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How To Monetise Your Content

Mark Thompson
3 min readAug 6, 2024

Simple Monetisation Strategies That Work and Aren’t “Salesy”

Image from Midjouney, Totally not showing what I asked for “Gringotts bank from Harry Potter”

Let me guess: You love writing and creating content, but you need to earn more money, and you don’t want to become too salesy.

I got you!

If there is one thing readers hate, it’s content that is written solely to make sales.

You know the type; “How I made $9856 on autopilot with one post on Instagram.” that then goes on to sell you their Instagram course, completely failing to mention they’d spent three years and $50K building a large follower base.

The good news is that you don’t need to go down that path. If you take a logical approach.

The Logical Approach To Making Sales

AIDA Funnel Diagram- by the author (ME!) with Canva

Above, you have a diagram of a typical AIDA approach to marketing

Attention- Get the attention of your potential audience

Interest — Get your audience interested

Desire — Show your interested audience what’s possible

Action — Turn your audience into buyers and true fans.

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Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson

Written by Mark Thompson

Veteran Content Marketer, Keeping it Simple and Sharing What Works in my regular newsletter: https://substack.com/@simpleisprofit

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