Online Business Building Goal Setting Tip
Posted by DianeCorriette on June 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Get everything set up properly in the beginning. Although you don’t have to have all of your systems in place before beginning to market your business, make sure that the systems you do set up are chosen because they will meet your needs for the long term. Although it may be tempting to choose a free mailing list provider, you will find yourself having to do a time consuming and frustrating switch to a paid service once your list starts to grow. Avoid these types of situations and you’ll waste less time redoing work you’ve already done.
Treat it like a business and set clearly defined goals. Just because you work online doesn’t mean you can sleep until noon and expect to see the money flowing in. If you want to have a business, you have to treat it like a business. This includes holding somewhat regular hours during which you don’t let other distractions take you away from getting your work done. If you were taking a cross country road trip, you wouldn’t set off with no plan on how you were going to get there. The same is true when you are starting an online business! Unless you know where you’re going, you’ll never get there. So before you jump in with both feet and lots of enthusiasm, take some time to clearly define your short and long term goals. What do you hope to achieve in the next 3 months? 6 months? 24 months? Print these out and keep them where you can see them every day to keep yourself on track to achieving them.
Make it a goal to see progress in your business every day. It is always easier to put things off until tomorrow. We convince ourselves that we have lots of time to get things done so there is no point in rushing. But what usually happens is that months go by and there is no actual progress made. Don’t let this happen to you! Make it a goal to see some progress in your business every day. This could be at least one new mailing list subscriber, one new joint venture partner, the completion of a product or anything else that will take your business a step closer to success.
Whenever you get sidetracked, look at your goals list. Keeping a printout of your short and long term goals beside your computer is a great way to keep yourself on track. Whenever you find your attention wandering, review what it is that you plan to accomplish. Then quickly write down three things that you must achieve that day in order to take the next step toward making your goals a reality. Commit yourself to getting done this short to do list immediately before allowing your attention to wander elsewhere.