Goals Drive Results

The old saying goes: "If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive?".

Over the last eight days I have been looking at all my business ventures and reviewing the past year and adjusting my goals for 2012 accordingly. Some of my goals were achieved to easily so this year they are stretched. Some were too stretched but I made some progress and these have been pegged down to a more realistic level. Not surprisingly some just failed to get off the ground for various reasons.

I track my goals monthly in Excel and that gives me a time for reflection and a mini review every month.

I put my success in life down to setting goals which I have done consistently all my adult life and achieving a good number of them. As well as business goals I also have personal, educational and family goals. I am a great believer in having a healthy work-life balance but as a Type A personality I have to work hard on this...

Have a great day and may you reach your goals in 2012.

Grant aka drkelp


DK

Dr Kelps Programs that Pay

Safelists my new experiment

I have been using Traffic Exchanges for many years now and have had great success with them. I am now branching out to try safelists. The ones I have had great results from to date are ListSurfing and WebBizInsider. But today I upgraded to a life membership on Stefan Bergs The Lead Magnet. I have got some solid response rates as a free member and the time was right to upgrade. I will update on progress here.

Another newbie - really two are SolomaticAds and Solomatic Traffic both owned by a friend of mine. Go to http://drkelp.co.uk to get the links.

The Lead Magnet can be found here: http://theleadmagnet.com/index.php?r=drkelp

I would be interested to know what programs others have had success with.

DK

Dr Kelps Programs that Pay

Help the Newbies

Do you remember your first tentative steps into online business? I do, it was scary and exciting at the same time. I was very lucky to have some excellent mentors at that time, who patiently answered my emails and queries and provided the way for me to succeed. They didn't try to sell up to me but they really helped and over the years I have spent thousands of dollars with them based upon the relationship they nurtured with me.

I had 2 people this week who asked me some questions and I replied, encouraged them remembering my first foray into this area.

So be kind to newbies, they may become your best clients over time. In fact the fact that they contact you or reply to your welcome emails is a very positive sign that they will end up in the 10% of your team who will contribute.

Hang in there.

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Brand yourself

Sound's painful doesn't it! But I am talking here of using the best brand you have, which is a photo of your face. When advertising online you need to make your pages stand out. It has been demonstrated that the first thing the eye is drawn to on a web page is a photo of a face. Many websites have great graphics and content but nothing that distinguishes it from the other million pages out there advertising the same thing into the same market.

Did you know that your face is unique? It does not need to be pretty or handsome (for proof of that look at my photo on this blog!)just yours.

So if you want to get a better response to your webpages include a photo of yourself and play on your unique brand, your face.

DK

Traffic Exchanges for Free Advertising

Traffic exchanges are programs that allow you to view other people sites in exchange for visits to your own sites. The ratios change between programs but are usually in the ratio of view 2 and get one view of your site. The good thing is that Traffic exchanges are free and allow you to build a net profile. If you upgrade then you will be able to get a 1:1 ratio which gets your pages seen more often.

I have found that StartXchange, EasyHits4U, WebBizInsider and Lords-of-Traffic have been the top performers.

Click here to go to my program recommendations and signup referrals.

May your business prosper

DK