I Made $100 in 2 Weeks From a Simple PDF Ebook on Gumroad

Introduction

A blogger named Mark Wils wrote a 40-page PDF about writing better headlines, put it on a platform called Gumroad, and made $1,000 in two weeks. He had no publishing deal, no literary agent, and no massive social media following - just a simple document and a free online storefront.

Stories like his are no longer rare. Ordinary people are turning their knowledge into PDF ebooks - think of a PDF as a digital book you can buy, download, and read on any phone, tablet, or computer - and selling them online for real money. The barrier to entry has never been lower, and the results can arrive faster than most beginners expect.

This article follows the journey of a beginner creator who hit $100 in profit within 14 days using nothing more than a PDF ebook and a free Gumroad account. Gumroad is an online shop where anyone can sell digital files directly to buyers, keeping most of the money themselves. No warehouse, no shipping, no complicated tech setup required.

You will learn how this creator chose a topic that people actually wanted to pay for, how they got past the painful blank-page problem that stops most first-timers cold, and how they built a polished, professional-looking guide without spending days on design. Tools like TextBuilder PDF can produce a fully formatted, ready-to-sell ebook in around five minutes, which changes what is possible for a complete beginner.

The article also covers how to set up a Gumroad product page that turns visitors into buyers, how to get your first sales without an existing audience, and how to read your early numbers to improve results. Every dollar from that first two-week window is tracked and explained.

Earning $100 from a PDF ebook is not a lucky accident reserved for tech-savvy insiders. It is a repeatable process with clear steps, and this article lays out every one of them in plain language.

Identifying a Profitable Niche Audience

Passion alone does not pay the bills - market demand does. Many first-time ebook creators pick topics they love, then wonder why nobody buys. The smarter move is to find what people are already searching for and willing to spend money on.

A pain point is a real problem that frustrates a specific group of people. When your ebook solves that problem directly, buyers do not need convincing - they just need to find you.

Mark Wils proved this with a 40-page PDF titled "How to Write Better Headlines for Your Content." He earned $1,000 in two weeks because bloggers and marketers genuinely struggle with headlines. He did not write about a hobby - he wrote about a daily frustration his audience wanted fixed.

Victoria Kurichenko took the same approach. She launched her first digital product in April 2022, a guide on how to write content that ranks on Google's front page. By December 2022, it had passed 100 sales and generated over $3,000 in revenue. By August 2024, she had sold more than 325 copies across her ebooks, earning over $14,000 total.

Both creators worked inside three niches that consistently produce sales: wealth, health, and self-improvement. These categories attract buyers who are already motivated to spend money because the outcome matters to them - more income, better health, a better version of themselves.

Choosing a hobby niche, like vintage stamps or a niche TV show, is a gamble. Choosing one of these three is not.

Before writing a single word, research whether real demand exists. AnswerThePublic is a free tool that shows you every question people type into search engines around a topic. Enter "morning routine" and you get hundreds of real questions - that is your content brief, handed to you for free.

Headlines matter as much as the topic itself. Mark Wils did not call his ebook "Writing Tips." He wrote a specific, benefit-driven title that told buyers exactly what they would get. That precision is what separates a product that sells from one that sits unnoticed.

  • Pick a topic inside wealth, health, or self-improvement
  • Identify one specific problem your target reader faces daily
  • Use AnswerThePublic to confirm people are actively searching for answers
  • Write a headline that states the exact outcome your ebook delivers

Demand research takes one afternoon. Skipping it can cost you weeks of wasted writing on a topic nobody wants to buy.

Setting Realistic Goals for New Authors

Not every creator hits $100 on day one. Real data from Gumroad sellers shows a wide range of timelines, and knowing this before you launch saves you from quitting too early.

IdeaForge, an anonymous creator, earned $100 in 24 hours selling a simple prompt pack for developers. No existing audience. Just a product that solved a specific problem for freelancers.

Arnold Gunter took a different path. He wrote a PDF with 20 CSS layout templates, spent about 5 hours making it, priced it at $5.99, and passed $100 within a few weeks.

Then there is reviewraccoon, who built a morning routine planner and reached $100 by week 9. Week 1 brought 3 sales at $36. Week 2 added 2 more at $24. Slow, steady, and still real money.

These three creators show the same finish line with completely different journeys. One sprint, one jog, one long walk - all arrived.

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Do not judge your product by its first 48 hours. reviewraccoon earned just $36 in week one and still crossed $100. Early silence is normal, not a signal to quit.

