How do you manage so many sites?

how about outsourcing.business people delegate as much as they can and only control and look after the most essential and the most important

Outsource the work in the warriors for hire section.
Are your sites related you could interlink them?

I actually gave up on getting traffic , i like to leave it to other people! LOL

This actually isn't a bad idea if you can make it work.

Perhaps you need to block out specific times in the day for each site. Not sure if your work schedule allows for that sort of thing, but it might be an idea.

I agree with you leclaims I think thats not a bad idea at all. Eventually you want to outsource though I only have 7 and im interviewing people right now to outsource. I would just start with working on a site a day a week and eventually start outsourcing tasks that are either time consuming or the sites that need the most work then the sites that just need tweeks and routine maintenance you can work on those yourself

The best thing you can do at this point is stop building sites. Focus on one to make it consistently profitable, then outsource the work needed to make it grow and maintain that profitability. Then you can move on to the next project.

The down side of running your business this way though is that eventually you become more a manager and less of an internet marketer. Just depends what your strategy is to accomplish your goals.

With difficulty.

And outsourcing.

I have 8 "main sites", and I do outsource quite a lot of the SEO, for about $150 per month per site.

But I started them all off at different times: I've never started 5 at once, which I admit would be a lot to cope with.

In your situation, I think my plan would be to choose 2 of them to start off building up with SEO, leave the rest until those are bringing some regular income (which might be 2 months?) and then think about outsourcing some of the work.

The reason I say that is that there's the Pareto Principle involved, here. The steepest part of the curve of input/income is the first part. And if I were starting off 5 all at the same time, I might get disillusioned because it would take so long to see any significant results from any one site. On the other hand, you perhaps wouldn't want to start with just one, and ignore four, just in case you picked the wrong one to start on, which would also be bad news. So I'd go for two, I think. :confused:

I have trouble with this as well.

One of the biggest problems I have is outsourcing. I hear about people outsourcing backlink building e.t.c all the time with great success.

The thing I find hard to get my head around is how you do this and be assured you will make money.

Do you do all the work yourself for 6 months, see that you are making some money, and then factor the costs of outsourcing in to your plan before starting to offload some of the work?

Or perhaps it is a numbers game - you have a fair idea that your business model is sound so you pay to build and backlink e.t.c. a ton of sites, and the ones that are winners offset the costs of the losers.

Or something else entirely.

I have made some money through outsourcing, but mostly in the creation of products.

Having people on the payroll for more ongoing tasks like website creation and backlink building has not worked out as well for me.

I'm in the same boat, fortunately I'm basically doing the same process for each site so if I can increase efficiency and make each process as short time-wise as possible then I'll be fine.

I would concentrate on working on no more than 2 sites until you see some good results by monetizing those sites. Then have those 2 sites outsourced for traffic. Then move onto the next few sites and so on. Just my 2 cents.

If you aren't near the income level to begin outsourcing then focus on the one site that has shown the most potential so far for now. Either the one with the most sales, the best SERP ranking, the most links, whatever. Make it profitable and try and MAXIMIZE its conversion rate. I understand the thinking of setting up several websites and you think it will make you more money and in time it will but get one profitable enough to begin outsourcing. Its cheaper to outsource certain tasks than you might think if you look around. Then you can begin building several websites quickly.