| 1) You have to be very careful with embracing limiting beliefs such as this one -> Artisans were different than merchants There are lots of artists who are very good at sales and marketing Don't fall for the trap that you have to be a starving artist who dies penniless and then 50 years later people realize how great your work was In today's day and age if you do superb work it gets recognized pretty quickly 2) Sales & Marketing are skills. The more you practice it the better you will get 3) Helpful to low income people? How do you make money from low income people Most people who make income from low income people do it by exploiting them So it is not a good market 4) I don't know what time poor means 5) Paywall works very well if done right 6) donations? Asking for donations from low income people? That doesn't make sense 7) book sales? $1,000 per year 8) I can't understand any of what you are saying as you have not talked about what your service is how many people use it website. If you can't share give some idea 9) how do you know your service is 'best in class' if it doesn't make money either it isn't best in class or you are a sucker who is giving value to people without charging money There was an article about this guy who had an 'airline deals' newsletter With ads for free people
No ads for $5 per month subscribers think about something like that
10) Marketing people to generate traffic? No, Marketing and Sales has to generate money/profits Hire people to sell things toe xisting customers and make money from them Not to add more 'low income and time poor' people who make you no money |