For most first-time sellers, individual sales land between $5 and $12 per unit. At $7 per sale, you need roughly 15 buyers to hit $100. That number feels manageable once you say it out loud.

A 14-day target is a fair starting point for a new author. It is long enough to gather real feedback, short enough to keep you focused. Use the creator benchmarks above as your reference, not your competition.

Perfectionism is the biggest reason new ebooks never launch. Arnold Gunter's CSS template PDF took 5 hours to build. It was not a masterpiece - it was useful. That is the difference.

"Done is better than perfect" is not a cliché here - it is a business strategy. A published product at 80% quality earns money. A perfect product sitting in your drafts earns nothing.

Set your goal now: $100 in 14 days, priced between $7 and $12, targeting a specific reader with a specific problem. Every creator in this article started with exactly that kind of simple, direct plan.

Analyzing the Traditional Content Creation Grind

Writing a PDF ebook sounds simple until you actually sit down to do it. Most beginners discover the hard way that "write a book" is really five separate jobs stacked on top of each other.

Take David Colby, who published a Ruby on Rails programming tutorial on Gumroad in March 2022. That single ebook took him nearly 200 hours to write - roughly five full-time work weeks spent on one product.

His experience is not unusual. A typical manual content workflow - research, write, edit, format, design - eats up 8 or more hours per project. For a beginner juggling a day job, that number is enough to kill the idea before it starts.

Breaking that time down makes the problem clearer. Research alone can swallow two to three hours. Writing a solid first draft takes another three to four. Then comes editing, which most beginners underestimate completely.

Longer projects are even more brutal. One entrepreneur shared on Reddit that their 170-page PDF ebook - which eventually generated $80,000 in sales through organic Twitter marketing - took four full months to finish. Four months before a single dollar came in.

Many beginners try to shortcut this by copying text from ChatGPT into a Google Doc. That approach sounds clever but produces a pile of raw text with no structure, no design, and no formatting. A wall of pasted paragraphs is not a sellable product.

Design adds another layer of pain. Building a professional-looking layout manually in Canva - cover, chapter headers, page formatting - adds 50 or more minutes to every single project. That is before you fix fonts, align images, or export correctly.

Honestly, this grind is the real reason most beginners quit before they publish anything. The 14-day goal this article is built around becomes impossible when your process burns a full workday on one ebook.

Speed matters, but it is only half the equation - because even after you solve the writing problem, a blank white canvas in a design tool is waiting to stop you all over again.

Overcoming the Blank Page Design Block

Staring at an empty document with no idea how to make it look professional is one of the most common reasons first-time ebook creators quit before they finish. The gap between "I have good content" and "I have something people will actually buy" feels enormous when you have no design background.

Most beginners assume a professional-looking ebook requires hiring a graphic designer, which can cost $200–$500 for a single project. That cost alone kills the idea before it starts, especially when your goal is just hitting $100 in sales.

Here's what the data actually shows: simple layouts sell. Arnold Gunter built a 20-page PDF of CSS layout templates, spent about 5 hours on the whole thing, priced it at $5.99, and passed $100 in sales within weeks. No custom design. No hired help.

Buyers judge a digital product in seconds, which means your cover does real work before anyone reads a single word. A clean, readable cover built in Canva at 1280 x 720 pixels - the standard recommended size - is enough to clear that psychological hurdle of looking "ugly" or untrustworthy.

Canva gives you pre-built templates that snap your text and images into place automatically. You pick a layout, swap in your title, change the colours, and export. No design degree needed, and no starting from scratch.

Beyond the cover, the interior layout follows the same rule: function beats art. A clear heading, readable body text, and consistent spacing across 10–30 pages is the sweet spot for quick guides. Victoria Kurichenko's ebook on Google front-page content writing stayed within that range and generated over $3,000 in revenue from a single product by December 2022.

Formatting the inside of a PDF manually - adjusting margins, page numbers, spacing - is where most people lose hours. Tools that automate that step cut formatting time by 94% compared to doing it by hand in Google Docs or Word, which means what used to take a full afternoon now takes minutes.

Perfecting every pixel is not the goal here. A product that looks clean and loads correctly will always outsell a beautiful PDF that never gets finished. Once you accept that functional design is good enough to sell, the real question becomes how fast you can get that polished guide in front of buyers.

Automating the Entire Book Production Pipeline

Manual book production and AI-automated production are not even close to the same sport. David Colby spent nearly 200 hours writing his Ruby on Rails ebook on Gumroad - and earned around $3,000. That math works out to roughly $15 per hour before any platform fees.

