Hey guys Just wanna know from the pro members bout the goals you guys set. Are they purely long term? for ex 10k this month. Or is it on a daily/weekly basis? Wanna know this cos obviously good days and bad days.. so how dyu set goals to keep u going?
I set a long-term future goal (something I have not reach yet but want to accomplish in my life-time or the next 10 year) I then setup a yearly goal (based on the long-term future goal). I break those yearly goal into months. I break those monthly goal into weeks. And I break it into days (but I always keep them flexible to give myself room). If I don't accomplish those daily goals, I rollover over it to the next day or prioritize it to another week or month. If I want to make $100K a year, that means, I have to make at least $8,333 a month, $2043 a week, or nearly $300 a day. If I promote products with an average commission of $20, I must make at least 15 sales a day. This mean, I must focus on 3 to 5 good niches which I can market well or 1 good niche that's good to market. To make more than $300k+ requires a totally different strategy and mindset....
How do you find time to actually work after setting all those goals My goal at the moment is I want to buy this house for me and my girlfriend. I doubt I will get a mortgage as this is hardly a job or 'stable income' but I am a quarter of the way there and I hope to be there in the next 18 month to a year if things go right
My goal is always to make $1000 per day in commissions from any program I promote. If it hits the target, I keep it, if it doesn't, I ditch it. I always seek out untapped programs with a good history of customer service. No point in being in competition with thousands of other affiliates right?
Kind of do what webtester does. But on a more basic level - just set daily goals based on monthly goals. My goal for this month is $1500. So I subtract what I made so far this month, and divide how many days I have to go to reach my target. Tomorrow's goal is $59. I've found that taking it a day at a time works best, but you still need to set long term goals to keep heading in the right direction.
hmmm.. cool.. From most people what ive learnt is that setting monthly goals is the best. Apart from that I have this other goal of making a million dolllars by the time i'm 35! not just from CB. Any possible way. I'm 20 now. So thats 15 years to go!
Here is my favorite saying: "You can not control the output just the quality of the input" Meaning you can't really control making $59 or $300 or $1000 per day or whatever. There are just way too many variables. What you can control is the input. How many and what quality of articles you write everyday, how much keyword research you do, how much reading or learning you do a day, product development, writing autoresponder messages, etc. The results are just validation that your marketing efforts were or are effective. Using this mindset, I do and would suggest setting your goals on your inputs. The first goal should always be to find the inputs that will in fact produce profitable results. Not always easy but extremely necessary. Once you know what you can do to get sales, you just set appropriate goals to duplicate as much as possible while maintaining your quality. If they truly are effective, the sales will come. Now don't get me wrong I do have benchmarks that I want to hit in sales on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. And I do recognize the motivation that money or the chance of money can have. However, if you focus on the money you will be less likely to ever get it.
What I do personally is set daily goals in the morning and make sure I reach them. It is very easy to start the day off and maybe not do as well as you liked and then that affects your goals. Remember on your good days that it took work to get there, and on your bad days remember your good days. I think the key is work as if you already have success and that mindframe will help you. Helps me anyway. Just my 2 pence, Chris
I love all of this stuff that you guys are talking about and its spot on. My success has been growing, but what's really helped me personally is A) setting aside the thought of money and instead B) Making my best effort to be of service to my audience (which is more fun anyways I've tried doing really cheap things that I didn't feel good about to make money. That was not fun, but a learning experience. I find that whenever I remind myself that it IS a business, and see if I can build a business and help people somewhere - its way more successful. I'll tell ya, building an audience (mailing lists or RSS blog feeds) teaches you a LOT about human behavior and how to further your people skills, and build friendships, and in terms of goals - I get a lot of direction just by monitoring what's going on with "my people". Like, what are they interested in? how can I be of service to them? or do I know someone who can when I cannot? or interesting that they were more attracted to clicking and reading about this than that. Its certainly a fascinating game, and its nice to know that every one has some lame days here and there. I'm very impatient so I can't stand days like that, haha!
I think the post from webtester is a great model - perhaps a little obsessive, but I set massive goals for myself in terms of money and how I want my business to grow over the next year or two and then I let this filter down into all my activities and if it supports my main goals then great, and if it doesn't, or more likely if it isn't working I re-evaluate it and try something different. I think it is important to have a MASSIVE goal though - It inspires big action and higher motivation and excitement in me anyways, and I'm quite happy to reach for the stars and hit the moon for now, the moon is pretty good
I find setting goals with Clickbank is very difficult as the income is irregular, one week can be amazing with nothing the week after. So I suppose my main goal is consistency. I would actually like to make enough per month to live on if I get made redundant, which is a real possibility this year, out of the recession my ar5e!
I agree with above where I set goals for content or work I have to do and not really think about the $$$. It depends on how 'seasonal' your product/niche is too, there are high and low times so setting a dollar amount might not work all the time. The harder I work on a daily basis, the more I make...so that's what I focus on the most. Setting a daily 'checklist' of things to do is always a good way on reaching your goals on a daily basis.