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I would love it if LC could be a 80K/year site in 10 years!

I'm expecting there to be considerable effort involved in user acquisition, which is an area I'm not terribly experience with. If anyone has advice in this arena, I'm all ears!

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The quickest way is to buy interested eyeballs (adwords or some other route). You can set you budget for the month and grow the budget as the user base and advertising revenue grows. But if you want to see astronomical growth, you have to have a compelling reason for people to refer you via word of mouth. As well posting to aggregators like this is not a bad way to get people to take a look. Just don't get too spammy with it and by all means don't violate other sites terms of use trying to get your name out there.

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