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The executives work all day/every day on their sites. 30 new articles a week published accross 30 sites in 10 niches. Most of the executives quit a 9-5 job in an office to take up a 8am to 1am job at home. They never leave let their sites sit for more than a day, and are constantly updating, upgrading, and adding. Many seem tethered to their site and internet connection and have this incredible fear that if they stop working on their site, their income will drop to $0)
The farmers spend a few months working like crazy on a site. For these beginning "seed sowing" months they appear very similar to the farmers. However, the key difference is that AFTER they think the site is at a reasonable level, they step back and work only 1-2 hours a day on the site, adding less than 2 articles a week and generally letting the site work on autopilot. The advantage of being a farmer is clear, work hard then play hard. Rfung is a good example of a farmer, since his site is paying for him to travel around europe.
As a farmer myself, I cannot understand the appeal of working MORE hours than at an office, even if you get more money.
Can an executive explain it to me?
rfung and I are a lot alike in that we have the same number of sites making about the same amount and we're both in Europe where we don't belong. :-)
they step back and work only 1-2 hours a day on the site
I'd say I'm a farmer too, but 1-2 hours a day on a site sounds crazy. I like it when they are only 1-2 hours per month. I need time to live, and a lot of time for research, oh, and time for building new sites. At 1-2 hours per day, 4 sites would choke the life out of me.
Like Freedom, I'll go on a long rampage of doing nothing but working on sites at times.
I think that maybe the "executives" have more pride in ownership" as far as websites go. When a seriously interested non-webmaster person asks me what sites I own, I show them my rankings. I'm more interested in the accomplishments other than the websites themselves. I'm sure many "executives" have great rankings too, but I bet they show the websites.
I do build nice, content rich, informative websites, but I wouldn't want a big interactive behemoth at this time, or anything that constantly demands my attention.
