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How Much YouTube Paid Me 1 Year After I Reached 1000 Subscribers

My Monthly and Yearly Revenue — In October of 2021, I reached 1000 subscribers! I was so excited, but I had not reached the required 4000 watch hours in 365 days to be able to be monetized. I had to wait until April 2022 to be eligible for monetization. Once I was approved, I was ready…

YouTube

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How Much YouTube Paid Me 1 Year After I Reached 1000 Subscribers
How Much YouTube Paid Me 1 Year After I Reached 1000 Subscribers
YouTube

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Quick Links — My Most Popular Stories Want a Successful Startup? Entrepreneurship and Business Marketing and Content Creation Writing and Medium Personal Development and Other Favorite Stories

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I am now on Buy Me a Coffee!

I am now on Buy Me a Coffee! In an effort to keep being able to create more content, I have created a buy me a coffee account! If you…

Buy Me A Coffee

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Buy Me A Coffee

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ILLUMINATION

·Apr 17

How I Create Course Slides Faster With Canva

Use Canva docs to quickly uplevel your slides — I hate creating presentation slides! While I love teaching, the idea of creating slides just always seemed tedious and frustrating to me. However, recently for my membership and SkillShare courses, I have been using Canva (affiliate link) docs to create my presentation slidesHiKayHi. Now unlike many people creating full courses…

Entrepreneurship

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How I Create Course Slides Faster With Canva
How I Create Course Slides Faster With Canva
Entrepreneurship

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Writers’ Blokke

·Apr 15

Why I Don’t Care If My YouTube Video Is A 10/10

A video's initial performance isn’t the whole picture — My video went live this morning and quickly made its way to 10 out of my last 10 videos. If you don’t have a YouTube channel, on your YouTube Studio Dashboard, you will see your latest video performance. …

YouTube

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Why I Don’t Care If My YouTube Video Is A 10/10
Why I Don’t Care If My YouTube Video Is A 10/10
YouTube

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Writers’ Blokke

·Apr 11

You Are Just Another Online Marketer

The BS of expecting creators to work for free — A week ago, I received an uncalled-for comment about having affiliate links in my video descriptions. This was on a video published in 2021 on my channel Science Grad School Coach. I will include a screenshot of this comment below.

Marketing

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You Are Just Another Online Marketer
You Are Just Another Online Marketer
Marketing

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Writers’ Blokke

·Apr 10

The Importance Of Publishing Bad Content

“Bad” content can skyrocket your creator journey — Quality over Quantity I heard this phrase repeatedly when I was starting my content creator journey. Everyone I tried to learn from would tell you that you need to focus on creating high-quality content instead of a lot of content. One writer I was reading had an alternate take on…

Content Marketing

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The Importance Of Publishing Bad Content
The Importance Of Publishing Bad Content
Content Marketing

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The Startup

·Apr 6

Why You Should Stop Looking For A Business Idea?

The real reason why most businesses fail — If you searched the internet for business ideas, you would find thousands of videos, articles, and courses ready to help you find your “profitable” business idea. So many business gurus start by helping you find the idea you should pursue; however, this seems so counterintuitive to me. The question I…

Entrepreneurship

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Why You Should Stop Looking For A Business Idea?
Why You Should Stop Looking For A Business Idea?
Entrepreneurship

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The Startup

·Mar 22

Why Copy-Pasting Your Strategy Doesn’t Always Work

How Understanding Your Audience Can Lead to Different Business Models — I currently manage 2 businesses: Alana L Rister and Science Grad School Coach. These are widely different in that Alana L Rister focuses on sharing the business experiences and knowledge that I have gained from running the Science Grad School Coach business. …

Entrepreneurship

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Why Copy-Pasting Your Strategy Doesn’t Always Work
Why Copy-Pasting Your Strategy Doesn’t Always Work
Entrepreneurship

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Writers’ Blokke

·Mar 16

Why the One-Size-Fits-All Business System is a Myth

The realities of business systems and how to tailor them to your unique business — Everyone has a business system. You can find articles, courses, and videos all about some random person’s business system that is supposed to make you millions. When you are starting out in business, it can all feel overwhelming. How do I build a product? How do I market the product…

Entrepreneurship

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Why the One-Size-Fits-All Business System is a Myth
Why the One-Size-Fits-All Business System is a Myth
Entrepreneurship

3 min read

Alana Rister, Ph.D.

Alana Rister, Ph.D.

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Write about entrepreneurship, marketing, and personal development. Also me: @alanalrister and @scigradcoach https://www.alanarister.com/alana-rister-newsletter

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