Okay, I hit my first road bump, and it is definitely a personal issue. I do not like the idea of all my eggs being in one basket. Not at all.
I am still tracking for a solid $1 a day, and I just finished another site. Or partially finished, I should say. I will be adding more content over the next couple of weeks, until I reach 20 – 25 pages, possibly 30. Heck, I could probably do more than that, but I’m going to start there.
The thing is, I don’t like the idea of all my income coming from one source. I want to diversify and I think I’m going to do that. This particular site is well suited to affiliate promotions and at the moment that is the way I’m going to go with it.
In fact, I might stick to affiliate promotions as much as possible because this does give me the best chance for diversification.
I’ve created this one site in April. I did a couple in March. At the moment, this gives me a total of 49 websites, but this includes all the domains I own including the many personal sites I run.
I have found it difficult to separate out the sites based on what their purpose is, so I’m just going to go with this number in the future for all my forecasting. It’s easier that way. Of course, this is going to give me some really bad forecasting models, but maybe that’s best too. I do too much forecasting anyway.
I look back and realize I’ve already learned a few things that make it apparent I have made some bad domain decisions even with these new domains I’ve purchased, but at least I have discovered this early enough to make changes in my future domain purchases. My fast or slow? decision seems to have panned out for me.
I’m going to have to figure out how to track some of this stuff so I can be more effective. I’m also going to have to get back to work!