It’s easy to want to give up on social media as a means to grow your creative business. With changing algorithms, fickle engagement and snail paced growth, it’s easy to feel like ‘what’s the point?’, right?

BUT THERE’S A HUGE BUT and here it is: the people who are crushing it in the creative world often credit their success to social media…

I don’t think there’s debating it, social media is important to our creative career… no matter how much we wish it wasn’t true.

In this episode we share 8 ways to rethink social media that lead to new excitement around this topic and strategy for making real progress.

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Thanks to Yoni Wolf and the band WHY? for our theme music.

Thanks to my man Nate Utesch and his band Metavari for all the other tunes! soundcloud.com/metavari

Thanks to Alex Sugg for editing and the podcast!

www.alexsugg.com

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