s largest and fastest growing newsletters? Think Codie Sanchez, Sahil Bloom and The Hustle. We asked Matt McGarry, the mastermind behind them all Matt McGarry is the founder of Newsletter Operator and GrowLetter. He’s worked with the world’s leading creators and brands, from Sahil Bloom to The Hustle, to help them grow their email lists. In this episode of Creators on Air, Matt McGarry joins us to discuss how to accelerate your newsletter growth, conn...
Sep 20, 2023•36 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Ruri Ohama reached 1 million subscribers on YouTube in 2 years But before that she had 4 channels which failed ✖️ Ruri Ohama is a full-time Youtuber with over 1 million subscribers. In this episode of Creators on Air, Ruri joins us to discuss how she grew her YouTube channel, how to create viral videos, and how to generate ideas. Follow Ruri: 📸 Instagram 🐦 Twitter 🎥 YouTube Follow Akta: 🎥 YouTube 🐦 Twitter 📸 Instagram 📰 Newsletter Follow Passionfroot: 💻 Website 📸 Instagram 🐦 Twitter 👥...
Sep 13, 2023•28 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Ali Abdaal built PTYA Marie Forleo built B-School Amy Porterfield built Digital Course Academy Educational creators can turn their knowledge into wealth and John Meese can show you how ⚡ This episode is for educational creators 📚 John Meese, the author of Always Be Teaching, runs a newsletter called Sell Your Smarts. He helps creators turn their wisdom into wealth by building a profitable online education business. In this episode of Creators on Air, John Meese joins us to discuss how to channe...
Sep 06, 2023•40 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Imagine going from $0 to $50k/month…. in just 5 months 💰 Michael Houck is a former VC turned full-time creator who began his career as part of the early teams at Uber and Airbnb. His newsletter, Houck's Newsletter, reaches over 60,000 founders and has enabled him to earn $50,000 in monthly revenue. In this episode of Creators on Air, Michael Houck joins us to discuss startup strategies that can help you grow your newsletter, the misconceptions of paid advertising, and how to treat your newslett...
Aug 30, 2023•28 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Kieran Drew left his job as a dentist to write online And he recently made $140,000 in 4 days 💸 Kieran Drew left his job as a dentist to pursue his passion for writing. He now has an audience of over 185,000 people and a newsletter called Digital Freedom, in which he shares strategies on how to build your business by writing online. In this episode of Creators on Air, Kieran Drew shares his storytelling methods, ways of building a bond with readers, and how to value yourself. Follow Kieran: 🐦 ...
Aug 23, 2023•26 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Everyone wants to build a community But no one wants to start a community for it to go dead in the first few weeks. Jordan Mix is the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Late Checkout, a design firm that funds community-based businesses. He currently leads the community and newsletter for one of their projects, You Probably Need A Robot, which has over 30,000 members. In this episode of Creators on Air Jordan discusses developing online communities, keeping members engaged, and using automation to buil...
Aug 16, 2023•29 min•Season 4Ep. 5
From popular podcast to a real estate business: 350,000 monthly listeners a high ticket service business a community of over 70,000 people with over 350,000 monthly listeners, the Property Podcast is the UK’s most popular property podcast, and there’s a good reason behind this. In this episode of Creators on Air, Rob Dix, Author, Marketer and Co-Founder of Property Hub, joins us to discuss how to start early in your niche, drive success to your business and why you should be building a personal ...
Aug 09, 2023•27 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Struggling to niche down? You’re probably a multipotentialite. A multipotentialite is someone with many interests and creative pursuits. But it doesn’t mean you can’t be a successful creator. Jake McNeill is the founder of Creative Hackers. He has developed mental models and frameworks to help Multipotentialites leverage their divergent thinking and maximise their potential whilst working with artists, creators and entrepreneurs. In this episode of Creators on Air, Jake McNeill, founder of Creat...
Aug 02, 2023•26 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Writing a newsletter and hitting send every week? You might be missing out. With 11 years of experience in building automated newsletter businesses, Brennan Dunn shares his strategies through his newsletter Create & Sell. In this episode of Creators on Air, Brennan joins us to discuss: audience segmentation personalised experiences automated sequences lead magnets and much more Brennan Dunn has helped countless businesses bridge the gap between their offerings and audience engagement. With h...
Jul 26, 2023•45 min•Season 4Ep. 2
You need to change your relationship with creativity. You don’t need: -Growth hacks -SEO -Social media promotion Lawrence Yeo is the writer, illustrator and storyteller behind More To That. He’s attracted millions of blog readers and over 26k subscribers by word of mouth alone. In this episode of Creators on Air, Lawrence shares how to find inspiration, overcoming creative blocks and having a healthy relationship with creating. Follow Lawrence: 📸 Instagram 🐦 Twitter 👥 Linkedin 📰 Newsletter �...
