Right now I’m kind of re-grouping/starting fresh again. I will do a little more planning, and then probably focus on developing just a handful of sites and give them 100% of my focus.

Trading for Development

Even though I really enjoy the process of developing my sites on my own, and also think that I’m quite good at it, I’m going to let Epik.com do some more sites for me. Time has been “quite” limited for me lately, and I just can’t produce sites for all the domains that I want. I’ll stick to a few that I’ll handle myself, and let Epik take care of the rest!

There is a quite steep $249/site cost for setting up the sites, but I’ve traded some domains for Epik Bucks, so I have credit for about 10 more sites + 5 that I already own (3 of them in development right now). Though this might change since I have some bids in for the SwapFest auction tomorrow, but that just gives me sites as well and domains that go along with them.

As it has been reported on some other sites, the earnings hasn’t been great from the Epik product portals. But I like the setup, and I think it will come around eventually as Rob and the guys tweaks the setups and features!

What better time is there to plan ahead then the end of a year, and beginning of a new one. 2010 here we come, and here is a short summary of my initial plan for the year.

Domain Names

I’ve already started to slow down on the buying side. Being on a small budget as I am, it isn’t category-killer domains that I’ve bought. But I have some domains that I think are nice, and will do well in the future when they are developed. I will still buy if I find some names that I believe in, but my focus will be on quality over quantity this year.

As many other new domainers I went out on a smaller shopping spree, and bought just about everything that sounded cool, when I first got into this business. Although I’ve already gotten rid of most of the really bad ones, I still have some domains that I probably never will get around to develop or do anything with. If I can’t sell them before their expiration date, I’ll just let them drop. I don’t want any dead meat in my portfolio anymore…

Looking Back on Current Sites

This past year I’ve mainly gone from project to project, and never really looked back that much. This will change from now on! Now comes the time to go back and polish, tweak and maximize the sites that I’ve already have online, that I think has potential. I will leave some of the sites to just sit and do what they can to survive on their own, or at least until I find both time and ideas on how to take them further. One focus will also be to tighten and strengthen the small networks that I have, and build stronger connections between the sites.

Development of new Sites

Quite recently I’ve picked up a 2 different domains that I really like and that has nice search volume and related advertisers. These two will probably be my main focus, and I’ll spend some extra time on them to make sure that they reach their full potential. I don’t want to give away to much details at this point, but if you follow my blog I’m sure you’ll notice when it happens!

Mainly my idea is to focus more on a few chosen projects, and do them justice, instead of only moving on to new projects all the time!