I need consistent, English-born Writers for a million dollar project
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lol still going.
He who controls one's emotions is master. This board is filled with peasants , all emotion.
4 figures a day. Wow. Nice juggling act.
thanks to those that have been in touch with me for more serious matters.
- most popular person of this board without even trying... i need a wickedfire reality show. i dont even know the names/ids of everyone replying but you know mine. Work$
He who controls one's emotions is master. This board is filled with peasants , all emotion.
4 figures a day. Wow. Nice juggling act.
thanks to those that have been in touch with me for more serious matters.
- most popular person of this board without even trying... i need a wickedfire reality show. i dont even know the names/ids of everyone replying but you know mine. Work$
Nice edit there. Why don't you tell your people about your face being on the cover of the Gannet News Magazine in your country?
OP,
I am not sure if you're trolling or serious. But let's give you the benefit of doubt here for a second. Let's consider that your idea is indeed the next huffpost. Let's consider it is indeed a potential big term asset. Let's consider that every single 'senior' member here is wrong in their perceptions about what you're actually willing to do. Let's even consider that you WILL make it. Let's consider that you're indeed above where everyone else perceives you to be at, right now. Let's even consider that you manage to find people who share the same vision as you and wouldn't mind investing their time in return for long term gains.
However, there are multiple flaws in your entire profiling (both as an individual and a potential business) -
1. Your idea lacks any innovation of any sort. You're simply starting a site that has hundreds of posts lacking any other material whatsoever. How is it any different from the thousands of wordpress blogs that change hands almost on a daily basis? The no. of posts IS NOT an attribute here.
2. Judging from your OP, I am perceiving that you're lacking a proper business plan here. How have you valued it at a "million dollar"? A proper business plan on the table wouldn't have required you coming here looking for "free" writers. The only thing that is accurate here is the fact that you have an aged site listed in Google news for which you've decided to hire a bunch of writers and start posting 100 updates to it everyday. Keep doing this for 1 year and then flip.
3. You're alone in this? I presume this because you speak a lot with the "me" tone. A person who hails from an entity rarely uses the "me" tone specifically when involved in an aggressive rebuttal.
4. Now since we "considered" a shit ton of probabilities above, let's come down to another important aspect. What if you fail? What is your exit strategy? How do you plan on paying your writers then? Every business has a fail potential. Even the ones started by major players. Heck! If I sat down and wrote about my "next big idea" that failed even after a lot of investment of cash and time - I could probably start the "next big business blog". So let's "consider" you fail. No traffic! Lowballing buyers! Time/Family constraints! Google bitchslap! Sudden emergencies! Server crashes? What happens then? Do you have a contingency plan in place? Is it thorough enough to be added as a clause in your contract?
5. You don't seem to have the legal aspects of this business worked out either! Websites get sued all the time. Managing 100 articles a day is not a single person job. Your interns (if you manage to find them) WILL speak their mind. Defamations. Allegations. Plagiarism. The list is endless. What happens then?
5a. Continuing from Point 4. What about non-payments? Plagiarism allegations? How big of an editorial staff do you have to handle those? And contracts? How detailed of a contract have you created and are willing to sign with your writers? Have you estimated your liabilities with this contract? What about Digital copyrights? Do you become the owner of these rights as soon as they're up on your website? Back to square one. What if you're low-balled and don't pay? What if your buyer gets sued by a writer who in turn sues you?
6. What about technicalities and investments other than the content? A site that makes 100 new posts everyday WILL not function on your average server. An extensive webspace infrastructure investment will have to be made. The core wordpress will have to be modified heavily in order for it work efficiently. Cloud integration. Performance optimizations. Daily backups. Code hardening. Load balancing. The list is practically endless. Have you estimated the amount of capital this requires? Do you have the required capital?
You will require a pro-active team that works continuously with the simple goal of keeping that site up and running. This team will actually have to be experienced. What about it?
These are just a few of what I could think of.
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OP, disrespecting people of a community, that you're yourself a part of, is never a good idea. You don't know any of these people or their work profiles and achievements. You've never worked with either of them too. So you've no right to call them many of things you've been saying.
These are people who've surpassed what you're targeting years ago. Most of them innovated with a thorough business attitude, others taught themselves a skill, nourished that skill and leased it out for a price. There are people here innovating every single day of their life. They maybe ballers. But they WORK HARD. They set realistic goals and work hard towards achieving them.
Seniority, on these forums, is most definitely not about the post count or the number of days the person has been a member here. WF perceives seniority with the amount of respect the person accrues as a marketer. An individual. An entrepreneur.
You have to be more accepting towards your critics mate. No one here hates you or has a personal grudge against you. But your rebuttal and cockiness definitely can hurt you and your credibility around here and even on the entire internet.
