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Become better, more effective, and more fulfilled. Every Monday, I send a short email with a story from the front lines as a writerprenuer. Ideas, advice, and encouragement for your journey as a professional writer, creator, or solopreneur from a 9-year veteran.
The Greatest Writing Compliment I Ever Received ↓ It’s 2015. You’re on Reddit. You find an AMA from a guy who makes $30k a month by building blogs. You want in. You have no writing experience. You start learning. You start a blog called Flat Calm Living. You want to help people live less stressful lives, not seeing the irony that a 21-year-old on a gap year doesn’t have a lot of stress. You write 30 posts. You make $0.27. You start chasing affiliate marketing instead. You stop writing the...
A Lesson from Seth Godin’s First Blog Post ↓ I’m a guilty writer. It’s not that I feel guilty for writing. It’s that I suffer from crippling guilt if I don’t write. Almost as soon as I start any writing project, I declare a schedule. Writing daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, I’ve tried them all. Then life happens. I’m not a robot in a vacuum, so I inevitably miss a week. That’s when the guilt starts to creep in like a growing shadow. The voice in my head goes something like this: “Oh my...
The Origin Story of Justin Welsh’s $8,000,000 Solo Business ↓ Quick heads up that Justin Welsh has launched his Black Friday Sale! His Content OS changed my approach to Twitter and led to my first-ever product sales. Get it now at the lowest-ever price. Justin Welsh, the content Daddy himself, inspires people worldwide to run their own solo businesses with massive profit margins and minimal time. But the problem is, you can’t look at how he currently runs his business to know how he got...