Comments on: Annual Business Planning Season: How to Set Goals That Actually Work

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:09:47 +0000

Very interesting post, as are some of your other posts. I have bookmarked your great site for future visits.

By: Greg Ellison

Greg Ellison — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:18:10 +0000

I hope you reach your goals in 2009. There are some really good comments on this post. Thanks Greg Ellison

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:02:37 +0000

Wow Garry — thanks for the great comment.

Scaling is a great idea. Maybe we can work on some automation projects together in 2009 that will help both of us reach our goals.

Regards,
Mark

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:59:10 +0000

@Kent,

lol… Internet is such a small world. I just sent you a response email regarding buyhomeblog.com. Thanks so much for the business, it is very appreciated.

@Mark,

Awesome post man… Oh the memories of working in the corporate world and having our good old annual goal setting meetings… lol

It’s all fun though… maybe. 😉

You know, one that thing you pointed out in the article is the fact that when you are working in the corporate environment, you have a boss, supervisor, or a territory manager, etc.. to report to. While you are working in that environment, you may think… man, that guy is a butt, or whatever. But still, you do what is required of you and maintain to the standards of performance and work towards advancing in the company etc…

Structure… that is one element that is hard to maintain or achieve when you have your own business. For me, I don’t have that “Jerk of a Boss” breathing down my neck and following up with making sure my goals are coming along through the year.

As much as I hated that aspect of working in the corporate world, ironically after two years of being self-employed, that has become one of the elements I miss the most.

It is very challenging for me as a self-employed business owner to maintain and keep structure. Setting goals easily lose their authenticity because at the time the goals set may have sounded good, but later in time, I may lose interest. And times like that is when typically you’d have something or someone holding you accountable, regardless of how you personally felt about it.

My goals for 2009 are to obviously continue what I have been doing in 2008; however, my aim is to develop a system which allows me to scale my model. By July of 2009 I would like to be in a position to where I am more of a moderator of my operations rather than a worker in my operations.

Creating niche blogs is a very profitable business, but also too it is very time consuming. In 2009 I aim to hire and train a small team who can take over much of the manual work that I do currently day to day.

Doing that will not only allow my business to grow, but it will also free a lot of my time towards building more community driven sites such as my latest, BloggingQuestions.com. I am amazed at how quickly this site is growing and it really motivates me to develop more.

Having more free time away from building niche blogs will allow me more time to do something that I am also very equally skilled in, and that is marketing and promoting. I am the strong ability to drive traffic, but doing so takes time and energy, both of which are constantly consumed by my other obligations.

Needless to say, 2009 indeed will be the most amazing year for me yet with my ventures of making money on the Internet.

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:25:08 +0000

Kent — that is excellent. It is amazing to me how when people know where they are going they can take steps every day and eventually get there.

Keep it up!

By: Kent F

Kent F — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:22:47 +0000

Hey Mark – thanks for this area of motivation! And, a big thanks to you since you helped get me off the sidelines and into the game. Garry Conn is setting up my first authority site – buyhomeblog.com. Another buddy has helped set up affilateincomeonline.com – I’ve written about 4 unique articles, set up 6 blogger websites, and I plan to get 3 adsense niche sites set up in the first qtr. of 2009 with your themes.

Now – I’ve got to set some monetization goals. My goal for the first qtr. of 2009 is to have 5 web sits that bring in a little profit every day and find 5 good products I can monetize with articles and start getting some daily sales. Thanks again.