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Want To Make Money Online? Think Small.

John Paul Hernandez
3 min readAug 13, 2021

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You’re playing the wrong game.

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When I was in high school and all the way up to grad school, I thought as most people did.

I wanted to start the next big thing; a startup changing an industry; a corporation giving hundreds of people jobs; all were great dreams and I had healthy intentions but they proved to be ineffective.

Thinking big is a good thing but it can’t happen at the expense of progress.

In my early days of freelancing, I hopped on popular sites to pick up a job or two. I worked for pennies and worked as hard as I could, always seeing a finish line at the distance as motivation for the hours burned.

But growth wasn’t happening as fast as I wanted to.

Each month my revenue was meager. I felt like a failure and quit. I didn’t try freelance work until two years later. I think of all the wasted time I missed on refining my craft and the missed potential for income.

This experience would start me on the journey of having a BIG VISION built with SMALL BRICKS.

When I decided to pick up freelancing again it was because I needed income for savings. I started and it was fine but the same…

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John Paul Hernandez
John Paul Hernandez

Written by John Paul Hernandez

John Paul Hernandez is a B2B SaaS content writer that increases exposure, moves customers to action, and fuels company growth.

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