I Make $1M/Year As An Introvert
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Jun 15, 2024
This is the breakdown of how Marcos Ruiz makes over $1/year ghostwriting for people on the internet.
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This
guy
makes
1
million
a
year
with
a
business
model
built
for
introverts
ghost
writing
And
the
best
part
is
he
did
it
all
in
just
two
years
I've
never
been
a
sales
guy
I'm
an
introvert
which
is
why
I
became
a
writer
I
drove
out
to
Miami
Florida
to
ask
him
exactly
how
it
works
how
he
got
started
and
the
framework
he
used
to
go
from
zero
to
65
000
a
month
in
just
one
year
What
I
followed
was
called
the
framework
When
he
first
started
Marcos
was
trying
every
business
model
under
the
sun
but
he
was
barely
making
any
money
Then
he
stumbled
upon
ghost
writing
and
learned
a
secret
that
would
change
everything
The
main
thing
that
people
were
talking
about
in
ghost
writing
is
you're
going
to
get
people
followers
And
then
I
quickly
realized
there's
a
much
better
way
to
do
it
If
I
just
In
In
this
video
Marcos
shares
his
exact
blueprints
on
how
to
find
close
and
retain
clients
to
build
a
million
dollar
per
year
ghost
writing
business
from
scratch
I'm
Pat
Walls
and
this
is
Starter
Story
Marcos
Pleasure
Thanks
for
having
me
Tell
me
about
who
you
are
and
what
you
built
Yeah
I'm
Marcos
I'm
CEO
of
The
Birdhouse
We're
a
Twitter
ghost
writing
agency
and
we
essentially
write
the
tweets
the
threads
We
repurpose
clients
videos
and
we
put
them
on
Twitter
so
that
they
can
obviously
go
viral
get
views
and
make
sales
And
we
went
zero
to
65K
a
month
in
one
year
looking
to
scale
up
to
over
a
million
this
year
so
100K
a
month
Explain
to
me
what
the
hell
is
ghost
writing
Yeah
When
I
discovered
ghost
writing
through
Twitter
I
basically
just
realized
that
founders
CEOs
business
owners
even
influencers
a
lot
of
these
guys
have
ghost
writers
on
the
internet
internet
because
they
just
don't
have
time
to
do
it
So
we
go
and
help
people
outsource
that
And
what
I
ultimately
landed
on
was
coaches
consultants
and
education
companies
because
these
are
the
people
that
can
actually
help
monetize
faster
We'll
go
and
repurpose
viral
clips
and
viral
videos
or
even
full
videos
and
full
podcasts
We
have
long
form
posts
which
is
a
new
thing
We
have
articles
replies
You
can
do
spaces
You
can
help
set
up
spaces
There's
really
so
much
that
goes
into
it
now
And
certain
niches
have
different
formats
of
content
that
are
going
to
perform
the
best
So
depending
on
the
client
we're
going
to
put
out
a
majority
of
those
different
kinds
of
content
threads
posts
long
forms
articles
et
cetera
All
right
right
So
give
me
a
timeline
of
your
backstory
and
how
you
get
into
this
Yeah
So
when
I
was
19
I
was
at
basic
training
for
the
army
and
my
friend
actually
showed
me
like
day
trading
on
his
cell
phone
And
this
was
kind
of
my
first
introduction
to
internet
money
So
I
go
from
there
and
I'm
trying
pretty
much
every
business
opportunity
under
the
sun
Drop
shipping
affiliate
marketing
crypto
day
trading
blogging
you
name
it
I've
done
done
it
And
then
from
there
I
quickly
realized
that
I'm
a
little
introvert
I
play
video
games
I've
had
a
blog
I
did
marketing
in
college
and
I've
done
a
little
bit
of
writing
I've
actually
been
on
Twitter
since
2011
So
when
I
chose
copywriting
I
probably
had
like
two
thousand
bucks
to
my
name
It
