Hello Opossum, thanks again for this and paid content.
I’ve been building out my site on the side but my day job requires 50-60 hours per week so I’ve been slightly slow to put out posts.
Right now I have about 3 guides and each took me a few months.
Based on this, I figure that it’ll take me an extremely long time to get traction so I was wondering, is it better to outsource content at this stage?
Any other advice you’d have?
I haven’t done any affiliate stuff just yet because I saw someone where you said to focus on content first to get visitors and then do product reviews.
"each took me a few months" - I think there might be a problem with your productivity or time management. One guide should take you a day at most. 50-60 hours is at best 5 full days of work. That still leaves you Saturday and Sunday to pump out 1-3 guides a week.
I'd figure out where all of your time is going and optimize. Only once you learn how to rank articles and write for SEO should you outsource. You have to develop an efficient process for pumping out content before you train someone else to do it.
If you don't develop an efficient process, your writers are going to be just as inefficient and it's going to cost you $500 a post.
I'd also look at your WFH schedule. If you're not working from home, you're wasting at least 10 hours a week in travel / getting ready for work.
I hate GA4 with all my heart. It's trash. Going have to set up dashboards because I can't find the source/medium view.
Hello Opossum, thanks again for this and paid content.
I’ve been building out my site on the side but my day job requires 50-60 hours per week so I’ve been slightly slow to put out posts.
Right now I have about 3 guides and each took me a few months.
Based on this, I figure that it’ll take me an extremely long time to get traction so I was wondering, is it better to outsource content at this stage?
Any other advice you’d have?
I haven’t done any affiliate stuff just yet because I saw someone where you said to focus on content first to get visitors and then do product reviews.
"each took me a few months" - I think there might be a problem with your productivity or time management. One guide should take you a day at most. 50-60 hours is at best 5 full days of work. That still leaves you Saturday and Sunday to pump out 1-3 guides a week.
I'd figure out where all of your time is going and optimize. Only once you learn how to rank articles and write for SEO should you outsource. You have to develop an efficient process for pumping out content before you train someone else to do it.
If you don't develop an efficient process, your writers are going to be just as inefficient and it's going to cost you $500 a post.
I'd also look at your WFH schedule. If you're not working from home, you're wasting at least 10 hours a week in travel / getting ready for work.
Invaluable, thank you for this honest and thorough feedback!