What does a day in the life of a Solo Writer look like? For me, the day mostly revolves around managing my roster of clients and making sure I'm on top of the deliverables for each one. Here's how that roster breaks down: 6 total clients 2 clients with daily deliverables 4 clients with weekly deliverables The 2 clients with daily deliverables are X accounts I run that need daily memes & shitposts. It's hard to draft those ahead of time, because the shitposts usually need to related to the...
7 months ago • 1 min read
The more I've done client work, the more I've noticed that one thing stops my creativity and hurts my business: Having to spend time as a project manager. This is a huge challenge for Solo Writers who offer ghostwriting services. Clients want someone who's creative and good at writing, but there's a lot more work that goes into a client engagement. In a lot of my client engagements, at least 50% of the work is managing the client's expectations and managing the project. That's a lot of work...
9 months ago • 3 min read
Here are the numbers for my Solo Writing Agency in January: $20,573 in revenue $1,506 in expenses (Largest expenses: $500 for a contract writer, $451 payment processing fees, and $150 for software) 9 total clients. Largest is $3k, smallest is $1,200. Most of them are ~$2k per month. Biggest challenges: Most clients are on a custom package, so the deliverables and process for each client is a bit different. Goals for February: Take on new clients at higher price points ($3k minimum), test out...
10 months ago • 1 min read
Welcome to Solo Writers! You are one of the first people to join the list since I launched it a few weeks ago (I have 44 subscribers right now) I wanted to start off with the story of how I became a Solo Writer over the last 3 years. If you're not already in the Solo Writers Slack Community, feel free to reply to this email and I can get you added Thanks for subscribing! How I became a Solo Writer April 2020 I had nothing else to do with my time thanks to the pandemic, so I did what any...
12 months ago • 4 min read
If there’s one thing Startup Twitter likes to debate, it’s scalability. “That’s not a scalable business model” is a common refrain you’ll see on Twitter in a debate about building companies. For the last year and a half or so, I’ve been building a content agency (for more background on the business, read this post). Now that the agency has grown to over $500k ARR in the last couple, I’ve been thinking about the optimal strategy for growth from here. I posed this question to my audience a...
about 1 year ago • 3 min read
April 2020 I had nothing else to do with my time thanks to the pandemic, so I did what any reasonable person would do: I impersonated an old man on Twitter. My account, originally called John W. B. Rich (Wealthy), quickly grew to 5,000 followers within a few weeks. For some reason, my stupid idea took off. Within a few months, I hit 40,000 followers. During those first 6 months or so, I was just doing this for fun. Although I treated it like a full-time job, I wasn’t making any money off of...
about 1 year ago • 4 min read