was
it
was
pretty
it
was
a
challenging
time
but
I'm
the
kind
of
person
that
kind
of
I
always
knew
that
I
would
make
more
money
Like
I
always
had
that
mindset
I
bought
a
course
back
then
was
like
50
bucks
a
month
and
it
kind
of
taught
me
the
ins
and
outs
of
the
ghostwriting
thing
It
gave
me
an
offer
And
after
I
signed
my
first
client
for
one
thousand
bucks
and
I
found
a
second
one
for
thousand
bucks
I
reinvested
all
two
thousand
into
a
bigger
course
that
cost
me
two
thousand
bucks
per
month
So
it's
actually
a
twelve
thousand
dollar
course
Nice
So
I
spent
all
of
my
money
that
I
didn't
have
and
it
came
back
and
I
had
signed
a
three
thousand
dollar
per
month
client
So
now
two
thousand
dollar
a
month
course
three
thousand
dollar
a
month
client
I
had
like
just
enough
money
to
live
the
rest
of
history
from
there
That's
amazing
Yeah
My
favorite
part
about
Marcos's
story
is
that
he
chose
one
idea
and
stuck
with
it
until
he
hit
a
million
dollars
a
year
But
it
was
never
easy
It
required
having
the
right
idea
and
studying
other
businesses
that
paved
the
way
before
him
If
you
want
to
do
something
similar
to
Marcos
but
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idea
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All
right
right
Let's
get
back
to
how
Marcos
got
his
first
customers
Let's
talk
about
how
you
got
your
first
client
and
how
you
scale
it
to
10K
a
month
specifically
How
did
you
do
it
Yeah
My
first
ever
clients
were
from
Upwork
From
there
I
always
say
you
have
to
kind
of
stack
your
case
studies
and
stack
your
testimonials
So
I
took
that
job
and
used
it
as
social
proof
for
my
Twitter
DMs
And
I
was
sending
out
100
200
DMs
a
day
had
it
all
in
my
notion
following
up
And
that
took
about
a
few
weeks
before
I
kind
of
really
landed
some
interest
And
I
was
able
to
sign
my
first
1K
a
month
client
I
didn't
get
the
best
results
at
the
time
But
what
I
did
get
was
he
sent
me
a
message
and
it
said
like
I
got
seven
free
trial
subscribers
and
I
was
like
I
got
testimonial
So
then
I'm
using
that
in
my
DMs
to
other
software
founders
And
eventually
I
landed
my
first
3K
a
month
client
which
was
a
big
deal
for
me
And
that
was
a
coach
and
we
crushed
it
for
him
This
was
the
first
time
I
really
crushed
it
for
someone
viral
every
week
And
not
only
that
what
I
realized
is
it
drove
sales
And
I
was
like
okay
he's
paying
me
3K
a
month
And
this
thread
probably
made
him
like
20
30K
So
it's
like
okay
well
he
just
made
enough
money
to
pay
me
for
10
months
So
from
there
it
was
like
referrals
and
inbound
I
just
focused
on
getting
my
clients
good
results
So
the
referrals
would
come
in
My
audience
was
building
at
the
time
I
think
at
the
time
I
was
going
3K
5K
followers
I
think
I
had
10K
followers
after
like
eight
months
in
business
And
then
from
there
it's
just
been
compounding
ever
since
Yeah
You
talked
a
lot
about
how
to
get
leads
but
how
to
actually
close
clients
Yeah
this
is
a
tough
one
because
I've
never
been
a
sales
guy
I'm
an
introvert
which
is
why
I
became
a
writer
And
I'm
sure
a
lot
of
people
watching
are
introverts
and
that's
why
they
do
these
of
introverted
businesses
right
So
what
I
follow
is
called
the
closer
framework
What
it
allowed
me
to
do
is
have
a
framework
to
follow
hey
why
are
you
on
this
call
and
kind
of
take
them
through
a
little
bit
of
a
journey
on
the
call
But
ultimately
what
I've
really
come
down
to
is
if
