Good Goals Will Help You Make a Good Plan

Once Your Goals Are Set You Can Make a Plan

Yesterday we talked about setting goals.  I just wanted to do a quick follow up on that topic.

When it comes to setting goals it's a good idea to start at the end.  What I mean by that is to start by setting your long term goals.  When you do this, you can then begin to formulate your action plan as to what steps need to be taken in the short term to reach those goals.

Your action plans then become your short and medium term goals.

Let's just go over a quick example.

If you set as a long term goal to make $1,000 per month by then end of your first year, you begin to formulate your short and mid term plans or goals that will help you to reach your long term objective.

• Long term goal = Income $1,000 per month in 1 year

• Thought process = What steps need to be taken in the short and mid term to reach this goal?

• Advertising = Membership in 60 Safelist Mailers within 6 months, upgrade in 12
• Advertising = Membership in 12 Traffic Exchanges within 6 months, upgrade in 6

• Programs = Membership in 3 core income earning programs in 6 month

• Financial = Upgrade cost of Mailers and TEs $150 per month
• Financial = Upgrade cost of Income programs = $90 per month

• Time = Mailing and Surfing start at 2 hours per day, increase to 4 per day by month 6

Ok, this is a pretty simple layout of a plan that is formulated based on your income goal of $1,000 per month and admittedly I have not spent a ton of time mapping this one out.  It is just for illustration. But hopefully you get the idea.

Spending an adequate amount of time planning 

is always time well spent!

One important point I also want to make is that if your long term income goal was to make $100 per month in 1 year, the remainder of your plan would be very much different.

Hope this gives you something to think about.

To your success,

Bob Swetz
Rjs@Home

Setting Goals and Weight Training

If You Don't Know Where You are Going

How Will You Get There?

Setting goals is an extremely important part of running a home business.  I learned this lesson at a very unlikely point in my life.

When I attended college at Penn State University I took an elective physical education class, Weight Training! I took this class mostly because I wanted to get into shape.  The very first day, the instructor asked us what our goals were for the class.  Most of the students said things like...

• I want to get stronger
• I want to look better
• I want to lose weight
• Etc.

The instructor corrected all of us quickly stating that in any activity you MUST have a specific goal. If you do not have a specific goal, you will never know if you get there. So, the goals above would be more appropriately stated as follows...

• I want to be able to press 200 pounds
• I want my chest to be 40 inches
• I want to lose 35 pounds

In internet marketing, we need to set goals for many things such as how much money we want to make, how quickly we want to make it.  Also, we should set goals for our daily activities. Each of us would have our own unique goals of course.  Some examples of goals may be as follows...

• I will post 50 ads per day
• I will join 2 new ad sites per day
• I will post on Facebook each day
• I will spend $50 per month on advertising
• I want to make $250 per month in 3 months
• I want to make $500 per month in 6 months

These are just a few ideas.  I suggest you take a good look at your business and set some goals this this week.  It will help you immensely.

To your success,

Bob Swetz

Rjs@Home