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Most Writers Don’t Make Money. How Can You Break the Cycle?

Is it that tough?

Poonam Sharma
3 min readMar 4, 2025
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You regularly see writers making big money on the internet and wonder what they are doing differently than you.

How your work is going unnoticed, and others are earning in 6-figures.

Very few writers make big money on the internet. If you're not one of them, you may need some changes in your strategies.

I figured out some common things you can do as a writer to make more money.

1. Don’t be all over the place

If you want to make money writing, you should focus on only one platform and make big on it. Start with one platform, conquer, build a trusted audience, and make money with it.

It will be easy for you.

Instead, if you go with another route of posting on 3 platforms together, you'll not make big on any of them because too many things distract you.

So cut the distraction and make it big on one platform first.

2. Focus more on building products than platforms

Most big writers make money with their products rather than platforms.

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Poonam Sharma
Poonam Sharma

Written by Poonam Sharma

Sharing my insights about writing & side hustling as I'm doing it. Get weekly actionable tips in your inbox: https://substack.com/@poonamsharma

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