Should I accept trades?

I highly encourage you to start charging for your services. Unfortunately, if you do it for free, this will make it more and more challenging for you and other content creators to get paid in the future. But YES, just sending emails and dm’s. You can totally do it! Set yourself a minimum buy in amount like $150 for people to work with you. In the long run, you’ll get more out of it because you will do less work for free and you’ll get better stuff too. Also important to note, even if you accept product for trade, you are legally obliged to to claim that as income on taxes— this is why I suggest setting yourself a bottom line. There is a time and place when trade is acceptable— for example your rv hosted stay— saves you the $ you’d spend on the site and likely the same cost of marketing services you’re delivering. But always consider that all trade should be value for value and in 2024– no one does anything that’s valued at under $150, at least, you shouldn’t be. Time is valuable!