Automating the mundane tasks that waist your playtime
Time is more important than money and always will be. Use all of your time wisely and you will make more money faster.
Truth is most of us could automate a large portion of the work we do using smart techniques. Things like hiring a programmer to build you scripts to automate manual tasks. Everything from domain registration, keyword research, competitive analysis, link building research, dB driven websites, information retreval, and so much more.
If you have ever had a good peak behind the scenes of an experienced SEO or Domainer’s network(s) and the techniques used to build, deploy and market - you will soon see why they make money. The wealthiest I know only focus on the metrics that make money. Sounds boring but they understand how much work is required to achieve their goals and choose their battles wisely. Less effort = more money, work hard, allowing you to scale up harder and faster.
Making money online is not that hard when you have automated the mundane. You have far more time to play and *test*!
I eliminate what I consider mundane, I only really enjoy the SEO (includes 2.0) and Domains. Following web development is cool too, but it will be a while until I move into large scale development. The current climate is just a little too mixed and needs to settle/consolidate a little.
Chances are something new is on it’s way as well, something powerful that might change the way we all do business online (yep you read it here first!).
I think once the social media area cools a little and more standards are implemented - as well as (x)html5 I will consider starting large scale development. I really think now is the best time to be acquiring land to build your dreams upon. Development is only getting cheaper/better and Web users are only growing in numbers.
Domain Names are a moment in time - each day your dreams are slipping away, the best domains are not for sale! Best is a relative term and in constant flux, find the buffer and get in while you can, or miss out.
Automating the areas between domaining and seo is very fun too, but I’m not giving anything away here 