yeah curious to see what the next avenue is not going to lie.Don't confuse pessimism with realism.
I'll just leave this here as an example of the inevitable trend. That's for non-fiction how-to books, per Tim Ferriss (who made multiple millions with his books):
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But books still sell.
Sure. But as an entrepreneur, I imagine there's a difference between "still sell" and sell 1 million copies and "still sell" and sell 10,000 copies.
If, for example, he used to sell 1 million copies in 2022, that's the drop until now:
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Most niche sites probably dropped to way less than 20% of their pre-AI and zero click search traffic.
Projecting to 2030, assuming the same decrease of 50% (the decrease is actually increasing each year), here's the bright future:
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I'm not saying cry in the corner and blame AI for everything. All I'm saying that I don't think it's the right strategy to just do "something" just because it's "still" selling. It takes time to build a product (whether it's a book, SaaS, or something else) and it makes sense to ask yourself what kind of market conditions you'll face in the next couple of years.
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