This post is a little overdue, but first I don’t want you to think I started the year off slacking… Far from it!

I have been very busy behind the scenes concentrating on setting things up to build my list, and I’ve also been working on a few things that will hopefully help bring some extra money in to fund things like Aweber, hostsing, etc…

I will most likely blog about my other projects when I’ve had time to see if they bring in the desired results, and what ever happens I will more than likely create a product for you to benefit from, be it about my success or otherwise… And of course I will make it free of charge to my subscribers!

I’ve also spent a good amount of that time planning for the weeks and months ahead, so I’ll move on now and state my goals for 2010 to the world, something which I’ve never done before might I add…

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My Goals For 2010

These are the things I am going to achieve by the end of 2010:

Business Goals

• Build my list to 10,000  (current total stands at 345 so I have a looong way to go, I think it’s achievable though)

For the first quarter of the year my goal is 2000 by April 1st (I will update this every quarter)

• To be Consistently making between $2,000 – 3,000 per week
• Get my Alexa traffic rank inside the top 100,000 (currently stands at 211,236)
• Create a successful Membership Site of some kind
• Create and release at least 2 products based on my results with things I’m doing to build my business
• Help as many newbies as possible get started with their online endeavours, and give them my full support
• Make a blog post every 1-2 weeks
• Do a WSO (Warrior Special Offer) on the Warrior Forum in February
• Create videos for my blog and subscribers every month (currently in the process of learning more about creating screen capture presentations)
• Make easy to follow action plans for each part of my business
• Do more keyword research and Search Engine Optimise this blog and rank on the first page for all my chosen keywords and key-phrases
• Add some sales funnels into the mix
• Surround myself with like minded positive people and keep in contact on a daily/weekly basis (already in process)
• Test and track everything that I do, and work on ways to improve the results
• Give myself a set start and finish time for working on my business each day, and use the time wisely. (Any internet usage after that is my leisure time.)
• Work to a countdown timer on each task to get the best use of my time, and increase my productivity
• Treat this as proper business, if YOU don’t work hard enough YOU get fired! ( this is to give me some motivation when I read this back each week.)
• Make a new pledge to myself and read it each day before I start working on my business
• Look back at these goals every day to remind me why I’m doing this, and what I want to achieve by the end of the year ( This is written in my pledge)
• Stick to a strict plan of action at all times
• Have a set routine to motivate myself before I start working each day
• Keep a Journal documenting everything that I do each day, and make it a part of my daily tasks to write it.

Entrepreneurial Goals

• Create a system that brings me a consistant flow of leads into my business
• Refer back to the MWA coaching and listen to it all again, check my notes from the first time and see what I missed.
• Work harder at branding myself
• Learn more about making video screen presentations
• Study copy-writing
• Study sales funnels
• Study SEO
• Study product creation
• Get into the habit of focusing on the positives, and irradiate the negatives
• Study motivational material

Personal Goals

• Make enough money so my dad can take a well deserved early retirement. (This means so much to me, and is the main reason I’m doing this. My dad has barely taken a day off work in 10 years, probably longer.)
• Make enough money to put towards buying a detached house for my parents, and me while I still live with them (I still live with my parents in a small semi-detached house right now, so we all need somewhere bigger now)
• Make enough money to be able to afford my own place and all the bills that go with it
• Treat my mum and dad to an all expenses paid holiday
• Do more exercise and get out of the house more
• Keep things neat and tidy and have a clean up each month (right now I’ve got papers everywhere, my desk is dusty, and I keep losing things)
• Book myself a holiday
• Book myself and some friends on a driving experience weekend at Silverstone Race Track
• Treat myself to a 50″ widescreen TV (or maybe slightly smaller if I’m still in this small house..lol)
• Purchase a PS3 once I’ve acheived some of my big monetary goals (I could afford one of these now, but I don’t want to distract myself from my business, so this will be a treat)

I’m off to start breaking this down into monthly and weekly plans now, I hope you have enjoyed this insight into my business and what I have planned for the future.

Now go and create your own plan of action, feel free to use mine for ideas… But remember that your goals and plan will be different than mine, and it is important to include things in your personal plan that will motivate you and drive you to succeed, no matter what it takes.

