Untill 2008!
What will you remember about 2007?
Huge launches, higher priced Internet Marketing “Must haves” than ever, methods that seem to die sooner than ever, Google changing their algo more often than geeks change their bedsheets.
Well there isnt much you can do to change 2007 so what are you doing to make sure that 2008 is going to be a bigger year. To make sure your future is good you need to review and learn from your past.
So get a pen and paper out..
1) Look at your monthly expenses- memberships, links, hosting, plr this , PLR that. How much does your business cost you every month?
2) Which of the monthly payments still makes you money- Are the links still passing PR or visitors to you, are the PLR articles still as well written, are you using them every month or are they becoming digital dust on your hard drive?
3) What did you do last year that still makes you money a month after doing it, 3 months, 6 months etc?
4) What did you do that was a waste of time? Come on be honest, how much “effective” time did you really have?
5) How much time did you spend on forums in 2007? Were you building up reputation, selling something? or were you reading jokes, following links to stupid videos and reading idiots posts (you know the ones I mean).
6) What did you enjoy doing and which bits do you hate? If you hate doing something then you are unlikely to do it well or do it as often as you should, if you hate writing articles then pay someone else to do it, if you hate sitting doing directory submissions or forum posts pay someone else to do it.
While it is work, there is no reason that you have to do the things you really hate doing there is always someone else who will do it for a payment.
7) What do you want in 2008? Do you want a boat, a bigger house, a new car? Take a photo of it, get a magazine image of it and make it into a screensaver or save it as your desktop wallpaper.
How much does it cost?
$25k , thats just under 500 a week that you need to earn, now you have a target, go for it.
8)What did you not do that you know you should have done?
Mine is list building, sure I have lists but I don’t have the volume of lists that I want/need to push 2008 to a higher level.
I also want to make my lists more diverse.
9) Did you build relationships in 2007? With customers and with other people who work online, I am talking about friends who actually care about you not just your list and what you can do for them. I recently had another marketer call me at home for no other reason than he had noticed I hadn’t been on a particular forum for a while and he hadn’t seen me on skype and he was checking to see if Elizabeth and Kathy were ok. He wanted to offer moral support through the sleepless nights and just general parenting stuff, nothing about work, no favors being asked for.
Make friends, build relationships give before you ever hope to receive. Now I will warn you that some “friends” will disappoint you, some will take, some wont be there when you need them but that is the same online or off.
I think thats enough to be getting started with, i can hear that someone needs their nappy changed so I better go..
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