Focus on Single Site or Multiple Sites? [Advice]

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AZJ0SH

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I have been doing affiliate marketing, web design, and basic SEO for the last 1-2 years on the side, and want to make a career out of it. My problem seems to be my focus and was looking for some advice from others who have faced this situation.

I have dabbled in almost every "make money online" program I could find, but never really focused on a single style or program. I ran a few review sites last year and was making about $100/month from affiliate sales, but it just didn't feel like it was worth the time to make so little, so I gave up. I promoted products on CJ and ClickBank and never really went anywhere with it. Started a SEO firm and only got a few clients. Flipped a few websites on Flippa but that market died quick.

Am I spreading myself too thin trying to do everything myself, or should I focus on a single project and perfect it? I currently have a few sites going, some EMD's, a SEO/Design site, and a reputation management site.

My goals aren't outrageous, ideally I would like to be making $100/day by the end of the year, which seems more than reasonable. That's more than I make at my day-to-day job and would let me work from home and grow on that and eventually scale it up to a larger amount each day.

Anyone else faced this situation, or have any advice?
 


Focus on a single project until you feel like you've maximized your potential with it. Then open up several similar sites at the same time and repeat the process. I feel like you need to do it first by focusing on one and once you know what and how to do you can expand to more sites at once.
 
It might be best to address why you're jumping around so much. Is it a lack of interest? Satisfaction? Find something that gives you purpose and move from there.
 
tylerherman said:
If you've tried all these things and never made any money at it, clearly you aren't any good at it. So why do it again?

Find a new idea or do something you are good at. IM isn't for everyone.
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I have made plenty of money in everything I have dabbled in, website flipping was my most successful venture but Flippa is saturated with fake-rev and fake-traffic sites pushing the prices of real sites down.

I do about $500/month in design/seo gigs, but honestly I don't want to mess around with small sites, I would rather build a $3000 site and take a month rather than build 30 mini sites for people.

Spydr said:
It might be best to address why you're jumping around so much. Is it a lack of interest? Satisfaction? Find something that gives you purpose and move from there.
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I think it's focus and time, the only thing I feel gives me purpose is doing SEO and design since I enjoy hearing the positive testimonials from clients about how well their business is doing now or how well their ranking.
 
Do both. Sometimes you find that if you work on one site, things are slow and you tend to overdo it in terms of SEO. It's good to have multiple projects so you don't over commit.
 
I spent a lot of time doing research and going over my goals for the year, and I think my best bet is to focus on a few different methods and put more time and effort into each. I allocated myself 4 hours a day after work to work on my sites now, which should make a huge difference.

Going to get my SEO/design business up and running again, and get some mini-sites and affiliate sites going to supplement my income. I thin keeping most of my focus on the seo/design business would net me the most, going to try to focus on larger more expensive sites rather than building little $300 sites here and there.

Thanks for the replies, I may start a journal on here to track everything.
 
AZJ0SH said:
I do about $500/month in design/seo gigs, but honestly I don't want to mess around with small sites, I would rather build a $3000 site and take a month rather than build 30 mini sites for people.
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You seem to have answered your own question here. If you don't want to mess around with "small" sites, then stop messing around with small sites. It's possible to make money with one large site, or a 100 mini sites, but you need to figure out the right approach and what works. (That most likely will require more than 4 hours a day).
 
mattlock25 said:
You seem to have answered your own question here. If you don't want to mess around with "small" sites, then stop messing around with small sites. It's possible to make money with one large site, or a 100 mini sites, but you need to figure out the right approach and what works. (That most likely will require more than 4 hours a day).
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That's pretty much what I said in my post, it wasn't a question. :D

I have 5-6 EMD's earning around $1-$2/day, if I was to scale that up to 50 sites that would be about $50-$100/day, which would be a good start.
 
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