The #1 Problem All Writers Face Is They Suck at Sales and Marketing

Which is why many of us are often broke and complain a lot

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The life of a writer often feels cursed.

So many of us are starving artists. I’ve been writing online for 10 years and I have two distinct groups of writer friends:

1. The group of romantic writers that obsess over the writing, complain/blame a lot, and can never pay their bills.
2. The group of writers who practice the art form and make stupid amounts of money off the back of their writing.

There’s one subtle difference between the two groups…

Writers who comfortably pay their bills embrace sales and marketing

The traditional writers hate the word sales.

They think making money online is dishonest and scammy. So the only way they try to make money is saying, “Hey, here are some words, now pay me.”

In a world drowning in words, this is the least valuable way to earn a living. Because words themselves aren’t enough to attract people to your work. Successful digital writers have learned the basics of sales and marketing.