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How to kill your favourite hobby
by Nullabillity 6y ago
How to kill your favourite hobby
- jasoncartwright 6y agoThen go and find some new ones with the $100k in your bank account
- zadler 6y agoNo time. Plus, it might not work.
- rubyfan 6y agosorry, i’m too busy making content for a hobby
- pizza234 6y agoThe fallacy of this type of advice is that marketing a certain activity, in this case a blog, is a full-time job in itself. > This is the quickest way to [...] create a sustainable additional income. The entire blog post starts with essentially a lie. The following requirement: 4. Back-link building > This is tedious work. Cold emailing, constant reminders and > outreach and content creation. This person would focus > entirely on growing your backlinks by creating > viral/shareable content and reaching out to partners who > might want to link to your site. is all but "additional" income. It reminds me of that famous guy, let's call Tim Ferrous for anonymity, who advertised the dream of a 4-hours workweek, while working himself 24/7 in order to market himself and selling his products. Not counting the fake website(s) and fake reviews he's commissioned as part of his marketing.
- tomiantenna 6y agoThat book written by that unknown author was pure drivel, how anyone was able to get through the whole thing, if anyone actually did, is beyond me.
- agustif 6y agoThe best sellers usually are left untouched on your kindle or even (physical) bookshelf if you fancy that. I guess people just buys it and forgets about it
- Insanity 6y agoYup I feel like it would do the same. Adding money to the equation can ruin the fun in many things, unless money is your primary motivator of course.
- nkrisc 6y agoBest advice I've read on this site: never ruin a perfectly good hobby by making it a job.
- fvdessen 6y agoSome people are really passionate about earning money. But indeed I feel that for this to work you need to be passionate about a topic, and also about monetizing it, which is not everyone