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That's a very unfair summary and I don't agree with it at all.
I carefully consider each post and respond without trying to dismiss it (if anyone feels that I dismissed their post, let me know and I'll do better). I agree with most of what has been said in this thread so far.
The only thing I did dismiss outright is the idea of building a big business as suggested by Antifragile as well as his blockchain idea (which in a later post I admitted that it was due to my limiting belief).
I also did dismiss ideas that are more of the same of what I've been doing unsuccessfully (relying on one platform like Twitter) and the idea of building a business based on my hobby (which goes completely against your most important tenet).
There may have also been an impression that I dismissed some offline ideas. Me wanting the freedom to travel is the most important reason behind not wanting to have an offline business. But also, come to a country next door to a huge conflict that may spill over the rest of Europe and tell me how confident you are in launching a business in such circumstances. I don't want anything local as I need to be mobile in case they start doing something stupid like drafting for war. I know that the US doesn't care anymore but in Europe it's still a huge threat.
As a side note, I do avoid news about it but I have to keep following it every now and then in case the risk of the conflict spilling over increases (for which I have escape plans).
I took notes from many other posts and wrote down some rules I'll follow when I feel ready to start again.
As for the rest, I simply said I'm not looking actively for any ideas now. As pointed out by some people in this thread, I can't take any sensible action now in my mental state.
I acknowledge I need to fix myself and my mental state and that's what I've been doing the past few days:
- I decided to stop all current projects and take off pressure to reduce stress.
- I reached out to an old friend and went to a sauna together for the first time in 4 years. I took an ice bath as well and in general tried to relax and take my mind off any business-related stuff.
- I reached out to another old friend and went on a long walk together. It turns out that he as well has been dealing with burnout and other similar problems so we talked about that.
- I talked with another friend going through something similar and with a similar inner wiring as mine.
- I talked with three other people about it as well. This is all because of a suggestion from a poster or two about changing the environment/people and getting a different perspective.
- I'm prioritizing rest and recovery.
- Offline businesses - for reasons explained above.
- Businesses that rely on one platform - because this isn't a real business, as explained by BizyDad.
- Businesses that rely on content/writing - because I've done too much of that and it doesn't work for me anymore.
- Businesses that masquerade as businesses but are in reality passion projects - because I've done that already as well and it's stupid.
- Businesses that are "hot trends" or rely on arbitrage - as suggested by you to avoid.
I have an impression that you misunderstood my post. I merely said that content marketing takes longer to work than paid advertising. That's what I meant by an ad - paying for an ad to get those visitors FASTER to a website rather than waiting for content marketing to work. I did not refer to ads as a monetization method.
I don't want to use content marketing for now because I want to test fast, as suggested by Andy Black. That's the only thing I said. This is exactly your advice as well as Andy's. Instead of writing content and waiting 1-2 years for it to work, test faster with paid ads.
So my point is that if I were to start a new business, I would NOT write any content for it. I would buy some ads and test this way and try to scale through ads. Content COULD become a part of the marketing strategy in the future. But my problem is that I take too long to test ideas so it makes sense to avoid marketing strategies that are slower to produce results.
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