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John Rush

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647 total appearances

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And from there, your job pretty much ends because now it just turns into the organic system that people share. If somebody shared, then other people also want to share it. Like people work in a collective mind, right? And the only thing you have to do from there is to make sure the data is great. You keep running your SEO business activities, like I run the agent and others can do other things.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And from there, your job pretty much ends because now it just turns into the organic system that people share. If somebody shared, then other people also want to share it. Like people work in a collective mind, right? And the only thing you have to do from there is to make sure the data is great. You keep running your SEO business activities, like I run the agent and others can do other things.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And from there, your job pretty much ends because now it just turns into the organic system that people share. If somebody shared, then other people also want to share it. Like people work in a collective mind, right? And the only thing you have to do from there is to make sure the data is great. You keep running your SEO business activities, like I run the agent and others can do other things.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

But then the key focus is making sure that you check the data, you check the space every week or month, and you make sure that if there is really hot item, appearing, like new item that everybody talks about on Twitter, you have to add it there. You have to add into your directory.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

But then the key focus is making sure that you check the data, you check the space every week or month, and you make sure that if there is really hot item, appearing, like new item that everybody talks about on Twitter, you have to add it there. You have to add into your directory.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

But then the key focus is making sure that you check the data, you check the space every week or month, and you make sure that if there is really hot item, appearing, like new item that everybody talks about on Twitter, you have to add it there. You have to add into your directory.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And you have to do it fast because if you do it fast, there's a chance you will actually get the traffic from Google, from people who search for that new hot item right on your directory. And That's why there's very little work to do, but you have to have put attention into the space almost every day. So I have a lot of directories. I don't really do stuff, but I scroll Twitter every day. And

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And you have to do it fast because if you do it fast, there's a chance you will actually get the traffic from Google, from people who search for that new hot item right on your directory. And That's why there's very little work to do, but you have to have put attention into the space almost every day. So I have a lot of directories. I don't really do stuff, but I scroll Twitter every day. And

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

And you have to do it fast because if you do it fast, there's a chance you will actually get the traffic from Google, from people who search for that new hot item right on your directory. And That's why there's very little work to do, but you have to have put attention into the space almost every day. So I have a lot of directories. I don't really do stuff, but I scroll Twitter every day. And

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

Once I see that, oh, this item is relevant for this directory, I just bring it in. And that's kind of the next wave of growth comes from being early to list hot items on your directory. And Google will find nothing else on the internet to supply to the user who is searching for that. And Google will show your item, your page for that. So that's the whole path.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

Once I see that, oh, this item is relevant for this directory, I just bring it in. And that's kind of the next wave of growth comes from being early to list hot items on your directory. And Google will find nothing else on the internet to supply to the user who is searching for that. And Google will show your item, your page for that. So that's the whole path.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

Once I see that, oh, this item is relevant for this directory, I just bring it in. And that's kind of the next wave of growth comes from being early to list hot items on your directory. And Google will find nothing else on the internet to supply to the user who is searching for that. And Google will show your item, your page for that. So that's the whole path.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

Yeah. Yeah, so there are multiple ways depending on your audience. So if your directory is B2B, it's easier to monetize it because obviously you can go to businesses who have the same audience as your directory and you can pitch them in the banner spot or the sponsor options. That's what I always did.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

Yeah. Yeah, so there are multiple ways depending on your audience. So if your directory is B2B, it's easier to monetize it because obviously you can go to businesses who have the same audience as your directory and you can pitch them in the banner spot or the sponsor options. That's what I always did.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

Yeah. Yeah, so there are multiple ways depending on your audience. So if your directory is B2B, it's easier to monetize it because obviously you can go to businesses who have the same audience as your directory and you can pitch them in the banner spot or the sponsor options. That's what I always did.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

I had directories of all GPTs and I just sent an email to all GPT owners saying that, do you guys want to be featured on top of this directory? Because we have 30K items. You're just one of 30K. Do you want to be the number one on the top? And then a lot of people said yes. So that's one way. The other way is the affiliate links. And that way works pretty good.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

I had directories of all GPTs and I just sent an email to all GPT owners saying that, do you guys want to be featured on top of this directory? Because we have 30K items. You're just one of 30K. Do you want to be the number one on the top? And then a lot of people said yes. So that's one way. The other way is the affiliate links. And that way works pretty good.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

I had directories of all GPTs and I just sent an email to all GPT owners saying that, do you guys want to be featured on top of this directory? Because we have 30K items. You're just one of 30K. Do you want to be the number one on the top? And then a lot of people said yes. So that's one way. The other way is the affiliate links. And that way works pretty good.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

If the items you have on your directory cost a lot. So if you have items costing $10, then you'll make a little money on that because you need a lot of clicks. But if you have items for 500 or a few K, then there is good money to be made there. For example, I have a directory for Next.js boilerplates and I have affiliate links to all the boilerplates and they all cost $10.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The blueprint for building cash flowing online directories

If the items you have on your directory cost a lot. So if you have items costing $10, then you'll make a little money on that because you need a lot of clicks. But if you have items for 500 or a few K, then there is good money to be made there. For example, I have a directory for Next.js boilerplates and I have affiliate links to all the boilerplates and they all cost $10.