How to Value Yourself as a Creator (Ft. Mark Harrison) | S4 E9

Full-Time Influencer Podcast

Tina Lee

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, How To

5 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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9 years ago, Mark Harrison (@MarkHarrison4) had an accidental viral post that turned into 10k of profit. Quickly, he realized that social media could really be a full-time job opportunity. In this episode, Mark shares how he was able to double his income as a high school teacher, all through the power of creating across social media platforms.

Welcome to the Full-Time Influencer Podcast. I'm your host Tina Lee (@tinalee). I'm sharing some of my expertise and industry information, to help you decode social media, and create content that helps aspiring creatives like you become full-time influencers so you can also do what you love for a living!

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Timestamps:

(1:18) Introduction to Mark’s background

(4:37) The social media post that started it all

(8:14) Power of networking

(12:00) Branching out to YouTube and TikTok

(16:43) Harnessing the power of video

(22:48) Monetization as an adventure / travel creator

(30:05) Social media growth plan / scaling income

(34:17) Dating as a digital nomad

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0:00.0	Would you say this is an income that is significantly better than what you did before as a teacher?
0:05.0	Not in the first year, not in the first two years as I was growing it.
0:09.0	The first year, I broke even, second year made a little bit, but each year of the six years, I've made 25% more than the previous year.
0:18.0	And now I'm making at least double what I make as a high school principal.
0:23.3	I was at my last year, so I make double that now.
0:26.6	So yeah, it's not only as it lucrative, but the potential earning is what's exciting.
0:33.4	Yeah.
0:34.4	So I mean, a lot of creators will always tell you their best month they've ever earned.
0:38.3	And like, oh yeah, that's my normal.
0:41.3	Welcome to the full-time influencer podcast. I'm your host, Tina Lee. And I'll be sharing industry knowledge and social media tips through weekly interviews with established creators and Q&A sessions.
0:50.3	Our goal is to help you decode social media, become a full-time influencer, and do what you love for a living.
0:57.0	Let's dive in!
0:59.0	Welcome back to the full-time influencer podcast.
1:02.0	Today's episode comes a few months after a break, and we are on a very special, in a very special location.
1:10.0	I'm here with Mark. Mark is a travel creator.
1:13.2	And we are actually on a cruise right now, a Royal Caribbean cruise to be exact. We are here together
1:18.5	on a press trip and it's been really, really epic. It's our last day. So I took this opportunity
1:24.5	to grab a few people and interview them to talk about their creator journey.
1:30.5	So thank you so much for being here and taking the time to come chat.
1:35.3	Easy. Thanks a lot for having me. We're on the cruise anyways, so to come and chat with you is awesome.
1:41.3	So yesterday I was just kind of getting the backstory of how you got to where you are now,
1:48.0	which is actually very interesting.
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