Vent: Overwhelmed with all the ideas

[rfung]

I have a text file on my desktop named 'projects to do.txt' and gosh, it grows almost every day. SO many great ideas to build sites for, and then of course the marketing and building up traffic parts are also huge tasks on their own. I'm suffering from perspective overwhelm. ...Can't..cope...

Ok, I'm gonna go out to the street and drink some beers to relax.

:D

[Hobbs]

Are you peeking at my desktop? ;)

[brickwall]

Same here guys.

But I wonder, since one person can only do so much with all these AM ideas in his head, how many AMs on this board have already made the successful transition towards the next logical step - hiring help and building his own AM-focused development/publishing/marketing company.

This is my ultimate goal. But is it just me and are you guys already content with working on your own?

[rfung]

I'm outsourcing some of the more data entry/manipulation and some basic link exchange duties to some 'contractors'. My next step is to outsource maintenance of content for some of the sites as well, as soon as I build in some admin tools for content management...

[Michael Anthony]

Rogerio - step one is always to separate the important from the urgent.

Then delegate the urgent and focus on the important.

[Hiccup]

Hey rfung, just send me a sticky with those ideas, I'll get going on them asap! :)

I keep a file of my ideas too and it's getting a bit big...I'm trying to prioritize now based on the ROI I can get from each project, (projected ROI). Even with that I see new things virtually daily and a light bulb goes off and the hamster jumps on his wheel in my brain...

[mnjohn]

I've found that just start on one, a random one, or your favorite one, or anything, really gets the ball rolling for productivity. The idea will morph and grow and evolve in it's own right, and slowly over time you can connect the logical and best ideas together naturally.

But until then your bank account will change inversely proportional to your to_do_list.txt file growth.

[sailorjwd]

Turn 55 and you'll quickly see that some are MUCH less important than others :)

Time for my nap.