While 5 years certainly sounds like a long time (gessh, I’ll be 25 then) , there’s no reason why you shouldn’t plan that long ahead.

VOASI made a great point the other day about planning ahead.

“The internet isn’t going anywhere and you’ll always need cash. I like to tell people this: 5 years is going to come whether you like it or not. Would you rather have 500 sites in 5 years (100 a year/8 a month) that are generating $600 a day or have a few sites that you gave up on…”

If you follow a plan like that, what you’ll end up seeing is 80% of your revenue coming from 20% of your sites (the 80:20 principle). Based on that logic, let’s say I’m aiming for $100 a day with 10 sites: 2 of your sites will make $80 a day combined, while the other 8 sites will make the remaining $20 each day. You’ll never get to those big per-day earning sites if you stop at the ones that only make you a couple bucks a day (or less).

Keep building. Not for short term gains, but for long term stability.

A little experiment I’ve been doing with aWeber inspired me to share this with you. If you’ve never heard of aWeber, it’s a service that allows you to generate forms to capture email addresses on your sites. You can store these email addresses in as many different lists as you want. Once someone joins one of your lists, you can automatically send them an autoresponder email series and then follow up with random messages whenever you want.

If you don’t have it yet, I highly recommend it. My business couldn’t function with out it.

On one of my sites that gets a good amount of traffic ( about 600 visitors a day ) I collect email addresses for a newsletter. It currently has about 4,200 subscribers, but I’ve been only adding about 25 new subscribers per week. That’s because the only way I’ve been collecting email addresses is via a traditional pop-up window that only displays on my homepage.

Well, since the latest version of Explorer and FireFox automatically block pop-ups, my list signup form hasn’t been showing to too many people.

I decided to get off my lazy ass and try something new. Here’s what I did yesterday. (more…)

About 2 weeks ago I submitted 3 articles to iSnare’s article distribution service. I was attempting to get a new site spidered, indexed, and some initial backlinks.

So, what happened? (more…)

My cat named Guidey (pronounced Guide-E) is around 15 or 16 years old. He’s gotten a little thin lately and gets sick every once and a while, but that’s understandable for a cat his age. I’ve had my fair share of scares when he goes missing, that maybe he crawled somewhere to die, yet he always manages to be okay.

Why am I telling you this?

Well, there’s a valuable lesson here. That’s why!
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I’ve got to give credit where it is due.

Adam over at VOASI successfully launched his Adsense Niches membership site and sold out within hours! It’s top shelf stuff; I recommend anyone interested to sign up on his waiting list to be notified when openings become available.

Nice work Adam!