Wow, this blew up. Let's see here.
Did you get paid for your work? Did you get a contract signed? It's taken some setbacks, but I've learned that, unless you are willing to do the work for free, always get the terms and agreement in writing and have both parties sign. It's not a lack of trust, it's a security measure for both sides.
Spend the next five days reading, then start implementing. If you're looking at the affiliate site route,
@HenryHavoc and
@LuckyCharm007 have awesome journey threads where they start from scratch and are both building awesome sites.
If you are still needing any ahrefs exports let me know. I've got the full subscription (standard one).
That's way beyond by pay grade, although I recently read a thread that pointed to
@Sephrata as an experienced media buyer. He might have some solid advice.
Accountability partners, in my experience, are crutches. You can only progress as far as the lowest progressing partner. If that's not you, you're holding yourself back.
Instead of isolating yourself from the outside world, why not take a chunk of your day when you are doing things that are not as computer-intensive, and bring a laptop to a coffee shop or something? Get some fresh air, have some human interaction.
I face similar issues due to the volume of workload and the fact that I'm not doing IM full time. Are you using any tools for task management?
Also, vetting a solid team is a difficult task. Finding honest, trustworthy team members who are good at their job is a whole different animal. You might want to come to terms with the fact that you will never find the "perfect" team. I don't think anyone has. What mediums are you using to look for potential team members?
Jump in, dude. If you don't someone else will, and they'll snatch up the profit that could have been yours, while you sit at the edge of the deep end of the money pool watching everyone else swim in dollars like Scrooge McDuck yo.
Take every cent of that passive income you are currently making, and stash it away somewhere. Forget it exists. Act like you are starting from square one again. Then hit the ground running.
Remove distractions. If IM is a distraction to your personal life, and you value your personal life more, stop doing IM. If your personal life is a distraction to your IM, and you value IM more, cut ties.
The missing factor here is how the project makes you feel. If it becomes nothing more than a "job", you're going to be miserable and not want to put the time in. Is this a cash grab project, or is this something you are actually passionate about? And for reasons besides the potential money. Is this something you'd spend time on for free?
What monetization methods are you currently using?
Never let a personality test determine how you are going to perceive yourself. I only quoted a paragraph, but it sounds like you are making a lot of excuses, when in reality you just don't have the ambition. Are you working on things you give a shit about, or just looking for things that will pay the bills?
That's all I got for now. I'll try to respond to another 10 or so later today.
