Hi everyone, and a happy new year to you all. I believe that it is essential to set goals for your online business to ensure motivation, and in this post I want to outline my big plans for 2011.
For me, 2011 is going to be all about linkbuilding. Currently, I have around 25 websites in various stages of development. 14 of these websites are online with all of the infrastructure built (articles, product reviews, email newsletter series, and bonus giveaways) with the remaining sites just skeletons at present. The 14 websites that are finished are all in big juicy niches where people spend money online, with multiple information products to promote as an affiliate. Most of the remaining sites are in niches that really interest me such as SCUBA diving, snowboarding, marine aquarium keeping, and travel. I plan to put these sites to one side for the time being as creating content, finding good products to promote, and finding advertisers is more complicated and time consuming than for the 14 sites that are already built and largely promote Clickbank info products. I will come back to these sites in the future when I am earning a good amount from the ‘Big 14’.
I have decided to go back to full time employment in 2011 (currently attending lots of interviews) in order to be able to invest more into my business. I plan to invest around £300 (just over US$450) per month plus whatever my websites earn themselves. I hope that by investing $450 per month earned from an offline job I will be able to kick start growth. After 6 – 12 months I will cease to invest money from my offline income and will just reinvest all website earnings back in to the business.
For the 14 websites that I will be concentrating on this year, the focus will be building links and achieving high search engine rankings for highly targeted buyer keywords. With a budget of £300 (just over US$450) or more per month I should be able to outsource plenty of article writing and spinning for article marketing, hopefully employ someone as a part time linkbuilder (to build forum, blog, directory, profile links etc), and cover the costs of subscription services such as Unique Article Wizard and Article Marketing Automation. I will also spend some of my budget on adding some new content to each of the 14 websites over time and therefore going after more keywords.
It’s difficult to know exactly how successful my business will become over the next 12 months, however I don’t think that it is unrealistic to expect to get my earnings up to $500p/m consistently within the first 6 months, and $2000p/m within 12 months. My confidence stems from the fact that other newbie’s such as Clayton have achieved this level of success using similar methods to myself. I think that I have uncovered some excellent keywords to get me started, and as I will have an offline income to live on, I will be able to reinvest everything back in to the business to ensure that growth is as rapid as possible.
I think that my plans are pretty solid, and I am excited about seeing how successful my websites will become using this strategy. I will be posting regular updates detailing how things are progressing, as well as any modifications that I may make to my outsourcing strategy, so stay tuned over the coming months. I should stress that I have calculated how much I can afford to invest very carefully so that I am not investing money that I can’t afford to lose. I guess that some people would see investing money earned offline into an online business as a bit of a gamble, but I have faith that I can build a viable business online. I am really excited about what 2011 will bring, and am confident that the $3000 that I plan to pump into the business over the next 6 months will be money well spent.
What are your goals for 2011? I would love to hear what you guys hope to achieve this year, and would like to invite you to leave comments below detailing your plans and goals.
