How I Doubled My Writing Income Overnight By Focusing on One Skill

It’s not a technical skill or another income stream.

Zulie Rane
The Startup

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Image created by author using Canva. Author’s Instagram linked here.

I make about six figures a year by typing words onto my computer and posting them online, which is unreal when I stop to think about it.

Sometimes it’s boring. Usually it’s a lot of fun. And most importantly, it leaves me with a lot of time to do what really matters: playing with my cats.

Although I recently detailed how I make $5,000 per month with boring income streams like SEO writing, content marketing, and copywriting, the truth is I haven’t always earned that much. It took me a long time to work my way up to that amount.

My first copywriting paychecks were a few bucks apiece. My first content marketing clients paid me $30-$75 per article — an amount I was beyond grateful for.

Image created by author in Canva of Copify payouts from 2017. Image shows amounts varying between 10 GBP to 25 GPB, which is about $13–30.
Image created by author in Canva of Copify payouts from 2017.

But let’s do the math on that real quick. In order to make $5,000 a month with a $75 article, and assuming I had unlimited clients and work, I’d have to write at least 66 articles PER MONTH. I’d have to sacrifice quality for quantity. That’s assuming I could secure 66 articles a month to begin with…

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