What Are Your 2009 GOALS?

(Review of 2008)

I ended the year 2008 with only 423 opt-in subscribers,more than 40 buyers and only 3 possible joint venture partners!

I ended with over $1,000 on my FIRST year - nothing much, some of you will say, but, I had an education that has made me a far-better marketer, a much better & improved person after these.

I slacked for several months, and FOCUSED on the remaining 2 quarters last
year 2008. You see, I am a full-time Marketing student and on to garnering my diploma by October this year. . .

I was averaging $30-$50 per month on sales on the middle half of the year,
(mostly sales coming from my own info-products and affiliate marketing stuffs)

and ended with THE BEST months of November and December - - -

averaging more than $200 for the last 2 months of 2008(even with the last month on a 2-weeks holiday at Boracay resort).


The trend is increasing and I look forward to averaging $2,000 each month.
I know this will happen!


You ask me how long?
It could be several months from now or

even 90 days from now!


(backtrack)
. . . I spent almost a year to put up my maiden website, PLRU.com and,
you'll be surprise to see major changes coming up. They say, IT is
quite long to begin with your first . . .

but, comes the next one - - - much quicker!

If you could just see the "WayBack Machine" which shows you how the first
website looks like, its' that ugly and "unprofessional"!

(lesson learned)
"You don't have to be GREAT to start. But, you need to have to start in order to be great."

You don't need to really launch a website at 100% "perfect" the first time,
begin working on it, modify it, update it- - -until, you get the FEEL of it!

Once everything is in place, "wash-rinse and repeat" the same process
on working on another project. Finish one first before moving on another!

(quick tip # 1)
One of those "gurus" I heard mentioned of the 30-days challenge and said that
the project you are working on should be done and completed in at most -
yes, thirty days as "his standard" , or even less. Don't take on a HUGE project
and not finish it. Better to start a "small" project and complete it thatn planning
on something BIG, but never having the opportunity to see it through.


(quick tip#2)
*Champions do all the time what others think about doing occasionally!*
- John Di Lemme


I have to tell you that I even had several other websites in mind at that time,
but all these are just wishes that did not come true. You know why?. . . 'coz
I did not do anything about it! It just remained as a wish to put it
more aptly.


NOW, how about you? What good things and lessons did you learn last year?

So, what about your plans THIS YEAR?


I've written down a few on my "shortlist of GOALS for the FIRST QUARTER of
the year. I am also coming down to creating a MONTHLY GOAL for each.

With that said, here is -


MY Goal this year is to:

~ attain 10,000 opt-in members
~ secure my FIRST $ 10,000 Sales
~ end the year with $20,000 Sales
~ launch 10 new websites including 3-Membership sites
~ create 10 new "info products" .



My Plans: => *** Action Plans!

~ Finish 2 new Membership sites the 1st quarter,
- DigitalRightsDOMAIN.com & "new" PLR-membership site.
~ Complete the Affiliate System Management for PrivateLabelRightsUNLEASHED.com in order to get Affiliates and JV partners to promote this heavily with 100% on the front-end commissions and 50% on the back-end. Why do I offer that? because this will help me build a buyers list!
(I'd tell you more about this, you'll profit from this as well)

~ Use "Article Marketing" as my campaign by:
- submitting at least 3 "new" articles to article directories incl. Ezine Articles.
- automate or outsource these once the budget starts kicking in.
~ Join premium "GiveAways", not all.
~ Use Web 2.0 "Social Marketing" as well.
~ Become active in some forums, blogs with "high traffic" in order to get "backlinks".
~ Optimize my website/blogs to further improve rankings, etc.



MORE. . .



What do I intend to do differently this year?
I will focus heavily on Article and Social Marketing to boost my traffic and to build MY BIG List!


My! This is getting to be a long list!

NEXT time, I'd be telling you why you need to start 'BUILDING A B-I-G LIST In 2009!"



~ cheers to a great year!!!




~ rommel ;p

P.S. Post a comment to this blog and tell me what you intend to do DIFFERENTLY this year! I have a new year's g.ift, sort of a "bribe" for those that will comment here.



P.S.S. Have you written yours yet? I'd tell you "why it is important to WRITE DOWN YOUR GOALS & PLANS", on my next post!