Goals for 2005

[moonshield]

It may be a bit early but goals can never be set to early nor to high :)

My goals for '05
-Release my major sites (about 10)
-become incorporated
-relase my minor sites (about 20)
-make 3k a month at least near the end of the year
-set myself up for future gains

[Nintendo]

1. End up with over 100 live domains. I'm at about 80 right now. Most new ones will be affiliate sites. Promoting leads, Reseller Rights products, and maybe a few content sites.
2. Master PPC. Newsflash: AdWords is a BIG pain when it comes to geting clicks, FindWhat is much easior to get clicks, at a much lower price.
3. Make more money than this year (About $35,000.)

[Chris]

I plan to launch more affiliate sites, but also some affiliate applications.

[AndyH]

- Make more than I did this year
- Get a team of content writers together
- Finish the HellBored portal
- Finish a site I have already begun but will not work on until the new year
- Go over one of my sites and relunch
- Work on stability for my current sites in the way of servers, specifically load balancing

[James]

- Launch my gaming site
- Launch a network I'm working on
- Launch a few AWS sites
- Relaunch my jokes site
- Make enough money to get a check in the mail, choosing between framing on the wall, or cashing in.
- Attempt to start making a top-to-bottom scrolling shooting game.
- Learn a little PHP (nothing major)
- Upgrade my computer
- Start designing logos and stuff and profiting from it.
- Learn to organize my time so I can make better use of it.

[incka]

- $500 a day profit.
- Launch all planned networks
- Get URGames to top 10,000 sites on alexa
- Expand my team of writers to 10 people
- Get an office

[Shawn]

Gamble all day, watch gameshows, and lay out at the pool.

Oh, wait -- I already do that.

[r2d2]

Gamble all day, watch gameshows, and lay out at the pool.

Oh, wait -- I already do that.

Lol :) Thats a good plan!

For me,

- $2000 a month earnings.

[MarkB]

I'd like to be earning at least $1,000 a month, but I need to be more productive to do that :) I plan on networking my niche sites, though, so that should help somewhat (or at least that's the plan).

My MAIN objective, though, is to write my community guidebook which will be available in print and e-book form. So we'll see if I manage it ;)

[Blue Cat Buxton]

-Promote 2 existing sites to top 10 in Google
-Re design and re-launch 2 sites
-Launch other 3-5 support/network sites
Result - $200 day target

[Xander]

-Finish/open the 5 sites I have been working on
-Make $1200/month

[James]

Oh man, I want to make 20 dollars a month, even. I'm starting to get pissed off at myself for not making websites for money....

[Mike]

To get two or three sites in side the top ten on google (and maybe msn's new one;)). And to consistently make $1.5k a month

[Westech]

-Make a steady $2500/month profit from content/e-commerce sites only.
-Increase the traffic on crazymonkeygames.com to at least 100x what it is currently
-Finish several partially completed sites
-Launch a small ecommerce site (if my course load permits)

[Jaffro]

- Finish my film and do loads of publicity for it, get it in books, articles etc, maybe even goto siggraph.
- Build a render-farm and rent time to stressed out students muhahah

- Get my new site in the intented search phrase
- Expand existing site into major new areas for me
- Attempt to branch out with other k/w targeting sites
- Aim to be have made $2k in one month sometime before this time next year.

[Emancipator]

Jaffro, I can help with #1 on your list :) I have a movie site with just a few visitors.. lol


- complete my gaming site 100%, just been swamped
- finish my free Horror game Age of the Dead
- increase my Movie site traffic, to double its revenue
- start and complete at least one new site.

Dont really have any financial goals since i exceeded them so far :)

[Jaffro]

Emancipator, cool :) Its only a short animation film so nothing special, i'll be sure to remember you when its finished summer of next year.

[Emancipator]

just let me know.. Horror Seasons has picked up a distributor and is playing in a whack of film festivals thanks to our free promotion. If I can do the same for you, then I am happy to :) Sorry to get our thread off topic.

[topcat]

1. Improve my php / mysql skills.
1. Create 5 big sites and 10 smaller content only ones, (since sept I've only done 2 small ones).
1. Get my own internet connection. (presently, I only have a work pc that wont let me upload).
1. Organise my time better to allow more space for writing.

All listed as no.1. as should have already done em this year really....

I'm aiming for $2500 / month. yeah right :D ....worth a go though.

[MarkB]

Better to aim high and fail, than to aim for nothing and succeed ;)

[Emancipator]

Amen to that Mark, and you get plenty of encouragement along the way :) I use westech as my personal sounding board on all my goals/ideas.. Wonder why he keeps laughing at me? j/k

[SWD]

make 10k monthly.

shouldn't take me long after some of my new projects catch up

[Emancipator]

nice swd..

[James]

So, how do you guys earn enough profit to justify the prices I'm seeing in these goals?

[moonshield]

maybe by having sites that people actually use? Thats a goal of mine, actually to create a useful site.

[Emancipator]

poorman that is still my goal. has and always will be #1.

[Mike]

Well in the last few weeks I've seemed to do more coding for other people than ever, so next year I will try to use the money I'm earning now to pump back into my sites.

Last year I was just churning out sites to make money, not bothering about users. This year I'm thinking differently. I'm aiming to make my sites the best site in that category. Sure, I probably won't do it for some sites as they are in a competitive market, but I will increase my traffic as each site will have more features etc and will be more than say a normal AWS or Wikipedia site.

In the last month or so I've bought four sites (well, three if you exclude a domain). These, combined with my current sites, could easily make me $200 a day if I work hard, very hard. I've regretted 2004 sooo much. I've wasted it. There's just been too many days where I can't be bothered, and now I've realised after talking to other people that you have to get your skates on in this business, as soon there aren't going to be as many opportunities. Until I’m making a couple of hundred a day I won’t be happy.

[MarkB]

Ditto to Mike.

[incka]

Mike is good at coding if anyone wants a reliable coder (and trust me, RELIABLE coders are few and far between, most work for a day then a month later complete your script...)

[MarkB]

No - only ones who you pay crap money to do ;)

:D