Every month I like to focus set some goals so I figure I better get some out in the public so I can hold myself to them.  1st February is a short month 28 days and were on day 3 already so this is going to be a ruff month to get a ton done but lets see what can happen.  So far I am still pump and January was my best month ever.

Last month I did a post about goals and I listed some of my goals for 2010.  Below I going to comment and see where I am at with them.

My post about goal for 2010

My Goals for 2010

- Be more consistent (doing better here)

- 20 blog post per month for 1st 2 months of the year (challenge)
In January I ended up with 16 which is the most ever for me.  I would have been very close but spend the last weekend in the hospital with my 5 year old.  This is a short month but I will try to hit this Goal as I really think and am starting to see that more content = more traffic

- Run Contests and Enter other Contest
Monthly Comment Contest – THE MONEY CULT
I kicked this contest off need to wrap it up for Jan and do a better job with it moving forward. I expected more but figure I failed cause I didn’t promote it enjoy or make my reader aware.  I will raise more awareness around this for this month.

- Guest Post
I wrote a few guest post on the blog engage Blog, I will look to do more here and elsewhere

- Reduce Alex Rank to 100k by year end
I haven’t started to focus on this yet but I am studying and watching what others blogs do that are in this club.  My Rank is dropping as a result of regular content, increased traffic and the Alexa bar on my page.  I will be doing a bunch of post on this as some point along with some Alexa chain reviews.  Currently 438,123, and 143,821 USA I havn’t been watching this to know the trend, One one rank is dropping 3 month is increasing.

- Exercise 15 minutes a day period!
Did ok with this but not seeing the result I want.  I joined the YMCA Sunday and will be attending 5:45 AM Boot Camp 3 times a week for one hour plus whatever else I can do to loose some weight and fell better about myself.  Lets just say I can’t feel my legs today after the 1st day.  I want to be able to take my shirt off in April when I come to Florida for vacation in 3 months. I sick of looking like crap in vacation pics.

- Create 3 products or services
I decided on my 1st product is going to be a fun e-book with the help of my kids.  I posted about it last week Top Secret Fun Kids Food Recipes I already have this started and will be finishing and launching it this month.  A lot of my focus will be on this for the month.  I really just want to launch a product end to end so I can learn from the whole experience and share it with others.

Below are some of the idea I was tossing around these are on hold for now.

xx –tee-shirt

xx –Membership site

xx – Workshops

xx – Small Business Website Setup and SEO consultation

- Build 5 Kick Ass Websites for others
I am doing a website for my brother in law for his Farm and Auto Repair shop.  The basic goals of this are to do a simple site and make sure it ranks for local traffic for relevant keywords.  He is sick of paying for yellow pages and wants to move online as it is a way better value.

- Learn to make graphics
I am getting a little better learning a few things will see if I can ever become efficient at this.  I will be doing the graphic’s for the Top Secret Kid Food E-Book so lets hope that doesn’t slow me down or look to cheap work case I have my kids do it in crayons since it is a kid book.

- Give out more link luv
I did better here I know I hooked Extreme John up a bit and some others.  Look for more of this.  Another reason to comment here.

-Affiliate marketing Plan for each month
Last month I started with my Dick Tracy Tuesday’s then switch to promoting David Risley Blog Master Club for the 2nd half the month once I caught wind he was opening his doors again.  I really like what David does  I will do a more detailed wrapup on both of these.  Both program resulting in a fair amount of clicks and I did end up making $197 so far with David program so I will take that to kick off the year with some sales.  This month I going to be doing some affiliate post about webhosting mine is up for renewal so I will review my options and post about it.

-Update side bars every month
So far I been good with this, I actually just pulled down a few more to rotate them for the month.

What about You?

Anybody else out their still looking at there goals or has the new year buzz worn off already.

In honor of Extreme John and just to show why he is one of the best CEO Bloggers on the net check out the post below.  John is know for his Sunday Smash Up’s so here is my take at it.  My Smash up will never compare but not bad for my 1st take a this. 

