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Phase 4 · First Traffic — X, Done Properly · ⏱ 25 min

The Front Door — Hub & Profile

▶ {{VIDEO: lesson 4-1 — Owen & Cole}}Video drops in here. Everything below stands on its own.

When you're done

Your creator's front door will be finished: one hub link that goes everywhere with Fanvue front and center, and an X profile complete enough that a stranger who arrives actually stays. Every platform points at the same door, and the door works.

Why this matters

The studio's wired and the shelves are stocking themselves — now we send people to the store. Here's the traffic math nobody explains: social platforms don't send fans to Fanvue — they send fans to her profile, and her profile sends them onward. That handoff is where most creators leak. A naked Fanvue link in a bio also gets accounts filtered or flagged on some platforms; a link hub reads as normal, works everywhere, and lets you see what's getting clicked. One link, every bio, forever — set up once, today.

The steps

  1. Create her hub on Beacons (free tier is enough to start). Sign up with the business email — password manager, as always. Handle: same as everywhere else — her hub lives at a link like beacons.ai/lenafromohio.

  2. Build the page — three buttons, in this order:

Position Button Why
1 Fanvue — "🔥 My page — come say hi" The business. Top spot, always
2 X — "Daily posts" Her most active social
3 (later) Instagram Added in Phase 5 when it exists

three buttons maximum, Fanvue on top, playful labels in her voice. Every extra button steals clicks from the one that pays. No email captures, no tip links, no clutter — the hub has one job.

  1. Make it look like her. Her avatar (the same one, everywhere), her name, one bio line from the persona sheet. Thirty seconds of styling: pick the cleanest template, her vibe's colors, done. This is a signpost, not a website.

  2. Finish her X profile — every field. Header image (a keeper — SFW; avatar and header stay SFW forever, whatever her content ladder does later, because those two images are shown to everyone) · bio (her line + what she posts) · location if it fits her story · and the hub link in the website field. (This replaces the "no link yet" rule from Phase 2 — the account has aged on its daily heartbeat; now it earns its link.)

  3. Two settings while you're in there: review X's sensitive-media settings and configure them correctly — belt-and-suspenders, since her X feed stays clean by design (the content ladder in Phase 6 keeps everything spicy behind the Fanvue paywall; this setting just means a suggestive-leaning post can never trip a policy wire). And turn on 2FA — credentials in the password manager, as always.

  4. Test the whole road once, as a stranger. Log out or use a private window: X profile → tap the bio link → hub loads → tap Fanvue → her page. If all four steps work on your phone, her traffic pipeline officially exists.

AI prompts for this lesson

Copy these into your AI assistant when you want a hand. They know this lesson.

Button labels in her voice, if yours feel stiff:

My AI creator's persona: [paste sheet]. Write 5 short, playful label options for the Fanvue button on her link-in-bio page (under 30 characters each, her voice, one emoji max, no "click here" energy). Then 3 label options for her X button.

Do it now

~15 minutes.

You're done when

Her X profile is complete and a stranger can get from her bio to her Fanvue page in two taps — tested by you. The front door exists. Now we send people through it.

If you're stuck

Beacons is asking for money / pushing upgrades

The free tier does everything this lesson needs. Skip every upsell screen. If a feature is paywalled, you don't need that feature yet.

Should the Fanvue link be direct instead? Fewer taps?

On some platforms a raw Fanvue link in the bio invites filtering or bans, and you lose click data. The hub costs one tap and buys safety + numbers. When she's big enough to negotiate exceptions, you'll know.

My handle isn't available on Beacons

Fallback pattern from Lesson 1.1. The hub URL matters less than the buttons on it — fans tap the link in her bio; almost nobody types a beacons URL by hand.

Can I add my other socials / a tip button / merch?

No, no, and no — with love. Three buttons. Every addition dilutes the button that pays. Phase 5 earns Instagram its slot; nothing else has earned anything yet.

Next up

The front door works. Next lesson we upgrade her daily heartbeat into the structured warm-up — the ten-minute habit that makes the algorithm treat her like a person, not a bot. If you've kept the five-minute heartbeat since Phase 2, you're already most of the way warm.