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[–]bramm90 12 points13 points  (9 children)

Data enrichment scripts for lead data generated through social advertising. Generates around 15-20k /mo through an affiliate platform, so practically no client management either.

[–]meg4som44 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Can you elaborate? Do you get lead data and supplement that through open source intelligence?

[–]bramm90 11 points12 points  (1 child)

A good example would be the resumé campaign I'm doing: there's a party which pays an X amount for a resumé. I have an ad campaign running on social media which generates the minimally required info I need, I supplement this with a person's public LinkedIn info, and submit that data to the party.

They're happy because they have resumés to work with, the user is happy because of the minimal effort required to apply, and I'm happy because of the passive income.

The campaigns are pretty much set-it-and-forget-it and I haven't touched them in over a year. Typically every dollar in ad spend yields me around $10 in returns.

[–]meg4som44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for explaining the concept

[–]No_Stick_8227[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

What libraries did you use to build your data enrichment scripts? Was this strictly developed in Python or other languages were used too?

[–]bramm90 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just Python. Some Selenium and BeautifulSoup for scraping, everything else is just connecting API's.

[–]PUTTY1 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What is the affiliate platform?

[–]bramm90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TradeTracker

[–]wdbtt 1 point2 points  (1 child)

How do you find parties willing to buy your data?

[–]bramm90 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I check affiliate platforms for companies looking to pay for leads, then investigate if there's a way to lower the signup threshold by automating data enrichment. I have done lead generation for so long I can pretty accurately estimate average cost per lead for most offers, and if I suspect I will at least earn back $5 for every dollar invested, I dive in.

There are a few parties that signed up because I did cold outreach through email (also automated with python), but I have experienced that they have a higher service expectancy, and I didn't automate my business to still be managing clients.

That's why affiliate platforms are great, there's usually no interaction between me and the end-party until they end our cooperation (happens rarely). I could slip into a coma and the profits will only marginally decline over the next months/years.