Dang. Sometimes it’s tough to know where you want to go. Having just come off a stellar month (for me), I’m uncertain just where to set a goal now. What’s realistic? I think the $500 a month should be realistic, right? But I’m going to need to make a few changes to make it happen. So I guess to get to that as a goal, I need a few mini-goals.
More lenses - 200 is the next mark and I’d like to be there by the end of the year. I currently have 160, including my group and all my WIP. So that’s a doable goal as long as I don’t get sidetracked doing research. 
Use all my affiliates - I have a lot of affiliate programs I got accepted into that I only use one or two products from. This is not fair to either of us. Need to use them to develop more lens ideas and get more lenses that have selling potential. Either that or ditch them.
Think shorter!! - I tend to do a shop lens that is meant to be a one stop shop for some category. And I do that well with items from lots of different stores, so it truly is a one stop trip. But I need to test my theory that I might do just as well creating a lens that sends them on to the store where they can do the shopping rather than trying to put every item on the lens. This is becoming highly inefficient in terms of my return.
Get organized - I want to plan for doing market research for a set period of time every week, then spend the rest of the week working on lenses based on what I find. I love reseearch, so I do find that it can distract me from my regular work as well as from actually making a lens. Spend too much time looking for the exact right phrase and never get around to working on it. (If I could do shorter, spend less time overall with the research and the creation, my ROI would be much higher overall. Duh!)
November 5th, 2008 at 6:02 am
It’s amazing how easy we find it to look at a big long term goal. But it is then breaking it down into manageable chunks so we can get there!