Goal setting & resources
I'm setting some goals today but before I write about that I want to tell you about the Mozilla browser.
If you don't already have this browser you should check it out. That's because it includes live bookmarks which remove the need for a news reader.
The browser lets you add an RSS feed to your bookmarks (favorites) and whenever you click the bookmarks menu and hover over any of the feeds it shows you all the items within that feed.
So for example if you surf to this page from within the Mozilla browser at the bottom of the screen in the status bar you will see an RSS logo. Click that and confirm you want to add the bookmark & then instead of checking on this site each day you can click on bookmarks and see the title of the latest & all recent posts, so you'll know whether to click through to the page or not.
You can get the browser here http://www.mozilla.org/
So I've been revisiting my goals, not because I want to change them but because I need to put some clear metrics on them. I don't know why I hadn't done this previosly because when I lived in the corporate world there were always measures on all objectives.
What I'd forgotten temporarily is that if you don't have measures alomg the way you may think things are going bad when in fact they are right on target.
This came flooding back to me this weekend. On Friday I was a bit disappointed with recent progress but over the weekend I realised that I had achieved a lot recently just that it hadn't converted into pounds and pence yet.
I now have goals for number of hits & unique visitors for each site, number of mailing list members, number of affiliates as well as income goals for Adsense, affiliate programs & of course sales.
I will now update a spreadsheet weekly that will show me graphs for everything so I can see that things are progressing.
Perfect
If you don't already have this browser you should check it out. That's because it includes live bookmarks which remove the need for a news reader.
The browser lets you add an RSS feed to your bookmarks (favorites) and whenever you click the bookmarks menu and hover over any of the feeds it shows you all the items within that feed.
So for example if you surf to this page from within the Mozilla browser at the bottom of the screen in the status bar you will see an RSS logo. Click that and confirm you want to add the bookmark & then instead of checking on this site each day you can click on bookmarks and see the title of the latest & all recent posts, so you'll know whether to click through to the page or not.
You can get the browser here http://www.mozilla.org/
So I've been revisiting my goals, not because I want to change them but because I need to put some clear metrics on them. I don't know why I hadn't done this previosly because when I lived in the corporate world there were always measures on all objectives.
What I'd forgotten temporarily is that if you don't have measures alomg the way you may think things are going bad when in fact they are right on target.
This came flooding back to me this weekend. On Friday I was a bit disappointed with recent progress but over the weekend I realised that I had achieved a lot recently just that it hadn't converted into pounds and pence yet.
I now have goals for number of hits & unique visitors for each site, number of mailing list members, number of affiliates as well as income goals for Adsense, affiliate programs & of course sales.
I will now update a spreadsheet weekly that will show me graphs for everything so I can see that things are progressing.
Perfect
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