Sprint to becoming a digital nomad

serrat

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Ok so this is my first journey on here. Been a member for a while and learned a lot of useful things. Hopefully people find my journey useful and can learn from it or at least get inspired to start their own. The goal of this journey is to make 3,000 - 5,000 EUR/mo. The additional goal is to inspire someone else to take action as well. Point is to at least hit the low end goal of 3k, see what's making the most money and take it from there.

I've been in the whitehat, digital agency game for a while. Problem with all that is that everything takes for ever and you're constantly busy. The idea is to build revenue streams that enable me to have free time, move abroad and live the digital nomad lifestyle.

Every method I will post on here is going to be automated and I've been building automation tools for the last few months. I also bought a server, which is mostly set up now and ready to start warming up. To get the best possible results I will focus on B2B and B2C niches.

Ways of making money for this journey:

1. Autopilot web design

I figure I can charge 2-3k per website and outsource it to my guy for 20% of the price. This way I only need to sell 1 site per month and make half of my target income. For this purpose I've already made several scripts that will automate outreach to companies. One is a LinkedIn bot, that will reach out to the right people on there, the goal is to find decision makers and contact them automatically. The other crawls local websites, finds shitty ones and automatically contacts them by email. These two bots should fill the top of the funnel, the idea is to only engage in person with those that make it to the bottom of the funnel. I consider these people hot leads, people in the middle of the funnel are warm, and I will periodically re-engage them with my bots to see if they can be reactivated.

I already have several profiles I will use for this purpose and will be opening more soon. In my tests I can reach out to about 50 people per day without getting banned. So the math is 50*30 = 1500 people per month per profile. I will start with 5-10 profiles which should give me a reach of at least 7500 people per month. And that's just on LinkedIn, I can send as many emails as I please directly to companies, but I prefer the LinkedIn method since you can find the exact person (some kind of marketing manager, cmo, ceo, etc.) and contact them directly. Response rate is much better than just emailing the main company email and landing in so secretaries inbox.

TO DO:

- I still need to correct some things about the bot to improve accuracy, specifically I want to check the website of the company and give it a score based on what it looks like then include that into the outreach message itself, or at least only reach out to people whose websites suck, timeframe: 7 days

- finish the funnel, timeframe: 3 days

Once set up, the bots will run on my servers on their own filling the funnel and I will only get involved once they reach a certain point - express interest. This way its going to be on autopilot. It can also be scaled, I can open essentially as many accounts as I want with my method.

Conversion rate only needs to be 1 in several 1000 people for this to work so I think my chances here are pretty good. I think it should be much better.

2. SMM (spamming)

I see a lot of companies that have less engagements on their social media posts than they have employees. When you have less likes than employees you know you have a problem if even your employees don't like your posts. Having built a bunch of bots to automate different tasks on social like commenting (using text generation), sharing, liking, etc. I plan to offer these services to companies. Here I will go more into blackhat methods and essentially offer companies new ways of spamming the f*** out of social. I'll also offer services to boost youtube videos to get on page 1 for our country, etc.

I'm going to start warming up a few 100 accounts next week probably and then start offering these services. Also any kind of social proof they want, reviews, etc. I don't care, as long as they pay. Maybe I'll draw the line at bad mouthing their competitors. I've had such requests in the past but I was doing this whitehat, so we'll see.

TO DO:

- open 300 accounts to start on the main social media (facebook, youtube, etc.) and begin warming them up, timeframe: 7 days

3. Autopilot websites

I already built 1 website, content is not yet fully automated though. This site will be in my local language and the idea is for it to be the local version of buzzfeed or something similar. I have scripts to pull content from foreign sources and make pretty decent articles. Even for English, the results pass copyscape usually with 10-12% matches, which should be perfectly fine since I tested articles written about the same topic for different new outlets by actual writers/journalists and copyscape found anywhere between 10-20% matches (phrases, etc.) I plan on using Google API to translate these articles into local language and publish them.

With content automated I will use my bots to promote them on social. At least at first when I don't have enough clients to occupy my bots 100% they will be boosting my websites. Then hopefully they will gain enough traction to sustain themselves for the most part.

I have another domain for another such website. Here the focus will be on buying guides, gifts, reviews, etc. Content will also be automated, traffic with bots from FB. Here I plan to introduce quizzes, etc. to try and gather email subscribers, something like "find the perfect gift for ..." and they input data about the person and get recommendations.

Monetization for this site will be by ads, and I plan to make link to local ecommerce sites if I can work out a deal to get them to pay per click. Although they don't want to pay much per click, about 0.1-0.2 EUR/click but probably still more than adsense, and the CTR is probably going to be much higher since these people are actively searching for what to buy. There are local price comparison sites which charge 0.4 EUR/click but a lot of companies complain bout that. So maybe there is a niche to be carved out here.

I will see how this goes.

TO DO:

- finish content automation scripts for both site, timeframe: 7 days
- set up wordpress on the second site, timeframe: by 3 days

Recap:

In the next week I should have finished:

- webdesign funnel
- wordpress for the buying guide/review site
- open 300 accounts
- final corrections to the bots and content automation scripts
 
You've got quite a plan. Following! Good luck
 
Glad you're starting out with diversification.
Being a nomad with just one income stream is too risky.
Good luck and will follow along.
 
Glad you're starting out with diversification.
Being a nomad with just one income stream is too risky.
Good luck and will follow along.

