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I’m ditching my $500K per year ghostwriting agency…
To go all in on Digital Identity.
The Digital Drip
Personal stories and in depth actionable advice to help you build a multi 6 figure Digital Identity - without sacrificing your health along the way.
I’m ditching my $500K per year ghostwriting agency…
To go all in on Digital Identity.
Why?
Because I realized where the real money is…
10 months ago I was a college teacher making $40,000 per year.
I barely made enough to pay my bills.
All I wanted was to make $100K per year while working remotely.
But my job didn’t award me that luxury.
So I got into ghostwriting…
The truth of my success: I got lucky
Dakota Robertson OFFERED to teach me ghostwriting.
↳ For the price of $5,500 USD
I learned how to:
✧ Gain 10K+ followers per month
✧ Generate $500,000 of revenue for clients
He even gave me 3-5 warm leads per MONTH.
He was Willy Wonka.
I was Charlie with the golden ticket.
(Wish I had a meme of Dakota Wonka 😂)
Under his mentorship, my finances changed faster than I could ever imagine.
14 days = $10,000 per month
60 days = $20,000 per month
180 days = $40,000 per month
I now make more in 30 days than I made last year…
F*cking mind blowing!
But here’s the thing…
Ghostwriting makes good money.
And you can work from anywhere in the world.
(I spent 9 months in Latin America with Dakota and my co-founder Dale)
But It has 1 big problem:
The terrible time trade off!
To make BIG money you need a team.
Wannabee entrepreneurs will say:
“Just delegate everything and work 2 hours a day.”
But this isn’t the reality.
I know this cause I’m living it…
Delegating to a team requires you to:
✧ Attract top talent
✧ Deal with their f*ck ups
✧ Deal with churn as they create their own businesses
In other words, you get SOME time back.
But you’re still busy as hell.
And I didn’t even mention the other sh*t you deal with…
Running a multi 6 figure biz requires:
✧ Sales calls
✧ Market research
✧ Client communications
✧ Staying up to date on trends
✧ Dealing with client expectations
It takes A LOT of time to do it RIGHT.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is HALF ASSING it!
So where’s the real money?
I’m blessed to have learned this from the CEOs I write for:
✧ They’re 10 steps ahead of me
✧ Listed in Forbes 30 under 30
✧ Run $100M companies
They’re wisdom hedges against ChatGPT and AI innovations.
Which is why I’m focusing on it this year…
Unique Digital Identities are the best high leverage path to big money.
1) $5,000 per newsletter issue that takes 2 hours to write
2) $10,000 to $25,000 to record a 1-hour podcast
3) Partnership offers to help build multi-million dollar businesses
Which is why, I hope you learn from my BIG mistake…
Running a $40K per month ghostwriting biz takes a sh*t ton of time.
My lack of time cost me 6 months of:
✧ 100,000 engaged Twitter followers
✧ Roughly 60,000 engaged LinkedIn followers
✧ And over 10,000 newsletter subs
If I was focusing on Digital Identity from the beginning, I’d be so much further along by now.
Instead, I was stuck scaling my business and putting out tons of fires.
Ghostwriting is a short term cash play.
The big money is in your Digital Identity.
This is just the high level version of this opportunity.
In the Digital Identity cohort, I’m going to cover:
✧ How to build a unique Digital Identity where your audience loves you for you
✧ How to delegate so you actually only have to work 4 hours a day
✧ Why you need to eat peanut butter 2x a day
Okay, I may be only slightly serious about that last one.
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