New member, a web developer, needing advice
I've been browsing WF for many weeks now, on and off, but I now feel it's time to make my plan and get to work.
I'm a web developer, and have been building sites for companies for 12+ years. I have been working freelance for about a year, but I'm coming to the conclusion that there are more profitable ways to make money online rather than building sites for others, in a market full of competition, in an industry where the costs of building websites are decreasing all the time.
My freelancing is on a full time basis and I need to make enough to support a family of 5 and a mortgage, so I'm serious about putting in the work. I figure I'm in a good position at the moment: I have the skills to build sites quickly, I know WordPress like the back of my hand, I run my own web server for client sites, and I have a reasonably good knowledge of SEO, PPC and copywriting.
As many people have advised in other threads, I'm going to make a plan and stick to one channel, and refine it until I turn a profit. My problem is, I don't know which channel to plough my efforts into:
- Affiliate marketing - create content to build an audience/list, in order to sell to. Possibly create my own content in a given niche to sell through e.g. clickbank
- Drop shipping - find a good, under served product/niche, with a supplier to handle fulfilment, then build an ecomm site to drive sales
- Local lead generation - sites to capture leads for local businesses, using CPC/organic to outperform the suppliers themselves, then sell them the leads
- Longtail content - possibly use freely available data to auto-generate content, and rely on quantity of visitors in the longtail, monetise through adsense/affiliates
The quantity of info and advice on here is overwhelming, and there are some great 'all-in-one' threads, but some of those posts may be a little old now, and I know the landscape can change quite quickly, particularly with Google's algo changes etc.
My question for you kind helpful folk is this - which of the above channels is likely to be most profitable. I'd particularly like to hear advice from people who have tried more than one for a sustained period of time e.g. I tried X, Y and Z, but X made no money, Y is too competitive, but now I'm killing it with Z.
Thanks in advance, and I hope I may be able to return the advice where I can now I'm a fully-fledged WF member
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