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Let's say someone wrote this:
“Writing content that sells costs time and a lot of money.”
Ask yourself, what technical problems do these people have?
From it, I can extract two problems:
Problem #1: Writing content that sells is expensive (lack of money).
Problem #2: Writing content that sells takes time (lack of time, time-consuming, takes too long).