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What’s up, Reader? It’s ya boy, Eli (or should I say Easy?) I’m not going to lie—I didn’t have much time to write this week. It’s 1:00 this morning, and I’m just going off the dome. Here’s what I did last week:
No wonder I had no time to write. Why I’m Shifting from Writing to StreamingI was originally going to use writing and education to build the audience, but now I’m going to use entertainment and education. I’ve decided to embrace my natural talent for livestreaming to build an audience online by playing a character named Easy. Essentially, I’m applying Kanye West marketing tactics to build an audience. And I wrote a business plan around it ( Read the plan here). The truth is, Easy is me, and I’m Easy. This newsletter is a mix of my professional life and the chaos that is my mind—because that’s the real deal. The Future Belongs to CreatorsI’m going to give it to you straight—I believe the future belongs to creators. In a few years, technology will be at a point where anyone can be a creator. Knowing how to create content online is an evergreen meta-skill, no matter your profession. Technology has already revolutionized the world before AI came on the scene. The average human today consumes electric energy equivalent to having 20 full-time human servants working 200 years ago. Now, through AI, technology is literally working on itself. Exponential growth has now become exponentially exponential growth. In the next 10 years, we will see one-person businesses popping up left and right. This is because of the power of automation and no-code tools. Most tedious aspects of content creation will be smoothed over through automated solutions. In the near future, some individuals will have harnessed technology so effectively that they’ll essentially become one-person marketing agencies (some already have). Automation is the key to the solo creator business. Imagine having 20 full-time artists and editors working for you. That’s what it will be like for those who know how to leverage AI. There are already tools out there that speed up workflow significantly. For example, I used Adobe Sensei’s auto-transcription tool in Premiere Pro to cut shorts from streams in 20 minutes. If I wanted to, I could pay for a service like Framedrop that automatically cuts highlights from streams and podcasts to shorten that time even further. These things that used to take hours now take minutes. And it’s only going to get crazier from here. This is child’s play compared to what we will see in our lifetime. I’m so confident this will be the case that I left my job before even starting to create content or grow an audience myself. I built a digital business with zero employees. I create content for others for a living. Now I’m applying what I’ve learned to my own brand. What’s Next for Weston PixelWriting is cool, but streaming comes more naturally. My plan is to use livestreaming to blend entertainment with education, making complex ideas accessible and fun (Follow my Twitch channel). I’m going to put effort into creating a community through the streams and video content. This community will be made up of entrepreneurs (closet & actual), creators, and business owners. The goal is to turn this community into a creator-brand liaison service, where creative talents and businesses can connect, collaborate, and grow together. The Weston Pixel Universe will start to become an ecosystem where content creation, creative collaboration, and brand partnerships converge. The stream is going to be an exploration of these ideas and a behind-the-scenes look at my workflow and tech stack. I’ll be creating content about content creation and the creator economy. Sounds boring, but trust me—I know how to party. Let’s face it — everyone who creates content around the things I’m going to be talking about are boring. It’s time to shake the game up. I’ll be going live a few times this week. I’ll let you know when the portal to cyberspace opens. This newsletter will continue to evolve to accommodate for whatever strategy works out best. I will still write to you guys every Monday, but sometimes the broadcasts will just be updates and highlights from the week. I’m figuring all this stuff out as I go if you can’t tell. That’s part of the plan (Check out the part about building your niche through content in The Creator’s Blueprint.) If you want to see how I plan to monetize acting a fool on the Internet, check out the business plan (Link to the plan). You’ll also like the omega article I wrote that has everything I know about how to become a successful creator online (Read The Creator’s Blueprint). I’m going to constantly revisit this as I go along, keeping it relevant. It’ll be an ebook or a course one day, but right now, it’s on my website fo’ free. If there’s one thing I learned while silenced—it’s how to be heard. If this doesn’t work, I’ll try it from another angle. I’ll build vans and create content around that. I’ll hone more in on photography. The principle of growing an audience online is the same. Learn how to create and distribute content, and you open up possibilities of personal and financial freedom the human race has never seen before (literally). You can monetize whatever you want on the Internet. Hold my beer, Zuckerberg. 😎 Take care mi amigos, E P.S. There are only 20 of you right now, so consider yourselves the OGs of this wild ride. You can reply to these emails. I’d love to hear your thoughts, ideas, or concerns (lol). Help me build this thing from the ground up—I’ll never forget the ones who were here from the start. TOOLS I LIKEWebsite Builder (WordPress Plugin): Hosting Service: Productivity App: Creator Email Marketing: WHERE TO FIND ME
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