I've spent the past decade building all kinds of sites slow and steady, hiring writers (in-house and outsourced), doing the drudgery of contacting webmasters and requesting backlinks, manual directory submissions, searching oDesk and eLance profiles for coders and designers, the whole nine yards.
While overall this has been beneficial, the limitations of my time and my team's time is always a barrier to scale. From doing graphics works, to procuring videos or links, the output I could get was limited by: the number of hours in the day x team members on staff. No longer, my two favorite tools of the last 2 years allow me to accomplish in a month what used to take a year, and usually at a fraction of the cost and hassle.
Those tools are Fiverr + Textbroker.
Sure, they cost something, but using these two tools allows anyone to scale up immensely, and multiply the effects of their own labor 100x. For example, I used to spend hours of my own time doing directory submissions or sending out personalized backlink requests. Then I realized that was an inefficient use of time, so I hired an Indian VA to do the work. An improvement, but still not scalable, the limitation was still the person doing it, who I had to pay, oversee, etc. Now, with the click of a few buttons, I can hire 10 completely different specialists, have output generated literally within hours, only pay for actual performance, and have spent less than I did on lunch. I can scale this to build backlink campaigns 20 times faster, at a fraction of the cost of a few years ago.
Likewise, Textbroker. I'm picky about my content, but there comes a point where I realize me spending my day slaving away just to produce 4 or 5 well-written articles is not time well spent, when I can hire 4 independent quality writers for ~$30, spend 15 minutes of my time reviewing and editing 4 or 5 writer's work rather than a full-day. I've built 50 page sites of well-written content in 3 days before, something I never could have done if I did all the writing myself.
If you truly want to scale up giant sites/businesses, but full automation or scripting doesn't get you what you want, these 2 tools allow a scaling factor that would have been unimaginable a few years ago. A single webmaster with a few hundred bucks can now build sites and linking structures literally overnight that used to take a team of in-house employees or expensive subcontractors weeks to do.
Think big, think scaling, these are 2 of the best tools to do it.
While overall this has been beneficial, the limitations of my time and my team's time is always a barrier to scale. From doing graphics works, to procuring videos or links, the output I could get was limited by: the number of hours in the day x team members on staff. No longer, my two favorite tools of the last 2 years allow me to accomplish in a month what used to take a year, and usually at a fraction of the cost and hassle.
Those tools are Fiverr + Textbroker.
Sure, they cost something, but using these two tools allows anyone to scale up immensely, and multiply the effects of their own labor 100x. For example, I used to spend hours of my own time doing directory submissions or sending out personalized backlink requests. Then I realized that was an inefficient use of time, so I hired an Indian VA to do the work. An improvement, but still not scalable, the limitation was still the person doing it, who I had to pay, oversee, etc. Now, with the click of a few buttons, I can hire 10 completely different specialists, have output generated literally within hours, only pay for actual performance, and have spent less than I did on lunch. I can scale this to build backlink campaigns 20 times faster, at a fraction of the cost of a few years ago.
Likewise, Textbroker. I'm picky about my content, but there comes a point where I realize me spending my day slaving away just to produce 4 or 5 well-written articles is not time well spent, when I can hire 4 independent quality writers for ~$30, spend 15 minutes of my time reviewing and editing 4 or 5 writer's work rather than a full-day. I've built 50 page sites of well-written content in 3 days before, something I never could have done if I did all the writing myself.
If you truly want to scale up giant sites/businesses, but full automation or scripting doesn't get you what you want, these 2 tools allow a scaling factor that would have been unimaginable a few years ago. A single webmaster with a few hundred bucks can now build sites and linking structures literally overnight that used to take a team of in-house employees or expensive subcontractors weeks to do.
Think big, think scaling, these are 2 of the best tools to do it.
