Anyone ever thought there doing too much??

[mally]

I've been away for a few days and recently got back but feel like shi*te..

I hate flying and no doubt the 2.5 hours been sat next to a 2 year I didn't know didn't help.

Back now on the computer going through the hundreds of emails (fortunatley most are spam) is making me realise I probably have to much on my plate! (domains, websites etc)

Anyone else thought like this, what did you do?

1) Get rid of some of some
2) Come back later
3) Seek HELP

Cheers


Forgot to add, I work fulltime too.

 

[rob]

I would look at what is really urgent / needs work and work out how to prioritise stuff and get some form of system in place

 

[khalid]

I'm in the same position as I work full time too, it is life until we pass the next milestone.

Keep at it bud, you'll make it soon enough

 

[golddiggerguy]

Yep same here, way too many projects, domains that need mini sites, and generally my projects.

I need to sell a lot of my domains or develop them quick to pay for there renewals at least.

I have found that it is best to repeat/clone sites that are already doing well.

i.e. You make $50 a month from adsense on a mini site on "laptop bags" just clone it but re-write the content, titles, and post to it just like the 1st etc.

Within a few months that should be on par with the first one. I have done this and worked a treat!

Another rule to follow (i don't too additicted to buying domains) don't buy more domains until you have developed the ones you have already and making money.

 

[doodlebug]

When i can get my finances sorted ie, a job

I plan on stocking ( selling domains ) no more than 150 .co.uks and 150 .coms

Sell, sell, sell, if and when i make some good money i will reinvest half and spend half.

Will buy no more domains unless able to still be in good profit.

Ontop of this i have a stack of generic .co.uks to develop into mini sites.

I'm not even putting effort into selling ATM and don't have enough hours in the day :cry:

NB* limit yourself and don't go over, you need to counter balance.
I know it can be hard with all them temptations around

 

[disruptive]

PSD!

Prioritize, Sequence and Delete!

 

[jasman]

The pace of life in the modern world and all this technology keeping people connected takes its toll.

In fact a few years back the plug got pulled out of my landline's answering machine by mistake. We had got used to a few messages being left each day - people to call back, more things to do when you come home. But having this holiday from the messages and the 'more things to do' made such a difference that we decided to not use our answering machine any more. No regrets at all. If the call is important, people call back. If not, they don't. Simple as that.

Now if I'm taking the wife out for a meal or going for a stroll in the countryside, I leave my mobile at home too. If I'm doing something enjoyable or relaxing, I wouldn't want someone from my bank or a busines client tapping me on the shoulder and interupting me. So why allow them to do this with a phone call or an email automatically forwarded to a smartphone? We don't have to be 'connected' all the time. It can be a burden.

One last thought: I heard that when the telephone was first invented and people were offered the facility to have one in their home, some flatly refused - they were horrified at the thought that anyone in the world could get in touch with them for any reason at any time of the day or night. It seems everyone accepts this without question now.

 

[doodlebug]

People use to laugh at electric and said it would never compete with gas :lol:

I sometimes feel like going to the scottish highlands with no phone, laptop or anything to connect me to anyone and have a nice quiet break, just me and Lily Allen

I can't go a whole day without the internet, i get anxious and just need to get on, what i would like to do is domain trading and affiliate marketing mon - fri 8am - 5pm with 1 dinner hour ( no net )

But need to get earning a living off the net first, problem is i need to work for money which leaves no time for business, if i don't work i have plenty of time like now, but no money to invest

For now my plan is work 40 hours and trade 20 hours pw if possible ?

 

[jasman]

The key is to make a living doing something you love, your main hobby. Then you don't have to be constrained by working fixed hours per day or days per week. Especially on the Internet - you don't have to have fixed hours. You can dip in and out of it as you please. The distinction between a work day and a day off loses its meaning because if you took a day off you would probably want to do your main hobby so you'd probably end up working. But then each work day is like a day off anyway because you're basically just 'playing' each day anyway.

 

[Admin]

Try doing a full time job, domaining and admin for AD too!

No wonder I look like shyte most days

 

[doodlebug]

The key is to make a living doing something you love, your main hobby. Then you don't have to be constrained by working fixed hours per day or days per week. Especially on the Internet - you don't have to have fixed hours. You can dip in and out of it as you please. The distinction between a work day and a day off loses its meaning because if you took a day off you would probably want to do your main hobby so you'd probably end up working. But then each work day is like a day off anyway because you're basically just 'playing' each day anyway.

Good way of looking at it

Try doing a full time job, domaining and admin for AD too!

No wonder I look like shyte most days

Let's have a photo :razz:

NB* Admin your 9p domains link doesn't work.

 

[Systreg]

My problem is that I have all the time in the world, but not the site making skills to go with it I was up until after 5:30am this morning making a single webpage about small claims courts, it took me about 5 - 6 hours to do that single page, and that's with borrowing the text from the CAB site, adding some words to it, removing others and rewording little bits of it, a lot of time for what will probably not be much £ from adsense, this is the end result SmallClaimsCourt.Org.Uk, not even done the links page yet, might scrap that and just leave it as a single page. I don't think I'll bother making any more webistes/pages, too time consuming and the end result is not all that good.