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All said and done, OP, I sincerely hope we're all wrong here and you're indeed successful.
Good luck.
I am not sure if you're trolling or serious. But let's give you the benefit of doubt here for a second. Let's consider that your idea is indeed the next huffpost. Let's consider it is indeed a potential big term asset. Let's consider that every single 'senior' member here is wrong in their perceptions about what you're actually willing to do. Let's even consider that you WILL make it. Let's consider that you're indeed above where everyone else perceives you to be at, right now. Let's even consider that you manage to find people who share the same vision as you and wouldn't mind investing their time in return for long term gains.
However, there are multiple flaws in your entire profiling (both as an individual and a potential business) -
1. Your idea lacks any innovation of any sort. You're simply starting a site that has hundreds of posts lacking any other material whatsoever. How is it any different from the thousands of wordpress blogs that change hands almost on a daily basis? The no. of posts IS NOT an attribute here.
2. Judging from your OP, I am perceiving that you're lacking a proper business plan here. How have you valued it at a "million dollar"? A proper business plan on the table wouldn't have required you coming here looking for "free" writers. The only thing that is accurate here is the fact that you have an aged site listed in Google news for which you've decided to hire a bunch of writers and start posting 100 updates to it everyday. Keep doing this for 1 year and then flip.
3. You're alone in this? I presume this because you speak a lot with the "me" tone. A person who hails from an entity rarely uses the "me" tone specifically when involved in an aggressive rebuttal.
4. Now since we "considered" a shit ton of probabilities above, let's come down to another important aspect. What if you fail? What is your exit strategy? How do you plan on paying your writers then? Every business has a fail potential. Even the ones started by major players. Heck! If I sat down and wrote about my "next big idea" that failed even after a lot of investment of cash and time - I could probably start the "next big business blog". So let's "consider" you fail. No traffic! Lowballing buyers! Time/Family constraints! Google bitchslap! Sudden emergencies! Server crashes? What happens then? Do you have a contingency plan in place? Is it thorough enough to be added as a clause in your contract?
5. You don't seem to have the legal aspects of this business worked out either! Websites get sued all the time. Managing 100 articles a day is not a single person job. Your interns (if you manage to find them) WILL speak their mind. Defamations. Allegations. Plagiarism. The list is endless. What happens then?
5a. Continuing from Point 4. What about non-payments? Plagiarism allegations? How big of an editorial staff do you have to handle those? And contracts? How detailed of a contract have you created and are willing to sign with your writers? Have you estimated your liabilities with this contract? What about Digital copyrights? Do you become the owner of these rights as soon as they're up on your website? Back to square one. What if you're low-balled and don't pay? What if your buyer gets sued by a writer who in turn sues you?
6. What about technicalities and investments other than the content? A site that makes 100 new posts everyday WILL not function on your average server. An extensive webspace infrastructure investment will have to be made. The core wordpress will have to be modified heavily in order for it work efficiently. Cloud integration. Performance optimizations. Daily backups. Code hardening. Load balancing. The list is practically endless. Have you estimated the amount of capital this requires? Do you have the required capital?
You will require a pro-active team that works continuously with the simple goal of keeping that site up and running. This team will actually have to be experienced. What about it?
These are just a few of what I could think of.
//
OP, disrespecting people of a community, that you're yourself a part of, is never a good idea. You don't know any of these people or their work profiles and achievements. You've never worked with either of them too. So you've no right to call them many of things you've been saying.
These are people who've surpassed what you're targeting years ago. Most of them innovated with a thorough business attitude, others taught themselves a skill, nourished that skill and leased it out for a price. There are people here innovating every single day of their life. They maybe ballers. But they WORK HARD. They set realistic goals and work hard towards achieving them.
Seniority, on these forums, is most definitely not about the post count or the number of days the person has been a member here. WF perceives seniority with the amount of respect the person accrues as a marketer. An individual. An entrepreneur.
You have to be more accepting towards your critics mate. No one here hates you or has a personal grudge against you. But your rebuttal and cockiness definitely can hurt you and your credibility around here and even on the entire internet.
//
All said and done, OP, I sincerely hope we're all wrong here and you're indeed successful.
Good luck.
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This is a big one that I think a lot of people don't understand. They get their eyes filled with dollar signs and overlook it.
I've run a few sites with user generated content that got somewhat popular in their prime. Got to the point where I was spending several hours a day responding to DMCA notices, C&D's from law firms and various state attorney generals, lawsuit threats, death threats, etc... huge pain-in-the-ass and stressful.
On top of that, those sites were never even very profitable. I had other sites with a tiny fraction of the traffic that made way more money without the hassle. I'd rather 'juggle' 4 figures a day quietly than spend half the day weeding through legal bullshit.