Also you may wonder why I haven’t really added that many expensive treats for myself in my personal goals, well for me it is making other people happy and seeing their reactions that gives me a buzz… And doing things for the people I care about is more than enough motivation for me, so the most expensive of my personal goals are actually for other people as crazy as that sounds.

It’s also so I can tell my Dad ” I told you so”… He doesn’t believe that it’s possible to make money doing what I’m doing, which only pushes me harder to make it happen… So thanks Dad.

Paul

PS- Making your goals public like I have here is the best way to accomplish them, you see holding myself accountable to you all, and displaying my goals here for all to see, is going to make me work my butt off to achieve them. Because I will be writing another post at the end of the year, like I did with  2009, The Year It All Began…., and while it won’t be the end of the world if I don’t achieve everything I set out to do, it won’t make me feel to good having to say I didn’t manage to achieve this , this and this.

Also feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you think of my goals, and if you don’t have a blog of your own yet (highly recommended) then you can simply hold yourself accountable to me and the readers of my blog by replying to this post with your goals.

Don’t be shy, give it a try!

The time as I write this is 2am here in the UK …. I was just about to go to bed actually, but I simply had to get a quick blog post published about this right away!!

As you may know back in July I enrolled on Alex Jeffreys Coaching Program – Marketing With Alex. And In this short space of time I’ve gone from having no website/blog, no list and no idea….. To having my own blog, regular visitors that leave me comments, and a steadily growing mailing list… And Alex’s business knowledge to go with it.

It has to be one of the best decisions I ever made, as I’m petty darn sure that if I hadn’t of found Alex when I did, I’d still be going round in circles right now!

Now the reason Alex is so successful today and was able to be in a position to run a coaching program, was because he paid huge amounts of cash to some of the top level gurus to get ahead of the game. One of those gurus was Rich Schefren “The Guru to the Gurus”. And Rich Schefren is one of the guys behind what I’m about to share with you right now…

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Here’s the interesting part, Alex had to pay Rich around $10,000 for Rich to mentor him, which was $5,000 per program!! But right now you can get access to Rich Schefren and 53 of the most influential, most respected, and most recognized business advisors in the world…

For FREE !!

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I know!.. I couldn’t believe it either, but it’s true!… And something as rare as The League of Extraordinary Minds is not something that comes along very often!! So as you can imagine I grabbed it with both hands.

Yes I’ve already secured my place and will be studying this intensely over the next 6 weeks.

My advice is get signed up now, get lots of note paper, watch the first video, and start taking plenty of notes.

I’m really excited about this, it’s designed to make small businesses like ours take off… And it’s going to be good sharing our thoughts on this as the series progresses.

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Please leave your comments if you are joining me on this one off opportunity, and if you have your own blog, be sure to blog about it too.

Until next time…

Paul.

P.S

I’m off to Lee McIntyre’s workshop on Friday, where I’ll hopefully be meeting Alex Jeffreys himself, along with some of my fellow students and other top marketers. I can’t wait… So stay tuned for my blog post all about it soon, and I’ll try and get some photos too.

Hey guys,

This is just me having a bit of fun and getting some more practice in front of the camera, I’m trying to be myself on this video without letting my nerves get in the way. I’m definitely getting more confident in front of the camera. I actually managed to smile on this video

What I took from watching this video back was, that I need to either stop myself moving around so much, or do my videos sitting down. I tend to feel better doing them standing up, but if I can’t stop moving about then I’ll have to do them sitting down and get used to it.

Another thing I’m learning to do, is not worry too much about what people are going to think of me, that was the biggest thing I had to get over before doing my first video. I’m definitely seeing improvements on each video I’ve done so far, athough I’ve still got a long way to go before I’m ready to appear in my first Hollywood movie.

Anyway I had fun making it, editing it and it makes me laugh when watching it back. So all in all I’m pretty happy with it. You’ll see what I mean when I say I had some fun editing it when you watch it.

I was planning to make another for the competition entry, but I’ve had a headache all day that won’t shift. So that’s that.

Anyway if you could leave me a quick comment that would be cool.

I’m off to watch a DVD now called, Takedown. Quite an old movie, it’s supposed to be the squeal to Hackers So hopefully it will be good?

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I’ll be back with another post soon, I’ve found a good free tool for creating graphics.

Paul.

As I’ve not made an update on where the coaching is up to since the first module, I’m going to give a quick summary of the ALL the modules right up to date. This is going to be the first of 2 posts.

