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Why Writing Online is the Most Valuable Skill to Start a One-Person Business in 2025

Learn to write, and then build whatever you want.

Michael Lim
Practice in Public
4 min readJan 8, 2025

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I still remember the day I made $1.42 online.

The money wasn’t useful. I couldn’t even buy a coffee with it. But it broke my limiting beliefs. I could now say I was a paid writer. Some random person on the internet paid me for my words.

I was never the same again.

Fast forward almost six years later, and I’ve built:

  • 84,000+ Medium Followers
  • 1,700+ Substack Subscribers
  • 5,900+ Kit Email List.

The best part?

I’ve built a $16–18k (AUD) per month writing biz.

Here’s why writing is the most valuable skill.

Writing is the foundation of the internet.

I’ve got a question for you…

What do…

  • Emails.
  • Landing pages.
  • Social media captions.

… have in common?

Writing.

Even YouTube videos rely on writing.

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Michael Lim
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Written by Michael Lim

I help solopreneurs add $2-5k to their one-person business through Positioning & Limitless Writing System™ | https://michaellim.ck.page/crashcourse 🚀

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