This Making Money Online with Substack is Not Going Well

Buy my master-class so I can redeem myself.

Oh. the dream.

Photo by Josh Appel on Unsplash | This photo of coins is more representative of my current earnings.

Write about stuff about our interesting (boring) lives and make a living. Substack says I can, and if it’s on the internet it must be true, yes?

I would guess hundreds of gurus here would be happy to sell me a mini course to make more money online and turn my writing into cash. It has to be easy if so many are telling me it is.

All I have to do is call the number on my screen and not only will I get immediate access to all their resources - I will also get a free set of kitchen knives if I place my order now.

Trouble is - even if I could pay money (and I have in the past), they are all garbage and all of them just want to sell you the dream. My favorite is when all the dream sellers team up and leave ‘testimonials’ for each other when it’s really all smoke and mirrors for the most part.

I’m not buying it. Especially at $497.00.

Anyway…

My current paid subscriber list is:

1. My mother in law

2. My father in law

3. My mother in law’s friend

That’s not a big list but I do make six bucks a month which is not a whole lot of money but I am very happy that I am getting paid to write this and I cannot stress enough - this is great.

Here’s the problem:

I am currently running at a negative balance.

I make six bucks a month total from my 3 subscribers.

I thought I made an additional $9.00 or so from affiliate sales with Amazon from the odd thing I link to to. Earlier this month somebody bought a Roomba and I made eight bucks. Yay, right? Not a fortune, but 15 bucks a month for playing around on the internet is still a pretty good deal. I think.

That was, until the Roomba Got Returned.

Now I am underwater with Amazon:

I owe Jeff 8 bucks.

I’m not good at math but even if you add the six bucks I make with subscriptions, I am still underwater $1.84

Maybe I could start a new master-class on how to lose money writing.

I could sell it for $7.84. If I sold one, I break even and I’m back up to zero and If I sold 2 then I would be ahead of the game.

Three? That’s just dreaming.

Alas, I have no masterclass to sell .

Instead I am offering you this free life lesson:

Don’t count your chickens before the return window has closed.

Until Next Time,

TH and Co.