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Tim Denning And 6 Top Medium Writers Reveal Their Secret To Success.

1. Ayodeji Awosika says, “do NOT treat blogging as a hobby.

George Blue Kelly
5 min readFeb 8, 2022
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There’s nothing wrong with writing for your own muse. Many writers write specifically for themselves as a way to release mental and emotional stress. But if you wish to make money blogging, you cant treat writing like a hobby.

Businesses only succeed when they satisfy the needs of customers.

If you want to build an audience and turn your writing into a business, you need to write for an audience. Would you want to read stories about someone you don’t know, seem to have no expertise to share, and choose topics that are of no interest to you? — Ayodeji Awosika.

Millions of people come online to either be entertained or to find solutions to their problems. Just like when you make a Google search, chances are, you're looking for information and not some random dude’s story and experience you have no interest in.

Ayodeji Awosika's advice is to treat your writing as a job and not a hobby. (If you wish to make money from your writing.)

Today a lot of content creators struggle to get attention and make enough earning. A struggling career doesn’t necessarily mean you ain’t cut for it. Or that you’re a terrible…

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George Blue Kelly
George Blue Kelly

Written by George Blue Kelly

Musings of an immigrant from a tiny Sicilian village.

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