Stop Chasing Quick Wins: Build a Writing Business with Focus and Scaling

Mark Thompson
4 min readSep 12, 2024

Focus, scale, succeed The formula for unstoppable growth.

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For the past 20 years, I’ve had countless conversations asking people how much they’d like to earn each month.

The responses vary, but a typical figure is around $100 daily or $5,000 monthly. The last time I ran the poll, the results were in a similar range.

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Honestly, these answers often disappoint me a little, because that income level is relatively easy to achieve.

Anyone — yes, anyone — can make that kind of money. I’m semi-retired, working only 30 minutes to a couple of hours a day, and can usually still make $100 daily.

Here are the stats from my cart software, which gives you some context. The screenshot was taken today and is nowhere near where it used to be; it doesn’t include Medium, Substack, Skool, or affiliate income.

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Mark Thompson

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