What Are You Planning To Get Into In 2010?

I'm finally going to take the plunge into Adwords. I have spent too much time studying, now it is time to act, fail and ultimately succeed.

Well let's see...I'll be learning how to milk goats, teach my kids to ride horses, probably a few home improvement projects...oh wait.

You mean in IM! OHHhhhhh sorry 'bout that.

I plan on really cranking out membership sites, both IM related and others, as well as focusing on learning the ins, outs, ups and downs of CPA.

That is, when I'm not milkin' my goats. LOL

I want to focus my efforts on building a list for the first time and I have also thought of messing around with ebay dropshipping to see if I can make that work.

defenetly start and enter to the SEO learning :$ its a quiet of sh**y instead of all the members in this topic

also my first post there

John,

Branding myself.

(not literally, I'm not into self-harm)

Steve

Publishing real books that are printed on real paper and with a subject matter that has nothing to do with making money.

John

Well, I'm going to go for the all-around stuff here.

Going to learn to copywrite, and learn well.

Going to get my flipping websites in order, hopefully get to the point of making 1 flip a week at least.

MAKE MY OWN DAMN PRODUCT AND SELL IT.

Brand myself as someone cool.

Affiliate with Big Mikes wholeseller program.

CPA sounds pretty neat, I'd like to get into that at some point.

Re-Learn my article writing speed.

And maybe set up some adsense sites.

Not to mention I'd love to take a try into the offline field of consulting, I just need to learn how to make businesses better before jumping into that.

I've got 365 days, I think its enough time, maybe.

I'm going to be spending the first part of the year building an authority site in a niche I'm interested in. Once it's up and running I should be able to manage the site with a few hours of work each week.

Well I'm hoping to start a blog, and start building good products in other niches. But main main BIGGEST goal of 2010, is to build better relationships with as many cool people as I can.

Build 3 membership sites ( not IM related)
Build additional affiliate product niche sites ( not IM related)
Create products to give away and upsell to my membership site members ( not IM related)
Focus on 1 major offline project


John, if you have the Dallas get together, don't forget the booze.

I've always had an interest and a desire to create a membership site. I've been putting it off for awhile now but I'm ready to dive in. That's my first project for 2010, started working on it today so I'm off to a good start.

I'm also going to continue pumping out products geared at both IM niches and non IM niches.

Pretty much exactly what this guy said.

I am in the process of building an incentive site. It's going to be ball busting getting traffic because it impossible to rank highly with the actual site in the serps. I was thinking along the lines of tons of outsourced articles and banner ads ppv. Also some offline promotion. hope it works out

Basically, my 2010 is finding a model that not only works, but will keep working for years to come. I've been trying to make money online for two years, and while I've had success I can't say that I don't need a job.

build a new website

I'm going to place this thread in my list of subscribed threads. This time next year, I'm going to bump the thread back up and see if all of us accomplished what we stated.



Much success with your IM business in 2010 and beyond.


Ron.

Hey John, I'd like to make a suggestion to just have a beer truck standing by to keep the cooler replenished. BTW a good place to hold this may be the new Hilton at the Harbor in Rockwall. I'm sure they have a large enough ballroom. Plenty of other hotels right off I30 if some dont want the expense of the Hilton. Do it when its warm and you got all the entertainment you need with the boats, babes and beer as well as several excellent restaurants right there on the water. Maybe even lease out Seawolf for the day. It will hold 100 peeps or better.

Hang on while i go get another Beer..............OK I'm back.

Have you been to Kevin Wilke's monthly entrepreneur meetings here in Dallas?

What am I getting into in 2010?
My first non IM membership site.
My first ebook
My first list.
Making my first real money online.

Get this warroir meeting together let me know. I'll be there.

I've been studying up on SEO for the past year or so and running through a bunch of virtual projects and studying any road blocks before running into them but ultimatley this year is a year for action. I think I finally have my blueprint laid out.

My goal is to ultimately have 100 niche websites cranking out $5 per day using a mixture of Adsense ads and affiliate marketing as my revenue.

Total overview would be to have 100 sites running on auto-pilot for a month at a time or so before they need to be touched and then selling them off for profit as they begin to tail off in traffic and renew them with a fresh site to restart the process.

Definetly thinking about going into the Online Gaming industry. I see a lot of cash on this.

I also want to create and be the GURU of Internet Marketing back in my own country. Because there is no GURU there right now.. anyways.

Making $200k at least. And even making more money.. if possible..

I did my first "membership site" last month. And this morning, precisely 31 days later, I discover it's been compromised and there's a bunch of unauthorised access. Lesson number one of a membership site.

So here's my big goal list for 2010.

