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Stop Trying to Earn Money from Your Stories (Do This Instead)
4 reasons why you’re not earning enough money as a writer
Your content doesn’t make money, because you’re trying to make money from your content.
Why is that?
Imagine you’re in the pedestrian zone handing out leaflets.
And on this flyer, it says:
“Please buy my new wedding suit!”
How many people do you think will buy it?
The probability is zero.
I was recently in a business center in Luanda, and there was another stand there.
They always sell their appeals for donations and want people to:
Then I talked to the salesman there and he said:
“Wow, Luanda, a very difficult place.
We’ve been here for two days and we’ve done nothing.
Not a single donation.”
It wasn’t my job to lecture him, but if it were up to me, I’d do the opposite.
I wouldn’t try to sell directly on the spot, in the city center, and get people to donate.
How would I do that?
