Buckets vs Pipelines

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Hi everyone,

I'm new to this forum, but have been in web development for some number of years now. Love the forum, but something occurred to me while reading through it. Most people on here seem to be going after the quick buck rather than building something that can sustain itself and consistently make money over the long run.

I'm sure you've heard the metaphor about pipelines vs buckets. With a bucket, you'll be able to get goods flowing almost instantly and in seemingly large quantities. But with a pipeline, even though the initial rewards may be small or non existent, after the pipeline is built, one can remove themselves from the equation to focus on other pipelines.

I'd like to try my hand at Arbitrage, but I'd feel like I'm wasting my time carrying buckets. Am I wrong?

What tactics and strategies do you guys think have the best returns in the long run?

Thanks
 


carrying buckets in arbitrage? wow your system must be setup wrong, i like ur rich dad poor dad analogy but remember systems are eveything
 
I'm going down a combination route of arbi and blog marketing as I think they lend themselves pretty well especially in arbi 2.0/mini site type of situations.

Get a good blog niche going peppered with some good longtail terms to drive the organic traffic and add a post or two specifically for arbi. You can then edit these posts whenever you want to try a new campaign.

The advantages of this are:
- Better Quality score as your site is 'natural' with inbound and outbound links and standard site structure
- by re-editing one or two posts you're not pissing off your readership by making every page a hard sell for a product or swamped in adsense
- you can start to rank for longtail as a backup for PPC cash
- depending on how often you change your arbi style posts you can even start to rank for some of these keywords
- if the site doesn't do as well as you would of hoped you can still sell an aged blog with content rather than a one page arbi site which is worth nothing.
- I've been getting 60%+ clickthrough on a WP template by moving the navigation to the bottom
 
Waterboi said:
carrying buckets in arbitrage? wow your system must be setup wrong, i like ur rich dad poor dad analogy but remember systems are eveything
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It just seems like a ton of busy work to churn out a quick profit. Theres no way to delegate out all the processes to keep the system running. On top of that, it seems incredibly volatile. Am I wrong?

Would it not be better to spend all that time building something of inherit value? Ie, a community.
 
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