SportsLizard Launches Network of Sports Sites

It's pretty safe to say that anytime I only post twice in two weeks I am up to something. It's not that I'm not working, it's that I'm working so much that I am unable devote as much time as I'd like to the blog. That has been the case recently.

Yesterday I launched a network of sports-related sites called the SportsLizard Network. By far the coolest of the seven new sites in my opinion is the Announcer Ratings. I've always wanted a site where I could go and let out my frustrations on a bad announcer. The great thing about this site is that if it picks up in popularity it can be a pretty interesting look at what announcers are doing their jobs and what ones aren't. I would encourage those of you who are sports fans to check it out and participate.

From an entrepreneurial perspective, the network is important for my business. This expansion was done extremely quickly (approximately 2 weeks from start to finish) and requires nearly no maintenance on my part. The primary source of revenue from these network sites is advertising. By doing this, I have drastically increased my audience and potential marketing opportunities with very little up front effort.

If these sites do what I hope they do for SportsLizard.com, I will continue to release 5-10 mini-niche sites like this each year under the SportsLizard name.

This is something that wasn't in my plans a few months ago, but it became apparent that it would help me a great deal, so I did it. As a business owner you are constantly walking that fine line of becoming distracted from executing your plan and changing your plan to help improve the business. Sometimes you think you are doing one when you are really doing the other. You never know for sure, but this seems like it can do only good for my business. I suppose time will tell...