One of the problems with organizing a multitude of websites into a Web Empire is that there are just too many on-going projects to work on. You have ideas and plans, and get started on this project then that — but never finish anything. Everything is a work in progress.

There are two things you can do to avoid this problem. First is focus, the second is pruning.

Focus on one thing at a time. Keep at it until it is finished. Move on to the next thing.

Seems simple enough, but I have to admit this an area where, even though I know the best procedure, I often fall short myself. It is just too easy to come up with promising ideas. It is easy to get excited about a new project, much more difficult to remain interested in a project that is growing old. Once all the problems have been solved, and only routine tasks are required to complete the project, it is easy to set it aside for ‘later’ — even though we know later never comes.

Typically, this routine stage is either entering new information into a website, or promoting that site. You have done the site design and optimization, coded wonderful little bits and pieces into it, and now it is just a matter of finishing up content, or going through the various hoops of promotion.

If you can not bring yourself to keep at it until it is finished, hire someone to do the routine parts. Typically, entrepreneurs building an Internet Business want to hire out work they can’t do — like programming — and do the rest themselves. Fine, so long as you will actually do it. If you won’t it is just the same as if you can’t — hire someone else! Make sure it gets done.

The second part of the solution is pruning. Prune out those projects that will eat up too much of your time. Sure, they may be promising — but you need to prioritize. The best websites for your Web Empire are those you can make and then ignore for years at a time, while they continue to make you money. You should only have ONE high maintenance site — typically your blog — the rest should run on auto-pilot once they have been created.

Again, you can hire someone to do the ongoing work for a high-maintenance site, but that solution is much less satisfactory than one-time hires for finishing projects. You build on-going expenses that way, and it is best to try to keep those to a minimum. Better to prune it out — drop the whole project — unless it is tremendously profitable and worth the extra expense.