you
can
just
get
on
a
call
tell
tell
someone
how
you
actually
are
going
to
help
them
and
be
honest
and
be
a
human
Most
people
actually
vibe
with
that
And
if
they
don't
vibe
with
that
you
probably
don't
want
to
work
with
them
anyway
Sales
is
really
just
about
conviction
So
if
you
actually
believe
in
what
you're
doing
you
can
actually
help
someone
make
more
money
It's
pretty
easy
to
sell
Yeah
You
grew
this
super
fast
It
went
from
like
1k
to
almost
15k
really
fast
How
can
someone
else
who's
watching
do
something
similar
Yeah
So
this
is
what
I
was
doing
and
this
is
also
what
I
actually
have
clients
do
or
their
teams
It's
cold
warm
and
hot
Like
I
said
I
was
sending
100
to
200
cold
DMs
a
day
So
that's
number
one
And
that's
really
just
saying
hey
giving
them
a
compliment
based
on
checking
out
their
profile
giving
them
your
offer
and
then
saying
hey
if
you're
interested
let
me
know
If
not
you're
good
Don't
even
answer
You
don't
want
to
be
kind
of
too
pushy
And
then
what's
called
warm
DMs
is
just
essentially
DMing
people
who
are
following
you
engaging
engaging
with
your
content
etc
It
all
starts
with
kind
of
creating
content
on
your
Twitter
You
always
want
to
practice
what
you
preach
And
then
what's
called
hot
DMs
which
is
the
people
who
are
already
interested
They're
DMing
you
first
They're
saying
hey
I'm
interested
Right
So
using
those
three
and
having
a
happy
balance
that's
how
you
can
really
accelerate
the
clients
that
you
land
So
it
all
starts
with
making
content
sending
cold
and
warm
DMs
and
getting
the
inbound
leads
And
it
compounds
very
fast
It's
like
100
DMs
200
DMs
a
day
two
to
three
tweets
a
day
including
like
a
thread
and
you're
golden
from
there
So
you're
doing
well
You
got
like
10
000
15
000
a
month
and
then
you
go
to
50
000
a
month
How
did
you
do
that
Yeah
So
it's
really
two
big
things
Number
one
is
having
kind
of
a
mindset
shift
from
tactic
hunting
to
actually
implementing
So
tactic
hunting
especially
what
we
just
talked
about
would
be
you're
trying
to
plan
plan
out
what
am
I
going
to
write
How
am
I
going
to
send
DMs
What's
going
to
be
my
script
The
implementing
is
actually
going
out
and
doing
it
and
doing
it
not
just
once
not
just
for
a
week
but
for
six
months
12
months
straight
and
doing
it
every
single
day
That's
the
implementing
piece
that
really
helps
it
compound
because
in
the
back
end
you're
actually
delivering
your
servicing
like
I
said
getting
referrals
and
getting
leads
inbound
but
then
also
doing
the
outbound
and
when
you
combine
those
you
kind
of
create
a
flywheel
And
then
honestly
after
10
20K
a
month
I'd
say
every
business
has
kind
of
a
different
point
where
you
have
to
ask
yourself
do
I
want
to
be
a
solopreneur
or
do
I
want
to
be
an
entrepreneur
And
that's
when
I
decided
to
start
hiring
team
members
and
building
a
real
business
under
a
real
business
name
Now
we're
doing
about
70K
a
month
and
our
margins
are
about
60
We
have
two
senior
writers
one
junior
writer
I
have
an
ops
manager
who
was
my
real
employee
Number
one
she
was
my
assistant
now
my
ops
manager
And
then
I
have
a
sales
representative
as
well
So
a
team
of
five
six
if
you
include
me
All
right
well
let's
talk
about
building
a
good
team
how
to
hire
good
people
so
that
you
don't
have
to
work
on
the
business
all
day
Right
So
what
I
did
is
I
put
out
a
tweet
I'm
looking
for
my
first
writer
to
join
the
team
and
help
me
out
And
I
