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Now to think of it, I have 5-6 ‘Side Hustle Conventions’ or ‘Side Hustle seminars’ ads popping out on Facebook every time I visit FB...Have y’all ever noticed how absolutely horrible every “side hustle” blog is?
The suggestions are so bad it makes me want to puke.
Stuff like taking surveys online, becoming a notary, flipping stuff online for a $5 profit...
I joined one of them (a free one) for the kicks, and instead of teaching me a skill, they brought in speakers on Google Ads, affiliate marketing, webinars, funnels, trading (yes...candlestick technical analysis)...so it felt more like a marketing convention than a 'side hustle' class.
Maybe its reasonable to teach folks how to market their services...but we have too many folks out there who have next to ZERO tradeable skills besides whatever degree or old job they had. And without a skill, how do you expect to market any offer at all for customers?
I honestly hope Google introduces another search algo update similar to the Panda update soon.
Such blogs are showing how ugly and deceptive content marketing has become.
This outlines how difficult copywriting research has become for me at times.I had this problem searching for "Small Town Business Ideas." Hoped to find blogs/channels etc. that focused exclusively on profitable business ideas that could be done in towns with very few people (Like 10k or less) but all that popped up was "Small Business Ideas" and most of those came from penny hoarder blog. Their blog sucks balls. They just post the same suggestions over and over to fill space, and those suggestions are usually "Freelance, Fill out surveys, dog walk, uber" GFYS!!!!!!!!!
Even relevant forums turn into echo-chambers where they repeat the same old garbage plucked from some article. I was researching for intel on what clients might want in web designers, and the usual haunts like Warrior Forum and Reddit were parroting shit like, 'Just ask for the portfolio' or 'make sure they speak proper English'.
Duh??!!
Having worked with actual clients, they want more than just these basics...
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