Jul 19, 2023•48 min•Season 4Ep. 1
You’ve probably heard of the phrase “building in public”, but do you know what it actually means? Kevon Cheung helps creators grow their personal brand and business by building in public. He runs a newsletter with 3k subscribers, has almost 20k followers on Twitter, and earns a living as a creator with his cohort-based course, ‘Build in Public Mastery’ - and he did this by building in public. In this episode of Creators on Air, Kevon shares what it means to build in public, the right way of shar...
Jun 21, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Is AI replacing creativity? Among creators, there are those who embrace AI to augment their content and those who are scared of it. But if you’re not using AI, you could be missing out. Matt Wolfe is passionate about all things AI and future tech tools. After quitting his job back in 2009, he decided to pursue digital marketing to focus on being an online creator. Thanks to his content on the latest advancements in AI, he has reached over 360k subscribers on his YouTube channel and an average of...
Jun 14, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Are you wondering why your growth strategies aren't working? Kevin Indig is all about organic growth. With over 8.8k newsletter subscribers and a Twitter and LinkedIn following of over 30k, Kevin has led SEO and growth at companies like Shopify and Snapchat and shares his best strategies in his newsletter. In this episode of Creators on Air, we talk about the best growth strategies on different platforms, how to work with sponsors, and how to best manage your time as a creator. Follow Kevin: 💻 ...
Jun 07, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 10
What's the best platform to go viral and monetise? There's no better person to ask than Eric Struk. He has built a combined audience of almost 10 million on both TikTok and YouTube and has now found a successful niche in travel content. In this episode of Creators on Air, we talk about what makes a video go viral, how to find your value as a creator and the difference between monetising on TikTok vs. YouTube. Thank you to our sponsor @StoryblocksCo. Take back creative control with Storyblocks' u...
May 31, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Danny Miranda is the host of The Danny Miranda Podcast. He started this project over 3 years ago and is now in the top 1% of podcasts in the world. His guest appearances include Gary Vee, Derek Sivers, and Chris Williamson. Danny is known for having great conversations with people who are an inspiration in his life. In this episode of Creators on Air, we talk about how to choose your podcast guests, what to research before an episode and how to create meaningful conversations that audiences will...
May 24, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Kelsey Rodriguez is a full-time artist, YouTuber and all around content creator. She started out on YouTube back in 2020 and has since been able to build an audience of over 160k subscribers. She has managed to turn her hobby into a career by helping other artists build their businesses and developing different revenue streams. In this episode of Creators on Air, Kelsey shares how to use Social Media as part of your creative practice, overcoming impostor syndrome and deciding when to monetize as...
May 17, 2023•24 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Alex Llull is a content writer and strategist who helps creative entrepreneurs start, grow and scale their audience and income. With his newsletter, ‘The Steal Club’, he dissects the tactics and strategies that top creators use to grow and monetize their audiences. In this episode of Creators on Air, Alex shares some of the best strategies to ‘steal’ content, how to avoid sounding like other creators and how to attract a quality audience. Follow Alex: 📰 Newsletter 🐦 Twitter 📸 Instagram 👥 Lin...
May 10, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Oliur is a designer, creator and developer who started making money online in 2010. He quickly saw the potential of digital products after seeing his Tumblr themes significantly increase his income. That quickly evolved into creating other digital products and delving into YouTube, which resulted in Oliur having multiple income streams. In this episode of Creators on Air, we talk all about digital products as a revenue stream that creators should consider and how to find the right product for yo...
May 03, 2023•30 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Arvid Kahl is an entrepreneur, software engineer, writer and all-around creator. He describes himself as ‘He Who Does Everything’ and empowers founders and creators to build sustainable businesses in public. He is also a huge part of the Twitter community. In this episode of Creators On Air, Arvid shares how he found his audience, how to be a selfless creator and his approach to monetisation. Follow Arvid: 🐦 Twitter 👥 Everything Else Follow Akta: 🎥 YouTube 🐦 Twitter 📸 Instagram 📰 Newslette...
Apr 26, 2023•47 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Khe Hy left his corporate finance job 8 years ago to pursue content creation. He is now the Founder and CEO of RadReads and has been called the ‘Oprah for Millennials’ by CNN. By his own admission, he’s not the best at going viral, but he still managed to build a viable business around his newsletter. In this episode of Creators On Air, we talk about what it means to live a happy life, understanding the pains of your audience and how to put your best creative work out there. Thank you to our spo...
Apr 19, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 3
