Don’t make money for Facebook. Make it for yourself.

Mark Zuckerberg has enough moneyHow much time in total have you spent writing posts and updates for your social media accounts? Dozens of hours? Hundreds even?

Do you create updates for Facebook? Posts for Google+? Videos for YouTube? Tweets for Twitter?

If you do, you’re a content creator.

And the content you create is making the owners of these social media sites rich. Massively rich.

Unless you have a particular passion for making other people rich, allow me to suggest an alternative.

Instead of investing your time and passion in writing content for social media sites, invest it in writing content for a website of your own.

No, I’m not suggesting you abandon social media.

Perhaps the best way to explain what I mean is to show you what I do myself.

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101 Topic ideas for your money-making website.

Coffee Detective website screenshotAs some of you already know, in addition to my regular work I make a second, passive income with some hobby sites.

My largest hobby site, CoffeeDetective.com, has made me over $250,000 in passive income over the last 7 years. Not bad for a site I work on in the evening and at weekends.

I have also written a program, based on my own experiences, so that other people can do the same.

I have spoken and corresponded with hundreds of people who have taken the program, and many have told me the part of the process they found the hardest was coming up with a topic idea.

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