How To Grow Your Career By Spending 3 Hours A Week Working On The Business Of Comedy

In my statistical look at the differences between comedians who make money and those that don’t last week, one of the things that I found was that comedians who make money tend to spend more time working on the “business side” of their career than comedians who don’t. This prompted Connected Comedy reader Eli Petersen to ask me how exactly I would suggest that comedians work on the business side of their career, which I thought was a great idea for a post.

Since I previously wrote about how to grow your fanbase by spending three hours a week creating content, today I thought I’d share a breakdown of how I think you can grow your career by spending three hours a week working on the business side of comedy. Of course, everybody’s career and goals are in a different place, but here’s a general outline of how I’d recommend spending your time if possible. →

A Statistical Look At The Differences Between Comedians Who Make Money And Those That Don’t

Yesterday I asked you to take a moment and fill out a quick survey detailing where you were at with your comedy career and how you spend your time. The results were really interesting and today I wanted to break down some of what I found out. →

3 Reasons Your Website Home Page Isn’t As Important As You Think It Is

One of the things that’s always been interesting to me when it comes to website design is that most people spend a ton of time and money on making the home page of their site as elaborate and impressive as possible, but then essentially ignore most of the other pages on their site.

I’d guess that most people spend 80% of their design effort tweaking their home page, and then 20% is spent on every other page of their site combined.

This is a big mistake in my opinion and today I’m going to lay out a few reasons why your website home page is not as important as you think it is. →

How I Got 10,000+ People To Look At Something That Took Me Two Minutes To Create

As I’ve mentioned many times before, I believe that there are opportunities all around to get attention for yourself and introduce yourself to new potential fans if you start to look at things in a different way. I believe that anything interesting you come across in your life – a story, an event, a moment, an irony – can be fodder to attract attention for yourself online if you understand how to look at it that way.

Personally, I have trained myself to look at offline things through the eyes of the Internet, so I can’t help but notice things occasionally that I know will “work” online. I came across one such thing yesterday and I wanted to share that story with you today. →

How To Grow Your Fanbase By Spending 3 Hours A Week Creating Content

I talk a lot about the value and importance of creating content on your website as a way of growing your fanbase, but I know that many of you have limited time in which to do that. So, today I want to outline a very simple plan which can help you get a ton of value from creating content even if you don’t have a lot of time to spend on it. If you can manage to find just three hours a week, you can reap amazing benefits from following this content creation plan. Here’s how I think you should spend your three hours each week… →

5 Things You Can Learn From The Success Of Chris Hardwick And Nerdist

Thanks largely to his Nerdist podcast and blog, comedian Chris Hardwick’s career has taken off in recent years. In this post, I break down some of the lessons you can learn from his success and discuss how you can apply them to your own career. →

5 Tips For Comedians Looking To Get More Serious About Their Career

In this edition of my 5 Free Tips feature, I give some advice to comedian Sam Killermann about how to transition from a recreational comic to a pro. →

5 Things You Can Do To Appeal To Comedy Bookers

The other day on the Connected Comedy Facebook page I asked readers what topics they’d like to see me address in an article and I was amazed at how many people wanted more information about how to approach and succeed with bookers. Personally, I think most comics are too obsessed with bookers as opposed to growing their own fanbase, but I’ll save that conversation for another day.

I know bookers are an important piece of the career puzzle, especially early on in your career, so I’ve put together a few tips that will help you in your dealings with them. Here they are… →

6 Tips To Help You Write Effective Video And Blog Titles

When I studied journalism in college, one thing I learned that remains true is the power of headlines. In fact, the Internet has made headlines and titles even more important now because with social media, often people are making the decision whether or not to view your content based solely on its title.

But most comedians spend little to no time considering what they’re going to title their newest video or blog post and they certainly don’t take into account the huge impact it can have on the number of people that wind up checking it out. Here’s a few suggestions for how you should be thinking about your titles… →

10 Things You Can Do To Get 10 New Fans Today

Even though it takes time to grow a fanbase and most of the advice I give on this site is designed to help you in the long term, I thought I’d take a moment today to share with you some quick tips that can give you a little instant gratification.

Specifically, these are things that you can do today with the goal of adding 10 new fans to your creations. When I say “fans,” I mean people who will either join your email list, follow you on Facebook or Twitter, subscribe to your YouTube channel, or just check out some of your content. Basically, the goal is to get 10 new people to connect to your content in whatever way you/they choose. Here’s how you can do it… →