The title of this post is a pretty darn overused cliche… however, it does apply to online business so I thought I’d put something up about it.
Some of you might remember that at the beginning of Blogging Idol, I had big plans for blog promotion – one of the biggest was creating 100 guest posts, that would go live over the month (3 a day) and drive a truckload of traffic and exposure to this blog.
As of today, I’ve had no guest posts put out (although one will go live tomorrow or the day after)… there’s a reason for that.
I got focused on quantity, rather than quality, and that detracted from the goal. You see – time is money, and if I could get say – 50% of the gains for 40% of the work, I’d take that as that’s an improvement.
I did get started on the guest posts – at the moment, I have around 45 written up. However, I took a look over them a few days ago… if someone came to me asking for them to be put up on this blog, I wouldn’t take most of them.
Due to concentrating on quantity, quality decreased – which is why my new strategy is maybe 5 or 10 guest posts on blogs that will pack a punch. I’ll spend at least half an hour writing each post (as opposed to maybe… ten minutes as with the others 
) and aim to produce killer content that draws people into visiting and subscribing.
This applies to other aspects of business too – I’ve always been told, especially when I was starting out that having 100 websites that each got ten visitors a day and made $1 a day was easier than having 10 websites that each had 100 visitors a day and made $10 a day.
Why should it be? 100 websites is a lot harder to manage, unless you set and forget – something I find it hard to do with projects, and once you manage to get a website making income, it’s far easier scaling that
From now on, I’m going to work a little harder on the existing projects I have rather than neglecting them and moving on to new ones.
I’ve always been interested to hear what you guys have to say, so what’s your opinion on the whole thing? Little, with very high quality, or lots with little quality? Or maybe even a mixture of both?
Let me know.
I have a tonne of emails to catch up on – around 100, unanswered, all of them important in their own little way – so if you haven’t gotten a reply, don’t sweat. I’ll also be talking about how you can sell a website for a guaranteed $500 – deciding whether to do it as one huge post, or a series of little ones… we’ll see.
July 19th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
This is a very good tip that all bloggers should heed. I never post for the sake of posting, but I still push myself to post once a day. If I don’t have anything good to write, I don’t blog then.
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July 19th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Nice post.
I have a lot of posts saved up but I can’t be arsed to mail blog owners. I might just do it this week I want to see how you do.
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July 19th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
45.. That’s quite a lot of posts there Jason. Care to share (on post sometime later) any tips on how you get ideas on writing up some unique posts?
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July 19th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I agree TUK, and I’m glad you decided to go that route. Putting out a bunch of mediocre guest posts would probably cause more harm than good.
I look forward to seeing what you get done.
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July 19th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I think that it is better to post a few quality posts than a lot low quality posts. The quality of the posts is what separates this blog from the others.
Cheers !
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July 19th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Quality is definitely the most important thing in my book. I would never post something just to post something on my blog. I always appreciate the work you put up here, Jason.
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July 19th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
This is something very true that applies within the blogging and business world. I would rather have 2 websites that attracted thousands each day rather than 20 websites that brought 100 a day. In interior designing, I would rather have 5 $100 designs for people rather than 10 $30 designs, though the previous may take a little more work.
Some may not see this tip apply, but it all depends on the consequences. The results that come out of it may be what matters, not the work put into it.
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July 19th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Yeah if you wrote low quality people aren’t going to come but if it is good quality people will come.
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July 19th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I like to have it as both. I post everyday, with quality that would burn the reader’s eyes cuz of overwhelming amounts of awesomeness.
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July 20th, 2008 at 1:11 am
I would take the quality any day of the week. It is what keeps people coming back more than once. That is the difference between successful blogs and the average blogs in my opinion.
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July 20th, 2008 at 7:20 am
One should be very organized to maintain a 100 websites. Besides you need 100 hours a day for that!
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July 20th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I can’t manage even one website!!!
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July 20th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
This rings so true for me. I was trying to blog 2-3 times per day and I couldn’t handle it. Now I am writing quality posts once/day.
It is still hard because now I need to find how I write and how to involve the audience.
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July 20th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Quality is really important. But we need to have some basic quantity as well.
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July 21st, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I am trying to keep them as mixture of both, and I find that working out for me so far.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 6:44 pm
i think i would disagree with you on this matter.i do not know about other aspects but in case of content sites having quantity certainly is gud because its a hell lot easier to make 100$/day from 10 to 20 sites then to make that from 1 to 5 sites. I go for the quantity way also because some times site gets banned sandbox and all. so its gud to have backups.
i dont know about other sections of online business but in my section it is certainly gud to have quantity.
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July 24th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Despite being an overused cliche it stands so true. People often think that the more work they can put out the better, but this rush to produce almost always affects quality. Go for quality man!
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July 24th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I back up your post 100 %.
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July 29th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I definitely prefer quality because you can get something out of it that is important. Verses just meaningless ramble.
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