Building a Legitimate Business

GILGAME$H said:

Is this a side-income or has it grown into something more?

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It is not scalable. That is the problem. Since it is 95% auto I'm seeking for new method to diversify.

hieu230592 said:

It is not scalable. That is the problem. Since it is 95% auto I'm seeking for new method to diversify.

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Yeah, that's my main gripe with most BHW businesses. Either they're autopilot side-income or they're massive churn-and-burn get rich quick. Hell, that's my main gripe with all online "businessmen" (wantrepreneurs). If it don't scale and last long, time's better spent elsewhere in most cases.

You going for something like that now? Or are you trying to get another low-revenue, but mostly passive income strem going? Not gonna lie, having a portfolio of 10 $1K/year projects is definitely better than 1 $10k/year project.

Keep up the good work buddy...I will see you there

GILGAME$H said:

Yeah, that's my main gripe with most BHW businesses. Either they're autopilot side-income or they're massive churn-and-burn get rich quick. Hell, that's my main gripe with all online "businessmen" (wantrepreneurs). If it don't scale and last long, time's better spent elsewhere in most cases.

You going for something like that now? Or are you trying to get another low-revenue, but mostly passive income strem going? Not gonna lie, having a portfolio of 10 $1K/year projects is definitely better than 1 $10k/year project.

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My plan is making membership and ecom sites along with blogs to support the main projects.

hieu230592 said:

My plan is making membership and ecom sites along with blogs to support the main projects.

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Good shit. I wish you luck and hope we both make it.

Quick Update:

• Uni's been getting in the way, but I've finished all of my assignments early and have the rest of the week off to work on this shit. Planning 6-18 more articles. Using a mix of lower and higher trending topics to gauge what's popular
  
• After a shitload of optimizations on WP, my desktop pagespeed from Google is consistantly around 98. Fucking amazing, yeah? Nah, mobile is at 68-82. Annoying, because "first meaningful draw" takes too long to load on mobile. Probably some javascript ineffeciency with elementor. Nothing I can do about it right now.
• Going to set aside some time to properly plan out traffic generation today, will post an update at the end of the day

Quick Update:

• Traffic Gen: So, email lists are the top priority right now. Repeat traffic, especially repeat traffic that buys, is more important than one-offs from organic traffic. Social media is next. It'll be difficult to gain initial traction, so guest posts and syndicated posts are the first step. Then, I can do some quick incentive-based offers (giveaways) for likes/followers/joining the email list. Quality will take a hit, so I might not include the email list in the giveaways.
  
• Brand Update: Finally getting a clearer picture of where I want the brand to go. It's polarizing, so the general demographic it reaches will be smaller, but more likely to convert. This is important to keep in mind with everything. I can do a bunch of low-quality lead-gen by posting on Reddit or Quora, but the likelihood they'll convert to buyers is small (reddit is a bunch of broke/stingy males, Quora mostly foreigners). Targeted is important in the beginning. Anyway, the rebranding will help pivot into a supplement company down the line
  
• Income School; Project 24: Downloaded a rip of the whole course. Don't want to have any blindspots, so I'll be dipping into this, and a few other, courses over time.
  
• First Article: Finished, 1,000 words, high quality. Writing it gave me some more ideas I can bang out, then inter-link within my site to get those numbers pumped up. After writing it all out, I'm genuinely surprised people struggle to get even a single 500 word article out in a day. If you're a native English speaker, it should not be this difficult for you.
  
• AMP: Added an AMP plugin for mobile. Should help increase my pagespeed for mobile, because we all know how Google likes to rank its in-house tools higher. We'll see.
• Email Server: Need to get this up and running.

GILGAME$H said:

China -- for all of the more complex shit.

Everything else I can mix up with local supplies and a commercial kitchen.

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As someone who runs a commercial kitchen you do know there is far more involved than just "mixing it up in a commercial kitchen" yeah?

t2van said:

As someone who runs a commercial kitchen you do know there is far more involved than just "mixing it up in a commercial kitchen" yeah?

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Yeah, I've dealt with the FDA before and I'm well-versed in the cGMP. Although the FDA really doesn't have any teeth, it's best for everyone involved that the product, and the manufacturer, are up to standard. Labeling won't be a concern, I don't plan on going ham with the that sort marketing.

But if I've missed anything, I would appreciate your insight.

Personal Challenge:

I've developed a very rough system for mass-producing high quality articles related to my niche and brand-focus. I'm going to stay up all night hopped on amphetamines and rockstars, to see how it works out.

Started around 1:30 and a half ago. 1,200 words full of notes. Aiming for 15 articles tonight. Likely won't make it, but each should garner around 500-1000 words easy. That would make a total of 16 articles with at minimum, 9000 words.

It's much easier to get this done when I'm in a "flow," purely focused on the task at hand. No interruptions. I have around 8 hours of pure focused, peace and quiet.

If it works out, I'll stick to doing these maybe once a week. Trying to write an article during the day is inefficient, because I have other shit and responsibilities, that I can't sit down and just focus on writing something great en masse. Too much context-switching.

Roughly 1:30 hours later, found myself completely devoid of all motivation and needed a quick dopamine fix. So, I ate a shitload of mixed nuts and then I got mine by jacking off to some camgirl.

Didn't even prep properly, just came on my shirt and tossed that shit to the side.

Current Notes Word Count: 1,800. Gotta ramp it up. Probably won't get any articles done, but all the skeleton frames/outlines for them will for sure be finished.

Another 1:30 hours. 2,600 words.

GILGAME$H said:

Yeah, I've dealt with the FDA before and I'm well-versed in the cGMP. Although the FDA really doesn't have any teeth, it's best for everyone involved that the product, and the manufacturer, are up to standard. Labeling won't be a concern, I don't plan on going ham with the that sort marketing.

