Web Business Goals for the Month – May 2007

Posted on May 9, 2007. Filed under: Business, Entrepreneur, Planning, Startup |

I’ve always been a planner type of person (sometimes even using planning as a way to procrastinate doing other things that needed to get done) so I wanted to share my monthly goals for this month.

I’ve got a couple of reasons for sharing this with people. I think sharing this list will help keep me motivated to do these tasks, but also, there are a few project ideas here that I’d like to let people know about.

May 2007 Goals

QuickButler – serve 3 users
I was disappointed with the usage of QuickButler in April and I’d like to change tactics with it. I concentrated on the web side of things and I’d like to refocus on engaging with live people to get their feedback. I want to provide the QuickButler service to individual people this month instead of trying to make it work for everyone at the same time. I still want to use the web as a communication medium but I’d like to build traffic by going out and talking to real people initially.

If you are interested in freely participating in QuickButler to find a travel deal for you, let me know or leave a comment.

I’ll be writing more about QuickButler in future posts, but in a nutshell – the idea is that you can have automated “butlers” collect information from around the web and serve it to you. The first QuickButler application I started is finding the best travel deals from around the web.

List Site – create a site of useful lists
Create a List Site of useful resources on the web, compiled in one place
Why? This is an idea that I’ve been thinking about over the last couple of weeks and I’m curious to see how it could pan out.
RSS – acquire 20 subscribers to gomisha blog
If you’d like to follow along in my journey, consider subscribing to my feed.
Hits – generate 300 hits on gomisha blog
This will require creating useful content that people will find through search engines. It will also require reaching out to other bloggers and making connections with people – which is in line with my business and life goals.
SBI (sitesell.com) – cancel membership, if needed- Review their offering
- Decide whether to cancel membership
- Cancel membership and get refund if decide to go through with it
I purchased an annual subscription to this online marketing service but have been disappointed with their offering. I haven’t used it for a couple of months and have a site up but I’d like to re-examine their offering again and see if it’s worthwhile to continue or pull the plug on it.
SEB – create business networking siteLast year I completed a special government program called SEB (Self Employment Benefits program) that helps entrepreneurs with funding, coaching and workshops. I recently joined a group of SEB alumni to start a SEB alumni networking group. I’m one of the committee members and I’ve accepted responsibility to put together a web site for the group. Nothing fancy, but just a place where we can post event info and engage with our future members. I figured this would be another way to learn more about web marketing and another opportunity to establish a web presence.
blog – start a business blogI’d like to document my experiences as I go on my journey of building my dream business. There are many reasons why I want to do this – it will help me be more accountable, it can help others, it can get me to articulate and clarify my ideas and direction, it can generate traffic and revenue to my ongoing business initiatives.
email – process email Inbox so it’s down to 300 unprocessed messages
Currently I’m at almost 600 unprocessed messages
inbox – process all paper in my business Inbox
web automation technologies – investigate them
Investigate web automation technologies that are similar to the QuickButler idea:
- OpenKapow
- PiggyBank
- Dapper
web marketing – educate myself
- Educate myself about web marketing/traffic building and building web-based businesses