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How to Make 5 to 10X More From Skills You Already Have

Are you ‘under-monetized’?

3 min readJun 26, 2024

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I was shocked at how little money she was making.

It made me wonder:

“How many other people is this happening to?”

Last week I was on Zoom with a student.

She has a skillset worth at least $30,000 per month.

She has written hundreds of SEO-optimized blog posts.

Her blogs get hundreds of thousands of visitors.

When Google changed the algorithm and killed traffic for a bunch of sites, she learned Pinterest marketing and used it to add 70,000 visitors per month.

You’d think with skills like that she’d be at six figures minimum…

But she’s only making a couple thousand per month.

After digging a bit I figured out why…

She monetizes her blogs with ads. Ad revenue requires tons of traffic and doesn’t pay you all that well for the traffic you get.

She has a course on Pinterest marketing but the price is too low. I’d charge at least 5X what she priced it at. Probably 10.

She could take that same skill, create a high-ticket offer, and market it to people who’d pay big bucks for it like…

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Practice in Public
Practice in Public

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If you want to become a better writer, you have to hit the publish button. Notes and drafts don’t count. Practice in public helps writers get off the sidelines and turn pro.

Ayodeji Awosika
Ayodeji Awosika

Written by Ayodeji Awosika

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