The death of passion -Am I a lone victim?

[peria1949]

Hello friends,
When I started my website(about 20 months ago) on family health and other home issues,I was brimming with passion for my site.I spent whole of my waking hours in planning for my website.I spent lot of my time in public libraries studying reference books on the topic gathering relevant points for my site.I was so engrossed to bother about anything else and time flew by.But suddenly the passion vanished and I do not like to work on my website any more.

Has anybody experienced this or is it peculiar to me alone? I suddenly find the topic boring and have stopped working on my site.In fact I am glad to be free of tensions about unique content,back link building,forum posting etc...etc.I am extremely happy and relieved now.Is this known as burn out?How to overcome this situation?Can anyone offer any solution?
peria1949

[hooperman]

But suddenly the passion vanished and I do not like to work on my website any more.

Has anybody experienced this or is it peculiar to me alone?

Lots of people become disillusioned when they plough time and effort into a money making endeavour and then fail to make money. It's a shame that it took you 20 months of non stop work ("every waking hour") to get to this point.

Is this known as burn out?How to overcome this situation?Can anyone offer any solution?

Get better at certain things. If you have a site that gets a decent amount of traffic, learn how to monetise it better. If you find you are in the habit of wasting time on doomed projects, learn how to spot failures sooner. Change how you structure your work: you shouldn't be working every waking hour on the site (in my opinion). Instead of spending 20 hours on one site per week, spend 4 hours each on 5 websites. Find the ones that perform the best and ditch the losers. Think about hiring other people to do the work for you.

[peria1949]

This was my first site and I am sure most of the people when they start out fall into this trap.You become wiser with experience.

[hooperman]

You become wiser with experience.

Some people do, some people don't. It depends on whether you can figure out what you can do better next time. Do you have any ideas on that?

[peria1949]

Right now I have no ideas.Do you have any suggestions?

[hooperman]

Right now I have no ideas.Do you have any suggestions?

I gave you some suggestions in post 2. What are your thoughts on those ideas?

[peria1949]

I appreciate your points of view but I would rather concentrate on one site instead of many sites because it may not bear fruit as I would be forced to spread my efforts resulting in losing focus.As far as outsourcing is concerned I have not tried it so far and so like to be cautious about it.

[hooperman]

I appreciate your points of view but I would rather concentrate on one site instead of many sites because it may not bear fruit as I would be forced to spread my efforts resulting in losing focus.

Focusing on only one site hasn't borne fruits for you so far

If you try different approaches, you might discover that something that you don't normally do actually works. Many webmasters work on several sites at the same time (many on just one, too). It's completely up to you though. Personally, I've started loads of websites that have failed. But a percentage of them have succeeded too. As time goes on, I've focused more on the sites that were working and simply stopped wasting time on sites that weren't.

I'm not trying to persuade you to do something you don't want to do. I'm just putting forward the advantages of a different approach.

[Clinton]

You become wiser with experience.

You also become wiser by learning from others

hooperman gave you some excellent suggestions earlier on in the thread, most of which you seemed to ignore till he poked you about them. Acknowledging suggestions already made, taking them on board, replying to them, asking for more information on a particular one are all activities that encourage others to jump in with further ideas and help.

[peria1949]

The problem with me is that I can not concentrate on many sites.I already tried it and failed.I have about other 10 sites which are small ones comparatively with 3 or 4 pages.Clinton,I do agree that Hooperman gave some good ideas which I have already tried but did not see any improvement in the situation and this may be due to poor keyword research.I will keep trying with better keywords next time.I am learning as I go and hope to succeed one day.