Here are 7 quotes from top Gumroad creators to help you become a better creator:

🧵 @traf

“The only way to fail is by doing nothing.”

How to make a living doing what you love—without getting lucky 👀

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“Curiosity drives competence.” — @naval

Study what you love in depth―philosophy, art, music, technology, branding.

Be an autodidact.

If you want to become unique, you don’t need a “unique” skill.

You need a unique combination of skills.

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Don’t strive to engineer one “revolutionary” skill.

Instead, try to build as many valuable skills as possible that are rarely seen together.

H/T @david_perell

How to Create a High Converting Gumroad Sales Page in 6 Steps

🧵 1. Start with your dominant headline and value proposition

Want to generate more sales with Gumroad?

Optimize your sales page.

As a creator, a high converting sales page is crucial.

Here’s how you can create a high converting sales page in 7 steps ↓ 1.) Start with a dominant headline

Consumers are scanners.

80% of page visitors will only read the headlines.

This makes it essential to make your Headline 1 an eyeball magnet that screams your value proposition.

In nine months, @JanelSGM went from fewer than 50 followers on Twitter to launching two successful Gumroad products and getting hired @beondeck.

She's earned tens of thousands of dollars from her Notion "Operating Systems."

Here’s how she did it, in her own words: To me, 2020 was a year to explore my curiosity.

I decided to put my free time to use effectively: I started playing with no-code tools and writing a newsletter called BrainPint.

Without my newsletter, my products wouldn’t exist.

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

How to use it and get in flow (a thread): First, let’s define it:

Creative flow is described as a mental state in which people experience complete immersion and involvement in an activity.

During these flow experiences, they feel “alert, in effortless control, unselfconscious, and at the peak of their abilities.”

In less than a year, @RandallKanna grew her Twitter following from 300 to 30,000+ engaged followers.

In our latest Creators Workshop, Randall shared five ways she did it -- and how you can do the same 👇🏽 1. Interact with your audience

You can't just put out content and expect people to engage with it. Respond to the comments, reply to those DMs.

Make them realize that your posts are valuable. Make them stop - not scroll.

💡 Creator Spotlight featuring @philip_kiely

Philip launched his first product on Gumroad six days before graduating college, at 21 years old.

Here’s how he’s made over $25,000 in the three months since publishing his ebook 👇🏽 At Grinnell College over the past four years, Philip majored in Computer Science.

“But even though I’m a CS guy,” he said, “I have a background in writing: I come from a family of writers, I’ve done stuff with the school newspaper, and I took a lot of English classes.”

💡 Creator Spotlight featuring @dvassallo

🚶‍♂️ Daniel Vassallo’s self-employment journey through Gumroad started as an experiment.

💰 Here’s how he’s made $200,000 in the past six months after leaving Amazon to work for himself on Gumroad 👇🏽 ❎ He didn’t set out to be a Gumroad creator.

👨‍💻 In February 2019, he left Amazon, wrote about his decision, and started building a social media following.

✍️ “I’m going to try to make a living with my own bare hands starting from nothing” he told us

How to make a living doing what you love, in 3 steps:

1. Skill
2. Audience
3. $$$

A thread 👇🏽 1. Skill:

Find a skill you like working on that compounds.
Work on it daily. (Or be recovering from it intentionally.)
Set quarterly/yearly goals, and make sure your progress is exponential.

Get really, really good at one or two things.

(Two things = less competition.)