How fast you can learn other techniques depends on how much time you have to devote to it.  

It allowed me to devote as much or as little time to it on any given day, which worked well with my schedule at the time.

Do you have the time to devote to wholesaling (hitting the pavement to find deals, advertising, networking, it's a tough gig, though it can be lucrative)?

A web site devoted to the property isn't difficult to create, and gives you an online presence if you aren't going to list it on the MLS.

What you should do with regard to the various questions you have posed here depends on your long term investment goals and your situation (generally your life, work, the time you expect to devote to this etc).

Unfortunately, with my demanding job, and my partners demanding business, we were not able to devote enough time to start the company, made many rookie mistakes, and eventually put the business “on hold.”One of the things I learned about this service based business, is that you are always working in it, there is not an opportunity for passive income or repeat customers.I spent six months reflecting on the risk I took and taking the time to determine the direction in which I wanted to move.

I am also open to the Ideal of managing properties under a subject to or lease form sellers.I can substitute my hours devoted to overtime with my job in exchange for Whole Selling.

I've found that new investors tend to have the most energy to devote to this type of difficult work.

There's a whole section of the forum devoted to Rent to Owns and lease/options.

I started back in August, bought 4 houses between August and December, and have already bought 3 this year.I do this full time, and devote about 30% of my efforts to building systems and processes that allow me to streamline the whole effort.