Content. Content, content, content. Work like hell making good content for at least 60 and perhaps 90 days.

No, you won't earn a cent yet. But what you will have is an incredible tool to you win over influencers when you start to promote.

Early promotion is easy. Find other people in your space who already have an audience for doing similar stuff (but not quite the same) and guest post / write for their site. If you're doing financial writing, look to write about a timely topic in Forbes or somewhere big as a stringer. Cross post your content to places like LinkedIn Pulse or Medium. Find people whose writing you admire and ask them for feedback on what they would change.

Once you've written the content, the job's just started, as you can see. Promotion will take up a lot of time, and you want to make sure that you are in a groove and can easily keep producing new content while sinking 2x - 3x the time it took to write an article going around the Net and promoting it or promoting you.

What's the way to Carnegie Hall? "Practice, practice, practice." 😉