What Is Your Motivation/How Many Blogs Can You Handle
In the past I’ve discussed some of my goals – but I read a good little bit on motivation over at Big Wad’s blog on motivation, worth checking it out. It got me thinking……how much do I want to earn from the Internet? Well for some people the answer is LOTS! My answer is ENOUGH for now.
What I mean is that I’m not all about getting stinking rich from Internet income – I’m all about being free due to Internet income. As my friends reading this know, I work from home, and make about 13,000 per month in the good months, and about 7,000 in the slow months. Of course this is enough to pay the bills, and not work at the Ford Motor Company, or work at Starbucks, but not enough to be rolling in cash. Great! I appreciate this lifestyle everyday I wake up, and try not to take it for granted, but the hell hounds are still on my trail gang. Here is why.
The reason I don’t rest on my laurels, is that the competition is getting fierce. Millions of people every year are entering our world of Internet income, work at home freedom, and general financial freedom. Many of these newcomers are savvy Internet folk that are using blogs to capitalize on traffic, even for basic products sites like hair loss markets, skin cream markets, YOU name it!
I was talking to a couple of my music buddies yesterday (yeah….I spent allot of time trying to be a rock star……and NOT for Supernova) who are also enjoying some Internet income. I was telling them my new mind-set with the future of Internet profits – I believe it’s coming down to this.
We need to be working REALLY hard on one particular blog or site for extended amounts of time. I’m talking about around 3 months per site or blog. After that we can distract ourselves off to other sites. We need to build up a serious amount of content and quality information for our visitors, before we move on to other things. I even think now that sticking with one blog may be a worthy method too. Using feeds, content automation, and of course manual posting, we should be able to keep three good blogs rolling by ourselves. I’d say that might be stretching it as well. Maybe two good blogs.
What I mean by automation is using a feed like Teli’s script for importing excel spread sheets to your Wordpress blog. I use this script on a few of my blogs and it works very well. For example, I have a blog that automatically posts 10 posts a day evenly spread over a 24 hour period. Posted in 5 different categories, and it’s all fresh original content.
I said to both my music (and now blogging) buddies is; instead of looking at just your competition’s site to see how they are enjoying massive traffic, look even higher. Look at Yahoo! for instance. Take a good long look at Yahoo! and see how many fresh, original pieces of content they add a day. Then think of way to add that much quality content to your blog every day. Imagine if you could? If you could add just half of what Yahoo! adds in a day, you would be wiping out your competition in due time.
For some of those visitors that used to hang out at my past forums, this may be contradictory, as I used to pipe on about multiple sites. Good old Kenny {;-)} over at Money Traffic is all about mulitple blogs still, and there is merit in that – but we need to make each one of those blogs fantastic, not just so-so.
So take one blog at a time, and work your butt off for 3 solid months. When you are done, move on to the next. Once you have them all kicking along, you can them manage them all at the same time. I try to make one decent post per week on a blog that is in that mode. This blog has a good base of readers and content now, so I just try to make one good post a week if I can, while I’m grinding hard on a new blog. No question about it – Zulit will always be here and I will always make a post like this one periodically, but I won’t be posting for the sake of posting.
So how many blogs can you handle? How much money do you need to earn per month? Just like Big Wad’s article mentions – wants and needs are two different things. Do I WANT to go to Palm Springs next month, or do I NEED to go to Palm Springs next month – that is the question. I say we work hard for our financial freedom first, and then we work hard for the extras in life. Work hard on ONE BLOG AT A TIME.
Oh….and don’t make every blog about making Internet income, because the Internet savvy don’t click Adsense ads very often 
Learn to create massive blogs on basic products as well, cause people looking for skin cream probably don’t even know a Google ad or YPN ad from one of your navigational links…….or a hole in the ground.
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September 22nd, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Great conversation yesterday Z! As always, you have fantabulous advice and admire the fact that you are able to work at this all day. I am one of many whom you’ve helped and have not been discouraged yet. Why? Because long along you made it clear to me that this wasn’t going to be easy, it isn’t a quick rich scheme and that it would take tons of patience and dedication. Even though i’m profiting $900 U.S. a month now on static sites…it’s time to change, adapt SE changes and to follow your lead. Thanks again for the wise words!
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Yep…a good yack for sure. It’s a long and winding road, this Internet income gig. The ones who dig in their heels will prosper in the end. (and have financial freedom)
TZ
P.S. – congrats on the $900 bucks a month
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September 22nd, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Hey Terry, I have a question. Most of my static sites have a Wordpress blog attached to them…but aren’t really active. Now if I was to make the transition from Static to Wordpress…would it be wise of me to keep the static site up, work on the wordpress blog that’s attached until it’s complete and THEN replace the static site with the Wordpress? Because as it currently stands, I have my http://www.staticsite.com/wordpress. Now when I’m ready for my blog to take over…do you just transfer everything that’s in your wordpress folder into you root? And that’s it? http://www.staticsite.com becomes your blog? I hope this all makes sense to you. I’m just not sure how to make the switch. Thanks TZ!
September 22nd, 2006 at 2:23 pm
What I do is keep my static going on all page except the index. I let the Wordpress blog rule the index with it’s index.php file.
BUT….I make some obvious links to old static page from the blogs blogroll, or from pages on the blog, or from a header menu…..whatever.
Works well. I don’t intend on ever killing the old static page either. Just provide visitors (and search engines) links from your blog to your old pages, directories, etc.
Easy squeezy.
September 22nd, 2006 at 2:27 pm
I see!! Ok, so to get the blog to take over the domain…do you transfer everything out of the Wordpress folder and put it directly into your root folder? Will the index.php automatically become the home page by default or do I need to get rid of the index.html page? Sorry for all the questions…I should be good after this! Thanks TZ.
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:05 pm
The Wordpress index.php will take over as your home page.
TZ
October 9th, 2006 at 1:26 am
@Terry: You’re right about the competition. But one thing that I learned when I was publishing a monthly print magazine in the mid 1990s is that most people do not have the wherewithal to continue writing over extended periods of time. A very small percentage of human beings will persist enough to be a competitive threat. Besides, if you are earning that much, you have an incredible headstart over them, not to mention (probably) exponentially increasing rank and earnings.