#2096 - Personal Finance Writer Monetizes Medium Posts
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Hoping to pay off his debt, a policy analyst begins writing about personal finance. Before long, he was earning more than $5,000/month.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | In today's story, hoping to pay off his debt, a policy analyst begins writing about personal |
| 0:13.5 | finance. |
| 0:15.0 | And this writing goes very, very well. |
| 0:16.9 | He ends up making thousands of dollars a month. |
| 0:18.5 | We're going to talk about medium and sub-stack. |
| 0:21.0 | I probably mentioned those once or twice, at least sub-stack, but not too often. |
| 0:26.2 | So if you are interested in writing, especially non-fiction, these can be great platforms |
| 0:30.2 | to build an audience and get paid for it. |
| 0:32.8 | As mentioned, this guy ended up doing very well, essentially creating a new career and |
| 0:36.1 | achieving a full-time income. |
| 0:37.9 | Though, as you'll also hear, because we do like to look at things that go wrong and the |
| 0:41.2 | difficulties and challenges along the way, he also encountered a big problem at some |
| 0:45.3 | point. |
| 0:46.3 | So all that's coming up in this very short action-packed story, Welcome to Side Usal School. |
| 0:50.2 | Stories called Personal Finance Writer, Monetizes, Media and Posts. |
| 0:53.6 | Coming right up. |
| 0:54.6 | Want to tell you today about our new sponsor, Lands End Business. |
| 0:59.9 | Lands End Business offers fully customized clothes, accessories and promotional products |
| 1:03.8 | featuring your logo and colors elevated by decades of experience. |
| 1:07.8 | Now, Lands End sent me a box of some samples, including a high-quality blanket. |
| 1:13.2 | I thought it was pretty cool. |
| 1:14.6 | Got the nice Lands End Business logo on it. |
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