What to do; post business sales? Sigh.

[contract]

Will forever need more. Bored unless working at max hustle.

Sold the online site years ago. Another mil.

Built a multi-mil dollar home myself.

Sold another business. Another mil.

Started a local business. Meh... (Was hoping to get offline and off the computer. There's just not internet money in it, though, I was aiming to just contribute to society by good-will, but society is far lower IQ than I even realized) It's absolutely terrible dealing with fake/brokie/lazy people all day. You can literally BE THE BEST in a local industry, and still people refuse to work with you. The stupidity/low-class greed is on another level and boomers REFUSE to give anyone a chance, EVER. Unfortunately, the industry is chock full of boomers who are gate keepers; I've never seen such resistance/stupidity/selfishness.)

Traded stocks, considering day trading/etc. This seems ideal, but extremely difficult. But it gets me away from society which is fantastic.

Maybe start another content-style online business... SEO is fucked. G's search results are the worst I have ever seen now. Everyone has a social following now. The game is completely changed. IG/FB/etc social reach is practically zero. They have eliminated ways to gain organic followings, even paying is shit. Maybe video is the answer this time around?

Going to build another house in the mean time.

How are you all getting over that slump to the next thing?

 

[DanielS]

Jumped on the AI train and haven't looked back. It's the most excited I've been about anything work-related since building the niche website I sold a few years ago. Learn how to use it for multiple cases and see how good you can get the results to be. Generating blog posts with AI is quite boring, but using it to create social media content, code, organize, etc. is intriguing. And, it's future-proof.

 

[secretagentdad]

Calm the fuck down and quit thinking of it as a slump.

Fishing and Phish shows are good for the soul.

 

[Steve Brownlie]

Yeah join the AI boom. Everyone wants AI coding and dev services and solutions and consulting and 'agents' and all sorts right now... there's some awesome discord communities... great laughs had by all and good work to be found!

SEO isn't dead though. Plenty of links still being built, clients starting new things, even us - we just launched a side project faster than ever thanks to AI development, AI research/data aggregation, and one click deployment to Vercel... 16000+ page site launched all in a couple of days.. Google indexed it all and most stuff hit page 2 immediately. Time to do the real work now .

 

[eliquid]

Traded stocks, considering day trading/etc. This seems ideal, but extremely difficult. But it gets me away from society which is fantastic.

Maybe start another content-style online business... SEO is fucked. G's search results are the worst I have ever seen now. Everyone has a social following now. The game is completely changed. IG/FB/etc social reach is practically zero. They have eliminated ways to gain organic followings, even paying is shit. Maybe video is the answer this time around?

The stupidity/low-class greed is on another level and boomers REFUSE to give anyone a chance, EVER. Unfortunately, the industry is chock full of boomers who are gate keepers; I've never seen such resistance/stupidity/selfishness.)

You mention a few things here.

As an entrepreneur, your job is to solve problems.

Initially, this is why I built SERPWoo.com.

I was ranking organically back before SEO was even a thing when I was a Yahoo Directory editor and DMOZ editor. Then I did it with Google too. But I got out of SEO to focus on paid ads and had a huge career with paid ads.

When I wanted to jump back into SEO, I was lost. I had dabbled in it while doing paid ads, but I was lost and had to basically start all over. So I built SERPWoo based on fundamental evergreen info I had about SEO and I used that tool to help me rank.

This is how you need to be thinking about your problems.

One of your problems was:
"Unfortunately, the industry is chock full of boomers who are gate keepers; I've never seen such resistance/stupidity/selfishness.)"

Ok, build something to get around that.

What are they gatekeeping? Another person? - you can find just about anyone's phone number, email and mailing address these days. Use or build a tool to find out who that is and how to reach them.

Here's another problem of yours:
"Traded stocks, considering day trading/etc. This seems ideal, but extremely difficult. But it gets me away from society which is fantastic."

I know this personally. Been trading since around 2000. Def understand.

Wanna know what made it easier. Sticking to some fundamentals and only acting when those fundamentals tell me.

There are a million fundamentals in trading though.

You have to pick 1 or 2 you are comfortable with, accept the risk that comes with them, and then only use those.

Build you a tool that works off that.

Personally, price action doesn't lie and hasn't failed me for a long time. But your strategy and what you want is what YOU want and maybe that isn't price action for you.

Another problem of yours:
"Everyone has a social following now. The game is completely changed. IG/FB/etc social reach is practically zero. They have eliminated ways to gain organic followings, even paying is shit. Maybe video is the answer this time around?"

A good lesson here is you got to go where the eyeballs are.

If the eyeballs went to social, that's where you need to be. If it's video, you need to be on video.

Eyeballs are always the currency.

I'd have to disagree with you on paid though.

I've been doing paid ads since 1999. I've never seen a easier time than right now.

I'm spending $5m a month right now across several platforms. If you mean paying for followers... then yeah that is shit because those have never been real followers so not sure if you knew that.

But if you meant paid ads. This is a wild time to be on that.