I’ve actually already started offering guest blog spots on a regular basis (any of you interested?). But for some reason, I really dread the idea of taking on an intern. Perhaps I fear it would be more work than it would help.

I think this is great fodder for another post! Jeri, you’re brilliant!

I knew all of you would be able to relate, which is why I put it out there in the first place – we learn a lot from watching each other work through things.

And Paula – I’m always thrilled to see a new reader around here, especially one with such a cool mission in life. You’ll fit right in around here.

I’ve had an e-book in the works for six months now. I’m trying to make it perfect. The reality is if I let my judgments go and put my head down and just did it, I could finish it in a week. How freeing that would be. Thank you for the encouragement to do so.

Best wishes,
Paula

Really – I’m blessed with SOOO many ideas each and every day, that I’m immensely thankful to be blessed with Jennifer – someone who can get something DONE – finished from beginning to end.

Wendy – The free vs. fee thing is very interesting… what’s really cool is that you can monetize the free stuff with ads and affiliate programs, adn keep people coming back for more again and again without spending too much time and effort on making the sale.

We have our Online Dating Secrets ebook that we wrote and promote as well, but we rather enjoy putting out lots of content for public consuption for free and monetizing it…

Both are good… just gotta decide what you’re going to spend your X number of hours on – while being able to STILL ENJOY LIFE! after all, that’s why you left the corporate rat race, right.

I’ve had a couple businesses before, and it’s SOOO easy to get sucked into working harder than you ever did even for someone else. And that misses the point I think. But to each his own of course.

Jennifer’s doing our February numbers today, traffic and revenue from all the different sources. Ads are definitely picking up a LOT, as are the affiliate programs – as we’ve optimized positioning, etc and increased traffic.

I’ll email you a post-mortem later.

Have an awesome day!
Dan

I love your post and wanted to DARE YOU to…

instead of looking at your abundance of creative ideas as a “curse” you might focus on them as a tremendous “BLESSING”

Those ideas have been entrusted to you as gifts to give to the world. You are wonderfully blessed with more ideas in a month than many people will ever experience in their entire lifetime.

That’s pretty darn special.

Who better than YOU?

Live Your Dreams,

-Jill
http://www.GoalGuru.com

Give your info product its own time, and stick to it, whether it’s a two-hour block once a week, or a half-hour every day. Slow and steady can win the race, but don’t neglect the ’steady’ part.

You’re not in the boat alone–I have a lot of ideas that are only half-hatched…

First of all, after seeing Edward Mills and Tony Clark chime in on this, as well as your original post, it helps to realize that some of the bloggers that I perceive to be successful are hashing out some of the same issues that I have been struggling with.

Not to say that misery loves company, just glad that I hadn’t completely imagined the whole issue…

That being said, I applaud your decision to more forward with the info product, and it was the advice that I was going to give before I got to the end of your post and realized you had come to that conclusion already.

I have several info products and although that part of my business is still in it’s infancy, it helps immensely in the long run.

Making the products can be wildly time consuming, but once they are done, they are almost completely “hands off”, leaving you free to focus on other things. Like more products and more blogging!

As far as some of the other courses of action that you mentioned, I would be happy to guest/co-blog with you anytime.

p.s. – Tequila Shots: Not good for positive decision making!

I’ve recently had to pare things back a bit to focus on my new project. I really admire what you’re doing, and think putting your money where your mouth is shows some real commitment. I’m rooting for you.

BTW – I believe you were thinking of http://www.techquilashots.com.

Think of your inventory as hours in the day, and according to the law of supply and demand, the more precious it becomes, the more valuable it is.

Of all the tasks on your plate, what can be delegated or shared without diluting or adversely impacting your image? What can you hire or barter more cheaply than you can accomplish yourself? Of all those potential items, what are the endeavors you love too much to let go of – and what are the items you’d gladly give to any taker who can breathe and tie his/her shoes? Where is your best bang for the buck in delegation – in supervision and quality control vs actual task relief accomplished by others? Managing consistency so that you uphold your branding is an ongoing challenge for any expanding business.

If you can see your way clear to hire or share that percentage of your workload, you then have the time to focus on more revenue producing work, adding value.

The idea you had of having a guest blogger during your site conversion was a good one. Every guest was a solid pro, and every guest received value from that transaction in terms of increased links and site traffic. Perhaps that’s a custom you can continue on a 1-2 day/wk basis?

Maybe you can hire a high school intern to help you with the technical challenges of growing your business and handling your web contact volume – and moving to a new hosting company. The advantage to you is that you no longer have to focus on tech support, and can again spend your time where you have a better return on investment. The intern gets credit for his/her work and a great, resume-building work experience out of the deal.

Those are just a couple of thoughts. Focus on being a leader, a strategic, visionary, empowering emom, and start building a network of folks to help you in areas where they have strengths as well.

And good luck with your goals, although $10 is not bad!