1. Build a list. I want a five figure list by the end of 2010, and I want near-100% open rates on my emails. I want every single person on that list to go "OMG, it's an email from Caliban, I have to read it NOW."

2. Launch a physical product. The big kind. The kind that goes THUMP on your doorstep. The kind with DVDs that you stick in a DVD player, and CDs you stick in a stereo, and real books made with real paper you hold in your hand.

3. One million video hits on YouTube. Not necessarily on the same video, but ideally, yeah - one video, one million hits.

There's no income goal, because... well, seriously, people, I've lived in my car doing this stuff. If it was about the money, I'd have given up and gone back to work in the tech industry. I think if I just concentrate on these goals, the income will take care of itself. Honestly, it's not about the money anymore.

I've got quite a bit planned for new year. After spending the past 2 years mostly reading and analyzing i'm determined to earn a sustainable income,as automated as possible.
I've only made abot $100 online ever,through article writing. 2010 i'm kicking this up a notch or 10.

short term goals:
*possibly start a blog install service. -hopefully that brings in enough cash so i can get the laptop upgraded asap.
*blog flipping-I have some domains i've been trying to sell. Wanted to try my hand at flipping for awhile now. So i'll get them up an flip them.

Other:
*Using the blog anniliation method,build a 2 lists of 5000 members in 2 different niches.(spread risk)
*launch several info products in the 2 niches
*Launch 2 membership sites initially.
*create a complete product funnel for both niches/lists

*automate as much as possible
*Earn at least $15,000 by end of jan 2010.

By mid 2010 i want to be earning 5 or 6 figures. At least enough to get rid of my debt,have at least 20k in bank as savings and enough to build a house.

Perhaps,if i'm earning enough online..start a herb farm.

I currently have 1 membership program that does pretty well (full time income at least) and several physical products (books).

My main goal for 2010 is to put out more and better free content, because that is the main driver for my income.

I'll get into advertising heavily because at just about 100 unique visitors per day I'm doing pretty well financially. I think if I could increase that 10x I'd be doing REALLY well. Like the posters above I'm just a bit gun shy about ppc.

The main thing I'd like to do though is get to the point where I'm not selling anything. I'd like all of my money to come from advertising so that I can give all of my digital content away (because it's going to be harder and harder to protect it anyway, and I see MUCH higher conversion rates on physical products).

Video, video, video. Adding video to my reviews, quick videocasts with weight loss tips, and more structured videos. See where that takes me... I already have a good foundation going, so I'm adding more to it and building it up.

Suzanne

I want to be a top marketer in the 'make money online' niche.

I'm immensely proud of my achievements in other niche markets and but I want to crack this 'make money online' niche.

Why?

Because I do genuinely enjoy helping people and trying to solve their problems. I worked for years in retail, hospitality and during my early twenties in IT Support.

I've always helped people.

Now it's time to marshall more of my energies into helping people make a living online and take control and responsibility of their own destinies.

Any similar minded marketers want to JV with me on this rollercoaster then let me know.

It's gonna be fun.

Garry.

Offline: We'll be focused on bigger and stronger customers, and of course upselling to previous ones. We have some serious work scheduled for a big event (web/graphic/print) but we want to grab at least 3-5 new events for 2010.

Online: Another membership site to launch soon (non-IM) and the usual stuff: domain flippin, adsense sites, CPA sites, IM coaching (locally)... And the first IM seminar of my own before summer, maybe June 2010.

Oh and I will help my brother in law with MinisiteBox, he's going to take care of it next year - I simply don't have time for it. He's a very talented designer and I know he's going to take good care of you

Bottom Line: If we reach June 2010 with 2-3 new events in our schedule and the new membership site going 90%, I'll be a happy man.

2010 is my product creation yeah. I'm dividing my 2010 goals into two. For the first half of 2010 I will release 3 information products, two will be WSO.

I will stay focus on getting these goals accomplished and not get distracted.

List building will be the big focus of 2010 for me, and after getting my micro niche sites on autopilot, choosing a mega niche and gradually building an authority site.

Offline SEO will also be a major push for me, its proving to be very lucrative!

Going to launch our first product 1st Jan 2010
cant wait been 4 months in the making
just finishing off the final touches

fingers crossed

Zeus66 - great end of the year question!

1.) Writing a novel on a blog (see link).
2.) Working a ton more on my "Mega-Niche" review site
3.) Getting back to work on my simple-ology like stand alone version of goal setting software (ironically) called Achieve-Master.

I guess that is enough to keep me busy!

-DTM

I have some websites up but not making any money. I am in about 7 CPA companies. I want to get focused and make some real money on the internet without going broke myself.

