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A lot of friction

Posting and hoping that somebody somewhere will be generous enough to support you – works, but it’s not a reliable business model.

When you create content, you want to extract value with less friction.

Because getting da view and getting da click is easier than getting da donation.

So the reality isn’t that you can’t create content, the reality is that you need a system that extracts value from somebody with less friction.

Selling a TV via affiliate link is easier than creating your own product and convincing everybody that it’s good.

So don’t create a product and don’t ask for donations but instead get a system that extracts value with less friction. Somebody somewhere is always paying somebody – it can be you, if you have a system in place.

Writing for hope, can be one way to do it, but it’s not a reliable system and it has a lot of friction.

Getting DA DEAL™

The problem with online content for making money is that most people create content without DA DEAL™.

I created content for YouTube, for TikTok, for X, for Facebook, for Medium, for Steemit – all to realize I was working without DA DEAL™.

People say work hard, work smart, but when you work online you need DA DEAL™.

Because if you only work without DA DEAL™, you will be wasting so much time and effort and will be working for free.

So, before you even start ‘working’ online, get DA DEAL™ first.

DA DEAL™ is simply a way to get income without relying on DA DONATIONS™ or DA TIP JAR™.

Only handful of people online are actually generous, most are not.

Imagine building a YouTube channel, and you don’t qualify for DA DEAL™. That would be so upsetting.

So to sum it up – never work without DA DEAL™, because working alone won’t produce you any gains.

Don’t waste time blogging

I blogged online for 16 years and I made donation money and generally broke even.

So the problem isn’t the fact that you can’t blog – you can.

The reality is that most bloggers blogs are not monetized from day 1. And donations, tip jars are lousy ways of making money because most people are indifferent and they won’t support you.

So the good way of making money is getting ads from day 1, so that your visitors got used to the blog with ads, don’t say them: I like blogging that’s why I blog and then ask for support.

You can write a blog because you like it, but most people these days don’t waste time blogging because they like it. Blogging has evolved and it is a business.

Nobody would pay for hosting just to work on a blog for free, because you can blog on Facebook and pay nothing.

So the way to approach blogging for money is to get into ad program from day 1, then when you build some traffic introduce some affiliate link.

You don’t have to review every single item you don’t have on Amazon for affiliate marketing to be worthwhile.

But most problem people make is they post about their lives, nobody is searching for you online unless you’re some celebrity.

You can’t monetize your personal life with ads because nobody would bid on your posts or the ads would be very low paying.

I’m not saying you can’t monetize personal stuff, but it has to be an angle rather than the fact that you ate a cookie.

Many people waste years writing about their lives and wondering why their ‘business blog’ doesn’t boom.

Writing about your life is such a waste of effort. I know it because I did it, the problem isn’t the fact that you have interesting thoughts and ideas, but the fact that majority of people don’t know that you exist.

The other fact it that most people’s content isn’t competitive and compelling.

If you want to rank #1 on Google you need to have the best article for a search term, that’s it.

So instead of doing random articles and hoping they will rank, go to Google in incognito mode, and actually see what is written and consider if you can make a better article.

You see if you write articles, that are not searched for, people just won’t find you via Google and other search engines.

When you don’t have an audience search is crucial. Back in the day blogging wasn’t competitive because the web was small, today the web is HUGE and it’s getting HUGER.

So to sum it up: monetize with ADS from day 1, add affiliate later, don’t write about personal life and you title should be the EXACT phrase people search for and write helpful content that solves a problem, or entertains, then later someday when you have 1000000 email subs you can write whatever the hell you want, because you will have an actual audience.

Are Donations A Viable Business Model

16 years of making content I was monetized just with donations, and to my surprise it did work to some extent, but the sheer amount of work it required to do was just ridiculous.

Over 16 years I just made around 2000€ from donations, these included direct deposit, not PayPal.

So to have a rough estimate on traffic and donations. It would approximately take 100000 YouTube views for 1 donation of 5-10€. You would make 1000€ from ads alone if your channel was monetized and you’d follow the guidelines, unfortunately my channel was not monetized.

The problem is that most people consuming your content are indifferent. They might enjoy your show and all that, but only handful of people will actually donate any money.

I didn’t get any grants to advertise my IBAN for free, so I relied on organic traffic from the content I created.

Donations could work if you’d be Wikipedia and push donations hard but if you just leave an IBAN or PayPal link on the sidebar of your blog, you wouldn’t get much because most people are in and out as soon as they milk you.