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- I couldn't believe it. I made a sale.
I couldn't believe it. I made a sale.
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Many people make a good living writing a couple of hours daily.
It’s totally possible, and it doesn’t even require a big audience.
I didn’t quite believe it was possible to create this kind of freedom when I started blogging many years ago.
It wasn’t until I created an ebook in a week that I sold for $39, and making my first sale, that this began to feel real for me.
There’s nothing quite like that feeling of an online sale.
As I wrote more, I gathered more readers.
As I gathered more readers, I learned more about their struggles and how I could help.
So I made more courses.
I wrote books.
I ran live workshops.
I wrote paid reports.
I coached people online for a few hours each week.
I was making money from my ideas. And I learned that a simple writing habit was central to this. I couldn’t believe more people weren’t doing it.
They were complaining about their jobs, but they didn’t write.
Writing gives you purpose and a creative outlet, but it also gives you the material you need to create great, simple products people are happy to pay for.
And often, the products I’d sell didn’t require much work.
Much of the work had been done in the prior months of writing and testing ideas.
People come to you for your writing.
They join your newsletter, and you develop trust through your words.
Occasionally, you promote a product that helps them.
You make money, and other people’s lives are improved.
People pay for the added support for the solutions you introduce in your writing.
Your writing provides a doorway to freedom and remote income for you.
The Confident Writer course, releasing this Sunday for Ember subscribers, shows you how to write consistently.
I save you years of frustration by getting straight to the juicy bits so that you get straight to writing stuff that you love.
And I show you how to do it so that you quickly create the momentum you need to start gathering followers, and making money from it too.
To your success,
Alex