People say that it is hard to make money, yet at the same time, there are people who seem to make money quite easily.

I don’t believe these people are lucky; I just think that those who do make a lot of money are just willing to try things and take more risks regularly.

Take Eric Martin as an example, Eric left his job when he started to make $2,500 (£2,100) doing less than 30 minutes work.

Eric realised that he could become a General Contractor and make a commission from putting two parties together.

In the United States, a General Contractor is a middleman who manages build projects. They liaise between the client and the trade’s people doing the actual physical work.

Eric decided to go one step further and specialise in only one area so that he didn’t need to run whole projects and manage a lot of people, he chose to simply work in concreting contracts.

Eric didn’t have a background in concreting, but that didn’t matter. He learned as much as he could using the internet and then contacted a local company who did concrete work and asked them if they objected to him giving them work.

Obviously, they were not going to turn work down, no one cares where the work comes from or who supplies it as long as it is legit and they get paid.

Eric then placed posts in Facebook Marketplace offering concreting services.

Whenever anyone contacted him for a price, he would visit them to measure up the work, take notes and pictures which he would then pass on to the company for a quote to do the work.

Once he had a price from the company, he would add his $2,500 (£2,100) commission on top and send that price to the customer.

If they agree to the price, he would confirm the date of the work with the company, take payment from the client when the work is done and pay the company their money.

All in all, it can take Eric half an hour to do his work, maybe an hour if he needs to travel far or gets stuck talking.

That means that he earns £2,100 for 30 minutes work… and he can do that several times a month.

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The hardest part of getting up and going to the gym or going for a run at silly o’clock in the morning is…. getting out of bed and going to the gym or for a run.

While it is cold and dark outside, being snuggled up in a warm bed, head buried deep into a soft warm pillow, the idea of getting out and going to do any form of exercise in the cold and dark is far from appealing.

The idea that you will feel better once you have been and had a workout doesn’t actually help.

Why?

Because for most people, they don’t feel better after a workout… at least not when they are starting out.

The truth is, people don’t work out to feel better today, they work out so that they feel better in the future.

What you do today, determines how you feel in a year’s time.

If you start doing yoga or a series of stretches each morning, in a year’s time you will be suppler and have less body aches.

Your muscles will be more defined and less flabby.

The morning’s exercise compounds over time until you feel better within yourself.

Results come after a period of time.

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Today I read about a young guy named Mason who made an average £28,470 per month in 2021.

The article is based on a video that Mason, a freelance copywriter from America, shared on the popular video sharing platform TikTok where he talked about how he made £28,470 per month writing for clients.

I don’t know if he is still writing for the same people or not but he states that he was working for ten different agencies and brands.

The work itself took very little time to complete each week, partly because Mason is fast at writing and is – in his own words – a natural.

All the clients paid him a retainer each month to work on specific jobs.

In the video he broke down his monthly work in hours and income per client which looked like this:

• Client 1: $5,000 a month working 10 hours a week.
• Client 2: $4,500 a month working three to four hours a week.
• Client 3: $1,500 a month working two to three hours a month.
• Client 4: $2,200 a month working an hour a week.
• Client 5: $3,000 a month working one to two hours a week.
• Client 6: $1,200 a month working an hour a week.
• Client 7: $3,500 a month working five hours a week.
• Client 8: $6,000 a month working four hours a week.
• Client 9: $2,400 a month working two hours a week.
• Client 10: $4,600 a month working for six to eight hours a week.

One client paid him $5,000 (£4,200)  to write between 8 and 15 emails each day which took him 10 hours a week. Mason claims that he can write emails in as little as 30 seconds.

If that is the case, and it took him as little as that to write those emails, then all I can say is that there wasn’t a lot of substance to those emails.

They certainly are not the type of emails I send out.

I’d say that anyone with a basic understanding of copywriting could write those emails.

He was also paid a lot of money to write adverts to be shown on social media and the Google display network. These adverts are not lengthy and often require just a few paragraphs.

He did say that a lot of what he wrote was done using templates and formulas which made the whole process a lot easier.

As a copywriter myself, I can tell you that once you have a basic understanding of copywriting, you are ready to make money…

And copywriters can make a lot of money!

Mason was even being paid thousands of pounds to write titles and descriptions for YouTube videos and write social media posts.

He was probably writing less than what most people write when they create a Facebook post… but he was getting paid for it.

People are generally afraid of copywriting, believing that they either don’t have a natural ability or don’t have the necessary skills.

The truth is you don’t need a lot of natural talent or skill to make a decent amount of money as a copywriter.

You just need to know and understand what to write and how, along with a basic understanding of human nature.

That’s it.

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The other day I was reminded of one of the worst human failings that gets in the way of building wealth… that failing is… ‘Greed’.

It can also be called desperation and impatience.

Greed is not necessarily about the amount of something that a person wants; it can also be about the speed of acquiring it.

A friend of mine was talking about a betting system he was testing where he was trying to grow a small bank with a small amount each day.

Using compounding, he should be left with a nice huge sum of money after two years.