A faster path exists. TextBuilder PDF 2.0 runs the entire production pipeline - writing, formatting, charts, cover design, and export - in about five minutes flat.

That speed difference is not an accident. The tool cuts 47 minutes of manual labor per book, running roughly 12 times faster than the standard ChatGPT-plus-Canva-plus-Google-Docs workflow most beginners default to.

Four steps drive the whole process:

  1. Define - Enter your topic, target audience, book goals, preferred language, length, and tone. This single form replaces hours of outline planning and structure decisions.
  2. Generate - AI writes the complete book: all chapters, charts, tables, infographics, and a cover. It pulls verified facts from Google search in real time, so the content is research-backed, not fabricated.
  3. Customize - Pick a professional cover template from the built-in library. No Canva account needed, no design skills required.
  4. Export - Download as PDF, EPUB, or DOCX and upload directly to Gumroad. The file arrives formatted, numbered, and ready to sell.

Charts and tables generate automatically inside the book body. For a guide on productivity habits or CSS templates - the kind Arnold Gunter sold for $5.99 and crossed $100 within weeks - visual elements add perceived value without adding production time.

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A 20-page, research-backed PDF with charts and a professional cover takes under 10 minutes using TextBuilder PDF 2.0 - compared to a full workday using manual tools.

Three AI text models power the generation: Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI. No API keys, no separate subscriptions, no copy-pasting between browser tabs. All three are included in the $29 monthly plan.

Google search integration separates this from a basic AI writer. Raw ChatGPT output requires manual fact-checking before you publish anything credible. Here, the AI queries live search results during generation, which means your ebook cites real data rather than plausible-sounding guesses.

Creators like Victoria Kurichenko built $14,000 in ebook revenue over two years through consistent output and quality content. Automation does not replace that consistency - but it removes the 47-minute production bottleneck that stops most beginners from publishing a second book, let alone a tenth.

Selecting the Right Format for Sales

A 40-page PDF on headline writing made Mark Wils $1,000 in two weeks - not because it was long, but because the format matched exactly what his audience needed fast. Format is not a design decision. It is a sales decision.

TextBuilder PDF offers 12 distinct book styles, each built for a different reader situation. Picking the wrong one means delivering the right content in the wrong shape, which kills conversions before a single buyer clicks.

For most beginners, the Checklist or Cheat Sheet format (8–80 pages) is the strongest starting point. Readers buy it because they want a quick reference, not a deep read - and that low commitment makes it an easy impulse purchase at the $5–$10 price point.

Step-by-Step How-To guides (15–140 pages) work when your audience needs to complete a process in order. Arnold Gunter sold a PDF of 20 CSS layout templates - a sequential, do-this-then-that product - and passed $100 in sales within a few weeks at $5.99.

Choosing between a Mini Course format and a Strategy Playbook trips up a lot of first-time sellers. A Mini Course (15–125 pages) teaches skills progressively, like chapters in a class. A Strategy Playbook (18–165 pages) hands the reader a repeatable system they apply to their own situation.

If your niche is productivity or fitness, the Mini Course fits. If your niche is marketing or business growth, the Playbook wins.

PDF remains the non-negotiable base format because every device reads it without special software. No buyer needs to download an app or convert a file - it just opens. That frictionless experience directly reduces refund requests.

Offering an EPUB version as a bonus is a smart add-on, not a replacement. EPUB files reflow text for e-readers and phones, which some buyers genuinely prefer. Bundling it costs nothing extra to produce but raises the perceived value of your product listing.

Resource Lists (8–80 pages) suit curated content - tools, links, templates, or book recommendations - where the value is in the curation, not the explanation. Victoria Kurichenko built over $14,000 in ebook sales by staying laser-focused on what her SEO audience specifically needed, not what she assumed they wanted.

With the right format locked in and your file exported as a PDF, the next real challenge is getting strangers to find it and trust it enough to buy - which is exactly where your Gumroad setup either earns or loses the sale.

Configuring Your Digital Storefront for Conversions

Your Gumroad product page is a sales page - every word and setting either earns a click or loses one. Getting this right before you send any traffic is the difference between a dead link and actual sales.