My advice would actually be the exact opposite. Diversity is good but I'd hammer one thing until you have an income stream. Way more effective to scale into other areas once you have the first one down.

@OP the week I left for Thailand to do the digital nomad thing myself I was doing some very similar stuff. Custom SMM bots, automated websites and.... well, I was doing some custom retail arbitrage instead of web design but I'd say we were in a fairly similar boat.

0/10. Would not do it again. It was easy to feel productive like that but my actual profit numbers shot way up when I started drilling down to focus on one thing at a time. If you're open to advice from someone who's been there - pick one and hammer at it until you're making money. Any one of those three could potentially be enough to get you started but if you spread yourself too thin the likelihood is they all flop.

Either way, best of luck. Any particular spots you're looking at going to?
 
My advice would actually be the exact opposite. Diversity is good but I'd hammer one thing until you have an income stream. Way more effective to scale into other areas once you have the first one down.

This is a superb advice.

I'm a successful digital nomad myself. Worked super hard for a year (started 5-6 months before covid). Only focused on one single thing (content heavy affiliate marketing websites). Worked hard every single day in order to make it work and make a proper living.

After a while, I earn about 10,000 USD/month and can live wherever in the world I want. It's an amazing feeling - but it requires that you work on ONE SINGLE THING as hard as you can. If you spread out on 5 different projects, I can almost guarantee you won't make it.
 
This is a superb advice.

I'm a successful digital nomad myself. Worked super hard for a year (started 5-6 months before covid). Only focused on one single thing (content heavy affiliate marketing websites). Worked hard every single day in order to make it work and make a proper living.

After a while, I earn about 10,000 USD/month and can live wherever in the world I want. It's an amazing feeling - but it requires that you work on ONE SINGLE THING as hard as you can. If you spread out on 5 different projects, I can almost guarantee you won't make it.
Is it just me or does it really feel like digital nomad lifestyle is not possible when you got a family?
 
Is it just me or does it really feel like digital nomad lifestyle is not possible when you got a family?

I think you're right. I've already met loads of digital nomads around the world (mainly in Thailand).

The few who got a family will quite quickly end their digital nomad journey and move back home. :)

I'm single on purpose. No attachments apart from the apartment I bought back home (and rent out).
 
My advice would actually be the exact opposite. Diversity is good but I'd hammer one thing until you have an income stream. Way more effective to scale into other areas once you have the first one down.

@OP the week I left for Thailand to do the digital nomad thing myself I was doing some very similar stuff. Custom SMM bots, automated websites and.... well, I was doing some custom retail arbitrage instead of web design but I'd say we were in a fairly similar boat.

0/10. Would not do it again. It was easy to feel productive like that but my actual profit numbers shot way up when I started drilling down to focus on one thing at a time. If you're open to advice from someone who's been there - pick one and hammer at it until you're making money. Any one of those three could potentially be enough to get you started but if you spread yourself too thin the likelihood is they all flop.

Either way, best of luck. Any particular spots you're looking at going to?

Yes you are right, a few months ago I posted about the compounding benefits of building one solid source of income (which every normal people see as a business) instead of riding 10 horses at the time and it was met with criticism around here.

If I had focus on 5 sources of income at the time, I would not have built a solid one in the first place...

This diversity thing makes no sense at all when it comes to business, in stock investing yeah but not in business...

It's hard enough to be competitive in one front, if someone focus on 5 things at a time, the main business will suffer because not optimised fully.
 
Yes you are right, a few months ago I posted about the compounding benefits of building one solid source of income (which every normal people see as a business) instead of riding 10 horses at the time and it was met with criticism around here.

If I had focus on 5 sources of income at the time, I would not have built a solid one in the first place...

This diversity thing makes no sense at all when it comes to business, in stock investing yeah but not in business...

It's hard enough to be competitive in one front, if someone focus on 5 things at a time, the main business will suffer because not optimised fully.

Diversity in business is a personal choice and comes down to risk tolerance. There are benefits to doubling down and benefits to diversifying and I don't think either is really better than the other.

Personally, I'm on more than 5 fronts at the moment and I make the conscious decision not to focus on most of them. Some will reach the point of diminishing returns where the increased revenue won't match the work it will take. Some I could probably 10x but the work that would take doesn't match my risk tolerance.

I've no problem with diversity once you reach the stage to make that choice. When you're just getting started on that first income stream, that's when I'd focus on just the one thing. Especially in OP's case. Botting social sites and trying to make meaningful returns with automated content is enough of a task in itself and there's not really a clear framework to follow.

Again, you do you OP but I've been in a very similar situation and if I could do it again I would have focused on just one project at the time.
 
Diversity in business is a personal choice and comes down to risk tolerance. There are benefits to doubling down and benefits to diversifying and I don't think either is really better than the other.

Personally, I'm on more than 5 fronts at the moment and I make the conscious decision not to focus on most of them. Some will reach the point of diminishing returns where the increased revenue won't match the work it will take. Some I could probably 10x but the work that would take doesn't match my risk tolerance.

I've no problem with diversity once you reach the stage to make that choice. When you're just getting started on that first income stream, that's when I'd focus on just the one thing. Especially in OP's case. Botting social sites and trying to make meaningful returns with automated content is enough of a task in itself and there's not really a clear framework to follow.

Again, you do you OP but I've been in a very similar situation and if I could do it again I would have focused on just one project at the time.

wise words...
 
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