so do you have your wife/gf do your grunt work online?? i'm about to...
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Ok. I'll listen to you. I won't do it, simply because you said so, because that makes total sense without a reason and all. :love-smiley-086:
As a wife, I'd encourage her to try it out if she's interested. If you expect her to do it because you're telling her to I sincerely hope she tells you to fuck off. 
I will tell you that my hubby was doing some affiliate sites years ago and kept asking me for help with the writing. I did a bit for him, but stopped for the most part because my time is more valuable working for others and for my own sites. It took him over a year to reach the level of net income I reached in about a month online, but I'm a high-end service provider, so it's a different game. Now we both work online, but do totally different things. (He makes much more than me - I feel I should include this to soothe his ego.) I write and he runs a PPC search engine. And I do all the accounting, taxes and copywriting, but I did those things before I took the writing online. It works better that way as I'd probably castrate him if he ever tried to tell me what to do in a condescending tone. *eyeroll*
I will tell you that my hubby was doing some affiliate sites years ago and kept asking me for help with the writing. I did a bit for him, but stopped for the most part because my time is more valuable working for others and for my own sites. It took him over a year to reach the level of net income I reached in about a month online, but I'm a high-end service provider, so it's a different game. Now we both work online, but do totally different things. (He makes much more than me - I feel I should include this to soothe his ego.) I write and he runs a PPC search engine. And I do all the accounting, taxes and copywriting, but I did those things before I took the writing online. It works better that way as I'd probably castrate him if he ever tried to tell me what to do in a condescending tone. *eyeroll*
Good! Then it should work out nicely. Best of luck to the two of you. I work with quite a few husband and wife teams, btw. And one brother-sister team, which is especially fun.
Best of luck to the two of you. I work with quite a few husband and wife teams, btw. And one brother-sister team, which is especially fun.
InternetAuthor, she's more than willing and is a very money conscious person (more than me), and wants to make up for that extra money she'd be losing
Well if she is every bit the capitalist you are, it sounds like a match made in heaven! I do hope it is an equal give and take however. And by that I mean, she may not know what you do if she is new to the internet, but she has valuable skills that can be monetized quickly.
In other words I think instead of giving her random low ROI tasks, encourage her to focus on the high ROI activities. For instance, the nursing niche is hot, hot, hot. If she is good at writing and knows her stuff, have her set up a blog on that. It would cost alot more for you to hire someone with her skills to write about what she knows, than the mundane work you originally proposed to have her handle. Go to odesk and get some cheap labor to handle the low return activities while she focuses on the high ROI activities.
For instance, if she can write reasonably well, I guarantee you she can make a helluva lot more with a say lead gen Nursing Career blog than she can doing mundane stuff - definitely $800/month.
The gist of what I am saying is that it makes sense to chart your life goals together and marry them with your financial goals. Focus on monetizing your core competencies/skills in the highest ROI activities.
First you have to know what they are though. As an example, one hour of keyword research or high quality content writing may mean 10x more to the bottom line than some mundane social bookmarking. Show her how to do that. Then you both can sit back topless on your deck and sip margaritas.
If that doesn't work I'd recommend moving to Utah where you can get a second wife who can do the link building and chore activities while you guys do the nasty on the deck....
Actually, NursingStress | Learn how to deal with Nursing Stress is a site I put up really quickly awhile back because I wanted her to write articles for the listed topics in the middle.. She never got around to it though being that she works full time and does other stuff.. but yeah definitely, perhaps I'll have her also work on writing content for that because I have some cool ideas to expand it. Even ranks top 10 for "nursing stress" with no bl's sent to it
I chose the topic of nursing stress because all new nurses are stressed the fuck out, as she was. Figured that specific niche, could develop a community for new nurses.
QFT. In a normal partnership out there then you can build your business twice as fast and work off of each other's strengths. The thing that sucks about normal partnerships is you have to split the revenue 50/50. In a marriage it's all your family's income.