essentially
gave
four
or
five
different
people
a
prompt
and
I
was
like
write
a
thread
write
a
Twitter
thread
And
I
just
picked
the
best
one
And
then
from
there
I'm
like
you're
on
board
I
also
kind
of
picked
the
person
who
vibed
with
me
the
best
from
a
culture
perspective
So
who
am
I
going
to
vibe
with
who
actually
has
the
talent
and
really
thinking
of
them
as
a
partner
and
not
an
employee
All
right
let's
talk
about
tools
What
tools
do
you
use
to
run
this
business
Yeah
so
I
use
all
the
basic
stuff
obviously
Google
Docs
Google
Sheets
But
further
than
that
I
use
Canva
for
design
We
use
Twitter
of
course
we
use
Hemingway
is
a
really
great
app
that'll
actually
help
you
with
your
writing
It'll
show
you
which
level
grade
you're
writing
at
and
help
you
dumb
it
down
and
make
it
simpler
We
use
a
tool
called
Hypefury
to
go
and
schedule
all
the
tweets
and
we
can
schedule
them
there
for
clients
And
you
can
actually
have
client
account
access
without
actually
being
in
the
client's
account
And
then
we
also
use
Notion
which
is
where
we
have
kind
of
our
company
dashboard
CRMs
client
hubs
everything
like
that
So
I'd
say
those
are
really
the
main
tools
All
right
let's
talk
about
competition
Starting
a
ghostwriting
business
is
seemingly
easy
How
do
you
differentiate
from
your
competitors
When
I
started
the
main
thing
that
people
were
talking
about
in
ghostwriting
is
you're
going
going
to
get
people
followers
And
then
I
quickly
realized
there's
a
much
better
way
to
do
it
If
I
just
make
somebody
more
money
than
they
pay
me
then
I'll
have
a
client
forever
I
differentiated
my
offer
to
I'll
help
you
not
only
grow
on
Twitter
but
the
growth
is
more
of
a
byproduct
I'm
actually
going
to
help
you
monetize
with
Twitter
So
it's
a
done
for
you
monetization
service
If
you
just
learn
business
principles
and
then
you
learn
writing
you
can
kind
of
offer
that
to
anybody
Yeah
So
a
lot
of
people
love
the
idea
of
ghostwriting
can
kind
of
sit
behind
your
computer
and
write
for
a
living
How
would
you
recommend
someone
to
get
started
with
ghostwriting
Yeah
So
there's
really
two
ways
to
do
it
There's
the
I
have
no
money
way
and
there's
the
I
have
money
way
The
I
have
no
money
way
is
actually
go
on
Twitter
and
be
a
user
start
to
follow
people
that
are
going
viral
and
follow
people
that
are
actually
writing
great
content
study
what
they're
doing
do
it
for
yourself
use
yourself
as
the
case
study
and
then
use
that
to
do
the
DMs
The
paid
way
would
be
to
buy
a
course
And
I
always
say
this
when
you
buy
a
course
just
copy
exactly
what
they
tell
you
The
most
important
thing
is
to
do
it
yourself
and
actually
build
yourself
a
bit
of
a
personal
brand
Because
what
I
quickly
found
out
is
if
I
was
reaching
out
to
somebody
with
more
followers
than
me
they'd
be
like
well
I
have
more
followers
than
you
Why
would
I
hire
you
So
you
have
to
do
it
for
yourself
and
then
you
can
do
it
for
other
people
Yeah
So
we're
here
in
your
beautiful
Miami
apartment
Tell
me
about
what
a
day
in
the
life
like
is
for
a
ghostwriting
business
owner
Yeah
So
I
guess
I
theme
my
days
I
kind
of
stole
that
from
I
think
it's
like
Jeff
Bezos
If
it's
like
a
Monday
I
stack
my
meetings
I
usually
have
between
12
and
15
meetings
on
a
Monday
So
I'll
go
straight
from
7am
to
5pm
and
just
meetings
for
those
days
And
then
I'll
go
to
Jiu
Jitsu
at
night
or
something
And
then
Tuesdays
I
like
to
have
just
like