Earlier in the week I told you a little bit about just how great I thought this guy was and a couple days later a few comments here and now a link back from the best list I have seen on the internet in some time.  Do yourself a favor and check this out.

25 Best Blogging and Social Media Tips of the Week

Also if you didn’t know it this blog is DO FOLLOW now.  I switched back in December it and didn’t really ever announce,

Once again I thank Extreme John for the Free DO FOLLOW graphics.  Need a set for your blog?

Go here!

Free Do Follow Graphics

Not quite sure what do follow will do for you blog once again I am going to point to Extreme John here he is part of the reason along with many others that that are do follow blogs.  Here is a article by John that will help you under stand this whole Do Follow thing for those that don’t quite get it.

Do Follow vs. No Do Follow

I am going to be putting together my list of Do Follow Blogs for a post this week if you want to be on it please be sure to comment below.

That reminds me my comment contest this month is not going very week but I still have hope.  Check out the details here.  You just need to be the top commenter or enter at least 5 comments this month to have a chance to win. 

Right now the standings are pretty Sad

Bjorn| iCantInternet (5)

Extreme John (3)

Karl Foxley (2)

***Anyone could be in 1st place in less then 10 minutes. 

My bet will be on John or James winning this thing or maybe Brian or Karl I could get interesting as John just posted a couple links to my blog so I should see a nice jump in traffic. Let’s see who takes the most action and wins.

Other Blogging News

Free David Risley Webcast

Monday 8:00PM EST will sell out!

Webinar Information on DavidRisley.com

 Also Check out the these Freebie’s tied to his Launch

New Blog I discovered this week

http://www.theinfopreneur.net/ – Look out for this guy super motivated Family man James Richmond from the UK. James is my kind of guy.  Watch and study him he is like a machine posting twice a day if not more.  50-60 comments per post extreme focus.  lots of great quality content everywhere guest posting like crazy.  Alex Rank under 85k in less then 3 months.  It’s not everyday you find a blog that instantly are attached to.  More to come about this guy. 

You know I have a goal do something very similar this year I will be reading how he did it. Might see if I can increase post count next month need to set a good goal this month was 20 post which is a stretch for me.  Seems to be he pretty much just writes, promotes, writes promotes, writes, promotes.  Kind a makes sense when you think about it.  Going above and the normal is his method.  10 post per week vs. 3-5 that a lot of work but it is working.  No one ever said blogging was easy.

I know I see Extreme John Posting above the curve.  Interesting this might be a great idea.  Looks like next month focus will be writing.  I did get a new netbook so I think I am up for it.  Modeling habits of those that are doing what you want is good advice.

Word Challenge

Brian from Blog Engage and I need your help.  Check this out.

For those that don’t know what this is every week on Blog Engage we have a Word voted on by our members then we all blog about it and comment in the post.  At the end of the week we wrap it all up with links back the all the posts.

Fun Contest lots of great people commenting and tweeting, relationship builder you should get involved Brian and I are very active with this along with others.  Here are some of the entries from last week about Favorite Blogs

Ms. Ileane’s (Guest Post on Blazing Minds) – WordPress Plugin Video Tutorial
SEO MKT – Favorite Blogs of 2010
The Money Cult – Best Blogging Sites
I Can’t Internet – My Favorite blogs

Thanks Everyone I hope you have a great blogging week!

OK here is deal.  Falling behind on my post here once again but really wanted to say a few things before the day was over.  I was hoping to add a weekly update to my task list but I am behind already so this is a mix of stuff that I wanted to post but haven’t found the time.

A couple of things that are going well.

Weekly Word Challenge! 

(This is my bi-weekly guest post on Blog Engage Blog)

 I must say I really like running this it has been a blast.  I am making all kinds of new blogging friends.  If you haven’t checked it out you might want to.  11 Entries last week. (Gold Star Week)

Guru News’

Some new you should know David Risley is about to launch The Blog Master Club.  If you plan to buy any program this year this is the one.  Some of the reasons I like David is he is the real deal.  He been running a small online business for a long time and a lot of valuable content to offer.  Even if you don’t want to buy a program be sure to down load his free e-book and audio.  This is one of the best pieces of free content available.  I have listened to a many times and have pages of notes.  You can learn something almost every time you listen to it.

