During October of 2022 I was scrolling on YouTube when I came across this writer named Dan Koe. He talked about how he made millions of dollars every year with just writing 2 hours a day.
I was intrigued, and bought his course about his 2 hour writing business. In the course, he went over his main source of revenue which were digital products (courses) that he sold to his audience. He had more than 300,000 followers on Twitter.
He showed me how he would write short form content through Twitter, collect his followers’ emails, and sell them products through email marketing. Twitter was the most important source of traffic for his writing, and his method for getting followers looked simple:
- Post 3 Tweets a day
- Engaging on people’s posts
- Make connections in the DM
At that point, I didn’t know writers earned money through Twitter, and I thought it was only for politics and shitposting. So I started a Twitter account to grow an audience, in the hopes of having Dan Koe’s 2 hour work-day lifestyle with writing.
You see, until that point I had been trying to build an audience multiple times. I was a novelist who kept getting rejected by publishers so I decided I would sell my book to my own audience. I tried Instagram, but failed. I tried…
