Originally Posted by deltav

Sure sure, some automation for content is a given - not sure how anyone could function otherwise. I also provide most of my own content rather than just buying it & uploading, so I guess that's a big one there.

But stuff like branding, marketing, traffic generation, writing copy, customer service, member interaction, collaborations, acquiring or producing truly quality content, etc, all take up a healthy chunk of time. Again not so much that you couldn't run a few in tandem, but some of these guys are listing 37, 45, etc, paysites.

I'm guessing it's just a different approach and different ideas of what a membership site should be, both for customers and owner. If I ran 30-40 sites equivalent to my humble vintage paysite and all other things remaining equal, I'd be fucking rich individually pulling in many millions net profit annually (sadly this is not the case!). But again, for my approach it would be impossible - even with a stable of employees the attention to detail would just not be there.