This isn’t just another “You need to set some internet business goals” post. This is the very first step that you should have taken when you started your internet marketing venture. So what is your number? I don’t really care what that number is but it needs to be a monetary goal. Do you want $1000 extra a month in the next three months? $10,000 a month by the end of the next twelve months? That is a dead serious, measurable, beat your head off the wall if you’re not even getting close kind of number.
How often do you sit at your desk, check email, read one from your favorite guru promoting a brand new money making grand slam, check out the product, buy it, skim through it and then go to bed? Then you realize that everything that you wanted to get done never got accomplished! I have done it dozens of times but you know what, it hurts to do it now. I have my number and I know when I want to reach my goal. Any unproductive time really hurts because I WANT TO HIT THAT NUMBER!!! I really do and I want to hit it by the end of January 2010.
The number holds me accountable to myself to achieve my internet business goals. It is part of my business best practices.
Once you have decided on a realistic, achievable number it is time to take that first step. Some people jump in to a quick, cash producing opportunity to get the ball rolling. Me, I took an inventory of what I have, worked back from my number and decided the steps that I needed to take to get started filling in the gap. My first step is a small one but it clips away at the gap of where I want to be and where I am now. Underestimating the power of business goal setting practices can be a fatal flaw for you new business. Goal planning has to be an essential part of your overall business plan. I foundered without it but now the end game is clearer than the carribean sea on a warm summer day.
I know my number, what’s yours?
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