Originally Posted by
Raffles
Er, no its not.
Things you do NOT need to make a success of it:
An attractive site (as Ben and Gary prove!)
Any sort of IT ability
Any sort of marketing ability
Any sort of educational qualification
Any upfront capital investment
Things you DO need:
A genuine love of and knowledge of miles and points, and the ability to articulate that through good writing
In fact, as long as you meet the criteria at the bottom, I can't think of an easier way to build a $100k pa business from scratch, part time, with no capital investment.
Yeah I was joking about it being a tough life, more of a throw that out there to see how much sympathy there is for people in the 6 figure range.
Anyways, the crowd is very demanding, and snipey, but that isn't a bad thing, even people who hate a site/blogger are complaining about it so much that they drive traffic there, and no doubt check the site frequently to see what else the evil blogger has revealed to their detriment. As long as you can stomach that you still get the traffic stats you need.
Now, I do disagree regarding ability to market and use technology. I think that understanding guerrilla marketing (if you aren't paying for it) is very important, as is SEO along with.
Also, I don't think it is fair cite bloggers that work for Boarding Area etc as proof of not needing technical skills since part of what boarding area offers is the platform. If you are standalone, like myself then you need to know what to do when your site vanishes on a software upgrade, as it did last week.