Every year at the beginning of the year here and see a lot of people talking about goals.  My advice to you is talk is cheap.  Setting your goal or goals is the easy part making it happen it a different story.  One thing to keep in mind if you want to accomplish goals this year is to set smart goals.

Set smart goals and realistic goals

You need to take a look at where your at and where you want to get to.  You then need to figure out the steps or time effort and money to get you their.  Anything is possible with the right amount of time effort and money but most of us don’t have unlimited resources.

Why it is good to push yourself don’t see a goal to do a million dollar launch this year if you know have the resources or skills to make that happen.  Better yet if you have never even done a launch don’t think your 1st one will be a million dollar one.  A better goal would be to just launch your first product.  I have a goal to launch my 1st product this quarter and really the goal is to just launch it.  If I make money great but so much goes in to launching a product if you do it right I just want to get the experience of launching my own product for the 1st time.

Once you decide on you goal or goals you need to figure out all the steps and people you need to help you accomplish your goals.  One good ideal it to come up with a goal statement make it public.  Those that talk about their goals have greater success.  You might even find that others will come and help you especially in the blogging world.  People tend to like to help others (another goal of mine).  You also need to make sure that your goals are measurable goals their really isn’t any point in setting a goal if you can measure it.

Do I need to have formal goals?

NO, don’t waste time just open notepad or a take a piece of paper out.  Just be sure to write down your goals and keep them some where where you will look at them regularly.  You can even write a blog post about them or keep a page for them and then cross them off.  Then every week or month look at them and figure out what your doing to work toward them.  Maybe you will focus on one of them each month.  It all depends on how lofty they are.

My Goals

I pretty much look at my goals every month.  This year I have a couple of themes.  Run my blog like a business and be more consistent.  This is a snip from part of my business plan that I will share still in draft but this is what I am looking at so far for 2010.  I can drill down in to each of these and maybe I will in another post but here you go.

My Goals for 2010

- Be more consistent

- 20 blog post per month for 1st 2 months of the year (challenge)

- Run Contests and Enter other Contest
Monthly Comment Contest – THE MONEY CULT

- Guest Post

- Reduce Alex Rank to 100k by year end

- Exercise 15 minutes a day period!

- Create 3 products or services

xx –tee-shirt

xx –Membership site

xx – Workshops

xx – Small Business Website Setup and SEO consultation

- Build 5 Kick Ass Websites for others

- Learn to make graphics

- Give out more link luv

-Affiliate marketing Plan for each month

-Update side bars every month

Some of you know I been running the Blog Engage Weekly word challenge(Goal start guest post on a regular basis).  I decided to give some double link luv this week.  Another goal of my give out more link luv.

You still have today or early tomorrow to reply to the weekly word challenge with your Blogging Goal post to get credit on the Friday Wrap up.

Some other great articles about Blogging Goals

from the Blog Engage weekly word challenge.

SEOMKT Setting realistic blogging goals for 2010.

FMSSEO Achieving your blogging goals for 2010.

The Star Celeb My Blogging Goals for 2010

Win-With-1 Blogging Goals 2010 and Beyond

Ms. Ileane’s Blog Blogging Goals Helping New Bloggers In

Tycoon Blogger Blog Goal Setting

LetUpdate Blog in New Year 2010

If you are serious about becoming an entrepreneur then starting a web small business might be the right move for you in 2010.  One of the best things about starting an online business  are the cost.  Really the largest cost is your time.  For less then $80 dollars (GoDaddy) you can get a year of hosting and a domain.  Then you will need some time of auto responder e-mail service (aweber) at about $19 a month or ($220 a year).  That’s about it so for $300 you can have everything you need to be up and running.

Now before you go think that spending $300 is going to make your the next dot com millionaire because it will not.  Thousands of people try and fail to launch online business.  What you need to know is the cost are cheap to get in but what makes the difference is you mind set.  You must have the right mindset, you must realize that you need to take action and be focus on running your website like a business.  You will need to be prepared to learn everything and if you can learn something you will need to find a way to get someone else to do it.  You will need the help of others.  You will not succeed if you try to operate in a silo.  Enlist others to help, help others and good things will happen to you.