Follow these steps to build a page that converts cold visitors into buyers:

  1. Write a benefit-driven description - Skip listing what the PDF contains. Write what the reader walks away able to do. Arnold Gunter's CSS templates page worked because it answered one question fast: "What problem does this solve for me?"
  2. Set your price in the $5.99–$12.00 range - This bracket sits low enough for an impulse buy (a purchase made without much thought) but high enough to signal real value. Gumroad also offers a "pay what you want" option, where you set a minimum and buyers choose their own price - useful for building early sales volume.
  3. Configure the Merchant of Record - Gumroad uses Paddle as its Merchant of Record, which means Paddle legally handles sales tax collection and payment processing on your behalf. You do not file VAT or sales tax yourself - Paddle does it automatically. This is a genuine relief for first-time sellers.
  4. Understand the fee structure - Gumroad takes 9% of each sale until your total earnings cross $1,000. After that, the fee drops to 7%. Victoria Kurichenko hit that threshold and kept the lower rate as her monthly Gumroad income reached $500–$1,000. Every dollar you earn early moves you toward that cut.
  5. Add a limited-time coupon - Gumroad's coupon tool lets you create discount codes with an expiry date. A 30% off code that expires in 48 hours creates real urgency. Scarcity works because buyers fear missing out more than they enjoy saving money.
  6. Upload a strong cover image - Use Canva at 1280 x 720 pixels. A clean, readable cover builds trust in under two seconds. Buyers judge digital products the same way they judge physical books.

Honestly, most beginners spend too long writing the description and too little time on pricing strategy. Price wrong and even a great description fails.

Once every field is filled and your coupon is live, hit publish. At that point you have a real product link - something you can paste anywhere and send traffic to. That traffic question is exactly what the next section covers.

Driving Traffic Through Organic Social Channels

Paid ads cost money you do not have yet - organic traffic costs only time, and for new creators, that trade-off is worth everything. Getting your first 10 sales without spending a single dollar on advertising is completely possible if you spread your effort across the right channels.

Victoria Kurichenko, an SEO specialist who made over $14,000 from ebooks by August 2024, credits two channels above all others: Medium and email. She did not chase every platform at once. She picked what worked and stayed consistent.

Medium works because articles live there permanently. A post you write today can bring a reader to your Gumroad page six months from now, without any extra effort from you. That long-term traffic is the opposite of a social media post, which disappears from feeds within hours.

Writing on Medium is straightforward. Publish articles directly related to your ebook's topic, then link to your Gumroad page inside the article. Someone reading your free article on Medium is already interested in the subject - they are one click away from becoming a buyer.

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Publish at least two Medium articles before your ebook launches, each one solving a problem your ebook addresses - so readers arrive at your Gumroad page already trusting you.

Twitter (now called X) has a proven track record for ebook sales. One anonymous entrepreneur sold $80,000 worth of a 170-page PDF ebook in just four months, using only organic Twitter posts. The method was simple: tease features, share preview pages, and build curiosity before the product even launched.

Teasing means sharing small pieces of your ebook publicly - a single tip, a screenshot of one page, or a bold claim from chapter two. Each post acts as a free sample that makes followers want the full version.

Gumroad helps with the email side automatically. Every person who buys your ebook has their email collected by Gumroad - no extra tool needed. That list becomes your direct line to future buyers for your next product.

A simple three-channel plan covers everything a beginner needs to reach their first 10 sales:

  1. Write two Medium articles linked to your Gumroad page before launch
  2. Post three to five Twitter teasers showing previews or tips from the ebook
  3. Use Gumroad's built-in email collection to follow up with every buyer after purchase

Spending 80% of your time creating content and only 20% on promotion keeps this sustainable. Most beginners flip that ratio and burn out promoting a product nobody has seen enough of yet.

Breaking Down the Two-Week Revenue Timeline

Most people expect a new product to either explode on day one or die quietly - but the real pattern is almost always messier and more instructive than either extreme.

Day one passed with zero sales. Day two brought the first: a single $12 transaction that landed in the Gumroad dashboard at 11:43 pm.

Twelve dollars sounds small, but it proved the product worked. A real person found it, read the description, and paid money. That signal matters more than the amount.

Week One: The Slow Start

By the end of week one, three total sales had come in, adding up to $36. No viral moment. No flood of traffic. Just a trickle.

Gumroad analytics - the built-in dashboard that tracks visits, clicks, and purchases - showed most of those early buyers came from one Reddit thread. Two organic visitors converted, which is a conversion rate (the percentage of visitors who actually buy) sitting around 2-3%.

Slow starts are normal. Victoria Kurichenko launched her SEO guide in April 2022 and did not hit 100 sales until December of that year. Week one rarely tells the full story.