But if I've missed anything, I would appreciate your insight.

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USA?

I'm not familiar with the system there. But there is a ton of boxes you need to tick, insurances, certification requirements (speaking from a UK perspective) in relation to hygiene etc, what touches what, what mixes with what. Run times in cleaning equipment before mixing or preparing other items. Not to mention all of the paper work and logging / registration of items and products.

Labelling should be a concern as you have to label all of the nutrition information and get it spot on, anything misleading or incorrect will result in a fine or worse.

I'm just trying to make you aware there is more to it than just "mixing it up"

t2van said:

USA?

I'm not familiar with the system there. But there is a ton of boxes you need to tick, insurances, certification requirements (speaking from a UK perspective) in relation to hygiene etc, what touches what, what mixes with what. Run times in cleaning equipment before mixing or preparing other items. Not to mention all of the paper work and logging / registration of items and products.

Labelling should be a concern as you have to label all of the nutrition information and get it spot on, anything misleading or incorrect will result in a fine or worse.

I'm just trying to make you aware there is more to it than just "mixing it up"

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USA. Don't know about the UK, but consumer safety is a joke here. Same specs though, labeling, hygiene standards (no certs/oversight needed), and batch logs/numbers (when recalls are needed). Labeling here is simple, again. The FDA has pretty clear guidelines: be kind of accurate (you can round-down calories if it's less than 5 or other bullshit), and don't say you're treating any disease/make wild claims.

Not much paperwork or insurance.

It's quite lax, and if you do fuck-up, the FDA can't go after you unless they employ some other agency or prosecutor to enforce their shit for them (very very rare).

Land of the rich, home of the oligarchs.

GILGAME$H said:

USA. Don't know about the UK, but consumer safety is a joke here. Same specs though, labeling, hygiene standards (no certs/oversight needed), and batch logs/numbers (when recalls are needed). Labeling here is simple, again. The FDA has pretty clear guidelines: be kind of accurate (you can round-down calories if it's less than 5 or other bullshit), and don't say you're treating any disease/make wild claims.

Not much paperwork or insurance.

It's quite lax, and if you do fuck-up, the FDA can't go after you unless they employ some other agency or prosecutor to enforce their shit for them (very very rare).

Land of the rich, home of the oligarchs.

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You might want to double check on insurance... if someone eats it and dies.. also FDA with allergies etc? that does not matter? Or if you contaminate the food with a cut or anything like that?

t2van said:

You might want to double check on insurance... if someone eats it and dies.. also FDA with allergies etc? that does not matter? Or if you contaminate the food with a cut or anything like that?

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Insurance is greatly encouraged, but many "supplement companies" operate without it. Litigation is rare for small-timers, but not unheard of. U.S.A's business structures allow "deferred liability" where such legal disputes are considered the company vs. the plaintiff/victim, not the owner/employees vs. plaintiff/victim (although it is very possible, if the plaintiff wants to make a point).

Death is incredibly uncommon, and even harder to establish causality for. Someone takes dick pills, and then some time later dies of a stroke? No one really cares, investigations don't happen -- unless a close friend/family member makes a fuss with the news media, and some gun-ho prosecutor/ competitor-funded litigator wants to get his rocks off to dragging your name through the dirt. Pay "outside of court" to the victim's loved-ones so they'll shut up about it, and everyone moves on with their lives. Now, they cannot re-litigate, because well, it was "settled outside of court." Case-closed, you had your chance and you succumbed to a few dollar signs.

Allergies are simple, slap a label with: "Processed in a facility that works with: soy, peanuts, whatever," "contains phenylalanine" for the very rare phenylketonuria amongst us, and then go down the checklist to see if your product is "at-risk" for giving someone an allergic reaction. Liability cleared, should've read the label, now you're going into anaphylactic shock. That's it, really.

Now food contaminations, those are much higher on the list. Probably one of the few things that matter. There are best practices to limit the incidence of that, but you can never be sure what those Chinese suppliers are cutting your powders with. Gotta go in person, or hire someone, to start a relationship with them, and anytime they try to cut corners -- and they will do anything and everything they can get away with -- set them back in line.

It's the wild wild west. I don't agree with it. Despite playing in the same game as everyone else, I'll do my best to not fuck anyone over (that didn't have it coming to them).

Another 1:30 hours. 3,800 words motherfucker. This is just notes, imagine all the content I can spin with this shit. I see atleast 30 solid posts. Half and half money/info posts. No real infomercial content yet, but I already have a mental idea of I want to organize all of this.

Fuck, if my mind could get a boner, I'd have one right now.

I can relate to your reasoning for going down this route, I have been on the yo-yo cashflow for years. But its time to build something long term.

Sadly I choose a stupid niche that is heavily regulated, but its a barrier that one can overcome.

All the best with your journey.

You've got a good strategy.

Hope you'll be building an email list, interviewing experts, allow authorities to guest posts to post on your niche (i.e Be like Oprah), it will help you establish credibility faster.

All the best.

IamNRE said:

I can relate to your reasoning for going down this route, I have been on the yo-yo cashflow for years. But its time to build something long term.

Sadly I choose a stupid niche that is heavily regulated, but its a barrier that one can overcome.

All the best with your journey.

You've got a good strategy.

Hope you'll be building an email list, interviewing experts, allow authorities to guest posts to post on your niche (i.e Be like Oprah), it will help you establish credibility faster.

All the best.

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Conveniently, I am the expert in my niche. Already know the popular authorities on this subject (very few, and many have cult followings) -- will be interesting to interact with them.

Good luck with yours, as well. Stable cash flow will set you up for the rest of your life, if you do it right.

Good luck with your Business.