First off Happy New Year folks, I hope you earned what you deserved in 2007 and deserve a load more in 2008. I don’t do New Year resolutions as I think if you want to change anything in your life change it now rather than waiting for the end of the year. That being said the start of a new year is certainly an appropriate time to update your business battle plan.
What I want you to do is write down your business goals for 2008. Goals should be based around income, sites, traffic etc. So to start off here are mine:
Goals for 2008
- Have 5 sites in the portfolio that consistently generate $1,000+ profit per month each
- Have my first $100,000 profit month
- Get a blog into the top 1,000 on Technorati (daft goal but this ones been bugging me for a while)
- Build an email list of 10,000+ willing members
- 100K feed subscribers
- Make more from affiliates than Adsense
- Get more than a card from Google :rollseyes:
Having goals is a great start but that’s all they are, a start, without a definite action plan so the next step is to write down what you’re going to do, here’s mine:
Action Plan for 2008
- Launch 3 new quality blogs
- Spend less time writing and more time building my business
- Start experimenting a lot more in PPC and affiliate marketing
- Re-invest all profits from the last two months into PPC (after experimentation and learning)
- Actually send newsletters out to subscribers
Next off print these out and stick them somewhere you’ll see everyday. I’m sure I’ll end up adding a few things to both of those lists but that will do for starters. So folks what are you goals and action plans?
I’m flying out to Vegas at the weekend to cover and network at the CES show, Scott’s second child is also due this month so it could be a bit ad hoc post wise again but we’ll do out best.
I’ll be doing my December income breakdown for CG on Thursday, so to make it a bit more interesting I’ll give away $100 to the reader that can put the various income streams in order (low to high). In alphabetical order I earned from the following sources:
- Adsense
- Affiliate Future
- Affiliate Window
- Amazon
- Blog Ads
- Chitika
- Click Bank
- Commision Junction
- Feedburner
- Prank Place
- Tribal Fusion
If more than one member get the order right the prize goes to the who ever posted first, if nobody gets the order correct the $100 goes to charity. Good luck and have a fantastic 2008.
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Would you like to explain me what did you mean when you said “Spend less time writing and more time building my business.”
Now let’s see maybe I’m lucky and I arrage these income streams, starting with the lowest to the highest.
Chitika
Adsense
Commision Junction
Click Bank
Blog Ads
Amazon
Tribal Fusion
Prank Place
Affiliate Future
Affiliate Window
Feedburner
Thanks Michael, at the moment I spend a fair bit of time writing posts, as I have paid writers on CG I don’t really need to be posting and would be more profitable leaving it the experts whilst I concentrate on expanding CG and my other sites.
Given how many variables their could be I think you will be giving the money to charity 😉
Commision Junction
Click Bank
Chitika
Amazon
Adsense
Blog Ads
Feedburner
Tribal Fusion
Affiliate Future
Prank Place
Affiliate Window
Looking at the answers so far I think you might be right there Tim 🙂
It looks like everyone is getting them backwards going from high to low.
And how do you expand the websites ?
Extra features and also adding new sites, I have quite a few ideas of things I’d like to try this year, many of which I’ll share the details of here as they progress
1= Adsense
2= Click Bank
3= Commision Junction
4= Blog Ads
5= Amazon
6= Chitika
7= Affiliate Window
8= Prank Place
9= Affiliate Future
10= Tribal Fusion
11= Feedburner
Here is my guess 🙂
Click Bank
Prank Place
Affiliate Future
Blog Ads
Feedburner
Tribal Fusion
Affiliate Window
Commision Junction
Chitika
Amazon
Adsense
Sheesh, I’d like to have even one website generating $1K/month, let alone five…
* Adsense
* Commision Junction
* Tribal Fusion
* Blog Ads
* Click Bank
* Chitika
* Affiliate Window
* Affiliate Future
* Feedburner
* Prank Place
* Amazon
I am glad to see someone else that doesn’t make New Years Resolutions. Several of my Coworkers just can’t seem to understand why. Even after I point out that they make almost the same resolutions every year.
Oh I’ll give it a go
Adsense
Chitika
Commision Junction
Amazon
Blog Ads
Feedburner
Tribal Fusion
Affiliate Future
Click Bank
Prank Place
Affiliate Window
How about this…
Adsense
Chitika
Commission Junction
Amazon
Click Bank
Tribal Fusion
Blog Ads
Feedburner
Affiliate Window
Affiliate Future
Prank Place
Happy new year to all. I’ll have a bash at this too.
Adsense
Chitika
Click Bank
Amazon
Affiliate Window
Blog Ads
Commision Junction
Feedburner
Affiliate Future
Prank Place
Tribal Fusion
Here’s my guess:
* Adsense
* Commision Junction
* Amazon
* Tribal Fusion
* Blog Ads
* Click Bank
* Chitika
* Affiliate Future
* Affiliate Window
* Feedburner
* Prank Place
Thanks for the reminder about 2008 goals…have to get cracking on that!
Thanks for all the guessing so far, I’ve just done my calculations and nobody has got it right (yet), so if you’d like another guess feel free 🙂
This is got to be impossible to get right but here’s my guess:
Feedburner
Prank Place
Affiliate Future
Blog Ads
Tribal Fusion
Affiliate Window
Click Bank
Commision Junction
Chitika
Amazon
Adsense
At least post who came the closest even if the money goes to charity.
Here’s my guess:
Feedburner
Prank Place
Affiliate Future
Blog Ads
Tribal Fusion
Affiliate Window
Click Bank
Commision Junction
Chitika
Amazon
Adsense
Click Bank
Feedburner
Prank Place
Tribal Fusion
Blog Ads
Affiliate Window
Affiliate Future
Commision Junction
Amazon
Chitika
Adsense
These days, it’s not enough to just write a list of goals. You need to have an action plan too in order to keep you from slacking off or straying too far from your goal. A concrete plan should be able to promise you results.
I’ve finally got around to writing down my goals for 2008, first time I’ve ever done a goal list, and don’t know why I’ve never done it before, I’ve broken my yearly targets down in to manageable chunks and I can see how I’ll be able to go about hitting those targets and being in a good financial position.
If I hit all my goals then 2008 will be a very good year, and I’ve tried to do them so they aren’t too easy to achieve, but definitely not impossible
it’s a shame I was late for the competition. I had a fairly good guess 😀
Seems like a good set of goals. Good luck with that.
I have some goals too. Not as ambishous as yours. I really want to try and make a profit of $1000 this year from everything. So far this seems unlikely but I need to start working harder 😀
Its been about 2 hours that i have been on your site jumping form one page to another other, reading one page to another page.
But when i came across this page, i can to know you play nice games with people engaging them to sort… 😛 interesting by the way.
I was reading a page and came across with MFA sites. I wanted to ask if there is a way to track which adsense ads have been clicked by the visitors. Coz if i donot know which ads have been clicked, i cannot filter them
Thanks
In Action Plan for 2008…
* Launch 3 new quality blogs
* Spend less time writing and more time building my business
Have you already launched the 3 blogs?
I didnt get the part where u plan to build business and conc less on writing with new blogs.
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