I’m doing affiliate marketing on YouTube in a niche that does interest me; and I still hate doing it. It feels like I’m making content that does nothing for the world, although people do watch and it does make money. So I try to think of it as a day job that will eventually fund my more creative work. But because the creative work lights me up and the affiliate channel does not, I don’t produce enough marketing content for it to grow quickly enough.
Damn!!! So it's the production of the content that doesn't interest you, specifically?
I'm worried about that too, but I was primarily thinking about finding things to recommend to readers. I'm extremely cautious about recommending people buy things in general because I want to know you really well and make sure it's actually something you'd like.
It's not so much the production as it is that I feel that I'm producing something that's ultimately worthless, even though I know it's not. For the record, I'm on the spectrum, so I find it hard to conceive of the idea that some people respond positively to what I'm making. I have to accept that in order to continue, but it's hard when I have so many creative projects that excite me but DON'T make any money.
All of that resonates a lot for me as well. For me, for something to feel "useful" it has to be really tangible. Like ideally I see it directly on their face or they verbally say it to me.
I’m doing affiliate marketing on YouTube in a niche that does interest me; and I still hate doing it. It feels like I’m making content that does nothing for the world, although people do watch and it does make money. So I try to think of it as a day job that will eventually fund my more creative work. But because the creative work lights me up and the affiliate channel does not, I don’t produce enough marketing content for it to grow quickly enough.
Damn!!! So it's the production of the content that doesn't interest you, specifically?
I'm worried about that too, but I was primarily thinking about finding things to recommend to readers. I'm extremely cautious about recommending people buy things in general because I want to know you really well and make sure it's actually something you'd like.
But maybe I need to get over that??
It's not so much the production as it is that I feel that I'm producing something that's ultimately worthless, even though I know it's not. For the record, I'm on the spectrum, so I find it hard to conceive of the idea that some people respond positively to what I'm making. I have to accept that in order to continue, but it's hard when I have so many creative projects that excite me but DON'T make any money.
All of that resonates a lot for me as well. For me, for something to feel "useful" it has to be really tangible. Like ideally I see it directly on their face or they verbally say it to me.