it's very important to show up to these events and introduce yourselves to make yourself known.

The sooner that you can build this network, the better off you'll be as a profitable business

and reputable influencer.

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. Our goal is to help you decode social media, become a full-time influencer,

and do what you love for a living. Let's dive in. Hello creators, in today's mini-sode, I want to share

with you three things

that I wish I knew when I first started.

If I had known these things,

I really feel like it could have saved me a lot of time

and help me speed up the process

to becoming a successful full-time influencer even sooner.

So I'll start with number one,

and that is that I wish I had started networking even sooner. So I'll start with number one and that is that I wish I had started networking

even sooner. Now, your network as an influencer is everything. Yes, it is important to have good

content, to grow your follower account, but ultimately it's really important to understand

that who you know and who you're connected with also plays a big part of your general career or brand deals that you are getting. So when I first started, I spent quite a lot of time just trying to figure it all out on my own, quite unnecessarily. I would spend a lot of time just creating content completely on my own and just trying to grow that way

organically by just through my content being seen and over time I slowly started to meet some

creators and just people in the industry oftentimes it was actually through them reaching out to

me or just sort of proactively connecting with me and not

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