Social Media Starting Advice?

There are far, far easier ways to make money than this right now. if you're truly hand to mouth this isn't the direction to look in.

Refreshing the feed for a shortcut is the trap most of us fall into first.

Your mom working those long bar shifts is the real reason to pick one skill you can sell, like editing short clips for local businesses, and post your own faceless practice work daily until someone pays for it.

Are you any of: very good looking, charismatic, great voice, sparkly personality, unique twist?

if you don't have at least one of the above, then don't bother.

if you do just start, just talk about stuff you like on your phone, keep posting, see what's popular, do more of what's popular.

What do you love? What is weird in your life? What do you want? Start there. If you are obsessed with basketball or anything, start there. Your content reflects you, your aspirations and your community that you build will be rooting for you. Speaking from someone who has 700k followers.

There are three ways to make a bunch of money as a content creator.

1. Have specialized knowledge, a preexisting skill, or super interesting job you can talk about every day for the next five years.
2. Be a woman who is beautiful enough to get millions of views by wordlessly looking at the camera and smiling with music playing in the background until she attracts brand deals. Will also probably take five years.
3. Buy the latest iPhone or a full-frame camera plus lenses and cold visit businesses in-person and offer to take over their social media presence. Won't take five years, but you'll need to approach hundreds of businesses for it to be worth your time. You'll also need a suit.

That's a lot to carry while preparing for college. I'd separate making money with a social media skill from getting paid because your own account becomes popular. The second can take a long time and may never provide dependable income, so I wouldn't make household bills depend on it.

A small editing service is more testable. Make three sample clips from footage you own, using your current phone and a free editor. Show clean captions, a clear opening, and understandable audio. You don't need to show your face or buy a camera or course.

Ask a few businesses you already know whether they need existing footage turned into short clips. Offer a small paid trial with a written scope: number of clips, delivery date, one revision, and payment terms. Don't promise views or sales, and get permission before using client work as samples.

Keep a time limit around this experiment while also checking reliable part-time or campus work. Needing steadier income isn't a failure at content creation.

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Make sure you are posting quality material, and don’t over do it quantity wise(especially at the start). You don’t want any platforms flagging you as a bot for over posting way to fast, and random content will make it difficult for anywhere to find you a relevant audience. Join a few different platforms so you can spread out your time between them to keep you busy. Do research on each specific platform regarding good practices to have when you start a new page