So, a third of the way there, how are we doing so far? I figured this would be good for motivation/accountability (for me at least.)

My original list:

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1) Finish going over all of my sites, updating, fixing, and update categorization of pure link inventory or money site.
2) Finish the working A-Z plan which can be farmed out in sections, to build a new niche site from the ground up, and market it.
3) Build 10-12 autoblogs for testing
4) Do some list building and learning
5) Get heavier into social stuff. Look for a possible A-B-C revenue ideas.
6) Pick 3 of my most successful sites, and put some real work into them.
7) Train and start using Dragon Naturally Speaking.
8) Repeat #1 as needed.
9) Set new goal for number of sites in inventory for money or links.
10) Reach goal of #9.
11) Create and sell my own info product(s).
12) Create, promote and maintain a membership site.

I've done most of 1, but need to go over several sites with some specific work. Prioritized a list with several dozen sites.
2 I think will come together on its own as I go through everything. Currently going through tools and outsourcing for various aspects.
Built an autoblog, which took considerable time to learn several tools and implement them very well. More to come, and will go much faster now. I doubt many go to my extent of doing it right.
About to try my hand at selling a modified plr product as my own. Testing the waters here and should be set up this week.
Playing with social more, integrating into sites.
Holding off on Dragon for now, buying content instead. Will train it when I need to write my own.
New goals will be set once I go over everything and fully gauge where I am and where I want to be with sites. Financial goals already set.

Things I need to get done or get into the workflow:
Start list building. I have some really good sites to set this up on.
Plan and start building the public side of the membership site.
Define the types and numbers of completed sites I want to have at the end of the year.
Put serious work into a few successful sites. (Tough, as I generally leave stuff alone that is working well. Specifically last.)

You?

Nice progress there



Mine is coming along...my targets were:

QuoteI have almost finished a new version of my ebay aff site system - even quicker to build, and hopefully longer lasting in the SERPS.

Was needed more than ever after I suffered a MASSIVE banning session  
Smarter system now finished - no 'smarter system' sites have been whacked by G yet, but it is still early days.
Revenue climbing again

QuoteI will be training the elves to crank these out, and keep doing so till Google or eBay bans me

elves trained and churning out sites

QuoteWill also be re-working a few old sites that have been neglected, with the possible end objective being to sell them on.

not started yet

However, I allowed another target to intrude.... I needed to streamline my process from finding expired domains to setting up hosting - as I can no longer keep up with the elves.... so I taught myself how to program enough PHP to set up a small sqlite database driven system that catches the dropped domains, filters those with too few links, and saves the rest into a 'workflow' system that makes it easy to do the rest.

Its not great coding, but it does EXACTLY what I want it to - so I am quite proud of it

Now I have some new targets:
- to do even more footprint removal stuff to the 'smarter system'
- to use my newly acquired, if somewhat clunky, php skills to set up a central control panel that can drive a link network embedded in 'quick build' sites

I think that second one will be a challenge - I know it would be better farmed out to a programmer - but I like the challenge

My plans are moving slower than I expected (isn't that always the case), but I am pushing forward.  This year I've taken on some clients so I have less time for my own projects.  However, I am still determined to launch a few sites.  My subscription site is nearly done.  For my niche sites I'm simplifying to a formula that is easy to implement and sticking to topics which I actually have an interest in so I'll have the motivation to do a quality job.

Thought I'd check in on my old list here. At first glance it seems like the business runs me more than me running it. But, after taking a higher altitude look at things I did do on the list, I'm probably in pretty good shape with about half of what I wanted to accomplish either done, close to completion or enough done to have the end result I was looking for.

The list building and social stuff I pretty much dropped off for now so I wouldn't be losing focus in too many directions. Add in the new ideas and angle or two and motivation to complete what is almost finished, I feel pretty good about this year.

With about 6 weeks to go, how is 2011 wrapping up for you so far?

Looking back, I have to say I am disappointed in my progress so far this year.  After much internal debate I'm scrapping my subscription site.  I've also been very caught up in my contract work and doing things that earn money now instead of what will pay off later with bigger rewards.

I am doing a sports project with a buddy though, it is relatively simple to start and I think it has good earnings potential.

>The list building and social stuff I pretty much dropped off for now

Why not just start to collect the emails Dras? It's pretty simple process and once you're ready, you can launch with a bang?

Yeah that's what I was going to do to start. But still need to pick and set up a list manager, integrate into sites, etc.

I still have sites that haven't been touched in a year or two. So many things to do that won't take much to get fixed or started, but have to prioritize it all.

I will get on it for sure, just pushed to the back a bit. Thanks for the encouragement.

I did get to a lot of site work done, but was side-tracked by integration of a lot of those properties into the SNS pages of FB, LinkedIn, Google+, and the like. I'd also like to use the "earthquake and tsunami" excuse if I missed anything else.

Lacking the option to collect emails is probably the one thing we should have done years ago. Seeing the effect on traffic and earnings when my gf sends to her list, I'm pretty sure we could have done a lot better.

All the major providers have easy peasy integration to fx WP through a plugin. We also just bought and added PopUp domination for collecting even more emails. Works wonders - do it Dras Mailchimp even has a free account for smaller lists.