Looks like many are trying too many niches?

Doing everything yourself is wasted effort and limits your expansion. Learn to delegate and outsource. Once you have mastered strategies, systems, techniques, etc, you can apply and multiply your skills over many markets. Most businesses are based on a model of top-down management, and astute business people often own many businesses (online and offline) in diverse markets; hiring competent managers to run them.

I have almost 100 blogs, none of my blogs are auto-blogs, and the content I out-source is written by professionals, researched for each niche, so my sites are far from 'crappy'. All marketing, SEO, etc., is out-sourced, as well, to professionals that can do the job faster, cheaper and more effectively than I could by myself.

I also find it a bit insulting that you think, because of how I choose to run my online business, that there is no way I can be on top of things. The fact is, one of my functions in both my off- and on-line businesses is being a manager. I manage people, money and resources. If I want to stay in business, then it's mandatory that I "keep on top of things." Perhaps it would be more accurate to say YOU can't keep on top of everything.

I think the CEO's of the Fortune 500 companies, with hundreds of thousands of people in their employ, would also back me up on this. If they don't know what's going on throughout the company, they're done. And that's why 'out-source' much of the work, too, to the vice-presidents and such.

I don't mean to sound like a smart-a@@, but are you now making more money with this approach? If so, and it's increased your profits, then I think you would do well to continue in this fashion. More money with less work is always a given.

I do everything you mentioned above, except I out-source my research, and it has worked quite well for me.

I think if you look at just about any big business, you'll find that most of them own many other companies under their 'umbrella'. REAL business is about making money, short and simple, and sometimes that means taking on other businesses.

I don't agree with that in the least. One of my highest producing sites is pregnancy-related and, being a male, I've never been pregnant a day in my life, obviously. In fact, most of the products I promote I have no need or use for personally, but there is a huge market of people out there that do.

Most people who concentrate on the 1 niche are hoping for the 'million dollar website', but trying to compete in a single niche with lots of other people can be very hard, and time-consuming, as well. And if the site goes belly up, you've lost all your time and money.

Personally, I'm banking on the fact that I can make each of my sites produce at least some income, and all of that together goes into the kitty. Obviously, some of the sites do much better than others, but IMO even the lesser-producing sites are worth it. If one site doesn't work at all, so be it, I'm off creating the next one while the other 99 are still producing income.

And btw, 1 or 2 (or more) of these might wind up being a 'million dollar' website, as well.

But whether I have 1 site or 100, it's still run as 1 business, not 100 separate businesses.

As far as having less time to 'concentrate' on things that a lot of people have mentioned, that's why I out-source repetitive tasks and content writing and such to professionals that either a) know the niche already, or b) will do the research for you.

For a lot of people just starting out this isn't an option, of course, and so you have no choice but to do all the work yourself. In that situation, then I would agree that you should concentrate on building one niche site, learning how things work both singly and together, what works and what doesn't, and getting it running smoothly and producing, before moving on to another.

Personally, though, I see no advantage in concentrating on only 1 niche. I would feel like I am limiting myself. I never like to keep all my eggs in one basket in any endeavor, anyway.

As always, just my 2 cents. I'm sure I'll get flamed by someone not liking my disagreeing opinions, but that's fine with me.