Jeremy JohnsonHigher Learning For Success

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UPDATE: Many of these goals have already changed and such is the nature of adapting. I look forward to sharing with you the big changes when the time comes.

I wrote an article about a few of my goals when I first launched my website. It’s been a couple weeks since I started working regularly on it and it’s time to show the power of my first set of goals! So far, I have completely achieved 4/5 of them. The one I have not achieved is guest posting – but I know where I want to guest post now and what I will write about.

This is a series of articles outlining my goals for making this website a useful, valuable, and heavily visited place for people to get hope, inspiration, learn, grow, and find the secrets of other people’s success.

Previous goals

You can read my previous article on my first set of goals here.

• Goal 1: Get that Alexa website ranking under 10 million.
  This has been achieved as the Alexa ranker on the right will testify. Is there a guarantee it will stay under 10 million? Of course not – but if I keep fueling this website, I am certain it will continue to improve. I have improved it by creating useful content, commenting on other blogs, finding related sites to get back links in, and telling those closest to me about it. I’ve really just barely started networking with people and working on traffic.
• Goal 2: Create 10 posts of valuable content before I start the launch of the website.
  I’m happy about this one. I’ve created more than 10 posts now that solve real problems with actual strategies and techniques. Now I just need to work on getting people to see them and realize their value.
• Goal 3: Guest post on 1 well known blog.
  The only goal I have not yet achieved. But I know where I want to do my guest post. I just need to think of something interesting to say and then write it and submit it to them. If they say no, that’s okay – I will try a few other blogs and if nobody accepts it still, add it to my website here. :)
• Goal 4: Create a live chat room where people can be assigned a key to join the room
  This one wasn’t so bad actually! I have a little ‘chat’ link in the top right that will let you chat in real time with other people. Guests can login without a username and password, and once logged in, changing your display name to whatever name you want is easy. There are some more customizations and rules I need to add, but I’m very happy with this.
• Goal 5: Launch the website by notifying on all my websites about it, notifying about it on Twitter and Facebook, and submitting the site to Google.
  I decided to do this without the guest post. I’m using Twitter and Facebook now for my website and put links on my other websites to here. The site is officially launched!

New set of goals

First and foremost, I must continue on with some of my first set of goals! I must create useful content and continue to network more and more. But there are new things I can do now. Now that I have achieved most of the previous simple goals, I can add another small layer!

• Continue to add useful content that will help people in their lives.
  Strategy: Limit posting to 2-3 times a week. The reason is that I need to spend time researching more about what people want to know and the major problems they are having. Starting March 1st, I will only do 2-3 posts a week so that they are more valuable and well thought out. They are good now, but I can always do better.
• Grow my networking of websites and commenting to 20 websites. Make a list as a post and put it on this website.
  Strategy: Use Google, other blogs, and Alexa to find what sites I should comment and post on. Create an article that shows this list to the world (and so I can keep track of all of them, LOL).
• Do a complete site evaluation every weekend to see if it is going in the right direction.
  Every Sunday, simply examine the traffic and interaction on the website. If it isn’t improving, come up with things I can do better and ask for help here on the website for what can be done. I am also reading what ‘experts’ are saying to do on other blogs.
• Do 1 guest post and no new goals until it is done.
  Strategy: Do it by the end of March, no excuses.
• Alexa ranking under 8 million.
  Strategy: Alexa is not the end all to seeing how trafficed your site is. Still it is some measure of it and the best I can think of at the moment for a concrete way to measure traffic success. I will do this by increasing my networking and adding more content. I will also add a visible way to follow me on Facebook and Twitter. Also, my next goal will also help with this I believe.
• Announce a live chat session and get at least one person to show.
  Strategy: Announce this via Facebook, Twitter, and this website here. I will have my first chat date sometime late March. It will be an open discussion centered around questions to ask me about anything.

This is a small step up from what I’ve been doing. And that’s good. I’ve got my site launched, iterated through the theme of it many times and will now spend time evaluating what the site should really be about and continuing to add useful content. I look forward to reporting to you on these goals!

The wizard wants to ask you if you have a set of goals you have not started on. Have you made your first set of simple goals? Just make a simple list like walk for five minutes a day, or eat two apples this week. Are you with me? We will do this together!