GO! Focus what you’re working on!

Mar 11

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I was chatting with someone at BlogCatalog - which of all the social networks that we’ve signed up for recently - has been the most productive in terms of actually meeting other bloggers of like minds.

GoSmellTheFlowers started a discussion group at BlogCatalog, about well, the feelin’ good side of life. I commented about how it can be tough to stay motivated. I was losing motivation in this adventure to find online streams of internet income, and my current experiment to make money by focusing on the good side of life (as opposed to the crappy things that happen.)

She suggested that I needed to focus. Spend all my energies on ripples of kindness, and the traffic and money will follow. It’s an interesting idea. My wife agrees. Stop spreading myself so thin.

Some would say that you should diversify your porfolio to be prepared for inevitable change. (Like Yahoo changing the way they run their sponsored search and potentially ruining my Pay Per Click Search Marketing campaign.) Others would argue that you can only make money by focusing your energy and resources in key areas (that are preferably going to enter a bull market.)

The problem is that there are so many things that excite me!

We have one working Pay Per Click affiliate marketing campaign that we have to prune and monitor.
We have several other PPC campaigns that are running that we are trying to make profitable.
Our Japanese-Canadian recipe site: Gohanyo.ca is the only one of our content-based websites that actually attracts traffic of it’s own from the search engines. Our temake zushi is a popular recipe.
We’re trying an experiment at social monkeys.com to see if people prefer to snitch and bitch about life or reflect on the ripples of kindness that they see in life.
We have a travel blog, although we’re not traveling much right now: whattheduck.ca
among other things. (Oh. And that doesn’t include real life.)

I think I might polish up gohanyo.ca to get the kinks out of the template, filler up with 10 weeks of recipes using WordPress’s scheduled post feature, and then narrow down my field of focus.

So. How many blogs do you run?