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BowtiedAmadeus's avatar

Love these «life» articles.

Tetra: so you agree with btb on not quitting career until 2x income, or before? Obv not relevant for me yet, so just asking.

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Tetra's avatar

Yes, that's a solid strategy.

I'm personally kind of nuts and would quit sooner, but 2x income is the smart move.

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BowTiedOctopus's avatar

That's a very well written article, thank you Tetra. So much wisdom in it, inlcuding the warning about the ladyboys. And it reminded me of the "The Rise of Ngo" series from Charles Ngo.

Being in the industry for 12+ years now, I can completely relate to what you wrote. There's no "4-hour workweek", at least not in the first 5-10 years. And as BTB says, it's not getting easier when you get older. So better do the grind now.

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joe's avatar

What about providing SEO services as an agency and scale it, vs the SEO job? Could you not leverage people's time to get to a decent business vs just being a grunt employee?

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Tetra's avatar

You could do that if you really want to but it's very difficult to scale compared to affiliate or e-commerce.

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Bowtiedcorvid's avatar

A quick question, what would it cost to buy 2nd party data do you think from affiliate sites - do you have any idea? Thinking of building an advertising and pricing intent data SaaS for a specific niche. Idea would be to aggregate data from top affiliates for the niche, combine with scraped background research and enhance with specific voice of customer surveys, conjoint analysis etc to provide a B2C Bomobora-type service

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May 21, 2022
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Tetra's avatar

I wouldn't go with the agency route to avoid a time for money situation but people are killing it in all of the other three you mentioned.

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May 22, 2022
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Tetra's avatar

Just pick one and get started. Taking action is the most important part.

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