Do this instead of blogging in 2023

Build brands and companies, not blogs.

Thanks for attention. I hope it helps someone.

I will say instead:

Build brands and companies, WITH blogs.

MKSKS said:

I will say instead:

Build brands and companies, WITH blogs.

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Build brands and companies, with blogs, content marketing including, but not limited to SEO.

For what reasons? Last update decrease ranking of affiliate websites compare to ecommerce ?

Build brands and companies, with blogs, content marketing including, but not limited to SEO.

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It's clearly 5 times harder work.

Yea you're right. Btw are you working on an app on windows that will generate text using gpt 3?

reaaski said:

Build brands and companies, with blogs, content marketing including, but not limited to SEO.

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Thank you for suggestion. Any particular reason behind your advice?

Not everybody out there can build a brand. But all can start a blog.

sageshark said:

Thank you for suggestion. Any particular reason behind your advice?

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1. This is the reason for the success behind many jr execs and mods on the forum.
2. It's long term.
3. It can generate money far quicker than blogs if you have industry specific experience.

This strategy will weed out any other focusing on a single channel and perhaps "method".

This will result in the development of a real business (company).

It requires, of course, a lot of experience and knowledge in some field. So this is mainly aimed at people who have thought about it in the past, but doubted whether there was any point. By all means, there is a point.

When you build a brand you have more control and are less dependent on factors that you can't control.
Say for instance blogging depends on serp rankings, vlogging depends on YT, AFFILIATE & CPA are dependent on the network.
So, there's always a risk factor despite years of stability & this stability can vanish anytime depending on changes to the platform you depend on.

UddiGamer said:

Yea you're right. Btw are you working on an app on windows that will generate text using gpt 3?

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This part of my journey is dead at the moment.

I don't think it's possible to create something useful in the machine learning area if you have so much stuff on your mind.

Programming and machine learning are not things I can afford to invest my time in right now.

They are much better when you have $0.5m free in your bank account. Otherwise, I would just create another product that simply connects people with OpenAI.

The field is getting more competitive. People have learned to use already existing products on the market. It's hard to top that.

It is far too complicated for my current purposes. A kind of overkill and it is overwhelming.

My point is that it won't put food on the plate. At least the chances are low it will in less than 6 - 8 months.

I've heard too many bad stories about SaaS entrepreneurs. Mostly it's a struggle. I don't think I would be able to handle it alone. It would be much better with a support team - a solid engineer and a marketing specialist.

I've tried, but I've given up for now, because it costs too much energy, and the results seem more distant than closer, considering new SaaS projects pop up everyday - they can be created easily if you have a team and money.

IT and software are generally full of failures. I don't know if there is some other industry where so many people give up. You'll hear from software agency owners they get themselves into debt etc.

Even for my mental health, it's too much.

In the future, I will consider AI text2text generation as a part of my technical expertise in the SEO field. I would use it as a revenue boosting tool - not as a main course.

reaaski said:

They are much better when you have $0.5m free in your bank account. Otherwise, I would just create another product that simply connects people with OpenAI.

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That's a fallacy. You can create a product that does something else using existing solutions and still do better than your competitors.

This was my initial idea, but my mind tells me I got to train those 1 trillion parameter models and do that 10 times. Ambitions are growing over me. I'm a f*king tryhard.

I feel like it's dumb to just use APIs, but you can still be creative with it.

There are people who don't even use ML and only scrape content getting good results.

So yeah, it's a fallacy. I think my product would be just fine for some people.

Still a f*k ton of marketing needed. Plus security, tests etc. Some SaaS boilerplate and consulting would come in handy. I found some cool dudes doing that.

Good pricing strategy and I believe I could out some players from this market.

I remember smashing my Lego builds when they weren't perfect. Will I now do the same with my product when it's not perfect?

reaaski said:

That's a fallacy. You can create a product that does something else using existing solutions and still do better than your competitors.

This was my initial idea, but my mind tells me I got to train those 1 trillion parameter models and do that 10 times. Ambitions are growing over me. I'm a f*king tryhard.

I feel like it's dumb to just use APIs, but you can still be creative with it.

There are people who don't even use ML and only scrape content getting good results.

So yeah, it's a fallacy. I think my product would be just fine for some people.

Still a f*k ton of marketing needed. Plus security, tests etc. Some SaaS boilerplate and consulting would come in handy. I found some cool dudes doing that.

Good pricing strategy and I believe I could out some players from this market.

I remember smashing my Lego builds when they weren't perfect. Will I now do the same with my product when it's not perfect?

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Well, that's right, it's very hard to be successful with a SASS without having a team or a good starting budget. Yeah, some people have done it, but now the market seems to be more saturated.

But I liked the idea of your tool being a desktop app on Windows or Mac, where we can use our own API from Open AI. That would be something different that doesn't exist in the market right now. Other AI writers charge a lot more than what it would cost if we used the GPT 3 API ourselves. Yeah, they have costs to bear, like server fees and marketing, and they also fine tune the AI for better output.

But your idea was something different. So I was asking if you're building it. Well, just focus on what's your priority now.

Thanks bro

reaaski said:

Build brands and companies, not blogs.

Thanks for attention. I hope it helps someone.

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thanks bro For the advice

I agree.

Build brands + branch out into video, not only blogging.

Building a brand could be beneficial if you're selling something
Most blogs exist to make money from display ads

Build brands and companies, not blogs.

You're absolutely correct.

The biggest example of this is Copyblogger.

It just started out as a typical content marketing and blogging productivity and instruction blog.

Pretty soon, it became a resource and now, it is a full on-brand with different offerings.

By seeking to establish a brand from day one, you avoid the risk of developing a potentially paralyzing or frustrating tunnel vision.

Because if you go about building your online passive income empire with the mindset of, "I'm just a blogger," or "I'm just doing this to make spare change," you are sabotaging yourself and not doing yourself any favors.

I know that a lot of people think it's a joke but there's a lot of truth in building brands instead of focusing on the vehicle for that brand.

OK...I'll be the one to say it:
Don't build brands. Brands are for warrior forum s*ckers, selling a 29.99 course on fat loss.
Build hundreds of thousands of cloaked doorways and dominate google instead.

Black Hat Wolfie said:

OK...I'll be the one to say it:
Don't build brands. Brands are for warrior forum s*ckers, selling a 29.99 course on fat loss.
Build hundreds of thousands of cloaked doorways and dominate google instead.

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How do you generate the content ?