So did blogging make me rich? Not **YET**, but I’m working on that, one blog post at a time!
While I’m not ready to retire and move to my own little private island (yet), one thing I do have are websites that are earning a full-time income and has provided me with a lot more free time on my hands.
I’d like to thank God for helping to make this a possibility and not letting me give up during the hard times.
I’m also very, very grateful for the smart and talented people that work on improving WordPress.
I know you can technically use any blogging platform to create content, but none have the plethora of ready-made tools and community support that WordPress provides. I don’t think I could have automated my content creation to this extent without WordPress.
While I still work a full-time job, my content business earned more in Q4 last year than my salaried job. This inspired me to see how far I could take building websites, but more importantly, how quickly I could remove myself from the business and automate things.
So that’s exactly what I did. I automated 90% of my entire content business to the point where I simply do 2 things now.
1. Come up with topic ideas
2. Hit the publish button
Everything else is handled by the team I put together, and that works on my websites while I’m asleep or working at my full-time job.
The best advice for truly making this business model passive is to invest time and money into creating training materials and building the right team. Hire people willing to learn and grow with you.
**Content is definitely king, but to scale/grow, you need to:**
1. Creating lots of SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures)
2. Spend a good amount of time hiring/firing people (I have someone that does this for me now)
3. Once you find the right people, get them trained.
4. Figure out how to remove yourself from the business as much as possible using this system.
5. Focus on consistently publishing quality content as much as possible.
As you make more money from your websites, it just becomes a numbers game where you can scale it up from there by hiring more writers, editors, managers, etc.
Eventually, you’ll become your own bottleneck because you can only come up with so many topics by yourself. This is the point that I’m currently at and why I’m experimenting with training a new team member on this.
If things work out, I’ll have a 99.99% automated business where I just check in once a week or so to see how things are coming. This is the plan, at least.
I’ll let you guys know how it goes! Thanks again to all the WordPress contributors and the community at large. I’m forever grateful 🙏
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