I'm now concentrating on registering the odd reg fee names here and there to try and sell on, but I don't want to buy much because if I can't sell them, there is not a lot I can do with them and they just sit there doing nothing. I'm also looking for suspended domains to book for catching and hopefully selling them on if I can get any caught.

But again, finding names that are suspended takes a lot of time, think of a domain name, check the Who-Is for it, if it's suspended, stick it on my notepad with the renewal and expiry dates, if I'm checking hundreds of names one at a time, it takes up most of the night, and sometimes I might only come across a small number of domains which are suspended, then when you remove the ones registered to certain tags, that doesn't leave many left, so I'm not sure it's even worth doing that either, or shall I just jack domaining in completely

[edit]

I have another one to compliment the small claims court domain, it's SmallClaims.Org.Uk, so I took a short extract of text from the small claims court site and made a small single pager linking back to that site

 

[golddiggerguy]

Systreg - Plenty of templates out there to use and I'm sure thiers a few links in the forum somewhere as a good resource.

That will save you hour so you can just add content and adsense.

Here's one to keep you going. Keep at the mini sites!!

 

[doodlebug]

That's quite a bit of info you have in that site Kev.

I'm getting fed up with merchants rejecting me :sad:

Buy some reg fee names, hold onto them for 4 years then come back and see, i think the domaining world will change lots by then in a way that businesses will just know what generic keywords are and not have to be told about them.

A good few people including Edwin have spent years trying to educate businesses, i think domain names as the new real estate is only at the beginning, i know the first .coms were regged as far back as 1989 but it's been taking a long time for domains to be recognised.

I'm going to stock 150 .coms and 150 .co.uks for 4 years, if they sell in the mean time then nice, otherwise they can sell after 4 years in the bargain basement.

Goodluck whatever you do ? maybe some more cycling :lol:

 

[boxerdog]

running my own busieness gives me enaugh stress, although it is somthing i enjoy and forget sometimes how lucky i am to be able to do what i want when i want.
i thought domaining would be a nice way to relax after a hard days graft, which it would be, if i could just sit down and build a nice simple site over a couple of days, but i dont think i have the patiance to learn how to do such a thing.
its easier to just keep spending money on regging names and letting them pile up, maybe i should be spending some money on getting some sites made for me
so as long as you can make a living by doing what you like the most then its all good.

just sit back, relax and enjoy!!!!!

 

[Systreg]

@ Golddiggerguy, I have loads of different templates in my documents folder and links in my faves to sites with loads of free templates that I can use, it's just that when I'm editing the html in notepad, I get carried away and keep changing little bits of the html, next thing I know, hours have passed by, I should have just used the same template I use for most of my sites, just fancied a change last night to see what it was like.

@ DoodleBug, yeah, it might be a lot of info, but it's not my info to start with, that's another thing about making mini sites, I wont know anything about the subject matter of many of the names that I buy, so that means copying text from sites like Wikipedia and trying to reword it, which also takes up a lot of time and isn't always easy to rewrite it, any sites I try to make, I just get bored after making the first page, so i just leave them like that, I honestly think I've had enough of trying to make mini sites on subjects I know nothing about, can't even be bothered to do it on subjects I do know about.

 

[doodlebug]

Boxerdog : i see you have stuff like my aff sites, my mini sites aren't the best but they're a piece of p*ss to make, both in my sig link took about 4 hours to make including placing my keywords and page descriptions.

You can edit them and publish instantly and the changes are on their servers within a nano second.

You don't have to mess with HTML on notepad, if say you wanted to ad a merchant banner you just add a script box where you want it on the site and press open then you have a blank section in which to place your code and it edits the web source for you.

Boxerdog and Systreg : both take a look at site monster pro sites on Site monster pro

The first one is free, so go ahead and try it out, your domain has to be regged with them so the next .co.uk or .org.uk reg it with them and see.

NB* this is not an affiliate link just a normal one, i am not trying to make money out of you both.

Take a look at my sites

 

[boxerdog]

thanks for that doodle, i have a few names reg`d with them so i will have a look

 

[Systreg]

Anyone have any idea why this is happening?

On my smallclaimscourt / org / uk site it shows legal related Adsense ads with or without the www in front of it.

On my smallclaims / org / uk site it only shows legal related adds without the www, if using the www it's showing webhosting and domain name ads.

Both sites are on the same host, both sites are using the same template, keywords etc, can't figure it out , direct site links are in my post further up.

 

[accelerator]

Anyone have any idea why this is happening?

On my smallclaimscourt / org / uk site it shows legal related Adsense ads with or without the www in front of it.

On my smallclaims / org / uk site it only shows legal related adds without the www, if using the www it's showing webhosting and domain name ads.

Both sites are on the same host, both sites are using the same template, keywords etc, can't figure it out , direct site links are in my post further up.

It may be that as you haven't been cached by Google yet, it is looking at the domain name in the address bar to display the adds, and when you have a www in front you have hosting companies etc bidding on the www term. Just a guess mind.

Rgds