Goals

After a pretty productive March I am looking to get a bunch done in April to set me up for my 4 month summer off of school.  I have school until April 28th and then I’m pretty much free all summer, which is going to feel great.  Here is a little recap of March and my goals for April.

MARCH AFFILIATE GOALS RECAP:

Focus a lot of time on my March Madness site and try to make it earn some $$$ – Well my site got sandboxed or something (dropped in the rankings) for the majority of the tournament (it actually just came back a few days ago which was nice to see – should get some nice traffic next year if I keep it up there).  I didn’t make too much money off the site even though I got lots of referred traffic.

Get my MLB and UFC sites going – Well I got my MLB site up and going pretty good.  Really excited about the MLB season, hopefully it gets some good traffic.  The UFC site actually got indexed when I didn’t want it to, now I need to get some content up on it in April.

Invest $2000 into my sites – I invested far more because I sold one of my sites and had lots of funds I wanted to put back into my business.  Hopefully the investing I did in March will show in the next months.

Work on my Poker Bonus site – I didn’t really get around to this, I really should though.  I wish I was better at writing about poker, but I don’t play much anymore.

Earn $10k affiliate revenue – Did it again for the second straight month which I am really happy about, but my net revenue wasn’t very close to 10k yet again because of the amount I spent in March.

APRIL 2010 AFFILIATE GOALS:

• Kentucky Derby $$ – One of the biggest sports betting events in the states is the Derby.  This years Kentucky Derby is at the start of May and I am going to see how I can do with it.  Me and Niko partnered up on my Bet on Kentucky Derby domain to try and get that ranking, plus I have a Kentucky Derby Picks site going that I want to try and get ranking too.
• Write 30 pages of quality content spread over my network of sites
• Launch my UFC, Nascar and other MLB site
• Earn 10k affiliate revenue
• Cut back on expenses

As far as personal goals go I want to finish off school on a good note and continue to make sure I get to the gym 4 times a week.  Also want to start playing some basketball outside instead of doing cardio in the gym, we are getting some great weather for April right now.  Oh and I also want to make a trip out to Montreal for UFC May 8th so I gotta start planning for that.

Have a great April!

A couple days late here on my monthly affiliate goals post, but I was on a bit of vacation during my “spring break” week up until Tuesday, and then got sick when I got home.. probably from all of the alcohol and shitty food I ate all weekend.  I will start with a recap of my February goals and then post up my March goals below.

FEBRUARY AFFILIATE GOALS RECAP:

Publish a bunch of Super Bowl articles on The Sports Geek and work on Super Bowl site – I ended up getting like 20 articles posted on The Geek for the Super Bowl which gave my record traffic numbers (like 4x any other day).  I went over what I did with my Super Bowl site in another post here in February.  This goal was completed for sure.

3 Sites to launch (sports betting related) – The one site I had planned to launch and wanted to become a money maker hasn’t been launched yet, but I did manage to get a few sites launched (some not sports betting related).  I don’t mind delaying the launch of the other site because it isn’t really time sensitive like a lot of sports sites.

Create better bonus codes – I got this done at a couple rooms, but still should get it done for every room.  I created some nicer bonus code type images in February which may help conversions a little bit (learning new things on photoshop everyday).

Replace PokerStars with a room that will actually make me money – I got this done on my main site, and it feels good.  Slowly over time I will be taking them down from all my other sites as well.

Invest $1000 into my casino site – Done, and a little more.

Earn $10k affiliate revenue – Woooo got er done by a hair, first time ever so it felt good (was really really close a couple months ago).  I had a shit load of expenses though, but that should pay off in the future.

Other stuff I did in February – I sold a couple sites, put up a couple mini sites, spent a lot on making my sites look nicer, started a fun March Madness Predictions project which I hope can make some money, bought domains (I think I became an addict now), ordered a couple templates for new sites to be launched.

MARCH 2010 AFFILIATE GOALS:

• Focus a lot of time on my March Madness site and try to make it earn some $$$
• Get my MLB and UFC sites going
• Invest $2000 into my sites
• Work on my Poker Bonus site some more
• Earn $10k affiliate revenue

My personal goals include getting back into the gym after a week off, make sure I keep up in school except for days when the March Madness is on , figure out if I can make it down to Panama City beach Florida where my mom and her husband have a condo rented out at the end of the month

Hope everyone had a good February, and lets get er done in March!

Am I actually making a monthly goal post on the first of the month?  Seems hard to remember to do but I finally got it done (helps being a Monday).  I will start off by going over my January Goals that I posted near the start of January.

JANUARY AFFILIATE GOALS RECAP:

Get 5 pages up on my Winter Olympics Betting site – Sort of.  I put up 5 pages spread across my two domains (one I had thought was penalized or something strange, but it ended up jsut taking a really long time to get indexed for some reason).

Put up 4 new mini sites – Did this, still need to work on them some more before I drop a link to them.

Create new bonus codes – I think I got this done for only one room.  Will have to get this done this month as it might be costing me a few hundred dollars a month.

Finish up three pages on NBA site – I got two done and will probably do the third this week because I forgot about it.

Re-invest $1000 into my sites – I invested just over $1200 in ads, templates and a bit of content.

Earn $10,000 affiliate revenue – Not quite, but not too far off… maybe would have if PokerStars didn’t change their CPA requirements (complete bullshit but I may have to make a whole post about it)

Personal January Goals:

Workout 5 times a week and eat healthy – Worked out 5 times per week almost every week, overall felt pretty good in the gym.  I didn’t eat as healthy as I would have liked… seems for everyday I drink I have two bad days of eating because I like ordering pizza when hungover haha.

Wake up at 9am consistently – Did pretty good at this.  I am starting to get used to getting into bed before midnight and waking up earlier then used to.

FEBRUARY 2010 AFFILIATE GOALS:

• Publish a bunch of superbowl articles on The Sports Geek this week, plus work on my Bet on Superbowl 44 website
• 3 Sites to launch this month (sports betting related – one which I want to be a big money maker for me)
• Create those bonus codes I talked about last month
• Replace high exposure of PokerStars to another US accepting poker room (visit PAL to read about the new CPA requirements for their poor $75 CPA)
• Invest $1000 into one of my casino sites
• Earn $10,000 affiliate revenue (C’mon Son I need this!… hopefully I get some big superbowl bettors)

For personal goals I want to continue to working out 5 times per week.  I am also starting a bit of a “cleanse” from now (Monday) until superbowl Sunday where I am trying to eat extremely healthy… read something about how you’re supposed to do it once per year.  And I want to make sure I don’t donk off too much money sports betting this month.

Hope everyone had a good January, and lets work hard in February!

Unfortunately I head back to school on the 11th of this month, but that does give me a full week to work hard and accomplish a decent amount of work in January.  January is a pretty big month for my sports betting sites with the NFL playoffs around the corner.  I am hoping to get a couple new sites up and work on the ones I recently put up.  Here is what I hope to accomplish in January 2010:

• Get 5 new pages up on my Winter Olympics Betting site
• Put up 4 new mini sites (will release what they are once I get them up)
• Create new bonus codes for some poker rooms (I have some stupid ones that probably don’t convert well)
• Finish up the three pages on my NBA Predictions site
• Re-invest $1000 into my sites
• Earn $10,000 revenue

Other personal goals I have going on includes working out 5 times a week + eating healthy, consistently wake up at 9am or earlier to get used to my horrible school schedule of 8am classes, and put aside money for a trip on my spring break at the end of February.

Lets get off to a great start for a big year in 2010!