Earn a good living writing 1hr a day?

This is a sometimes achievable daily schedule for me. Don't read it and then skip the big disclaimer below. - 6:30am: Wake up with my youngest boy - 6:32am: Coffee - 7:00am - 9am: My oldest wakes up and then general chaos ensues... making breakfast, packing lunches, cleaning a little, getting them dressed, driving the oldest to school & getting back home. - 9:15am - 9:45am: Meditate because holy crap I need it. - 10am - 10:45am: Write - 10:45am - 11am: Queue/send 1 email. - Done with work for the day. If I'm feeling particularly motivated I'll wake up at 5am and try to get in some meditation and all my writing before the kids wake up. As you can see, there are periods of time when I really only to need to work for about 45 minutes. And if I didn't care to write daily (which I DO), I could get away with queuing up stuff and not working for a couple weeks. BIG OLE DISCLAIMER This is NOT my current reality. This is only a "maintenance" schedule. Meaning, I can only achieve this AFTER the systems are all in place. - Lead generation systems in place. - Product Delivery systems (not product creation systems) in place. - Business systems in place. When all three of those things require little input from me I'm pretty dang free. Before kids, this meant that my wife and I were able to travel A LOT and I had a 25hr/week hobby racing bikes. After kids, this means I never miss school or sporting events. In fact, I do a whole lot of child care and generally love it (I will complain but mostly for the jokes). The reason it's all able to work is because I've built the one necessary asset. An email list. I read this quote when I was first getting started with online businesses back in 2010... "The money is in the list." It made sense. I understood it. If you want to make more you should build a list of email subscribers. But I never truly "got it" until I started building a list of my own. I stopped client work at the end of 2016. And 2017 ended up being my best year ever at that point. Why? I had a list in place. Instead of my copywriting knowledge being used on a couple clients... that knowledge was now being leveraged to a list of thousands. Put another way, I stopped client work which demanded my time, and started sending more emails to my CopyHour list (a business I'd built on the side for several years prior) which demanded less time and I made more money in the process. The not-so-subtle point is: if you're a copywriter, you should be building a list. It could be as simple as a list of clients (or potential clients) you send a short useful email to. Or a broader list on a topic you're interested in. The thing is, when you have a list you have a business. A list is a business asset you can make money with. And email lists allow you to occasionally work those maintenance hours (or no hours) without a whole lot of stress. I don't want to over-promise here, especially since I'm not in maintenance-mode myself right now. But I have lived this "Only-A-List Lifestyle" for months on end and it's great. But you know what? I don't care about the whole lifestyle angle if I'm being honest. The lifestyle stuff doesn't matter. Building email lists is just... like... something everyone should do. Even if you're starting with client work. Being a copywriter is really just about building lists for clients anyway (a list of customers). So this week I'll be talking more about building lists from zero, starting one-person businesses, & even productizing yourself. But I do need your help. I have a few short questions for you about your interests in starting a newsletter or email list. [ This Google Form is anonymous, no email is required and will only take a second to fill out.]( If you'll indulge me, I'll write better & more useful emails. And I'll share the results with the group. Cheers! - Derek Sent to: {EMAIL} [Unsubscribe]( CopyHour.com, 340 S LEMON AVE, 5007, WALNUT, CA 91789