How to EASILY Make an Extra $600 This Year

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

One of the realizations I’ve had about myself this year is that I LOVE - straight up LOVE - helping people get this money stuff handled.

Because I’ve been there. Both as a creator and before I ever started my Instagram:

Never having enough money for anything except bills (and sometimes not even that).

Constantly having to ask my friends and family for money “just until payday.”

Watching everybody else go on weeklong vacations in the Caribbean while I had to work my minimum wage job(s) just to live and eat.

I’m not complaining about any of this, by the way. Complaining and whining about the past is super low-energy and I’m not interested in living there, psychologically, any more.

But I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor, and as they say, rich is definitely better.

The good news is you don’t have to be “rich” rich to live a much better life.

Besides appreciating what you have (supremely important), even incremental increases in your income and quality of life can have profound effects.

It started working for me when I figured out how to make an extra $600 a year, every year. How?

By working to increase my business income by just $50 every month.

I’m telling you: It is DEAD SIMPLE to make an extra $50 online this month, next month, and the month after that.

There’s almost literally nothing to it. Yeah there’s the more technical stuff, the more in-the-trenches work that I help students with inside The Competitive Advantage community, but you don’t even NEED my help to make an extra $50 this month.

Starting a paid newsletter, getting more YouTube views, attracting sponsors to your podcast, getting paid for impressions on X, doing affiliate marketing, coaching, running a membership site - all these OPTIONS for adding an extra $50 a month to your bottom line.

If writing on Medium’s your game, an extra $50 could come from writing an extra 10 articles this month than you did last month.

Then another 20 the next month, and the month after that?

Well that’s the great thing about Medium, YouTube, and all the other social platforms. Your back catalog keeps racking up views LONG after you hit “publish.”

I got paid today for an article I wrote in FEBRUARY, and I routinely earn money from articles written in 2023, 2022, and sometimes even earlier.

And honestly, an extra $100 a month isn’t even a big deal either. I charge authors $600 and up for promotional campaigns for their books, and so if I want to make more money this month, I just reach out to a bunch of talented new authors and see if any of them have a marketing budget.

Simple.

Just start with the number that seems the least intimidating and go from there.

If you’ve never made money online before, get that first $1 IMMEDIATELY.

It’ll change your life. Seriously.

Maybe you’re earning a couple hundred dollars a month but haven’t really hit your stride yet. Aim for $20 this month, $30 next month, and $50 the month after that.

Build up until you get to $10K per month and beyond.

Myself, I’m at about $5K per month in income from my business and I’ve started helping others get up to my level. Some of my students are going to surpass me, and that’s great!

If you want my personal help setting up some of these income streams in YOUR business, join The Competitive Advantage and let me help you.

Next thing you know, you and I will be strategizing about how to add another $10K to our business next month.

There are still 10 spots remaining inside The Competitive Advantage community and you can grab one of the last remaining ones here.

If you want to surround yourself with a group of ambitious, supportive winners on their way to adding $5K/month in monthly recurring revenue to their business, that’s exactly where you need to be.

Within My Direct Control:

Read 20 Books | 18 Books Left

Publish 8 New Time Mastery Videos | 8 Videos Left

Publish 29 YouTube Videos | 28 Videos Left

Publish 150 Medium Articles | 146 Articles Left

Completely Update My Social Media | Incomplete

Completely Update My Patreon Page | Incomplete

Completely Update My Newsletter Platforms | Incomplete

Completely Update My Email Welcome Sequence | Incomplete

Launch Affiliate Program for My Paid Community | Incomplete

Update 20 Patreon Book Notes | 20 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 600 Authors | 590 Authors Left

Not Within My Direct Control:

Get Monetized on YouTube | 3,660 Watch Hours Left

Negotiate 12 Newsletter Partnerships | 12 Partnerships Left

Organize 12 Instagram Collaborations | 12 Collaborations Left

Reach 115,000 Instagram Followers | 6,013 Followers Left

Reach 20,000 Threads Followers | 4,400 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 X Followers | 2,383 Followers Left

Reach 3,000 Medium Followers | 1,126 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 Facebook Followers | 759 Followers Left

Reach 2,000 LinkedIn Followers | 1,306 Followers Left

Reach 10,000 YouTube Subscribers | 8,705 Subscribers Left

Reach 10,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 6,304 Subscribers Left

Reach 1,000 Competitive Advantage Subscribers | 524 Subscribers Left

Reach 50 Competitive Advantage Members | 10 Members Left

Reach 40 Patreon Supporters | 16 Supporters Left

Note: I’ll update follower counts once per week, since it’s such a waste of time to go through all of them every single night. Also, Threads annoyingly doesn’t give exact numbers. Oh well.

Read 5 Books | 3 Books Left

Publish 2 New Time Mastery Videos | 2 Videos Left

Publish 7 YouTube Videos | 6 Videos Left

Publish 35 Medium Articles | 31 Articles Left

Completely Update My Facebook Profile | Incomplete

Completely Update My LinkedIn Profile | Incomplete

Completely Update My Threads Profile | Incomplete

Completely Update My Medium Profile | Incomplete

Completely Update My Email Welcome Sequence | Incomplete

Update 10 Patreon Book Notes | 10 Book Notes Left

Introduce Myself to 140 Authors | 130 Authors Left

Woke Up: 2:00PM (Yea, don’t know what happened - must have needed it!)

Sleep Quality: 81%

Pages Read: 78

Workout: Legs

Leg Press - 290lbs, 290lbs, 290lbs, 290lbs (8 reps, last set to failure)

BB Squats - 150lbs, 150lbs, 150lbs, 150lbs (8 reps, last set to failure)

Leg Extensions - 80lbs, 80lbs, 70lbs, 70lbs (12 reps, last set to failure)

Seated Calf Raises - 100lbs, 100lbs, 100lbs, 100lbs (20 reps, last set to failure)

Work Completed:

Posted 1x on Instagram

Posted 3x on Twitter

Posted 3x on Threads

Posted 1x on Facebook

Posted 1x on LinkedIn

Posted 1x to YouTube Community Tab

Worked on Next Book Breakdown

Worked on Batching New Content

Managed My Skool Community

Connected with 5 More Authors

Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow

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There were certainly some things about today that left a little to be desired. First of all, waking up so late. I also didn’t get a WHOLE lot done, content-wise, and I’m falling behind on my YouTube video goal again. That one’s tough to crack.

But there were some GREAT things about today too. Phenomenal leg workout, for one thing. Got some promising new author leads in the works, made some $$$ - all that good stuff.

But hey, it’s 5:28AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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