Goals for May 2017

[The Engineer]

We made it. We're past the hump.

The post-holiday lull, the tax deadline, the rainy and dreary season... it's all coming to an end. The sun's out, the days are longer and warmer, people are feeling good, and that means one thing... increased spending.

Many would-be internet ballers fell to the wayside since December. Instead of building, they...

• became comfortable.
• took a day job.
• focused on freelancing instead.
• concentrated on spam.
• and on and on and on.

There's nothing wrong with any of the above when the time is right, but what they can never replace and edge out is growing an actual business. They only delay getting started or reaching the goal. If you're managing all of that alongside growing your own wealth vehicle, great, because that is the one activity that must continue, no matter what money woes, motivation woes, and distractions pop up or you ensure yourself that you will face them again and again.

And the reason is that time is of the essence. Even once you've assembled a team and system to do all of the work, that team can grow. Their processes can be optimized. There is data to be acted on.

There are a lot of philosophies about relaxing in the now because it's all we have and it could end at any moment. That's a consumer philosophy for hedonists who refuse to look past the next year.

For me, on this path, as a producer, as an apex predator, I say...

I'll relax when I'm retired.

As always, we should overlook our main 2017 goals so our monthly ones stay in alignment, we should take stock on April's goals and be accountable for our failings and successes, and then we should map out this month's goals so we have a framework on which to grow.

How will you continue to manifest the life you want for yourself and loved ones?

 

[Cash Builder]

My time will be limited this month, so I will be focusing on the things that will increase revenue.

Content
- Post two infographics that are currently being made and create articles to go with them


Marketing
- Promote two infographics
- Gain at least 10 dofollow links through outreach

Other
- Install Adsense

 

[Concept]

May primarily will be about cutting the fat and low ROI things that have been sucking my time and mental energy, freeing up space to focus on this fully.

• Lock in a solid income source
• Remove myself from my current 2 websites.
• Finish up other small paid gigs.
• 4 pillar posts (yes this is not much, however I'm estimating I won't have time for much more till the above is sorted out)
• Continue growing social following (goal is 200 on pinterest)

Being behind on my goals and have something else require my attention has been a real morale suck. By the end of May I will have freed up a lot of my time and mental energy to focus on my website once again.

 

[darkzerothree]

So I basically have two goals for May

Goal 1
Continue work on my authority site.

Goal 2
Get that water filter site (not the real topic) finished.
That will sit for a while once completed and then be sold.

 

[infotech]

Goals for MFA Site

• Earn first $
• Post atleast 20 info articles + 5 money articles. (hire new writer)
• Outreach (this time for sure)
• Improve site structure and find other ways of monetizing (other amzn affiliate and ads)
• Increase social followers and email list

 

[Pushup]

I'm going to patiently ski the baby slopes of goal setting before I graduate up to the blue diamond moguls. Just 2 goals this month:

1. Concrete stretch yourself / get shit done goal: Setup site to leak from Reddit. I have a notezilla sticky with a daily checklist set to open every day at 8pm.
2. Productivity/mindset goal: Fit every activity into time boxes. If an activity regularly exceeds its time box, try to 80/20 it, find a less time consuming way to achieve the same outcome (outsource) or drop it completely if it threatens to blow out my day.

 

[mzonas]

My goals for May, 2017:

SEO Empire:

• Add individual Amazon product review posts to my Amazon Empire - I looked at what epilators convert best, will start with these. Should get additional several hundred visitors per month.
• Build another 2 Amazon and 2 ClickBank affiliate websites
• Expand my adult network (my PBN and money sites and test out CrakRevenue, etc ...)

SEO services:

• Keep hustlin'

Personal:

• Have a good time wherever I go DJing this month (Croatia, Sweden, Lithuania and the UK)
• Sort out my travels for June (Bulgaria, Portugal, Germany, Italy, etc ...)
• Keep dancing
• Keep living to the fullest

 

[Ryuzaki]

Oh boy, I'm late this time:

Main Project:

• Go SSL
• Find a 2nd Expert for next Sub-Niche, have both writing
• Redesign Homepage
• Pump out as much content as possible <-- Main Over-Arching Focus

Quick Flip Project:

• Letting it simmer. Ranks are doing a LOT better after disavow. I'll show a graph in the thread.

JV Project:

• It's earning okay, showing real potential to explode. Getting a lot of CPC clicks on long-tails, some Pay-Per-Calls, and some Lead-Gens. Lead Gens will explode as we rank these couple of money pages. Going to spend about $500 on links to those this month and all profit month to month after that.

 

[turtle]

• Go SSL

Would be interesting to see how much Impact it has on your Site.
Discussions around this Topic kinda went flat.

 

[eliquid]

Not making new ones for the month, but I did complete some from prior.

I got pretty much all my focus on 3 projects and have been saying NO more.

Time is still thin though, so I need cut back even more it looks like. However, this has been a good exercise.

 

[Ryuzaki]

Would be interesting to see how much Impact it has on your Site.
Discussions around this Topic kinda went flat.