This year I am going
1) Learn and master Copywriting
2) Post daily on my blog
3) Bring out 4 ebooks
4) Rennovate a poorly performing membership site

In comparison to previous years, I have planned well this time. 2010 is going to be big.

Planning to get into site flipping and to conquer media buys with cpa offers.

In 2010, I would enhance even more our service with VA Writer Staffing. I'll carefully consider suggestions and try to implement them for better service.

Earning $100+/day so that I can finally outsource the boring stuff and have money for the fun stuff - buying wso - (with online earned money) and then re-invest to get to $500/day on autopilot by the end of 2010. If I get to 100/day on autopilot then 500/day should be very achievable.

Selling higher priced info-products and being a little more selective about the type of customers I want to attract.

Boy am I glad you didn't ask about what my new years resolution was going to be. I hate that phrase "new years resolution" because most of the time they are never kept and you set yourself up for failure.

Now goal or plans is much better. I "plan" on doing the same thing I did in 2009 and find a niche that works for me and make affiliate marketing successful for me and my family.

Really decide to go full blast into IM.

I've been dabbling with IM for the year and haven't really gotten right into it. I guess I really need to stop analyzing and just go for it.

I seem to loose focus and second guessing myself. Maybe it's information overload? Someone says this and another say something different. I plan to close my mind go for what I've learned so far. Then I'll know If I can hit my target and if not tweak or change my model. Got a couple of biz models I want to try out.

Wish me luck guys :-)

I've had a few, or seven, beers and just got in. Hopefully this makes sense - if not I'll fix it sometime. :-)

I'd say about 50% of all replies here talk about wanting to get into CPA. When most people say CPA they mean one thing: re-bills. That's where the big money is made and that's where 80% of most networks income comes from.

Here's the deal. Re-bills are getting bad, they're getting sketchy, they're becoming more "unethical" and are going way over the top. The gravy train doesn't last forever, and no one wishes it would keep on chugging more then I do, but let's be real here.

Something that hasn't been talked about is what's going on behind the scenes. Many, many, many big advertisers had their merchant accounts solely through Wells Fargo. It got to a point where the complaints and customer service beat the profit so Wells got out - this, just a few days ago, made 30% of re-bills in most major networks go down.

Advertisers can move over to other banks, true. But this isn't the biggest problem.

Visa and Mastercard are working with government officials to deal with this whole re-bill thing. In a society where the free market is no longer chariest people go running to the government when times are tough, or when they get a bruise.

It is what it is and new rules will be set in place. Rules that could kill re-bills - rules that will make things a lot harder.

Due to this whole Wells Fargo thing networks are cluing in that maybe they need to screen their advertisers more. But we all know start up networks won't have the same morals and those still wanting to push the stuff that gets the highest payouts will.

Let me be very clear. No more Visa and Mastercard, no more re-bills. End of story.

These companies are all about the bottom line. Things are getting close to not making them a cost-effective profit - if this keeps up we all better hope for the best.

...In a recent address the government talked about where the real problem is: publishers. Which is total bullshi.t but whatever no one expects any government, that pays people 100,000 a year, to understand something that makes many individuals that a day.

You are a publisher. You are an affiliate. You push re-bills you, in there mind, are just as liable as the advertiser and the network. In fact you are more liable.

People need to start treating this more like a business. If you can't then please go back to e-books where you are safer because in the end you may end up like that guy who pushed bizops and didn't make a damn sale but since he used Google in his landing page got sued for $50,000 along with 400 other "joe's".

You sure as hell better have clear, visible, TOS on your site at the very least. I recently talked with a major advertiser and we both agreed on one thing and that is that we are collectively worried about the space in which we are in.

We are worried that Visa and Mastercard one day will say enough. Will their be workarounds? Yes. But will they be worth it? It`s truly hard to say.

This post was not meant to scare anybody off of CPA. I just want people to start thinking more about the big picture, about what is really happening in the space. Too often I see people here walking blind without a cane.

As for me I am diversifying out of CPA, while still expanding my CPA sites aggressively, to Clickbank.

Big things will happen there in 2010. :-)

Zach

P.S - Remember that CPA is just a way to monetize. It seems like I write a PM a day about this. Get traffic and then decide how you want to make money from that traffic!

Im finishing my E-book, and start study IM...

To everyone got 2010....

I want to learn as much as I can about the Internet Marketing and start making some serious money. I have learned about blogging and traffic and SEO. Now I feel that I am ready to learn how to make money with this. I hope that this year is going to be very exciting and look forward to learning.

Affiliate marketing seems easier to do. Althought the idea of waiting too much to get my hands on the money don't please me very much.

I'm also interested in checking out some other markets like Brazil, China and India.