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Everything I’ve done To Simplify My Online Writing Business in 2024

And why I’m so glad I did

Karen Banes
Practice in Public
4 min readDec 8, 2024

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As we head towards the end of 2024 I’m looking back on everything I did to simplify my business this year. I let go of a lot of stuff, including:

  • Three blogs
  • Two newsletters
  • A few extra domain names
  • My personal website
  • Some social channels
  • My Etsy store

If you’re interested in why I quit my blogs, and the newsletters that went with them, I wrote about it in detail here:

And shared a fairly comprehensive update on the exact steps I took, and how it worked out for me here.

I now focus almost all my time on three main platforms:

And yes, I’m aware I don’t ‘own’ these platforms, and that this is generally considered a very bad thing. I touched on why I don’t stress too much about…

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Karen Banes
Karen Banes

Written by Karen Banes

Freelance writer sharing thoughts on life, society, creativity, and productivity. https://changetheworldwithwords.substack.com

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