Some people like to make the most of their internet marketing efforts, and a lot of people find that promoting their products with the help of a blog is a great way to boost their business.
Start Another Blog
Once you have a successful blog on your hands and it’s making your internet marketing business some money, you have another question to think about. Do you try and repeat the pattern and start setting up other blogs that will hopefully repeat this success and earn you more money, or do you try to develop the one you have even more?
While it’s perfectly possible to have more than one blog, internet marketing can be a very involved process if you really want to get it right. Time management is essential.
The main question has nothing to do with trying to repeat any kind of pattern – successful or otherwise. Rather, it’s a case of trying to work out whether or not you have the time to write more than one blog, especially if you want the quality to remain high (which is of course essential.)
How Much Time?
To be able to figure out if you can take on another blog, or maybe even more, it’s worth figuring out how much time your first blog takes up each week. Presumably you will want your second and subsequent blogs to be just as high in quality, so you will want to make sure you aren’t rushing to complete each post.
The truth is that if you are short on time when it comes to your internet marketing efforts, you are better off having fewer blogs which are still of a high quality, than trying to run lots and achieving very little off the back of them. There is a strong learning curve in internet marketing, and that goes for blogging too.
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Blogs certainly take a lot of time.
I have 2 and that is pretty challenging. For now I will just be concentrating on putting all the systems in place to better manage my time.
Hi Sean,
I guess this is a personal decision and comes down to how time you have to spend. I think I’d want to have fewer blogs of good quality. But, I need to make sure that I’m getting the results I want. Otherwise, I may need to assess whether I’m flogging a dead horse and need to make some changes.
Sean asks, “Can you handle more than one blog?”
In my mind I can manage two blogs but in reality and after reading this post I think it wiser to concentrate on one, first.
I must get started on a regular blog post, thanks for this reminder Sean.
Hi Sean
I now know I have too many for where I am in my learning process, the person who I started learning suggested I have a few but I now realise I can not do justice to all so I at this stage try to at least refresh them at least once a week but then I don’t work outside of home anymore
Putting 100% effort into one blog will generally be more successful than putting limited effort into multiple sites.
I love the thought of having more than one successful blog, but at the moment I have enough to do with one
Hi Sean
I only have one blog at this time and trying to work on that as well as learning other things in my life at present is very demanding.
I have to work on weekly time management charts that I have developed so that I can be economical with my time and get as much quality work done as possible.
I would rather build one blog first and have it monetised and running beautifully before I considered starting another.
Is that a good point or not – time management is a key to many of the things we need to do or want to take up in the business of affiliate marketing.
It is one of my major flaws – e.g. I have been intending for days now to draw up a proper schedule and still haven’t – so there are chores getting neglected – like my blogging today and I haven’t tweeted – though I have twitted!
“Can you handle more than one blog?” is a definite must ask question. If you are attempting to work full time while you make the transition to Internet Marketing you will likely find it impossible unless you have no family and no social life. Remember, your health counts a great deal in how successful you may be and if you push yourself too hard you may find that you don’t have the health to support your future efforts.
Just a thought!
Probably the answer to that is whether you are regularly posting or not. If one or more gets neglected then perhaps the proof is in the pudding. Time management will certainly help streamline posting and more can be done – but it can only organise time, not create it. If there is not eneoigh time to attend to all our blogs, then perhaps we have too many.
I will be working on getting up to speed with one. When I do something I like to do it well. Doing too many things can end up doing very little justice to any of them.
I would see that blogs wouldn’t be too different as I see it as not something that will just run itself and therefore a bit of time involved. Having more than one blog looks to come, in the main, down to time unless you are working as part of a team.
I thought I could handle a few until I started having to manage comments and then suddenly realised that things were a little more involved than I thought. I have several domains and content from another platform which i am converting into blogs, so have plenty of content at the moment to schedule and then are hoping that I can outsource some of that work.