Is it worth it if people aren't engaging?

Now Kyle Chastain here has a good point.

A lot of creators feel this way, and really every one does at some point. I know that I myself have hit that point a number of times.

I swear for some writers it can be a weekly occurrence, and when you are first starting out you’ll overthink everything.

In my posts here on this Substack I repeatedly mention you need to be posting your first 100 reps. Whether those are videos, podcasts, or in this case blog posts.

You do not know what you did right or wrong until you got some reps under your belt, and more importantly you don’t really start getting good until you get to about 300 reps. That may seem like a lot, and it sorta is, but you need you need to realize this isn’t a get rich quick scheme.

The repetitions come over the course of years and years, and while yes you CAN speed things up. I even talk about that in some upcoming posts.

There is nothing that beats just time and effort combined.

I find it hilarious, not really, that some creators will post on Reddit or Substack:

Hey I’ve been writing for a month.

or

I’ve been streaming for month.

Why haven’t I succeeded yet?

I’m just sitting like dude I’ve been doing this for TEN YEARS. Actually longer.

While I’ve made some mistakes along the way, which would have allowed me to grow faster. I know what I did right and wrong, and I now share those lessons to you on this Substack.

You can make a ton of progress in 3 months sure, in a year maybe, but it takes time. More importantly it takes time for you to gain that skill too.

Not only that but people aren’t always going to engage. That isn’t locked in as a bonus. Sometimes it might feel as if you are shouting to the void, and that is okay. Sometimes it talks back, some people are lurkers, and others watch then reach out via DMs later on.

You got to realize that if you are getting views, then that is good enough. If you aren’t, then maybe you need to change your approach.

Additionally, there are the plethora of ways that you can repurpose your works.

To ask “is it worth it?” is so short sided.

For one every post is a doorway to your content ecosystem, that alone should make you think “I should have as many posts as I can put out in the world”.

Secondly, every post might get remade down the line. When I first started I wasn’t as good as I am now, or this year, and I eventually remade most of my early posts. Not once, but even twice or thrice over the years.

Moreover, there are ways of turning those blog posts into videos, or images, for social sharing. The more you have now, then the more repurposed content you can get later. Same thing goes for audio and video content as well, if not even more so for that.

Meaning yes the answer is YES, it is WORTH IT.