creator-monetization — Claude Code skill: build creator income

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name: creator-monetization
description: >-
  Creator monetization — build a diversified revenue portfolio from an audience: memberships,
  products, brand deals, platform payouts. Use when someone wants to "make money as a creator,"
  "monetize my audience," "start a membership/community," "sell a course/digital product," "get
  brand deals / set my rates," or build diversified creator income. Builds a revenue STACK rather
  than chasing a viral payout, using the STACK framework. Reads brand-profile + goals-and-kpis
  first. WoopSocial does NOT process payments, host products/memberships, or pay creators: the agent
  chooses/sequences streams, designs offers + media kit, and drafts promo posts; WoopSocial
  publishes the promo/launch posts; infrastructure is external; income is never promised or
  fabricated; sponsorships are disclosed (FTC). Distinct from email-and-newsletter (the owned
  channel), lead-magnets-and-funnels (funnel mechanics), and ugc-and-influencer (the BRAND side of
  creator deals — this is the creator side).
version: 1.0.0
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# creator-monetization

The **revenue-portfolio layer** — choose and sequence a creator's income streams, design the offers, and
plan the promotion. The agent advises + drafts; **WoopSocial publishes the promo posts**; the payment/
product/payout infrastructure is **external + human-run.**

## The POV: build a revenue stack, not a viral payout
The creator economy is huge but its income is **concentrated** — most full-time creators earn below a
living wage, and the average creator turns only ~2–3% of audience size into revenue. Durable income comes
from a **revenue stack**, not a viral hit or one platform's fund (a *million* qualified TikTok views ≈
$400–1,000): an **owned audience** feeding a **recurring core** (membership/community) plus **high-margin
digital products**, with **selective, aligned sponsorships** and **platform funds as a bonus, never the
foundation.** Each model rewards a different strength — so match streams to who you are, **diversify**, and
**never bank on a single algorithm.**

## Read these first
1. **brand-profile** — niche, audience size/engagement, strengths.
2. **goals-and-kpis** — the revenue target this works toward.

## The framework: STACK
(Depth: `references/the-stack-framework.md`.)
- **S — Start from owned audience + strengths:** own the audience (email > social); match models to
  strengths (consistency→membership, expertise→course, identity→merch, reach+trust→sponsorship).
- **T — Tier a recurring core:** a membership/community/subscription — the stable, compounding foundation
  (~2–5% convert, ~70% kept).
- **A — Add high-margin products:** digital products/courses/templates (create once, sell repeatedly).
- **C — Court aligned sponsorships:** selective, on-brand, **disclosed**; priced on engagement/ROI not
  follower vanity; media kit + attribution; not the sole stream.
- **K — Keep funds as a bonus + diversify:** platform funds/ad-rev/affiliates as a bonus; ≥3 streams;
  emergency fund; **realistic, ranged expectations — never promise income.**

## The reality (verify-quarterly)
Opportunity-wide/income-concentrated (2–4% six figures; 56% below living wage; ~2–3% of audience as
revenue); streams ranked by stability (memberships compound; products = margin; sponsorships big but not
solo; funds = gated bonus); earnings ranges by audience + fluctuation + emergency fund; match-to-strength;
disclosure/tax: `references/monetization-2026-reality.md`. Stream menu, sequencing, realistic math, media
kit + worked examples: `references/streams-and-recipes.md`.

## Honest scope (never violate)
- **WoopSocial doesn't process payments, host products/memberships, run funds, or pay creators.** The
  agent chooses/sequences streams, designs offers + media kit, drafts promo; **WoopSocial publishes the
  promo/launch posts.** Infrastructure (Patreon/Gumroad/Stan/etc. + native monetization settings) is
  **external + human-run.**
- **Never promise or fabricate income** — ranged, caveated expectations only; stress diversification,
  fluctuation, a 6–12 month emergency fund. Metrics from the external tools, **never invented.**
- **No buying followers / fake engagement** to land deals (fraud, FTC/platform violation, detectable).
  **Disclose** sponsorships (**FTC #ad**); flag **tax**. Match streams honestly to the creator's size/strengths.
  (Scope, distinctions + connections: `references/scope-and-connections.md`.)

## Distinct from its siblings (route correctly)
**creator-monetization (this)** = the income-stream portfolio + offer design + promotion ·
**email-and-newsletter** = the owned channel (paid subs are ONE stream in the stack) ·
**lead-magnets-and-funnels** = the lead→sale funnel mechanics · **ugc-and-influencer** = the BRAND side of
paid creator work (sourcing/briefing/paying creators; this skill is the creator side — landing, pricing,
and disclosing the deals) · **link-in-bio-and-traffic** / **social-selling-and-dm** = the capture paths to
the offer · **goals-and-kpis** = the revenue target.

## Where this connects
Reads first: **brand-profile**, **goals-and-kpis**. Offer creative: **carousel-writer**/**caption-writer**/
**hook-writer**, **story-writer**, **image-prompt**/**ideogram**/**nano-banana**, the **video** cluster. Drive
to the offer: **link-in-bio-and-traffic**, **social-selling-and-dm**, **lead-magnets-and-funnels**,
**email-and-newsletter**. Promote/publish: **content-calendar**, **campaign-and-launch-planning**,
**scheduling-and-queue → WoopSocial** (promo posts only). Measure/test: **analytics-and-reporting**,
**experimentation** (A/B offers/pricing). Payments/products/payouts stay external.

## Definition of done
A diversified revenue stack matched to the creator's niche/size/strengths: an owned-audience base, a
recurring core, ≥1 high-margin product, and selective disclosed sponsorships, with platform funds framed
as a bonus and ≥3 streams for resilience; realistic, ranged expectations (never a promised number) with
diversification + emergency-fund framing; offers + media kit designed and promo posts drafted for
WoopSocial to publish, with all payment/product/payout infrastructure external and metrics from those tools
(never fabricated); sponsorships disclosed (FTC), no bought followers/fake engagement; correctly
distinguished from email-and-newsletter, lead-magnets-and-funnels, and the capture-path skills.