a
blank
calendar
And
those
are
usually
the
days
where
I'm
going
to
sit
down
and
edit
some
client
content
because
I'm
still
acting
as
chief
editor
or
I'll
go
out
and
maybe
source
some
new
clients
or
I'll
talk
to
the
team
or
work
on
the
business
Wednesday
again
it's
usually
a
call
day
slash
content
day
And
now
as
I'm
stepping
out
more
as
a
CEO
I
try
to
spend
a
lot
more
time
thinking
I
try
to
go
on
walks
and
stuff
like
that
But
yeah
again
I
say
a
majority
of
my
time
is
either
in
or
on
the
business
and
I
don't
really
do
a
ton
else
I
know
we
live
in
Miami
but
I
don't
really
go
out
I
don't
really
party
or
anything
like
that
So
I'm
usually
just
either
working
in
or
on
my
business
or
I'm
going
to
like
go
to
Jiu
Jitsu
at
the
gym
watch
TV
play
video
games
do
something
basic
I'm
pretty
chill
dude
Have
you
experienced
any
struggles
building
a
business
becoming
an
entrepreneur
Yeah
I'd
say
the
biggest
struggle
was
shiny
object
syndrome
like
being
online
and
you
see
people
flexing
Rolexes
and
Lambos
and
you
just
feel
so
inadequate
And
just
seeing
everybody
do
something
new
and
you're
always
just
peeking
out
That
might
be
better
That
might
be
better
But
what
I
ultimately
learned
was
once
you
can
finally
shut
that
out
and
stick
to
one
thing
and
actually
fail
through
it
and
keep
going
find
your
itty
bitty
bits
of
success
and
again
continue
to
shut
out
the
noise
because
again
even
at
2K
a
month
3K
a
month
5K
a
month
10K
a
month
you're
still
seeing
all
that
stuff
It's
not
like
it
just
goes
away
Ultimately
being
able
to
have
the
self
confidence
to
stick
through
the
trials
and
tribulations
I
think
that's
the
ultimate
That's
the
ultimate
thing
Okay
last
question
that
we
ask
to
all
the
founders
we
interview
If
you
could
have
any
advice
for
young
Marcos
getting
started
out
or
anyone
getting
started
out
on
a
business
what
would
it
be
I
think
the
number
one
thing
I
would
tell
my
younger
self
is
play
to
your
strengths
and
have
the
discipline
to
just
stick
it
out
Because
I
think
especially
at
first
being
an
introvert
and
I
used
to
play
video
games
and
stuff
like
that
I
used
to
try
to
do
things
I
wasn't
good
at
sales
video
streaming
I
tried
all
of
it
If
I
played
to
my
strengths
which
is
more
introverted
writing
stuff
like
this
I
think
that
would
have
been
a
huge
help
And
then
again
sticking
to
one
thing
having
the
discipline
to
focus
and
stick
out
all
the
failures
that'd
be
my
number
one
advice
I
would
have
succeeded
five
years
earlier
That's
amazing
Well
congrats
on
all
your
success
man
Appreciate
it
it
Yeah
Thank
you
You're
crushing
it
Yeah
You
as
well
Follow
this
advice
and
you'll
have
a
million
dollar
ghostwriting
business
Peace
Hey
everyone
Pat
here
Thank
you
guys
so
much
for
watching
I
really
hope
Marcos
story
inspires
and
motivates
some
of
you
to
get
started
on
your
own
thing
If
you're
curious
about
doing
something
similar
but
you're
still
looking
for
an
idea
well
you
can
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you'd
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Just
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And
if
you're
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and
we
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you
do
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Much
love
and
I'll
see
you
guys
in
the
next
one
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