I can honestly say I had a great 2009. We took two decent vacations and over a dozen mini vacations. I enjoyed the Oregon coast, Disneyland twice, Knottsberry farm, Great America, Fisherman’s Wharf, Pier 39, Enchanted Forrest, Oregon Zoo, OMSI and various other interesting places and things to do. Even coming out of the year with year round passes to Disneyland that will probably save us several hundred dollars in 2010.
Not bad for a freelancing poor web guy. Now is the time where I stop looking back on all this awesomeness just long enough to set my goals for 2010. Life has to have goals and challenge or I just wouldn’t feel alive. Now I scream my life’s ambitions into the storm of the coming year…and all that philosophical garbage.
I did good in 2009 as a freelancer. In 2010 I will do good as an internet marketer. I made a couple thousand dollars in 2009 as an affiliate marketer. I will make a year’s wages in a single month at least once in 2010. I took at least one trip every month through spring and summer of 2009. I will take vacations in 2010 that I haven’t even dreamed up.
I’ll put those in my list of broad goals. Specific goals would be…
- six figure profit in PPC
- learn media buys
- build 20 niche ecommerce sites
- build a real blog the right way
- quit freelancing and go full time IM
Some of the list is actually pretty easy. Building the niche sites and blog is just a matter of doing it. PPC and media buys will take care of the full time IM thing as well. They could also cover all of my broad goals. So this huge list of goals could be conquered by mastering PPC and using it to build a budget large enough to master media buys. Doesn’t sound too bad eh?
To your success,
adam
Adam,
Saw your post on cashtactics today. Say, I’m a PHP and WordPress freelancer doing what you do, as well. I live and work near Myrtle Beach out of my home. I’m 42. About 2 years ago I got fed up with the lack of income in a regular Info Tech job and quit to make more money from home. I have consistently made more income doing that than I have earned in an Info Tech job.
However, I have sat on the sidelines for 2 years watching IM and not really getting involved enough with it. I couldn’t, really. I mean — I had too many people using me for freelancing. Just now, even, I have 2 requests in my inbox and when I get a break I’ll tend to them. I get this all the time. But when I did do some IM work, I failed at Clickbank and got really discouraged. So, if you ever pull out of freelancing and into successful IM, you don’t have to tell me your niches or core secrets, but would love to hear some kind of hint that could help guide me on a successful path. Heck, even earning the $2000 like you said you earned would be a surprise to me. And I want to remain whitehat if I can.
I had a friend tell me recently he made $150K for 4 years spent on nothing but a forum in a web niche, getting paid on ad revenues alone. So, it’s really made me rethink what the heck I’m doing. I mean, that was just one single domain. Imagine if he had brought up 8 or 25 of those?
I know what you mean on the freelancing time thing. I’m really going to try hard to make time for learning IM this year.
I tried the clickbank thing and failed too pretty much epically. We actually have a few sites as well but I never could put in the time they needed to grow. Pretty much spent all the time making other people’s sites.
I’ll probably move this blog to it’s own domain in the next 1 or 2 months. After that I hope to document my steps to full time internet marketing and maybe be helpful to other people trying to figure it out.
Hopefully, we’ll both find some solid success this year.