The short answer to all these questions is there is no answer. Gary Vaynerchuk will tell you to quit your job and follow your heart. He will say there is always an audience for your particular passion. This is true. All you have to do is stop going to your paying desk job and devote every second of your life to writing about Polynesian tattoo art and you will be wealthy. Let’s go into a hypothetical that will ring too true to the heart of a creator. After watching a motivational Gary Vee video you decide that you are going all in. For example, let’s use sports. You love sports. People respect your opinion on sports. You are a funny person. You should be a sports writer! You start a sports satire blog and create matching social handles on every relevant platform. You post daily, opinionated articles that take you hours to write with statistical research, hot takes, and hilarious videos. The content is so good that a couple of your friends start sharing it on their Facebook timelines. Soon, you have almost 10,000 Twitter followers and you start getting substantial views to your blog. You do a podcast with another delusional psycho (I mean fellow content creator) that is doing exactly what you are doing. You start guest-blogging and writing for larger publications that will hopefully drive traffic back to your brand. Your cousin tells you he looks forward to your articles every week! Validation. Okay, great. Now how do you make money? You Google: “how many hits on my blog does it take to make money.” You do the math: Okay this random article says I need about 1,000 clicks (on the actual ad) a day to make $100,000 a year. To do this, I need 400,000 clicks per year…assuming my click through late is 1% I need about 100,000 page views a day. Unique page views. You check your statistics and you got 1600 views on your best day ever day. Pretty good, right? All you need is about eight thousand more Facebook shares a day and you will hit the number! You keep posting and posting and writing until you burn yourself out and actually get sick of your own voice. Daily blogging turns into once a week, which turns into once a month, which turns into never. Soon you are cancelling your GoDaddy account because you don’t want to pay the $30 a month for your URL. Now, you are looking to freelance and the only person getting back to you is someone exactly like you who wants people to write for free so that THEIR blog might have a shot. Sound familiar? As the wordsmith President Trump once eloquently put it, being a content creator:

The problem has been identified: It is difficult for creators to monetize their content in a simple fashion. So, what is the solution? Keep posting and posting to an audience that doesn’t exist? Cold call companies to make brand deals? Make a meme account and sell funny t-shirts? That last idea might have been your best option until the wondrous world of Blockchain blessed us with a possible solution: Gamble your money into random cryptocurrencies and hopefully you will become rich and never have to write another article. Just kidding. The answer might be the Alpha Browser.

Alpha Token (ATK) is a blockchain currency based on the value of digitized content. In English, content creators can earn the cryptocurrency, ATK, by posting their content exclusively on the Alpha Browser. ATK cuts out the middle man and allows content creators and consumers to monetize their time:

It almost sounds too good to be true. Advertisers get direct access to their target audience, creators get instant monetization, and consumers get paid just for reading and watching. For Alpha Browser to be successful, the usability and content must both be excellent. For all content creators out there, simple monetization might be just around the corner.

For more information on ATK click here: https://www.atoken.org/en/index.html