Comment Contest Update!

The Money Cult Monthly Comment Contest This could be going better but at least it is launched and started.  Everyone still has the month to comment.  You need to leave 5 comments over the course of the month to win.  I think this will get better as the month goes one.  2 prises, 125×125 ad on side bar.

Brian Tracy Tuesdays

This is a affiliate marketing plan I put together post one article using some great Brian Tracy Articles from his site that are available to affiliates with links to his products.  I will post one article for week for next 4-8 weeks.  So far bunch of clicks but no sales but it is only week one.

Personal SEO Developement 

I seem to be getting a lot better with this.  If I spend the time to do the research and use some basic SEO Best Practices than I can usually get to page one within a couple days.  It is a lot of extra work to do this but not really.   In the long run this will help I need to get better about making sure I have the time to do this but can’t let it slow me down either.

Alexa Rank

One of the things I have as a goal this year is to reduce alex rank to under 100k.  I added a widget at bottom of page to help track it I think this will drastically drop as a result of my page for the 1st quarter.

Dam! I forgot about the Bad oh Well I guess it all good then.

Everyone I wanted to get this published before it was to late.  For those that didn’t know this month I entered the best wordpress design 2009 contest.  I think I am in last place as far as votes go but if you ask me I am the real winner.

I didn’t enter this to win I know my free design pretty much sucks but right now I am more worried about content, traffic, learning and connecting with others then design at this point with this site.  I will be switching to a premium theme very soon as I know I need to do an overhaul now that the The Money Cult is developing a regular following.   I entered the contest to meet new people and saw it as an opportunity to drive some traffic to my site not to mention the prizes were worth a chance when the only cost to enter was to do a blog post about it.

So as far as the contest goes I am all ready a winner I have a huge increase in traffic from http://fresheventure.com and I landed awesome interview with the Keller Hawthorne from that site which has received a lot of attention.  I addition to that I have received visits, comments and e-mails from other competitors.  

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I wanted to do a quick post to let everyone know about a couple things that distracted me this week on the internet form the Guru’s.

First I like to say go listen to the podcast/interview on Yaro’s site with Maria A Andros “The Video Marketing Queen”.  You will learn a thing or two for free about social media.  Maria been doing quite well for her self on the internet marketing and social media and only started about 2 years ago and is now make sick money.  She recently help Brian Williams make 100k in 3 months.  She seems to be a good gal in this business that you can trust with a lot of good free advice.  Going to have to keep my eyes on what she is doing and she enjoys helping others.  Seems to be the trend help others make make.

She is also offering a free access to her coaching program you just need to submit a video by EOD (End of Day), getting mine ready.  Wouldn’t that be a nice win.  Not sure of the cost of her product but she claims it is a $5000 dollar value so this might be another 1000-2000 dollar product I going to start tracking these mega products just to see how many there are.  Looks like a winner if you got the funds if not send a video in and see if you can win a spot.

So check this out.    http://socialmediatrafficblueprint.com/

Next Ed Dales 30 day challenge which includes a Facebook addition.  Starts August 1st, this is sick.  This will blow your mind that he was able to do all this stuff within Facebook and it is also free.  I signed up for Ed program once before but was a victim of information overload at the time and only watched a couple of the video’s.  However the timing might be better for me now and I thinking I can pull some traffic from the community aspect of the way he set this thing up.  Not to mention this is the 1st Facebook app of this kind which might become a new trend.  Facebook is a hugh!

You have to look at this it is a full blown training program on Facebook.  I need to figure out how he did this reason enough for giving it a try.  If you also going to try it out let me know.  He has it setup that you can create teams within the challenge so send me and invite or comment, tweet whatever if you interested.  I all ready see that 4 of my friends signed up pretty cool.  Looks like I got a team started.

Coming soon my 1st podcast!  Stay tuned good stuff.