Dear Financial Influencers, Please Stop
Back in 2019, I started a personal finance blog. I decided to call it Millionaire by Next Year. I thought by starting a blog I would finally find success as an entrepreneur.
Four years later, I’m nowhere closer to becoming a millionaire. And I’m beginning to wonder whether or not the “successful” bloggers I followed when I got started are actually making the amount of money they claim they do.
What I gained during that period of time, instead, is a wealth of knowledge. I learned how to build my own website. Write content. And even got a couple of articles to organically rank on Google without doing any SEO.
I want to keep the project going — to prove to myself I can build a successful blog — but I don’t have the heart anymore.
At some point in the journey, I realized the goal of a personal finance blog isn’t to show off your writing talent. It’s to sell products.
That’s the business I had gotten myself into. Not writing. Sales.
That wouldn’t be a terrible proposition if I believed in the products I was supposed to be selling. But I didn’t then and I still don’t now.
I may write a lot but I’m not a content mill trying to rank for an undervalued keyword. I can’t with good conscious continue writing that type of content for the…
