Josh Buckley Internet Entrepreneur

In a previous article, i wrote about preparing your goals for the new year. These goals are not set in stone, as they may become irrelevant to your success as the year moves on. That being said, it’s important to think hard about goals, so that you think you will follow them throughout the year. They are a great way of helping yourself to progress.

2007 goal recap:

As i am writing this, i’m refelecting on the first ever post on this blog. January 12th 07 seems like such a long time ago. I titled the post …And then he installed wordpress. In the post, i wrote four goals that i wanted to achieve by the end of the year. The good news is, I achieved them all! It’s pretty weird to look back at your old style of writing and see how it has progressed over the course of a year.

1. Earn at least mid $x,xxx in website sales
I was unsure if i was going to achieve this goal throughout most of the year. I was planning on keeping all of my sites. I did sell some small sites in the first quarter of 07, but that was only to low $x,xxx. Luckily, the menewsha sale came in the right side, and totally completed this objective several times over.

2. Make at least $xx,xxx net profit
I achieved this goal, through profits from my websites, and from the menewsha sale.

3. Improve my design and coding skills
I have only seen slight improvements with my design and coding skills. I have read some books on php, and played around with photoshop. I tried redesigning this blog here, i’m still unhappy with the result. But really, this goal has lost its significance. I don’t need to design or code anymore. Sure, i can do odd jobs on my websites, but i should be signing a full time coder sometime in 08, so it’s not neccesary for me to learn this one.

4. Make some good friends on/off the web who i can exchange ideas/thoughts and have some fun with them
I made so many great friends in 2007, really too many to list. That’s one thing i won’t do (i may end up missing some out). But, i have some great friends online and offline. In the first half of the year, i made so many friends from the blogsphere, when there seemed to be a massive boom of new bloggers, and the “make money online” craze was booming. Right now i’ve made online friends with developers, entrepreneurs, bloggers, investors and more. You guys all know who you are

2008 goals:

1. Own $xxx,xxx in assets, money or a mixture.
2008 is going to be a big year for me. I have multiple investments this year, after the success of 2007, i need to see if i can continue this success. At this moment in time, my projects planned out to be worth $xxx,xxx. Today, i will be signing a contract that gives away 10% of a project for mine for $8,000 - valuing the whole project at $80k.

That, mixed with my dailybooth investment will definitely fill up the assets collumn. There is another large community, with over half a million members we are in the process of acquiring.
So, this project does seem fairly adventurous, it will be very challenging - but i do need to set some really tough goals for this year. I currently have around £20k in bank accounts, it will be nice to see the interest rolling in from these.

2. Have my blog earning at least $400/month with at least 400 rss readers
This one is going to be a tough one. January 08 is the first month that this blog has been monetized, after a year of operation. This month it made $120 almost instantly from ad sales. I don’t think this goal will be too challenging. I’m getting fairly close to 200 rss readers and should be winning that competition any time soon

3. Get into affiliate marketing
Throughout 2007, this was at the back of my mind. I have some great friends who are doing really well for themselves promoting products. I would like to learn more about it, and maybe earning some spare change from it in the sideline

4. Manage my businesses and school
This year is going to be pretty tough at school, i’m in year 11 and i’ll be taking my GCSE exams. I’ll need to be working towards these as well as working hard on my websites. If anything, this could be one of the most challenging goals. It’s not proved a simple task to manage school life and a large business at once. Luckily, i will be getting a big break from school after these exams in july.

So, let’s hope these goals go as well as they did in 2007. They are more challenging this year, but i am confident that i will reach all of them in the course of the year. What goals do you guys have for the upcoming year?