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How do you build an audience online?

Advice on growing a following online through sharing work, posting habits or platforms.

Axis: Share your process openly and often ... Wait until you have polished, finished work to show

Concept: show your work

Answers by date: 3 records in 3 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2023), never reversed, in these records.

date who answer source
2023-08-29 Ali Ali says Threads has good vibes, with people engaged because it is new, and since new apps bring a new style of content, Threads might be a way for creators to interact more with their community and try new styles of content. X vs Threads! Who wins❓ 00:00:41
2023-03-29 (said on 2023-03-13, implied) Ali Ali follows an explore, learn, share loop that many online educators use: they learn things and share them, build over time an audience that knows, likes and trusts them, sell a course to some of it and repeat. My Goals for 2023 - Life Update 00:11:02
2021-08-22 Ali Ali's weekly habit for building an audience, from Austin Kleon's book Show Your Work: show your work every week, documenting what you are working on and sharing it on the internet however you like. My Most Important Weekly Habit 00:03:34

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