Post by AJ Eckstein 🧩
Creator Marketing for Tech Brands | Founder @ Creator Match 🧩 | Fast Company Journalist | LinkedIn Learning Instructor (200K+ students) | TEDx & Keynote Speaker
If you're building something right now that feels too small, too niche, or too boring, this is for you. Creator Match 🧩 didn't start with a team. It started with a niche so narrow most people told me to broaden it. LinkedIn creator partnerships. For B2B brands. That's it. No paid marketing. No funding. Just a bet that doing one thing well would be enough. Here's what 2 years of building taught me: 1) Niche down before you scale. The narrower your lane, the easier it is to be the best in it. Breadth feels safe. Depth is what actually wins. 2) Build in public and the clients find you. Every single Creator Match client has come through inbound. I never ran an ad. I just showed the work. 3) Boring beats sexy. Everyone wants to find the gold. The better business is selling the shovel. Chase the unsexy. Build the infrastructure. Let everyone else chase the hype. 4) Consistency compounds. Nothing happened fast. Everything happened because we kept going anyway. 5) Invest in your people. Building is lonely. Find good talent, and get them bought on the mission. Tagging our first employee who rose up to be our goated COO Tara Knight 🧩 If you're in the early days, the answer isn't to go bigger. It's to go deeper. Happy Saturday, keep building... *** 🔔 Follow me AJ Eckstein 🧩 for more content on entrepreneurship, creator marketing strategies for tech brands, and tips for creators
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