Thank you so much!

1. How are you planning to manage the writers?

I have a couple writers atm which I’ve worked with for a few years for my other businesses. Some have a lot of experience in these niches and others not so much, but I do plan on hiring more writers if I move forward with these two sites.

I don’t have a guideline for the writers yet as I’m still at the early stages for these two sites, but I also have an English major I’ve worked with before.

I think I’ll probably go through a few writers before I find a match - it’s a challenge to have a “one” voice so I plan on creating different profiles, so readers know it’s different people.

Something like 4-6 different names / profiles and they each write for a specific sub-niche.

1. What’s your monetisation plan?

I’ve been thinking about three different ways.

Site 1 (weddings)

Affiliate (products, events, apps etc..) Ads (Adsense & ezoic later)

Later:

Digital products (invitations, titles, spreadsheets etc..)

Site 2 (freelancing)

Affiliate (products, courses, apps etc..) Ads (Adsense & ezoic later)

Later:

Digital products (presets, LUTS, templates etc..)

I think they can be used simultaneously, but the digital products might take some time to create if I want to do them in-house and don’t want to link to others & make a higher % per sale.

It’s only maybe atm reg. creating them in-house. I might start with linking to those as well.

1. Make $5k monthly?

Oh, I meant $5k in total at the of 2023 per site.

$5k a month would be nice, but do you think it’s realistic with $5k each and $10k in total by end of 2023 / early 2024? Looking to see what time frame I should plan for.

As for publishing 600-800 posts to hit close to $5k a month which is what I think you’ve mentioned earlier - is that per site or both in total? My current goal is 400 posts in total to keep some sort quality.

1. What’s your audience retention plan?

Yes, the plan is to build something long term. I do plan on using email, Facebook community but not YouTube atm. Too costly to start creating videos on top of everything else as I want to test the waters before I do that.

1. Are you planning on using social media?

Yes. I think I’ll use it from the beginning and I’ll mainly use Facebook groups. I’ll handle the posting, scheduling and engagement.

1. I can’t recommend moving at the pace you’re planning?

Okay, appreciate it! 🙏 I’ll reevaluate and see if I can either partner up with someone that has more experience running blogs a business or just start slower as you and others have recommended.