ARE YOU STILL READING

Good, so if as an entrepreneur the 1st thing you need to do is think about what you website is going to be about.  What your target market, does anyone search for it online (this is key).  Do you know how to pick a SEO rich domain.  If your smart you should learn a little bit about this before you begin.

Web Home Business

Home web business have really taken off, entrepreneurs young and old are find new ways to make money online every day.  The funny part is it not really new ways it just new content with a different twist.  I all comes down to how does your company make money.  Do you have a product? Do you sell other peoples product?  What your offer.  How do you get traffic?  How many different streams of income does your website make?  What am I doing to generate revenue today?

10 Great Thing About Starting a Web Small Businesses

• Unlimited Potential
• Low Costs
• You Make the Calls
• They Scale
• You can do it from anywhere
• Others will help
• It will change you life
• You will make new friends
• Anyone can do it!
• Just Do it!

Ok I couldn’t think of number 10 but seriously if you ever wanted to start a business starting an online one might be the perfect fit for you.  If you serious and what some advice before you start check out this blog.  Check out some of the Entrepreneurs Blogs on my page and stories.

Sign up for Aweber and GoDaddy from my site and I will help you kick start you SEO for you new business.

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Why I use www.GoDaddy.com Here is the deal.  I use Godaddy as my web host cause I got tired of small no name unreliable companies.  I use them cause the are cheap and have a great support network, are not going to go away.  I use them cause the servers are located in the USA and reliable and fast. If you want to reserve a domain or do some domain purchasing.  Then GoDaddy is a great place to register cheap domain.  I have had a few crappy experiences with others that claim to host top web site but can’t even handle a small site 5 page site and service didn’t respond.  No thanks.

So one more time.  Act now and get click on the godaddy link in this post and use the following godaddy promo code (gdr917an).  If you have questions about them let me know.  I can help with the process.  Then once you sign up forward me the conformation and I will then be in contact with you to setup a call. 

I will assist you in with at least 1/2 of personal support of one on one support.  You can ask me anything you thing you want about your new site or your online business.

Each month I take time to review my site before the next month begins.

Since this is a monthly post I figured I would put some structure around it so it will be easy to update each month.  Let me know what you think of my template.  I still need to tweet this but it will work for now.

Lessons learned from last month that still hold true.

Lesson learned

TIP – ALWAYS LEARN AND TRYING NEW STUFF EACH MONTH

1. Social and Peer Networking – Love this stuff 
2. STILL NEED TO WORK ON THIS! – Develop a better routine
3. Social Bookmarking – This helps traffic stumble everything
4. Blog Engage – Submit all you posts  – Traffic increase
5. Enter Contest = Helps Traffic & Builds Relationships
   Making Money Online -Comment Contest -Free Custom Banners
   FreshEVenture – Best Wordpress Design 2009 –Keller’s site rock’s
6. Still lot’s of plug’s think I might have standard list. 
7. Every time Doug@ Making Money Online post a link to me I have a jump in traffic.
8. People like interviews – Still need someone for this month!I know their is stuff still learning a lot and this is really fun!

State of Mind

Still Very good.  Feel like I am getting in to a routine.  Still trying to figure out a 10 hour work week.  That is the goal averaging much more than that.  My confidence level is pretty high and good feel like I am heading in the right direction and have a pretty good idea of what I need to do.  I started to connect with a lot of cool people and that is always a good thing!

I have 2 pretty sure slam dunk deals for web design now I need to figure out what to charge and where to fit in the time but both should be a nice payday.  Need to make sure it doesn’t effect or hurt what I have going on here.  I am pretty sure it will only help.

Month End totals

*accounts for recurring sales (memberships affiliate sites)

Above table is a work in progress but figure I would start working on a format.

Goals for next month.

• Top 10 Best Word Press Design 2009 – PLEASE I need your vote.
• Continue with regular posting, commenting and bookmarking.
• Learn more about seo complete keyword case study.
• Stumble and twitter more.
• Submit everything to blogengage
• More marketing, podcast’s video posting.
• 1st Mastermind meeting
• Start working on Sales Page and Offer.

