Anyone ever share website profits in return for management?

You appear to be looking for a "webmaster." You can find them on sites such as Odesk and Elance.

Whether you do it yourself (I know you don't want to) or if you outsource, either method requires a lot of trial and error and a ton of patience.

If you are dead set on outsourcing, it's going to take as much work as if you were doing everything yourself. In my experience, rarely are you ever going to be 100% satisfied with an outsourced worker. You may have to come to terms with the fact that "it just doesn't have to be perfect." In the Internet business, I believe you need to put your best foot forward but it's better to take imperfect action than to keep delaying that action!

You are looking for a service provider, and usually you pay those people a fee no matter if your website makes money or not.

I suspect your best bet would be to make a list of the tasks you want performed, and find someone who will perform them for a price you are willing to pay. Keep the profits from your site for yourself and pay them from your profit.

You might consider rethinking the ideas in this sentence if you really want a professional to work with you: "It's not like the sites have that much work to do, but I hate spending my time on things like adding images to existing posts when I could be working on new income streams."

When my sink is clogged up, its not that I can't fix it, but I don't want to, but I don't tell the plumber, I hate wasting my time on fixing the problem, I tell him I am happy to pay for his expertise.

I just want to clarify - my initial post was pretty short.

The websites mentioned are profitable and they've proven quite passive and steady in their earnings. But I've also not taken the time to grow them and I think there's definitely room for that.

I've gone over the sites over the past month and have a list of things that I think will improve each site. It includes growth tasks like expanding to relevant topics (i.e. researching, ordering new content, posting new content) as well as maintenance tasks like improving the monetization of popular posts and formatting (i.e. adding in tables and charts to make info display easier for readers).

Since it looks like the above tasks are going to be recurring, I was hoping to find someone who's able to implement them with the care and attention I'd give. Especially since I'd like to focus my efforts on email marketing and product creation rather than admin tasks. And it'd be perfect if they could become familiar with the sites in the process. Which is why I was thinking a profit-sharing model would work best - maybe it'd motivate people to do a better job.

But yes - that is proving really challenging. Most outsourcers either don't care at all or they simply don't have the skills/experience to do the tasks.

At this point, I think kk075 is right - assigning tasks on a per-project basis seems the only option for me. It's also cheaper than profit sharing, although this means the sites remain "on my plate." Maybe I'll continue to outsource tasks 'til I find someone who's really good and then expand his/her duties into general webmastership.

Ugh. How do you guys with like dozens of sites grow them without help?!