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**Daily Operations:**

Your account is up and verified, you know what you want to create, and when you’ll post it. But now you have to create a schedule and workflow for yourself. It’s important to plan out at least general time commitments prior to launching, or it could be difficult to meett expectations. 
There are a number of different aspects of running an OF account that take time. Lets look at a few.

*Account upkeep*

Every day you will get messages from fans, comments that need responding to, and of course you will need to upload and schedule posts. Whether you choose to schedule all your posts for a month in advance, or do it daily, you’ll still need to block out at minimum several hours per week (split up by day) to account upkeep. 

*Content creation*

Your biggest time commitment will probably be your content creation workflow. Between taking content, editing, uploading, posting, shopping for items and physical upkeep, you should expect to spend many hours every week creating content. This is the part of being self employed where you do the stuff that most people consider to be “work”. 
Even if you shoot all your content in advance, you will still end up spending several hours a week curating that content.
There's also custom content to consider. Will you offer custom-made photos/videos for fans? Custom content often requires a separate shooting session, but it also tends to pay the best.

Marketing

The lifeblood of OF content creators is marketing. Most new content creators spend 10+ hours a week marketing. Established creators may spend less time directly marketing, but overall they spend more time managing their social media accounts that feed into OF, which is still essentially marketing with value. 
If you aren’t willing to market and don’t already have a large following, you are highly unlikely to succeed.
The majority of creators have a minimum of 2 social media platforms outside OnlyFans. You need at least 1 main platform for marketing your content, plus a backup in case that platform gets sold to an at-right church and they ban all NSFW creators.
Most creators try 5-10 platforms and ultimately keep their profiles on most of them, but only update 1 or 2 regularly. 
It's a good idea to have one social media account like Instagram or Twitter that is pretty SFW, with low risk of account deletion to stay in contact with your fans and update them on life stuff. Then in addition to that, it is beneficial to have a second account on the same or different platforms that advertise your NSFW content, censored or otherwise. 
*Pro tip: you can tell who your true fans are because they'll follow you everywhere. 
You can post the same content to all your NSFW platforms, in fact I actually recommend it as this makes censoring/watermarking easy. 
*Pro tip 2: watermark your photos with the QR code to your profile in addition to your @ on onlyfans. This way if someone downloads it off social media they can find your page forever. 

*Networking*

It’s very difficult, not to mention lonely, to operate an OF account without knowing others in the field. Getting to know other content creators is something you should devote several hours to each week. The best people to learn from are those doing the same thing as you but a little better. Success breeds success. 
Follow other creators similar to yourself, comment on their work and engage with them. Over time you’ll find yourself naturally connecting with the community around you, and maybe even making some friends.
*please note it's super rude to advertise yourself on other people's posts. Make sure your comments are authentic and relevant to the post.

*Paperwork*

While you’ll only have to do it a couple of times a year, many people dread it. You will have to file taxes on your OF earnings, and if you want to get the best bang for your buck then you will deduct your expenses as well on the form. In order to do this you must keep track of your expenses all year long, which means logging them as they happen, year round. You can do this on paper or with a service.
*I personally use Mint, but any money management service where you can mark categories for purchases will do. 

 

*Research*

This is an optional one, but necessary to stay ahead in the game. Our team recommends you spend a minimum of 1 hour per week reading about new marketing strategies and learning how to improve your trade. Some examples of ways to research include; Youtube tutorials on photography or editing, reading articles on OF and SWs in general, sharing marketing strategies with another OF creator for mutual gain, studying similar accounts and taking written notes of their strategies.

**Using The Platform:**

This section is dedicated to the individual functions of the OF platform. It is more for education and reference and does not need to be read in any particular order.

*Posts*

Posts are the lifeblood of most creator accounts. You can add text, images, polls, quizzes, videos and audios to posts, and you can make it all free or charge for any particular portion. You can also add a fundraiser tip goal for posts, as well as making it temporary, however these features disable charging for any part of the post. You can schedule posts to post now, post at a specific time, or simply save them for later in your queue.
To charge for any part of a post start by setting a price with the price button. After the price is set, it will automatically be applied to everything except text. Everything that is blue after setting the price will be hidden behind your paywall. Everything white is a free preview. Use the various arrows in the post editor to toggle what parts of the post are free and what is for purchase.
**It is important to note editing a post will look slightly different from the original post editor. All HTML code like bullet points will be broken down into hyper-rich text. Don’t be alarmed, it will automatically convert back when saved. 
(It’s important to note that only “free” accounts can charge for posts.)

*Messages*

Messages can be paid or free. You can charge for media, or just text. However, text will still be visible before purchase. You can send multiple photos, videos, and GIFs. You can only send one audio per message. 
Messages can be scheduled to send at a specific time, or sent immediately. Large mass messages I.e. 1000+ people, can take a while to send.
Mass message settings are similar to normal messages, except you can choose lists of users to add or exempt. 
To charge for media simply add a price to the message and the media will appear behind a paywall.
All messages are managed from the inbox dashboard which houses your messages, mass message creation button, and the mass message statistics panel.

*Fans*

Fans are users actively subscribed to you. You can open your fans dashboard by clicking on the word fans in your profile sidebar. 
In the fans dashboard you can sort fans on a number of sub pages using various criteria like total money spent or time subscribed. 
You can also go to an individual fan’s profile page by clicking on their name or icon. This will pull up the users page with their bio and profile image, total spent, and time subscribed to you. The total spent only reflects tips. Here or on the quick view you can add fans to lists. You can also block or report users from the options panel.
If you tap on a fan, you can see some individual statistics, like how much they've spent in subscriptions, what lists they're on, if rebill is on, and there's even a place to take notes about the fan. 

*Home Page*

The home page is where a chronological feed of posts from the creators you follow is shown, including your own. If you only follow a few users this will be uncluttered, however some creators choose to follow hundreds or even thousands of other creators.
Once you get over about 5 creators that you're following, the feed will switch from showing every post, to just the ones it thinks you will like. 
At the top of your home page you'll find several options for viewing posts, like hiding all paid posts, hiding all promotional posts and hiding banner ads. 
You'll also find the option to add your own lists to your feed. If you choose any custom list, it will show you 100% of the posts from all creators on the list in chronological order. This is super helpful for lists like 'inspiration' or 'findom' where you want to see every post because you're studying the creator. 
The function is also useful if you do like for like. You can add your ongoing l4l creators to one list, then do em all at once instead of going to their profiles. 
Last but not least, encourage your fans to add you to a 'favorite creators' list so they never miss a post from you.