Struggling to get started as a Content Creator? Read this!

10 Tips for the aspiring Content Creator

Anum Hashim
5 min readSep 13, 2022

Whether I call myself this or not, I am a content creator.

I write, take photos, sometimes record videos, tell stories, and then post them on the internet — letting the masses judge my work.

Sometimes there's positive feedback, and most times, a lot of crickets.

But now and then, my words, photos or videos resonate with people.

Photo by Windows on Unsplash

I tried to escape this label in myself for a while. There were many reasons — I wasn't creative enough, intelligent enough to do this, or the classic — it's just a hobby. But all of these "excuses" were playing on my fear of getting started.

Many of us go through a season of decision paralysis before we get started. But if the seed of an idea has settled your brain, you must make it happen.

10 Tips for the aspiring Content Creator

You don't need permission to start.

The great thing about creating content is that it is relatively cheap in terms of money to do so. Anyone who has a phone or a laptop with internet access can do it.

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Anum Hashim
Anum Hashim

Written by Anum Hashim

Finance professional / CPA on a break from corporate life. I write about money, productivity and life as a content creator.