How to Earn Money From Your Creative Work: Part 3 (Getting Your Work In Front of People)

Before I get started on the work of getting your work in front of people, let’s recap what we’ve covered so far:

To earn money from your creative work, you need to create a piece of work and decide how the payment aspect will intersect with it. As I wrote in Part 1, there are a bajillion ways to make money from your creative work: you can sell the work, you can give away the work for free but put ads on it, you can give away the work for free but sell T-shirts, etc.

But before you can earn money from your creative work, you need to find your audience. That’s what we discussed in Part 2: you won’t get any money from your work, no matter how good it is, unless you put your work in front of people who might be interested in it.

Today we’re going to look at how you do that.

As far as I can tell, there are four basic ways of getting your work in front of the people who might become THE AUDIENCE.

I’ll present them in order of difficulty:

Share your work on multiple channels.

This is both the easiest and in many cases the least effective way of getting your work in front of people. On the one hand, sharing your work on your…