Jan
31

I’m Back !!….… Action Plan for 2010… [Belated New Year’s Resolution 2010]

By Richard Hill

OOppps….Well…. It’s been just crazy busy here since I last made a post way back in August, how time flies, every week intending to blog about what I’m up to…. This will change as of NOW… I’m back !!

The past 4 months have been taken up with so many projects that I’m involved with mainly away from the IM. Most my time in taken up running several ecommerce sites in the UK, so the run up to xmas is always a vital part of the year. However this year I came to the realisation that it’s time for me to change the business model completely over the next few months and move away from having a warehouse full of stock and focus more on drop shipping the lines that are profitable and moving away from the lower margin products. (For far too many years now.. all my cash has been tied up in a warehouse with stock….no more!!) Leaving much more time to focus on my new search marketing business, and of course my Internet Marketing business.

When I first set this blog up I posted about my targets, moving forward my focus will be very much to continue to focus on my initial target of $500 a day passive income from affiliate commissions… although I may not have been very active on my blog I have still been promoting various products and building several niche sites generating a small but more importantly regular income and list.

Here goes….

Action plan for 2010

Business Goals

Establish my Search Marketing Company into a 6 figure business by 30th April.

Switch from 80% ecommerce & 20% IM/Consulting to 80% IM/consulting & 20% ecommerce

To rank this site on page 1 Google for many key terms, including my name “Richard Hill”.

Move from my current warehouse based ecommerce premises into a solely office based environment. (NO Warehouse and NO stock)

Network more, building long term relationships for future JV opportunities.
(Need to switch my Skype on more!!!!)

Build my list of subscribers from its current 1082 to 10,000, initially focussing on Adswaps and SEO.

To blog at least twice a month (Minimum), adding real value and sharing good quality content to my readers.. I’ve been far to lazy here !!!!!!!!!

Be earning $500 a day as per my original post by August 2010 and by the end of the year $25,000 per month from a combination of affiliate commissions and consulting work.

Entrepreneurial Goals

Host a series of search engine marketing seminars for local business.

Attend at least 4 seminar/events.

Say “yes” more to opportunities and stop being “afraid” of what might happen… just do it!

Personal Goals

To be in a position to work only 4 days a week.

Single handicap at golf… any one fancy a game ?? Get in touch.

Lose some weight, official weight on the Wii fit on new years day 17st 3lb.. Holy crap !!!!… Target weight 15st. 8lb. (This will be the hardest of all of the above.. but I have a plan.. starts with just signing up for the Lincoln 10k run… which is in 7 weeks.. went out running for the first time in years a couple of days ago… did just over ½ a mile and thought my lungs were going to explode !!!!)

My goals are much the same as they were 6 months ago when I started this blog, although my mind is much clearer on how I’m going to achieve many of them and the majority of “excuses” I’ve had over the last few months for not focussing on my IM/Consulting work are finally being ironed out.

Get in touch and by all means leave me comment, love to hear from you all.

Categories : My plans

Comments

  1. Hi Richard,

    Welcome back to the blogging world!

    It’s been a slow start to 2010 for me too, but have more or less put a plan together now. I need to do something differently to I have been as although I’ve been building a list, I haven’t been earning much.

    Daniel and James have an event in London on 13th which should be good, and of course the week after is Lee’s in Newcastle.

    Hope to see you at an event soon!

    Thanks

    Keith
    Keith Purkiss´s last blog ..Build Your List With JV Giveaways or With Twitter My ComLuv Profile

  2. Hey Richard!

    Welcome back to the blogosphere!!! I know all too well what it can be like when you’re involved in several projects… But it feels good to get back to your blog doesn’t it?!

    A great post, with some great targets – and has got me thinking about posting a list of my targets for the year too. It makes us more accountable to ourselves doing so I think.

    Good luck with your aims too… I look forward to reading more posts!

    Iain. :-)
    Iain Buchanan´s last blog ..Daily Tasks to Internet Marketing Success & Giveaways! My ComLuv Profile

  3. David Walker says:

    Hey Rich,

    Nice to see an update from you at long last!

    You are doing the right thing moving away from the stock model. Having spoken to other people who left that type of business they all came to the same conclusion that it was more hassle than it was worth!

    I look forward to seeing you smash those goals this year!

    David
    David Walker´s last blog ..The Importance of Transparency in Your Business My ComLuv Profile

  4. Richard Hill says:

    Keith,

    Thanks buddy.. good to be back at this. Your list building was on fire when we last spoke and did our adswap, we should do another one very soon. Liked your idea of a product centered round amazon, very good idea !!!

    Event wise im going to the SES 2010 in London next week, can’t make Lee’s event and need to look at Daniel and James’s…. might go to that if i can get a pass out !!!

    Speak soon

    Richard

  5. Richard Hill says:

    Iain,

    Thanks for stopping by, it feels good to get the targets “out there” and finally bebale to commit some time to the whole IM.

    You should get your targets up… looking at your blog seems your in a similiar situation i’ve been in in terms of tied to work that you really want to move away from and focus on the IM.

    Keep in touch.

    Richard

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