How To Replace Your 9-5 By Writing On Social Media: Escaping The Rat Race

Do this for 6-18 months and you will be free

Wake up, check your phone, brush your teeth, commute to work, work long hours, get home tired, make food or order take out, repeat for 40 years, retire, die

This is most likely your reality (unless you’re in the minority of people who love their job and can do it forever)

The minority of people are what we call in the unaware state

They’ve forgotten their dreams and are consumed by a life that works for them, but their ambition to achieve greater things has died

When we are children, we have big dreams

“I want to be a doctor, or firefighter, or live in a palace/mansion etc”

These ideals, although misguided, are based in a child’s frame of mind

And a child’s frame of mind is the belief that anything is possible

But as we age and grow accustomed to life, we stop believing in the impossible

We start thinking that living a mediocre life in the same county we grew up in, and just doing the same work over and over, is how we should go through life

“Because there is not other way to live”, right?

But since they don’t know what I just said, or are not aware of it, they will remain content at their job, since they are not aware of the larger problem

Being in the modern age has put you in one of the most fortunate places you could ever find yourself (it has never been easier to make a living without working a 9-5)

Yet there’s still millions upon millions of people who work them every day not realizing the true reality

This is exactly why my mom and my brother don’t understand me

They think my dreams and ambitions are naive, misguided, and unrealistic

I have my mother asking me where all the money from overseas is coming from

She has no idea of the credibility and skills I’ve developed over the last 3 years

To me I’m just her son without a 9-5, and therefore I am irresponsible

I often think that maybe if I make even more she will change her mind, but instead I’m met with concern on whether what I’m doing it illegal or something

This perception is indoctrination

Its decades of brainwashing society into thinking they need to depend on the 9-5 to live their life

There is a better way

A way to make a living by sitting in your pajamas

A way to make a living without even leaving your house

A way to travel wherever you want in the world, provided you set up your goals properly

And you’re going to use social media to pull it off (because social media isn’t going anywhere)

And I know what you might be thinking, “I already know its possible, I just dont have a clear way of pulling it off”

And that’s exactly what I’m going to show you right now

To achieve your desired outcome you need a background of some kind

You can’t run into this blind, you need a plan

First thing you need to do is define your 3 content cores

Take the 3 things you love talking and thinking about, put them into broader categories, then start a newsletter based on those 3 topics

You will be talking about these things for a long time (5 years), so choose them well, and make sure they overlap

Business, Personal growth, nutrition

Writing, clients, sales

Social media, software, AI

I’ve discussed the content cores in more detail in my previous articles, so go read those if you’re unsure

To replace your 9-5 you need authority

To establish authority you need to learn

To learn you need to consume

Books, courses, program curriculums, articles, podcast episodes etc.

Dedicate 30-45 min to just learn every day

Not just that, you need to teach yourself the skills to solve your own problems

This includes building websites, designing course covers, and anything else you will require

The more you learn the more you can experiment

The more you experiment the more data you collect

The more data you collect the more information you turn into personal knowledge

The more personal knowledge you have the more things you can talk about in your newsletter that fall under the 3 content cores

The newsletter is your baseline

The more articles you publish the more subscribers you have

The more subscribers you have the more potential customers and clients you have

Focus on 1 article a week (2000-6000 words), or 3 articles a week (1200-2000 words per article)

Once you’ve setup your newsletter setup an automation that moves the subscribers (we’re using substack for this), to an off platform email list

You can use Make or Zapier for this

Send daily story driven emails to this email list with the things you sell (discussed further down below)

When you write down solutions, you will start noticing a pattern in information you know is too valuable to give away for free

From here you can take those articles, and put them behind a paywall

And your best ones (from free and paid ones), you can turn into products

You know its a good thing to sell by determining if its a problem you solved yourself

This is why you need to experiment, as discussed in step 1

Once you know its a solution that actually solves the problem (because you solved it using the same solution), you can productize it