It's done, no negative impact so far. Went absolutely smooth minus the idiocy of an ad network. I'll let it shake out so I have actual data and make an extended post about it. I want to see that slight boost people talk about. It's the first time I've transitioned a big site over, versus doing it with smaller ones or starting that way.

I will go ahead and say that people worry about ad networks not having enough SSL-compliant inventory. Seems like it might be the other way around these days, or it's coincidence and new advertisers are being picked up with higher CPM's. We'll see, got to let it roll for a while to get a real conclusion.

 

[contract]

-$100 Million in my bank account.
- Build/pay off what takes most people 30 years to do in 1 year. (Roughly 7 months to go)

 

[built]

I know I'm a bit late to this. But by the end of May I need to:

- Complete another newbie guide
- Design and code head silo page
- Keyword research for 5 smaller articles
- Set up and implement a daily schedule

 

[GMerov]

1. Reign in me celebrating my accomplishments ... this seemingly endless euphoria is becoming a handicap. My shit got ludicrous when it became a tattoo on a celeb. Time to get pissed off all over again and up my graphic design game!
I have three long running campaigns. Love Won, Stop War, and Chess. My Stop War campaign needs to finish its short vid! Like fucking NOW!!! God damn it I have this f'n nasty habit of being chicken shit of taking the next step.

2. Stop being such a wimp and make a decision on which gallery will rep my latest work featuring my creation of colored bacon. The American flag in colored bacon and white chocolate! The baseline narrative is all about flesh ... flesh decorated for our consumer culture.

3. Complete my development of JavaScript! Looking forward to adding that third spoke to my wheel of website dev ... html, css, and now js!!!

 

[Mahjong]

1- Improving my English writing and grammar. (Not done yet)
2- Reaching $1000 a month, I started my business in English this month (Done)
3- Reaching $1500 a month, I may reach this, this month. (Close to be done)

 

[BobTheBuilder]

Trim all the notes and ideas I have taken down to ONE area I will punish.

 

[Cash Builder]

My time will be limited this month, so I will be focusing on the things that will increase revenue.

Content
- Post two infographics that are currently being made and create articles to go with them - Done


Marketing
- Promote two infographics - Done
- Gain at least 10 dofollow links through outreach - Done (18)

Other
- Install Adsense - Done

 

[Concept]

Ah May...what a crazy month. Glad you are done.

• Lock in a solid income source - Yes. But not a crazy amount. Enough to pay the bills and give me flexibility.
• Remove myself from my current 2 websites. - Not DONE. Plan in place with partner...July will hopefully see my sites for sale after 6 months of well-documented income.
• Finish up other small paid gigs. - Done
• 4 pillar posts (yes this is not much, however I'm estimating I won't have time for much more till the above is sorted out) - Will be done by Monday.
• Continue growing social following (goal is 200 on Pinterest) - Was consistent with this. Not at 200 yet.

 

[mzonas]

My summary of goals of May 2017:

SEO Empire:

• Add individual Amazon product review posts to my Amazon Empire - I looked at what epilators convert best, will start with these. Should get additional several hundred visitors per month. - DONE
• Build another 2 Amazon and 2 ClickBank affiliate websites - FAIL
  
• Expand my adult network (my PBN and money sites and test out CrakRevenue, etc ...) - IN-PROGRESS

SEO services:

• Keep hustlin' - DONE

Personal:

• Have a good time wherever I go DJing this month (Croatia, Sweden, Lithuania and the UK) - DONE (went to Croatia and Hull (UK), closed a few more DJing gigs for 2017 and 2018)
  
• Sort out my travels for June (Bulgaria, Portugal, Germany, Italy, etc ...) - DONE
  
• Keep dancing - DONE
  
• Keep living to the fullest - DONE

So, May was a good month.

 

[infotech]

Goals for MFA Site

• Earn first $ [Done]
  
• Post atleast 20 info articles + 5 money articles. (hire new writer) [Fail only 12]
  
• Outreach (this time for sure) [Did but no go]
  
• Improve site structure and find other ways of monetizing (other amzn affiliate and ads) [WIP]
  
• Increase social followers and email list [WIP]

 

[Ryuzaki]

Recap:

Main Project:

• Go SSL - DONE
• Find a 2nd Expert for next Sub-Niche, have both writing - DONE
• Redesign Homepage - DONE
• Pump out as much content as possible <-- Main Over-Arching Focus - DOING

JV Project:

• It's earning okay, showing real potential to explode. Getting a lot of CPC clicks on long-tails, some Pay-Per-Calls, and some Lead-Gens. Lead Gens will explode as we rank these couple of money pages. Going to spend about $500 on links to those this month and all profit month to month after that. - SPENT $600

_____________________

I'm really glad we're doing these threads. I was actually feeling low about how much I was getting done last month, but even looking back at this cursory goal list, I feel better already. I got some big stuff done, more than listed here. I'm now excited for June. Total destruction imminent!

 

[Pushup]

Site setup [yes] leaking from Reddit [nope], time boxing [started]
My resolve needs a serious tuneup. I need to be taking this more seriously.