The problem is that most people do not have the patience or discipline to stick with a plan where the growth is small… at the beginning.

Growth will always be small at the start.

Making just £1 today is not going to change your life, but after 720 days of growing a bank, the daily amount could be over several hundred pounds.

Who wouldn’t like to make several hundred pounds or more in a day?

To get to that stage, you would need to start a making £1 a day and grow it from there.

This is where people struggle.

When they are using a system which can make a person a lot of money, they become impatient and desperate for the money, they rush to make as much as they can, and as fast as they can.

They think ‘why earn just £1 today when I can try and make £100?’

They possibly justify their actions with ‘if I make £100 now, I’ll reach my goal quicker and then I’ll slow down and get back to the plan’.

The problem is… this is where most people trip up.

They lose money because they have not properly familiarised themselves with the system.

And they lose big!

They crash and burn.

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You may recall that I recently wrote about how I was making money on Medium by publishing pre-written articles to the platform.

You may recall that last month I made £112 and that I predicted that I would hit £200 in November.

Well, I am happy to say that I have already earned £208 and we are only two weeks into November… and I had one of those weeks off!

I’ve no idea how much money I shall make this month over on Medium.

I keep adding new content but the majority of this income comes from just one article which has gone viral and will eventually slow down.

That one article has made £131 this month.

That means that I have only earned £77 from all of my other articles and commissions from people who joined Medium through my link.

Once that popular article stops earning, my income will drop down again… unless another one of my articles goes viral.

The second best performing article of this month is actually the last article I published to the platform over a week ago so it is possible that it may go viral and earn more money.

The point is this… in the last two months I have generated over £300 publishing content to a free-to-use platform.

That surely would be a big help to anyone who needs more money.

It’s possible that I might make more than £300 this month. That alone would be a big help to anyone who needed some extra money.

As I say, this is costing me nothing to do other than time, time which I am already using to write these articles.

The best earning content has been inspired by stuff that I have read elsewhere.

It hasn’t taken a lot of creative effort to come up with ideas for content as they are there online ripe for picking.

I’ve found that the best content to make money with is to write about ‘ways to make money’.

People from all around the world need and want more money and so they are willing to read content which helps them to make more.

The larger number of people that read my articles, the more money I earn.

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I was at the house of a good friend the other day looking out of the window at the new housing estate that is being built across the road.

Darkness was about to descend and with many of the half-built houses not yet having lights and electrics fitted; the workmen were calling it a day and packing away their tools.

I watched as one worker spent ten minutes walking to and from the house he had been working in carrying tools to put in his van.

Obviously he couldn’t leave them in the house overnight. Even with the high security fencing and security men patrolling the site, it would be reckless to leave your tools where they could be stolen.

When a tradesperson loses their tools, they can’t earn money; it’s as simple as that.

It wasn’t the warmest of days and it was spitting with rain. The worker looked shattered. I don’t know if he had had a particularly hard day or whether this is the result of a career that is hard work most days.

I know that a lot of guys (and gals) like working on building sites, they enjoy building and making things and they enjoy the camaraderie.

There is a kind of ‘band of brothers’ style kinship with tradespeople. If you’ve ever watched Auf Wiedersehen Pet, you’ll know what I mean.

As I watched this particular worker, I couldn’t help but wonder how wonderful this camaraderie was because I couldn’t see anything fun about lugging heavy tools about in the cold and wet at the end of the day.

I don’t see any fun in spending a lot of time working on my knees, in noisy and dirty conditions while having to keep an eye on the workers above me.

It’s too much like hard work… for little pay.

Our techy guy Andi, will testify to that. He spent over 20 years working as a carpenter in the building industry and he needed out because it was hard awful work.

He much prefers working in the comfort of his own home with a big mug of tea close to hand.

There is something incredibly freeing about being able to make money from the comfort of your own home. It doesn’t matter if the weather is too cold, too windy, too wet, too icy or too hot.

The external conditions won’t make your day hard and unbearable… well, okay, a really hot spell during summer can make it uncomfortable inside if you don’t have air conditioning.

But as I say, some people enjoy going to work, and for those who do, they should have a second income as protection at least.

I can’t speak for all the tradesmen and women, but I imagine that turning up to work in the cold and dark of winter is hard when they are there to simply earn a wage.

Working for money is hard when you need it, but working for it when you don’t is more fun.

It’s called security, and it’s a powerful thing.

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The other day I shared with you that I had made £112 sharing articles to a website called Medium.

That £112 was made over 31 days in October.

Checking my stats on Medium today I can see that I have made £23.50 in the first two days of November.

At this rate, I should beat that £112 by the end of November… I’ll probably beat it by the middle of the month.

It’s mostly the same articles making money which made the £112 in October so they will eventually stop being read, they can’t stay popular forever.

I am adding new articles regularly – although I will be off for a week this month – so it only takes another one or two to go viral and keep the money coming in.

It’ll be interesting to see what the final figure will be with me having a week away.