This means turning the solution into a product

The fastest way to do this is by going on google docs, write down how to solve the problem, export it as PDF, create a product on gumroad, design a nice cover on canva, publish the product with a nice name, then link it in your emails

At all times, you need to have 2-3 three of these productized solutions ($9-$25)

And obviously they need to be related to what you talk about in your newsletter, but they also need to be validated (are people in your newsletter audience having these problems)

If you’ve done this 3 times, you now have 3 paid products

Very simple, nothing fancy, but it does the trick

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If you followed this step you should have 2-3 paid low ticket products, and some premium content articles you’ve put behind a paywall

This brings us to the next step..

Now that you’ve come up with solutions to problems, you’ve created another problem in the mind of the customer

How are they going to pull this off themselves without any help?

This is good because it makes selling a program much easier

Yes, you could sell high ticket skills, but this takes a lot of work

Now that they have the solution to the problem, they will need to go do it themselves

Some will, but some won’t be able to pull it off (this is how they pay for a program)

At the end of your paid product you then offer them an opportunity to join your program where they get access to an entire curriculum that takes them from point A-Z, and it will solve their problem entirely

At the start you will need to take a hands on approach, and talk to the program joiners 1 on 1

The more people you work with the more problems you will encounter

Every time a problem shows up multiple times, you add a course module to the curriculum that solves that problem

Within 6 months you’ll have a program curriculum that does all the heavy lifting for you

This means you’ve gone from writing articles for free, to sellling low cost products, to selling high cost programs, and they all gel together

This is called a value ladder

Initial readers turn into customers, and customers turn into clients

“If someone pays you $1, they are much more likely to pay you hundreds to thousands of dollars” - JK Molina

The reasons why most writers are poor, is because they don’t have a value ladder

They sell a book, and think that’s the end of it (it shouldn’t be)

By now you should have 2-3 paid products, and 1 coaching program with a curriculum inside that solves all your target market’s needs

Now we’re going to expand to different offers

Now and then you will encounter people who either cannot afford your program, have too many problems so your paid products wont help them enough, but they still require your help

These are consultation prospects

If you recognize you can help them, then you can charge them a consultation fee and tell them exactly what to do to get where you would get them yourself, had they been in your program

This is where the freedom number comes into play

Its determining how much money you need to make per month, then adjusting the different things you’re selling to a your revenue goals

If you need to pay $2500 in expenses every month (rent, food, takeout, repairs etc.)

Then you need to change your freedom number according to that

So as an example it would look like this:

3 program clients at $500 each for 3 months ($1500 → $500/mo recurring)

30 $25 product sales = $750 for that 1 month

9 consultation prospects at $140 = $1260

This means you need 42 customers per month, to pay all your expenses

Now you need to develop a system that produces these results consistently

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1. Reach out to 5 people a day (use my dm selling framework)

2. Write 1-3 newsletter issues a week based on validated topics your audience struggles with (use my ICIB writing framework)

3. Build a network of 30 people you can depend on to share your products, services, and content

4. Send out daily story emails to your email list with the products and services you sell (include related affiliate products if you want)

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Now that you’ve got the infrastructure to replace your 9-5, you need to stick to this schedule for 6-18 months (because that’s how long it can take to produce the results you’re looking for)

Its not going to happen overnight

You’re going to get rejected, you’re going to let clients down, you’re going to have to figure a lot of stuff out

But until you’ve been hitting your freedom number in dollars per month for at least 6 months, DO NOT quit your job

Use the income from your job to fund your education, so you can build your newsletter and online business

And from there you can do whatever you want, because you’re free

And remember, you’re going to struggle

I burned down 2 agencies before I found my true purpose

If you hate what you’re selling, you’ll burn out

Don’t let that be you

This is exactly why your content cores are so important

They need to be related to what you sell, and the problems you’ve solved for yourself

Because only then will you actually be passionate about your business model

“Find the intersect between your passion and a validated product”

Ian Pierre

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