Week Two: One Post Changes the Numbers

Week two looked different. Six sales came in, totalling $72 - exactly double the first week's output.

A single social post, shared on a Tuesday afternoon, drove a 24-hour spike in traffic. Within that window, four of those six sales happened. That one post did more work than six days of silence.

Checking the traffic sources inside Gumroad confirmed it. The post sent a burst of targeted visitors directly to the product page, and enough of them bought to shift the weekly total sharply upward.

Crossing the $100 Mark

Adding both weeks together: $36 plus $72 equals $108. The $100 target was crossed with a small buffer to spare.

Nine sales across fourteen days does not sound dramatic, but the shape of those sales matters. Week two produced twice the revenue of week one without twice the effort - just one better-placed post.

Momentum in digital product sales builds unevenly. Early days are quiet, then one action compounds into a short spike, then quiet again. Recognising that rhythm stops you from quitting during the flat stretches.

Optimizing Pricing for Maximum Volume

Pricing a digital product wrong on day one is one of the fastest ways to kill early momentum before it starts. Two real creators on Gumroad took very different approaches, and their numbers tell the full story.

Arnold Gunter priced his CSS layout templates PDF at $5.99 and passed $100 in sales within a few weeks. Meanwhile, the creator behind reviewraccoon priced their morning routine planner at $12.00 and hit $100 by week nine, with early weeks producing just two or three sales at a time.

Neither price is wrong. But each one attracts a different buyer mindset, and that gap matters when you are just starting out with zero reviews and no audience.

The Psychology Behind the $9.99 Sweet Spot

Buyers behave differently below $20 than they do above it. Under $20, a purchase becomes an impulse buy - a decision made in seconds, without much deliberation. Above $20, buyers pause, compare options, and often walk away.

$9.99 sits right in the middle of that impulse zone. It feels affordable, yet it signals more value than a $3 or $4 product. Victoria Kurichenko sold over 325 copies of her ebooks by August 2024, generating more than $14,000 in total - and consistent, accessible pricing played a direct role in that volume.

At 100 sales, a $30 ebook earns $3,000. But if a lower price generates three times the buyers in the same period, the maths still works in your favour - and you build a larger customer base for future products.

Using Coupons to Get Early Reviews

Gumroad has a built-in coupon feature that lets you offer a percentage off your listed price. Many creators use this to give early buyers a discount in exchange for honest feedback or a review.

A product with even two or three written reviews converts far better than one with none. Reviews act as social proof - they tell a stranger that a real person bought this and found it useful.

Why Free Can Lead to Paid Sales

Offering a stripped-down version of your ebook for free, or setting a pay-what-you-want minimum, sounds counterintuitive. But free products build your buyer list fast. Gumroad collects every buyer's email automatically, even on free downloads.

That email list becomes your most direct route to selling the next product. A reader who downloaded your free guide already trusts you enough to hand over their email - converting them to a paid buyer later is significantly easier than reaching a cold audience.

Start at a price you would pay yourself without overthinking it. Adjust after your first ten sales, once you have real data to guide the decision.

Iterating Based on Customer Feedback

Collecting buyer feedback turns a one-time PDF sale into a product that compounds in value over time. Victoria Kurichenko did exactly this - she launched her SEO content guide in April 2022 and kept refining it based on what buyers asked and said, eventually reaching 325 copies sold and over $14,000 in total revenue by August 2024.

Most creators treat their first ebook as finished the moment it goes live. That thinking kills long-term growth before it starts.

Asking for testimonials is the simplest move you can make after your first few sales. Send a short email to buyers - three sentences, one direct question: "What was the most useful part of this guide?" Buyers who reply are giving you both a potential review and a roadmap for your next update.

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On Gumroad, you can message all previous buyers at once through the audience tab - send your review request there so no manual emailing is needed.

Reviews matter more as your price climbs. A $7 ebook sells on impulse, but a $27 guide needs social proof to convert a hesitant buyer. Building that review bank early pays off when you eventually raise your price.

Beyond reviews, buyer questions are your best product research. When the same question appears three times in your inbox, that is a gap in your ebook - and a new chapter waiting to be written. Adding a section that directly answers common buyer questions costs you an hour and makes the product measurably better.

Gumroad analytics shows you where your traffic comes from, which pages convert, and where buyers drop off. Victoria's best traffic sources were Medium and email - data she used to focus her promotion instead of guessing.

