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Creator Etiquette: The Unwritten Rules Every Content Creator Should Know

Creator Etiquette: The Unwritten Rules Every Content Creator Should Know26 sept26 min

<p>There are unwritten rules in the creator industry, and unfortunately, most people don&#39;t learn them until they&#39;ve already pissed somebody off.</p><p>In this episode of Creators Spicy Tea, we&#39;re getting into creator etiquette, the dos and don&#39;ts of interacting with other content creators, asking for help, joining creator communities, requesting collaborations, networking, promoting yourself, sharing information, and generally existing in an industry where community and competition happen at the exact same time.</p><p>We&#39;re talking about how to actually ask another creator for advice without treating them like an unpaid mentor, why some creators charge for their knowledge, why you should research every piece of advice you&#39;re given, and why building a trusted creator community can make this industry so much easier to navigate.</p><p>We also get into respecting the rules of other creator spaces, proper livestream etiquette, approaching creator collaborations professionally, protecting your private information, and how to give honest advice without being rude about it.</p><p>And then we&#39;re getting into the behavior that will make other creators remember you for all the wrong reasons: asking for someone&#39;s clients, hijacking another creator&#39;s posts to promote yourself, trying to manipulate engagement, cold messaging creators like they&#39;re potential buyers, sabotaging competitors, and ignoring community boundaries.</p><p>Creator etiquette doesn&#39;t mean every creator has to be friends. It means understanding that we share platforms, audiences, communities, and a whole lot of the same industry problems. Competition and community can exist at the exact same time.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>📖 RESOURCES</strong>Creators Resource Chats : <a href="https://discord.gg/e2RSdSTzUd" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://discord.gg/e2RSdSTzUd</a></p><p>The Best Advice for New Adult Content Creators, From Real Creators: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnTByDSUI4">⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnTByDSUI4⁠</a></p>