Module #1

This module was all about goals & planning ahead. Here are a few of things we learnt:

• To start small, but think big. This basically means although we are just starting out, there is no harm in thinking about the big things we will be able to achieve in the future. By thinking about the things we want to achieve, we can then start to plan backwards from that end goal, to find out all the things we need to do, learn or outsource in order to achieve it.

• That we need to have personal goals as well as business & entrepreneurial goals. It’s important that you have personal goals, as they will help you to remain focused, and determined to not give up when the going gets a little tough. I find that having my goals stuck on the wall near my desk is good for motivation. It helps me to not lose track & stick to my plan at all times.

• Scrutinize your day by logging everything you do, and how long you spent doing it, Alex calls these ‘daily did sheets’. Then at the end of the day you will see exactly how much time you’ve wasted, and you can then try and cut out the things that wasted your time the next day, and onwards.

• Plan the day ahead, the night before, prioritize your tasks. For instance you would make an ,A, B, and C list. Your A list would be high priority tasks that need doing first, and so on.

Module #2

This module was all about getting a Profit Pulling Platform set up. A Profit Pulling Platform is basically a series of web pages that will become your sales funnel. You can then channel traffic from the internet through that sales funnel, and start to pull profits.

Here’s some key points that we learnt here:

• Our main focus with our Profit Pulling Platform is to get people to sign up to our list.

• Treat your list as real people, not as numbers.

• To keep an eye on our conversion rates, and do split testing (I’ll explain split testing at a later date.)

• You will need to outsource certain tasks like graphics for instance, various other things that would take you to long to learn.

• To track our traffic using Google Analytics. (I’ll be making a post explaining about this soon)

We are actually up to Module #4 now, I will continue this coaching update in the next post, which will be tomorrow.

Paul.

So last time I said I would go further into why I am now about 95% more productive than normal, & I’m being serious when I say that, I really was getting nothing done. Well as I said in the last post, it’s all about having a plan, but not just any old plan. No, it has to be well structured & organized, you see I have made business plans in the past, but I was doing it blindly. My idea of a plan before was, have a few ideas, write them down, then somehow try to make them work. When I think about that now it is no wonder I wasn’t getting anywhere, it might have been a plan of kinds, but it wasn’t organized.

So what Alex has made us realize is, “Know that end goal, & plan backwards from there.” The whole planning backwards thing sounded funny at first, but it’s obvious that is what you should do when you really think about it.

So if you are reading this & haven’t yet started YOUR plan, now is the time to “TAKE ACTION.” Think about the things you REALLY want, this could be anything, a new car, new house, speed boat?? One of my personal goals is to help my farther be able to take an early retirement from his day job.. Another is a new car for myself. Whatever you want, it’s all about starting with your personal goals, this will give you the drive & desire to succeed & not give up half way through.

The next part would be to plan your business goals, again this is for you to decide what you want to do? You need to find a profitable niche to work in, do some research by looking at similar businesses, & find out what seems to work in that niche. Once you find someone who seems to be successful, you could sign up to their mailing list & get some ideas from what they are doing. After you find out what this person is doing, you should then have an end goal, to get to the level this person is at & model your business on theirs. You would then work backwards from there, writing down everything you would need to do, starting with the most important things first, like making a blog for example. You would then break these things down into months, weeks, & daily tasks that you can tick off as you do them.  It’s all about getting started & asking questions later, the main thing is you just get started & you can add to your plan as you go along.

Then there will be your entrepreneurial plan, on this plan would be skills you need to learn & tools you need to master. Things like learning how to make instructional videos to put on your website, how to drive traffic to a website, learn how to market yourself or your business.

To help you keep track of all your thoughts & ideas you can use mind mapping software, this is the one I’ve been using FreeMind, & the best part is it’s free to download & use. Mind mapping is a very effective way to keep track of all of your ideas, meaning you don’t have to keep track of lots of bits of paper or files, you can have it all there on 1 page. Whenever you have an idea you need to get it out of your head, & onto the mind map before you forget it, or lose the piece of paper you wrote it on.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this post, I will be setting my mailing list up soon where I will be sharing more great info like this, & giving away all sorts of great stuff. It will also ensure you never miss my latest blog posts, So stay tuned for that.

I look forward to helping you get started, let’s go on this journey together.

To OUR success,

Paul.