This factoid will serve a few purposes. First, it is an experiment in production that I’m challenging myself with. You are welcome to challenge yourself too. I’m calling it the thirty at a time content production approach. I’ve found that once I have an article idea, even if it is just a title, if it is a topic that I have experience in and only have to do limited research on, I can usually produce a 500 word article in 45 minutes. These thirty ideas took me less than 30 minutes to compose off the top of my head. I’m going to see how it works out if I attempt to write them all at once, jumping around from topic to topic filling in a paragraph at a time. Will that save time? Or, will it make a confusing mess of things and cause me to go back to one at a time? We’ll see. I WILL be timing myself.
The second purpose of this factoid is that in the spirit of cooperating instead of competing, I want to share these ideas with all of you and invite you to write an article of your own on any or all of these subjects. I think they are an excellent click-through opportunity. They are also great to share; because where I will draw on building contractor experiences, others will approach the same concepts with the point of view of a wedding planner, psychic, freelance writer, real estate agent, and so on. The opportunities for original spins on the same platform are almost limitless. For a highly competitive platform like “be your own boss” it will take a mountain of content to get some spider-love. This approach can prevent it from being redundant; another aspect that can give the search bots the warm and fuzzies.
Finally, this factoid can serve as a sort of “hub page” a portal that if properly linked up, yes, yet another thing that makes the robots get butterflies and sweaty palms, can act as an index to our work on these topics. I suggest that we let Factoidz Admin take over putting the proper titles on the content that we produce on these topic ideas so they can keep it separate and organized and geared up for ultimate search engine optimization.
I estimate this to be about thirty hours of work: twenty five hours to write (including this) and five hours to tag up and post. If I cut down on reading and commenting on the people I follow, sorry guys, just for a week or so, and leave myself only about ten hours for that, I will have set up a good solid week’s work here. Am I anal retentive or what? Now that I’ve broadcast my intentions, I’ll look pretty lame if I can’t meet my own challenge. For those of you who are saying “Here he goes again! What ever happened to those paid writing assignments he was bugging us about?” I have not abandoned that. It’s still in the works, with a good amount of behind the scenes progress being made. This experiment will help to determine what can be produced, for how much time and effort, before the upfront paid writing gig idea gets launched. Who’s on board?
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