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Re:Why has no one made a better Goodreads by weird-eye-issue on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:30PM (#26835959)
I see a lot of sites grow to thousands in monthly revenue fairly quickly and sell quickly for a minimum of 40x monthly multiple. There are tons of resources and tools out there to build sites that will generate a lot of organic traffic.

It takes a lot of work but if you have the resources practically all of it can be outsourced. What I do is learn as much as I can about each role that is needed, then I hire virtual assistants and train them to do that role. That helps keep costs down since you aren't hiring an "expert".

I'm growing a couple sites right now that I haven't written a single word for or taken a single photograph because I have some awesome writers and a photographer. I've also never posted a single article to Wordpress because, you guessed it, I have an awesome VA that I trained to do that for me. I even have a content manager (the highest paid role) who manages the writers and tells them pretty specifically what to write.

Re:Why has no one made a better Goodreads by dazc on Saturday April 17, 2021 @01:51AM (#26841894)
Why are these people working for you and not just doing their own thing?
Re:Why has no one made a better Goodreads by weird-eye-issue on Saturday April 17, 2021 @02:28PM (#26846342)
They get paid immediately. It requires capital to run this business. There is always a risk I will lose everything I invested into it. Running this business requires several different roles.