Thanks everyone for your support, help and comments

I wish you all more traffic and a great month!

Why do most people fail online? Why do they never make any money? It’s because they think about money first and about their customers last. They create a few pages, stuff them with affiliate links and ads and then they wait for the money to roll in — usually they wait forever.

Simple formula to build a successful money-making online business:

* Carefully research several niches before choosing a theme for your site. You should be passionate about the subject and there must be a hungry market for it.

* Start building valuable content for both, your site visitors and the search engines.

* Build more content, distribute articles, participate in targeted forums… this allows you to establish yourself as the expert in your field, to win the trust of your audience and to attract free, targeted traffic from the search engines.

* Add new marketing strategies. Publish an e-zine to build your customer base, to establishes yourself as the expert in your niche, to gain trust…

* Once you have a site of at least 40 content pages with at least 50 unique visitors per day, start monetizing: Add affiliate links, Google AdSense, sell your products or services…

It just doesn’t make any sense trying to monetize your site, as long as you have only a few visitors. Who do you want to sell to? Instead, focus on building more content, driving traffic, building your list…

Follow the “Content – Traffic – Trust – Monetize Traffic” formula and you can’t fail:

* Build valuable content for your visitors and optimize it for the search engines.

* After some time, the search engines will start sending you free, targeted traffic — traffic that will steadily increase.

* Provide valuable, problem-solving information. This allows you to build a relationship of trust with your audience and they will be more than happy to buy your products, follow your recommendations…

* Ok, now and only now it’s time to monetize traffic: Place your affiliate links and Google ads, sell your own products…

Monetization comes last in the process of building your online business.. First, you should create valuable content, you generate traffic, you gain the trust of your visitors and only then it makes sense to monetize your site traffic.

Remember Balance is Key!

You need good content to generate traffic then mixed in some monetization tactics and see what happens.

Does your blog and business have a happy little balance? Want to learn a little more about balence.  Check out ZenHabits.  Content is king.  I think I going to challenge myself to post 4 or 5 times a week this month.  That should help build connect pretty quick.

What are the 5 Keys to Success?

• Passion 
• Determination
• Planning and Time Management
• Execution
• Hard Work

Blog about something you love or have some kind of passion about.  If you don’t enjoy talking about it or thinking about don’t do it.  Your blog with be your life for quite some time especially when starting out.

Those that are determined have a way better chance of success that those that don’t care.  This ones to me is a no brainer but I think some people out there think everything is easy and don’t quite understand this one. 

I have been an IT guy for some time.  I have worked on many projects and I will tell you one thing.  The Projects that suceeded and went the best had a plan.  Without a plan you will waste time.  Plan’s help keep you focused and on track.  You don’t need a greatly detailed plan to blog but it is importing to list out things where you need get done and where what you focus should be.  This helps keep you on track there a lot of little things going on with your site.  Content, Sales, Newsletters, Auto Responders, Traffic, E-Mail, Reading other blogs, checking your comment leaving comments on other sites.  The list is pretty endless but you need to make sure you got all the things covered or it doesn’t work.  You need to figure out how to fit it all in.  From time to time you need to shift your focus and figure out how to get some of those areas on auto pilot but that doesn’t come day one.

Execution is actually doing the work.  How many people actually know what the need to do but never do it.  You must execute!  You must learn to be efficient with your execution.  Take Action!

Hard work, everyone tries to tell you their system is easy.  Lets face it things might become easier over time as they become routine or as you learn them.  But without Hard Word in the beginning you get no where.  Look at it this way, take for example sports.  A small percentage of people make it to play at the college level and then a smaller percentage get to play in the Pro’s.  What do you think is the difference.  With sports you do need a little talent but if you lazy and don’t work hard at it you will not make it. 

The harder you work the more you develop your talent.  With your online business the same holds true.  Everyone can get in the game but the percentages of those that succeed are small.  You need to put in the time and hard work to get to the next level.   You need to bring your A-game.  You need to practice and develop the skill that are required to be a Professional.