What To Do When You Have Over-Committed
By Mariella on Mar 17, 2008 in blogging
Are you blog-happy? Do you buy domains every day and create blogs incessantly because you have a whole pool of ideas? Have you waken up one day to realize you’re already maintaining 20+ blogs and the number is still growing?
I know someone who literally had hundreds of domains. I realize that some have thousands more. But you see, this person I know doesn’t use his domains for business. He bought them because he wanted to make them all into blogs. What does one exactly do when he’d over-committed?
1. Outsource.
If you have the budget for it, hire other bloggers for some of your other domains. Who knows? You might have actually started a network of your own. Just be informed that having several active blogs means you might have to move to a bigger or better host. If you decide to go this route, make sure you have the money to spend, and the drive to try and recoup your investments. In the long run, of course you’d want to earn from your efforts, but keep your goals simple at first.
2. Schedule accordingly.
Think you can still handle all your existing blogs? Make sure to schedule accordingly. Find out what works for you when handling multiple blogs and stick to what you’ve decided upon.
3. Have someone else manage the blog for free, but majority of the ad revenues go to them.
If you don’t have the resources to create a small network of your own, you can get other people to manage the blog for free, but the revenues go to them as payment. Hey, at least there’s something going on in your domains, right? Also, once the blogs become popular, you can get sponsors for them, with which you can earn and recoup what you spend for hosting.
4. Give up a few domains.
Be realistic. If you really can’t handle all your domains and you can’t afford to have other people blog for them, sell a few domain names. If you happen to have premium domains and you make a bit of money from them, you can use those as capital to outsource some blogging duties.
Blogging is so much fun that there are people who really tend to over-commit. Every time you’re inclined to buy a new domain name, ask yourself if it’s really worth it.
4 Comment(s)
By Darwin on Mar 17, 2008 | Reply
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By B.K.Saravanan on Mar 18, 2008 | Reply
Be realistic. If you buy multiple domains, the only way is park them unless you have a team to work to develop as mini sites or mini blogs up to 25 pages with some ad to earn revenue for renewals. the only and main source will be the sale of that domain. But it takes some months to years. No body will maintain a blog for others, if you just spent some 20 bucks a year you can get a domain with host account. Then how it is possible. The real situation is even if you have a team of 5 - 10 members to work, you can maintain only one blog. you can improve it like a sky rocket. One man show doesnt reach the stage. To popularize a blog lot of work is needed
By Sujoy on Apr 6, 2008 | Reply
Sounds great! Your blog is one of my most favorite now ;). You have hit the nail on the head, just like you always do.
By crazy6108 on Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
I disagree with you. Indeed, I’m not giving a ringing disagreement, but just sayin’ what I think. I have my opinion, you have yours.