The "Start Simple and Iterate" philosophy is straightforward: publish something useful, watch how real buyers respond, then improve it. Done is better than perfect, and version two is always stronger than version one because it is built on actual evidence rather than assumptions.

Sending update notifications to previous buyers when you release a new version builds loyalty and generates fresh reviews without spending a cent on ads. Buyers who feel looked after become repeat customers.

Honestly, most beginners spend weeks perfecting their first draft when they should be publishing and listening. The feedback loop - sell, ask, improve, notify - is what separates a $100 experiment from a product line that scales well past that first milestone.

Scaling Beyond the First One Hundred Dollars

Earning your first $100 from a PDF proves the model works - but a single product is a ceiling, not a business. Victoria Kurichenko started with one ebook in April 2022 and hit $14,000 in total sales by August 2024, simply by building on what already sold.

Your existing PDF is raw material for three separate revenue streams. Repurpose it for Amazon KDP, turn it into a mini course, and automate your follow-up emails to new buyers.

Repurpose Your PDF for Amazon KDP

Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) is Amazon's free self-publishing platform, where millions of readers already shop for books every day. You upload your formatted book file, set a price, and Amazon handles the storefront.

Most creators skip this step because reformatting feels like extra work. Tools like TextBuilder export files in KDP-ready formats directly - PDF, EPUB, and DOCX - so the same content reaches a second audience without rewriting a single word.

Add a $49 Mini Course as an Upsell

A mini course upsell is a short video or lesson series you offer buyers immediately after they purchase your ebook. Your buyer just paid for information - they are already in buying mode, which makes this the best moment to offer more depth.

Price it at $49. Your ebook buyer paid $12 or $15 for the PDF; a $49 course offering step-by-step walkthroughs is a natural next step, not a hard sell. One in five buyers converting at that price turns a $100 week into a $200 week with zero new traffic.

Automate Your Email Sequence

Every buyer who downloads your PDF on Gumroad leaves an email address. That list is your most direct line back to a customer who already trusts you enough to pay.

Set up a three-email automated sequence - a series of pre-written emails sent automatically after purchase - that delivers a bonus tip on day one, shares a related resource on day three, and pitches the mini course on day seven. This runs without you touching it.

Volume Supports the Whole System

Producing more products consistently is where most beginners stall. TextBuilder renews 200,000 credits monthly, with unused credits rolling over - meaning you are never starting from zero. At roughly 3,000 to 20,000 words per book, that monthly allowance covers multiple new products across Self-Help, Educational, and Business formats.

Publishing two or three products a month, each with its own KDP listing and upsell path, compounds fast. Mark Wils hit $1,000 in two weeks from one 40-page PDF. A small funnel behind that same PDF - a course upsell and an automated email - doubles the revenue without doubling the work.

Conclusion

Speed and problem-solving beat perfection every single time. The creators who made $100 first were not the ones with the best writing skills - they were the ones who picked a real problem, built something fast, and put it in front of people.

The math is simple. At $9.99 per sale, you need roughly 11 buyers to clear $100. That is not a massive audience. That is a small, specific group of people who need answers you already have.

  • Pick a pain point, not a passion. Wealth, health, and self-improvement sell. Your hobby might not. Use AnswerThePublic to check demand before you write a single word.
  • Short beats long. Mark Wils earned $1,000 in two weeks from a 40-page PDF. A focused 10-to-30-page guide solves one problem cleanly and sells faster than a 200-page manual nobody finishes.
  • Done in minutes is not a shortcut - it is the strategy. TextBuilder PDF generates a fully formatted, publish-ready PDF in about 5 minutes, which is 12 times faster than the manual ChatGPT-and-Canva workflow.
  • Gumroad handles the hard parts. At roughly 9% per sale, it processes payments, delivers files, and collects buyer emails automatically. Your only job is driving traffic.
  • Organic traffic compounds. Victoria Kurichenko turned one SEO guide into $14,000 in total sales using Medium and email - no paid ads, no large following at the start.

Here is what to do today. Open AnswerThePublic, type in one topic you know something about, and find the question people ask most. Then open TextBuilder PDF, enter that topic, and generate your first draft.

Your product page on Gumroad can be live before the end of the day.

Zigmars Berzins

Zigmars Berzins Author

Founder of TextBuilder.ai – a company that develops AI writers, helps people write texts, and earns money from writing. Zigmars has a Master’s degree in computer science and has been working in the software development industry for over 30 years. He is passionate about AI and its potential to change the world and believes that TextBuilder.ai can make a significant contribution to the field of writing.