What I learned earning my first $1000 online

Abha Malpani Naismith
8 min readOct 25, 2023

It’s not easy, it’s not a quick fix, but anyone can do it.

Rehearsing my first paid mini-workshop

I have been working towards creating multiple sources of income online, for the past two years.

Although an online writer since 2005, I never wrote to make money, I wrote to write. I did get many gigs writing for online publications, but apart from that, what I wrote for myself, the voice I shared, never made a dime.

Back in the day, that wasn’t really a business model anyway. It was early days of the democratisation of the internet, new platforms were now available to express yourself, and all I wanted was to write on these platforms so I could be heard, and just perhaps, make a difference to someone’s life.

A few years ago, I packaged all the writing I did between 2005–2008, into a book. The book has done well, I have sold 369 copies of it.

A few months ago, a local book club chose my book to read and I was invited to speak to a group of 22 people who read my book, and were keen to hear more.

Me speaking at the bookclub (top left)

It was one of the most rewarding evenings I’ve had in a long time. But that’s really as far as that story goes.

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Abha Malpani Naismith
Abha Malpani Naismith

Written by Abha Malpani Naismith

Communications professional. Digital strategist. Writer. Mum. AI enthusiast. Newsletter for working mums.