Two days into the New Year and I ask you, do you have your plan in place for 2009. This is critical for your success that you get started right now in planning.
What are your goals for 2009? One of mine is to improve my business and move forward with the new year. Your goals do not have to be huge but at least make them so it is not something that you can achieve easily.
I do not mean to make it so hard that it cannot be done, but make it something that you will have to work for.
After you have set these goals then how are you going to achieve them? For my business to improve there are a few things that I have to do. I need to improve my blog, blog postings and improve my list building skills.
Believe me there is lots more work to do but you get the idea. It can be a step by step plan and that way you can check them off as you go along.
How will you accomplish the plan? For my list building, I need plan to participate in more giveaways which means I need to get some products ready to giveaway. This can be material you create, use Private Label Rights (PLR) products or have someone create it for you.
It could be in the form of software, eBooks or a special report. There probably are other ways I have not mentioned.
Set up an autoresponder and load it with messages, create a squeeze page to get sign ups and upload it to your website. Two of the more popular ones are Aweber and Get Response. Then advertise, in a forum, write articles or an ezine. Just get the word out for people to see your name and site.
For my blog I need to post on a regular basis. I would like to post 3-4 times a week. Is that a lot, maybe for some but I have seen blogs where the postings happen about everyday.
It might mean that you have to sit one day and write up those post ahead of time. But if you get in the habit it will come naturally to you.
You will probably think of a lot more goals and do a lot more planning than this but hopefully this has set your mind in motion about what you can do to get started.
Check your inbox I am sure you will see that all of the big and small Internet Marketers are working on or have in place their planning and goals for 2009. Let’s join them and make this a really good year.
To Your Success,
Andre Arnett
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:15 am
Good post Andre!
What many people do is fail to set proper goals. They should be specific goals (example: add 2,000 more subscribers to my list), but then also detail how you are going to do it.
A big simple goal like, “I want to increase my subscriber count” doesn’t mean much at all, and you will probably fail to reach it because of the lack of planned steps to get there.
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January 2nd, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Valuable info you’re sharing there, Andre!
At every level of Internet marketing it’s important to keepmoving forward, and building your list must always remain at the forefront!
Congrats on a successful 2008 online – looking for more great stuff from you in 2009!
Doug Champigny.
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January 3rd, 2009 at 12:13 am
You nailed it Andre,
No business can succeed without a plan in place. Sounds like you definitely have yours in place for 2009.
Thanks for keeping us on our toes and hope you have a great 2009!
Thanks,
Brett McEllhiney
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