How In The World Do I Manage Six Websites?!

byAhnna

631 followers

11 years ago

I'm Going To Tell You My Secret...Listen Closely

Someone asked if anyone here successfully managed five web pages. I realize it can be deceptive if you look at my profile and see that I manage six web pages. People must think I'm Super Woman. So I'm going to tell you something you should know.

I don't manage them all, at least not all by myself. I'm married to someone who is an expert site builder. She maintained our one website and blog for years. I was working a full time job and could not help at all. Actually, so was she. The site was more of a serious hobby for her. But, when I found WA and started learning, I realized we were sitting on a potential gold mine.

I purposely side-tracked myself from my original website

My spouse has held tightly to the internet side of our business, because she was the expert. But, I started talking to her about the potential of a properly marketed site. I was learning things at WA she didn't know. She not only began to listen to me, she started thinking of ways to shift our sites and blogs so that they were sailing with, and not against, the wind.

There is no reason to reinvent the wheel!

Two of the pages I made used to be blogs, with over 10,000 views apiece. It was time to give those blogs a proper home. We simply imported content that already existed. Instant web pages! Another page I made is simply a marketing page for one of the artists in our publishing company. It requires almost no maintenance.

The page that is my baby is actually suffering because we've been working on the others, but I'll get back to it. Web pages are like babies. At first there's a lot of learning and diapers, but as they mature they are easier to maintain. And, as I mature and get myself educated and organized for my new career, I will find them easier to maintain, just like any good mother.

Strategies that help

• Set up a work space where you can actually work
• Figure out what you need to keep yourself productive
• Figure out how to ignore anything that distracts you
• Use a nifty free program like Workflowy to make lists that you can concentrate on in "now" bits and "later" bits
• Make sure you feel successful at at least one thing a day, otherwise you will give up
• Use a project timer like Tasktimer to keep yourself focused for set periods of time
• Start talking about what you did accomplish during the day, instead of what you didn't

If you're new...

If you're new to this give yourself time to learn how to maintain and monetize one page well, before you branch into another.

You'll have greater success and a sense of accomplishment to move you forward if you maintain one site well, instead of five sites poorly.

I wanted you to know the truth--I am not doing this alone. But, then again, neither are you.

I wish you much success here at WA. Be sure to give yourself ways to succeed every day.