Since I have one leg in the Manosphere and the other leg in the mainstream dating coach/adviser business, I get to see how web content companies work vis a vis producing content. It ain't pretty in my world.
YourTango.com (a female-centric website about attraction, dating, and relationships) approached me earlier this year with an invitation to be one of their dating "experts". I was flattered, albeit very briefly. It's a paid gig. I would pay them $48.95 a month and I could submit articles that would steer readers to my dating advice services.
Given the considerable traffic going to YourTango, I did consider actually paying them for a few months to see what would happen. But I did some research and asked a couple of dating coaches already on YourTango about the response to being a paid "expert". The answer was "meh". So, I gave it a pass.
But it's a interesting that written content is so cheap and such a commodity that authors have to pay to play. Back in the 90s and way before the Internet, I actually made a fair living as a freelance journalist, pounding out feature stories for regional magazines and the alternative weekly press. Hell, I even had regular op-ed column in the Sunday Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Yeah, I'm bragging, bite me.
Ah, but times they have changed for better and worse. Those big websites (think HuffPo) don't pay bloggers. Worse, bloggers pay them so that means the content is deeply suspect, especially in regards to attraction and dating. I'm sure that RVF members sensed this. The blue pill, feel good bullshit is so pervasive because content creators know this will get some righteous web traffic to generate ad revenue and click-through traffic.
But here's the dilemma for dating coaches and advisers looking to market themselves in this way. The blue pill crap gets the page views but it's ultimately bad for business because blue pill attraction and dating advice always fails.
YourTango.com (a female-centric website about attraction, dating, and relationships) approached me earlier this year with an invitation to be one of their dating "experts". I was flattered, albeit very briefly. It's a paid gig. I would pay them $48.95 a month and I could submit articles that would steer readers to my dating advice services.
Given the considerable traffic going to YourTango, I did consider actually paying them for a few months to see what would happen. But I did some research and asked a couple of dating coaches already on YourTango about the response to being a paid "expert". The answer was "meh". So, I gave it a pass.
But it's a interesting that written content is so cheap and such a commodity that authors have to pay to play. Back in the 90s and way before the Internet, I actually made a fair living as a freelance journalist, pounding out feature stories for regional magazines and the alternative weekly press. Hell, I even had regular op-ed column in the Sunday Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Yeah, I'm bragging, bite me.
Ah, but times they have changed for better and worse. Those big websites (think HuffPo) don't pay bloggers. Worse, bloggers pay them so that means the content is deeply suspect, especially in regards to attraction and dating. I'm sure that RVF members sensed this. The blue pill, feel good bullshit is so pervasive because content creators know this will get some righteous web traffic to generate ad revenue and click-through traffic.
But here's the dilemma for dating coaches and advisers looking to market themselves in this way. The blue pill crap gets the page views but it's ultimately bad for business because blue pill attraction and dating advice always fails.