[Scoundreller]

Agreed. I once got upset with a forum for the same reasons.

Why am I throwing my content away?

So I set up a CMS and started blogging away.

Made over $50k over the last 10 years, just with Adsense.

It’s now mostly “dead”, but on a $3/month s3 static copy that still earns $100/month.

The most difficult part now is the yearly tax/accounting work.

[tomerbd2]

wow man! what are you blogging about?

[Scoundreller]

Basically anything finance would pay well. But I’m not USA. It’s much more competitive now.

Just find any industry that has high margins for each marginal sale. That means there’s lots of marketing being spent.

Or a new product/industry/problem where it’s hard to find info.

[eli]

This is basically B2B media, which has been around forever. We built a very profitable company about writing content that people in niche industries need to do their jobs, and then selling ads around it.

[Scoundreller]

Though I was focusing on consumers. Pretty much all xxx/hr services fall into the high marginal profit category.

But so can cars, even if the manufacturer is losing money, they do much better with each extra vehicle they can sell.

[eli]

There are many factors that go into what industries we cover and who within that industry we write for, but the biggest one is probably that they all make buying decisions for stuff that costs a lot of money: https://www.industrydive.com/industries/

[mkirklions]

I can make ~3-5k/yr on ads, but I make 25x more at my day job, it seems petty.

Although, this seems like bad capitalism, cant grow if I dont charge money...

But I started my website to help everyone(especially the lowest income people).

Very conflicted.

[Scoundreller]

I was mostly just shifting my online forum posting onto my own platforms.

It’s not hard to find people that make thousands upon thousands of posts on forums. They’re making a killing: for other people.

For the most part, I would bash companies that overcharge and recommend cheaper alternatives.

Hence why I didn’t bother with anything more than Adsense. I was basically toxic, but it was popular and refreshing.

[fmajid]

Blogging is part and parcel of establishing your own brand, and makes it likelier you will get your next day job and a raise.

[Scoundreller]

Maybe that’s where I screwed up by never writing anything related to work. Haha.

Most would laugh at my generic site, but the content was good and the numbers didn’t lie.

[tomcam]

If your site is http://efficiencyiseverything.com I think it could be a hit with a graphic redesign and maybe converting some posts to YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, etc. It’s a neat idea but slow and a little hard on the eyes.

[Scoundreller]

Definitely not. My site worked on mobile because it wasn’t trying to be cool.

[mkirklions]

Yep, going to improve the web design next year.

Priority now is new content.

[gowld]

Do you work more than or less than 25x at your day job?

[Scoundreller]

The usual issue is scale. Trying to write 25x the content without taking a hit gets difficult.

As a side-gig, it’s pretty good to write good stuff when it comes to you.

Mostly I trash crappy products and recommended better and cheaper competitors.

There was only so much I came across that upset me enough to write them up.