2007 and my Goals

2007 is approaching fast and I have been thinking about setting some goals, it is something I am quite used to as I use the technique to drive me on in other areas of my life. So here are a few of the things I intend to strive for through 2007 and beyond.

• To be making £1500 a month from my online activites by May 07: NET
• To be up and running with my finance site by mid February
• To finish Mad4Sport and make it a true price comparison site rather than a site which simply has several of the same products but no true comparison of them.
• To have a site that I am totally happy with!
• To start and maintain a resource site, something that until now my portfolio seriously lacks
• To live life a bit more, currently I work some days for 18 hours, I must find time to relax a bit more or life might just pass me by
• By the end of 2007 my goal is to be making at least £4000 a month profit

Well thats the bulk of it, mostly work or money orientated as one might expect for someone starting out on the road to fame and fortune, but I fully expect to achieve at least 90% of them. The biggest challenge I think is to cram it all in, I have entered myself into a competition regarding affiliate marketing and you can follow the progress of all the competitors here we have agreed to document our progress (successes and failures) throughout the 6 month trial, so hopefully everyone should be able to learn from the experiment. On top of that I have the above goals to work towards, a family to support, another offline business to run and God only gave us 7 days a week and 24 hours a day!

1and1 domains
I have for the last 3 and a half weeks had to phone 1and1 about this domain not propogating properly almost every single day, today however was the last straw and I asked for the complaints department and the procedure to request compensation, OMG not 12 hours later I can suddenly access my domain, now either that is spooky coincidence or they got their finger out and finally did something (I know it takes upto 72 hours to fully propogate but this was purely a problem there end with settings as it was never showing the same DNS settings after a refresh - very strange indeed). So heres my take on this, if you want support that is routed via a country that is hundreds or thousands of miles away, that when you get through cannot help you more than to say “Sorry Sir that is in the hands of our domain department, there is no further information I can give you” - Some support team, and you don’t want to be able to use the domain names you have purchased for say 1/24th of the contract term, then 1and1 are for you! I guess you gets what you pays for.

Have a Fantastic Christmas, a prosperous New Year and lets make some money in 2007! (I will probably post again but this is just incase I cannot access my domain again until January).

Mark.