Pursuit of Profit

After 3 days I am now at my first goal of $5! This is a baby step in the long journey ahead of me, but it feels good completing a goal regardless of how small. One major discouragement with fresh to the game internet marketers, including myself, is having one far off lofty goal that is impossible to attain. You probably think 10k a month is one of these goals, and I can see where you’re coming from! However I’ve broken this goal down in to little goals, baby steps, because you have to crawl before you can walk, and walk before you run!

Meeting little goals encourages me to keep going and gets me even more committed and focused on the next goal.

Step 1. If you are new to internet marketing, sit down and figure out how much you want to make. Realistic thought is definitely your friend at this point, don’t say a million a month unless you think you have the determination and bag of tricks to get to this point.

Step 2. Once you have a goal, break it down to mini milestones. Some good mini milestones are:

• Traffic goals: I will have 500 unique visitors this month!
• Backlink goals: I will get at least 4 links a day for the next 30 days!
• Site development goals: I will write at least 10 posts a week on my blog!

Step 3. Write your goals down! This is huge, it’s so easy to dismiss a thought or a will that has never entered in to reality. Writing a goal down makes it REAL, it makes you feel like REAL shit looking at goals from the past and realizing that you haven’t accomplished them. Staying away from feeling like shit is a good motivator, but so is the success that comes with reaching your goals. Tell someone or post on your blog about your new goals, this takes writing it down one step further! This step also makes you adjust your dreamy goals so they are more attuned to reality.

Step 4. Start completing the goals! Completing goals gives you a sense of satisfaction and boosts your motivation to continue. Look at me, I made $5 and I’m feeling on top of the world because I am one step closer to my end goal! I am 1/11th of the way down my path to $10k a month.

You can use this motivation technique for anything as well. Hope this helps you out, but remember, you gotta do it to make it work!

Here’s the deal, this blog will track my progress on making money online and go in depth on what’s working and what isn’t.

So at the end of April I’ll need to make $5 and double that each month for a whole year. The only money I can use is the money from the previous months. Here’s the break down:

1. April $5
2. May $10
3. June $20
4. July $40
5. August $80
6. September $160
7. October $320
8. November $640 (this is where it starts to get interesting!)
9. December $1280
10. January $2560 (from here on is going to take wise investing as well as action)
11. February $5120
12. March $10240

Wish me luck, I think I’m going to need a lot of it!

This is the first step in my plan to begin making the big bucks online. I have designed and run a few online businesses with minimal success over the past 3 years. Inspiration and motivation seem to come in such short lived but extreme bursts. For example I may lay the ground work for a website or blog by purchasing a domain name and installing a script and building a few backlinks, but when it doesn’t perform as quickly and successfully as I would like I feel discouraged.

I’ve done a bit of introspection, and realized that I haven’t been able to achieve my goals for a few reasons:

1. My goals are too high; thus setting myself up for a let down
2. Too many goals; having aspirations is huge, but spreading yourself too thin is a sure fire trip to loser lane.
3. My plans are too long term; don’t get me wrong having long term goals is crucial, but also having a step by step action plan is key to actually accomplishing these goals.

So here’s my plan, my plan that will hopefully get me to wear I want to be: Have a monetary goal of $5 for my first month and double that each month for one year for a final goal of about $10 000 a month. Impossible? No. Hard? Definitely!

You’ll be able to read about my status and how I’m making money. I’ll fill you in on what keywords I’m using, which site I’m advertising at, and basically every step along the way!

This quest to make it from the bottom, starting with nothing but an internet connection and my trusty macbook, to the final goal of $10 000 a month. I know this is going to to take time, dedication, learning and action. I am going to post my results from different online money making techniques and what steps I am taking to get these results. I’ll show you how I try to make cash and report what works and what doesn’t! Should be a fun ride, check back for new posts often.

The official starting month is April! April 1st is when the games commence and until then I will