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Originally posted by iwantchixx
automation will fuck you up, run your shit dry and make your advertising stale.
I have been doing them by hand now for a few months and it's paying off for us. If I automated everything we would be using the same advertising on every instance of a template and that's not good.
Here's the trick. Once you have 12-15 sites just start reusing layouts and ad text. Mix em up and just write a new "story" for each site as well as color/font combinations. If I find myself in a major rush to get one up I can do one in 30 mins with mirroring and custom thumb cropping and storyline text on each page.
People always try to automate things and it just creates subpar results. I have tried training people to build freesites before and all they did was say "I can get my coder to do this and that and make a lot of money" then 2 weeks later say "freesites suck" and go do something else. Of the people who still build by hand, all are still building. What does that tell you?
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Automation, while sounding great in theory, scares me...I don't want to bite the hand that feeds me, and link/top list owners and such don't like to see the same things over and over and over again. I'm not so sure that the surfers give a shit about anything but the content being fresh, but being inexperienced, I'll reserve judgement on that. I try to make mine a bit more interesting and different that what else I see out there, while still keeping it simple and as clean as possible.
BTW I still love that booty in your sig. I just smile everytime I see it!
