Man! This stuff is hard work. How do I Streamline?

I would suggest that you get a VA to help you out. The VA could o the bookmarking and the submissions while you concentrate on article and content creation...
That way, you will have more time on your hands and you wont be burnt out trying to work all the time....
Also, its not a week's effort that will give you sales....it may take anything between a month to 6 weeks to get you your 1st sale.

Ok. Let me ask you this. How many blog posts should I have on each blog before letting up? When can I start focusing on other aspects of this.
Right now, I have 7 posts per blog, with 3 per blog posts per blog bookmarked.

I am exactally the same as you. When I start something new I want to go all guns blazing on my path to world domination. Sadly, I have never found a way to make this work. My advice would be to take one step at a time. Find a niche that is big enough to make a possitive impact on your income. By niche, I don't mean your method of generating income (ie affiliate marketing) I mean the specific product your selling (ie silcone widget grease, lol). Make it your goal to own and dominate your niche. Build your main money page. Start with PPC to find the phrases that actually make you money and start to test and optimize your landing page and sales process. Take this information and use it to develop your SEO campaign. Create supporting sites that can feed link jucie and or traffic to your money site. Develop systems to capture prospect information and continue to sell / cross-sell / upgrade to them. Use your new found infulence in the widget grease community to negotiate better commisions with your provider or find a better product.

Doing this will bring you better, faster success and you will end up developing your own step by step roadmap that you can replicate or even outsource.

HTH, Dan

One word....outsource. If you are a writer, then outsource your link building. If you aren't a writer, outsource the writing.

It isn't the quantity of posts. It is the quality (when I say quality, I mean relevant..latent words and the post is speaking the language of the niche) combined with inbound links coming from related niches in your field (some may argue this point but in my experience, google always gives more love to links from a related niche).

Most bloggers get this wrong. They think that they MUST write constantly. What happens is that they are all over the place in terms of content. In reality, all you need to do is write a post a week that has been planned for whatever long tail you are going after.

Also, make sure you place some analytics on your site and download the reports weekly to analyze where the traffic is coming from, if it is organic search based or referral based. This will give you a roadmap as to what direction to take your business (or not take it)

I'd say outsourcing is the key. Once you're turning a decent profit most of that stuff can be outsourced at a relatively low cost.

Caroline

There's a reason why i have so many affiliate marketers as clients It's not a new phenomenon by any stretch of the matter either. When you're just starting out, you do want to do it all by hand so that you can understand the in's and out's of what is required.

After the income starts to fall into place, ramp up your game plan by outsourcing the content production for your sites as well as promotion aspect of your sites too.

You're not going to go very far without either