[cestith]

As a self-funding concern they don't work that way for long. If you have seed capital or another line of income, sure.

If the point is that you put 16 days of sweat equity in to make $22 a day and trending upward of passive income every day after, that would be impressive. Summarizing that you turned $100 into $450 over the course of sixteen days just sounds like a self-funding hobby. This is not the sort of thing that multiplies your cash 4.5 times every few weeks regardless of input amount. This only scales with more contact and a lot of selling.

What really impressed me were the insights into this space. Getting the initial contact by offering free help up front is an interesting angle. Figuring out that most bloggers aren't interested in really expanding their audiences in a condensed version was a surprise. I'd readily have read through a full article on either of those. The numbers summarized up front almost turned me off the rest of the article altogether.

The techniques of hosting and publishing web content and setting up email are a couple decades old hat to me. Email marketing isn't especially interesting anymore either. The concepts for the business are interesting. The insights into the customers for the final concept are even more interesting. The small amount of money made on the initial experiment proves no angel investors were bled dry to start it rolling, but leading with that just didn't do it any favors with me.