Goals for October
Here we go then, my October project, earnings and blog goals.
Earnings Goals
This month I would like to see around a 50% increase in earnings on last month, so I’m looking at about £20-£25 ($35-$45). Because I’m now not going to include any GPT earnings (like Greasy Palm), this should be a good little challenge as I’ll have to try and coax my other income streams (Adsense, affiliates, in-text ads, direct advertising here…) into performing a bit better.
Project Goals
In terms of goals for my online projects, the main one is to get at least one new site I’m working on up and running and to start getting traffic to it. This will probably be the real estate niche site I’ve mentioned before, as part of the challenge over at NicheToRiches. I still haven’t got very far with it, not even really narrowed down my niche, so there’s lots of work to be done here.
I’m also going to take one of my existing sites and try to double the traffic and income from it. This site is in an IT niche which I think has some room for my site in there. It’s getting a trickle of traffic, but the site is only really very basic at the moment. I am going to work towards writing 5-10 articles this month to try and increase the organic search traffic, and also see about doing a little bit of blog and forum marketing, and submitting to stumbleupon, delicious etc.
Apart from those two sites, I would also like to spend a little bit of time looking into another possible income stream which I’ve been getting increasingly interested in these days, domain flipping. If I feel confident enough that I know what I’m doing I’d like to try one domain flip before the month is out. If I do I’ll be posting here about it along the way and sharing my experiences.
Blog Goals
I’m quite pleased with this blog last month. It’s still not getting lots of traffic, but it has increased on the last couple of months which is obviously the right direction to be going in!
Here’s a quick list of my goals for this blog for October.
- To get 10 RSS readers
Currently 6
Not getting my feed? Click here to subscribe - To make at least 15 posts
Last month I managed 10 posts - To get 300 unique visitors
Last month there were 190 uniques - To get 600 page views
Last month there were 435 page views - To break into the top 1,000,000 on Alexa and Technorati
Alexa has currently shot up (not good) from the 1.2m mark when I checked on September 24th, to 1.5m as of 30th September. Not sure why this has happened…
These might be very modest goals, but I know that I’ll be sorely disappointed if I was aiming for this blog to instantly gain 100’s of readers and 1000’s of page views. It’s going slowly at the moment, but at least it’s going in the right direction.
So, those are all my goals for this month. I’m going to work hard to achieve these, and hopefully that hard work pays off.
Do you set yourself goals? If you do, do you normally reach them or find you set them too low/too high? It would be great to hear from you.
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October 2nd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I have to say seeing your goals has definitely kicked me in the butt. I’ve been mulling over what to do next and how things have been… it’s not been a super productive past few weeks. I’ve stalled out on the niche to riches site - but it’s a new month and I’m definitely going to see what I can come up with as far as content, etc.
I think getting back into goal setting - and putting it online definitely makes one more accountable… definitely something I should do
Good luck this month!!
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:10 pm
[…] whatever it is I was reading c-online.co.uk and Chris had written out his goals for the month. That’s when it hit me - I’ve not done that in a very, very long time. I also […]
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Well I always think that if what I do can give just one person a kick in the butt then it’s worthwhile