The Dirty Little Secret These “How I Made $XXX,XXX Overnight” Folks Don’t Tell You

Kelly Reeves
The Startup
Published in
4 min readMar 24, 2024

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And why I find them extremely boring

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As I scrolled through my Medium feed, I couldn’t help but notice a plethora of articles that started with “How I…”

How they made $22,000 in one weekend or grew their newsletter subscribers to 10,000 in a month, or how their wife turned a blog post into a 5-figure…

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Kelly Reeves
The Startup

Expert copywriter with a focus on tech, entrepreneurship, and personal growth; former PR flack. Animal rescuer. Prone to random bouts of rancor.