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Originally Posted by Far-L
"Try new things" and "innovate" don't have to mean "find a whole new traffic source" or "write some new software that automates everything". Trying new things can mean consolidating functions so certain efforts can be streamlined thereby cutting costs. For example, say a skilled marketer is having problems maintaining production along with day to day business management and cannot afford the staff necessary to meet deadlines much less sales goals. That person might consider outsourcing the content management at a fraction of the time and expense of managing in house staff.
Innovation can mean look at new ways to convert the traffic you already have or learn a new skill set for building traffic - if tgp worked yesterday and blog works today but facebook is looking good for tomorrow then where is your effort best going to be spent adopting a new skill set to deal with that potential revenue source.
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Thank You and Most Excellent! Exactly what I was looking for - concrete examples. The fact that they match my own inner instincts is a bonus. LOL
I spend roughly 2-4 hours every day, depending in the tasks, doing my 'bread 'n butter' work. I'm sure many of you also do, and I'm sure many have figured out (or are starting to) a way to automate these tasks. MY 'solution', as best as I can calculate it, is if I hire someone in the Phillipines or India (tho India is getting more pricey) they could do the work for me and cost maybe $200 a week to do so. This would free app. 15-20 a week of my time! Worth it? I'm thinking yes...
Until now ALL my sites, everything, have been 'clean', meaning without aff links, or upsells, or cross-sells, or anything inside the mem areas but content, etc. But now I'm considering doing something with all my exit traffic (50,000+ uniques network-wide), partnerships, etc. But how to do it tastefully, as in not to piss of surfers/members and add to the 'bombardment'?
PS Dead fan: ICQ me sometime and I'll share with you the day i interviewed Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir backstage in the Long Island Colliseum back in '91, just me & Bob & Jerry & my giant-titted girlfriend, who Jerry kept staring at through his (literally) rose-colored shades, until one of his 'assistants' came in, mid-way, and handed jerry a big, fat....ICQ me, not for public consumption. LOL