Taking into consideration that £6 of that is commissions from subscribers, the total earned from my articles over the two days is £17.51 which comes to a daily average of £8.75.

If it carries on at that rate, by the end of November, I could be looking at £262.65 earnings from my articles alone.

But as I say, because I am adding new articles regularly and those popular ones may slow down, the final total cannot really be predicted.

I know that writing isn’t for everyone, but this could be a good little earner if you do, especially when you consider that some of the most popular articles which are making money were based on articles I had read online.

Again, you won’t start making money right away, you will need to build up a following and publish a few articles first before you are eligible to earn money.

Plus, you will need to write the right content which appears to be mostly in the ‘make money’ niche and sub-niches.

As publishers of information which helps people to make more money, we know how popular the make money niche is.

Everyone needs money, even the Dalai Lama has to pay for flights and accommodation (or rather someone else does it for him) using money.

I’d say that over 90% of the planets population could do with more money. That’s a huge amount of people!

Focus on writing articles about ‘how to make money’ or ‘people who have made a lot of money’ and you have a greater chance of making money via Medium.

This would be ideal for anyone who enjoys writing and wants to make money from the comfort of their own home.

What’s more… this could lead onto a lot more money.

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My ears have been at it again… I caught myself tuning in to other people’s conversations the other day.

Completely unintentional you understand! If people will talk loud, my ears cannot help but hear.

One conversation which interested me was between an older couple, late seventies I would say, and their son and daughter-in-law.

From what I can gather, the daughter-in-law’s parents have recently moved house to a new build on a new estate. I’m not sure where this estate is, but I apparently there are ‘no jobs and no infrastructure’ in that precise location.

I spotted the son roll his eyes; I guess this is something he has heard many times before.

There must be a specific age people hit where they suddenly become concerned with the amount of – or lack of – doctors, surgeries, ambulances, police, and jobs that are close by.

When the daughter-in-law said that there were plans to build a new surgery and a few shops on the estate the mother replied with ‘we’ve heard that before, it won’t happen,’ before going on to say more about the lack of work in the area.

What the son said next had me nodding my head in agreement.

“You don’t need jobs in the exact vicinity these days. A lot of people travel to work, and a lot of people work from home like I do.”

That last bit made me chuckle.

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This morning I was informed that I had earned £112 by sharing a few articles that I had written to a platform called Medium.com.

I have told you about Medium before, it’s a huge blogging platform where anyone can publish articles.

Once you have 100 followers and have published a specific number of articles, you can apply to join their Partner Program.

As a member of their Partner Program, you get paid whenever any of your articles go viral.

Basically, what that means is that when an article you publish starts to be seen and read by people, Medium will share it with more readers and when more people take a look and read the article, you get paid more.

You also earn money when people sign up to become a paid subscriber of Medium through your affiliate link.

I don’t do a lot with Medium other than share a few articles that I write as a way to drive traffic to my websites and products.

That’s it, it is just a way to generate traffic.

The money is a nice bonus.

In October I earned £112, in September I earned £57.

The earnings are increasing but they will fluctuate depending on how much I publish in the future and how well those articles are received.

There are people who are earning thousands of pounds publishing content to Medium.

I’m going to share with you a little secret… the few articles which are earning the most money were based on articles I read online.

These articles were either from the online version of a popular UK newspaper (and those articles were based on videos and articles the writer had also seen online), or they were from websites that had interviewed certain people.

Basically, I was rewriting and re-reporting what was already online.

These articles were about people who were making a lot of money with online businesses or side hustles.

The titles helped; people love to read articles which ‘promise easy riches’.

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In a fast paced world, helping people to save time or do something fast is now a valuable selling point.

Well, it always has been… but today I am seeing more and more people using it as a primary benefit when selling products.

I’m not referring to getting a specific task done fast either… I mean they are using it as a selling point for the product itself such as:

‘The course is around 7,000 words long. That is short enough to read multiple times in an hour.

Again — this is a short course, by design.

Because I want you to FINISH it.

Preferably, in one sitting, within an hour of buying it.’

The above is taken from a sales page selling a course aimed at copywriters who specialise in writing sales pages.

In the past, product owners would add a lot of bonuses and create loads of videos to fatten out a product and give it more value.

But with more and more people struggling for time, it appears that less really is more valuable.

Several years ago one of our team was asked by a potential customer if they needed to watch all of the videos which were included in a product we were promoting at the time.

It was a course that had a lot of information which could make people a lot of money if followed correctly – it had for the product creator.

There were quite a few videos but they were all very short, most were no more than ten minutes long.

When the customer was told that they would need to watch the videos so that they could learn all that was involved, they decided that it wasn’t for them as there was too much to watch and probably too much to learn.

That was a sale lost due to there being ‘too much’ to watch and learn.

It didn’t matter that the work itself was incredibly easy and that it was easy to learn, what mattered to this particular customer was that it couldn’t be learned quickly in one sitting.

They didn’t have the time spare to invest in watching a lot of videos, they wanted and needed something they could learn while enjoy a quick coffee.

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