In otherwords, people that are smart will include their spouse in their business and tear it up.
(And on a realated note, you all get to meet Mr. Turbolapp at ASE this summer!
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DON'T DO IT!
sooner or later she'll catch on, copy your landing pages, jack your keywords and then dump you when she has everything she needs. It's happend to me twice
lmao :jester:
*facepalm*(And on a realated note, you all get to meet Mr. Turbolapp at ASE this summer!
Have you not been paying attention to what will most likely happen if you bring him to the gay webmaster conference?
I would consider it but training my wife to do anything would be a full-time job in itself. I have basically been training myself for at least 9 years now and I still learn something new almost every day. I'm not a good teacher/explainer and it's always been that way. Just like back in school I could do complex math problems but i wouldn't know how to show my work or even teach the teacher how to understand things. Now I do business that involves a foundation of years of understanding and just "getting" certain things that I can't explain to anyone.
I know we are talking about "Grunt" work, but still. My wife is probably too intelligent and inquisitve in certain ways, and I am too much of a doer and control freak as well.
This all really depends on your specific situation. there are some relationships where its better for the other spouse to have a full-time traditional job or be a house spouse.
I know we are talking about "Grunt" work, but still. My wife is probably too intelligent and inquisitve in certain ways, and I am too much of a doer and control freak as well.
This all really depends on your specific situation. there are some relationships where its better for the other spouse to have a full-time traditional job or be a house spouse.
1. Ask her what she pictures herself doing online, you have to find out her interests first so you can use them. If you tell her to build links, write keywords etc.. etc.. that's all no fun and she will lose interest very quickly because she won't understand the bigger picture... Imagine if you starting out in AM and you were just told to do those menial tasks, I would of lost interest in a split second. However, if someone asked you to creatively think of ways to make money in niches that you're interested in, You'd probably be all over it.
2. After you two love birds discuss those interests, and throw a few ideas back and forth, you figure out how the best way to monetize it.
3. Lay out a general plan and even explain a bit of stuff she doesn't need to know so she feels like she's getting really involved. Leave your general plan open to suggestions so she can feel as though she improved on it. (getting her more involved and excited about this new project)
Basically it's all about making HER feel involved, making HER feel productive, and making HER feel the success first hand. Don't forget what AM was about when you started during this initial period. It should be fun, relaxed, and slowly but surely she will get more involved in it by herself. Once she starts to experience this slow and steady buildup, she's going to have a few positive mood swings, and will gradually get more involved herself.
2. After you two love birds discuss those interests, and throw a few ideas back and forth, you figure out how the best way to monetize it.
3. Lay out a general plan and even explain a bit of stuff she doesn't need to know so she feels like she's getting really involved. Leave your general plan open to suggestions so she can feel as though she improved on it. (getting her more involved and excited about this new project)
Basically it's all about making HER feel involved, making HER feel productive, and making HER feel the success first hand. Don't forget what AM was about when you started during this initial period. It should be fun, relaxed, and slowly but surely she will get more involved in it by herself. Once she starts to experience this slow and steady buildup, she's going to have a few positive mood swings, and will gradually get more involved herself.
I agree with Zimok. If your wife is an RN, she must be bright. Why do you have such a condscending attitude?
Lots of us women do affiliate marketing. Why not let her start her own blog / website and do more than just link building? It will be better for her to learn by seeing the big picture, and a lot more fun for her.
You can always outsource or get software for link building. She's smart. Let her enjoy herself, and she'll be more productive.
Lots of us women do affiliate marketing. Why not let her start her own blog / website and do more than just link building? It will be better for her to learn by seeing the big picture, and a lot more fun for her.
You can always outsource or get software for link building. She's smart. Let her enjoy herself, and she'll be more productive.
Luckily my GF has no interest whatsoever in what I do, even though she knows how much money is there she could care less. She does her own thing and I do mine. Life is good.
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