Johnson’s business plan for this year
Really, it started this morning as I was walking to the train station to go to uni. I was feeling in a good mood, just thinking about Hope and how you can turn nothing into something positive. When I’m in a positive mood, I always find that ideas come to me.
Yeah that’s another thing about me. The reason I think that entrepreneurship suits me is because I find that I have many IDEAS that come to me on a regular basis. If I’d capitalised on every single one that I’ve had… well, I’d be a very busy man. They’re written here and there and hopefully, one day, I can pursue all of them to some extent.
Hopefully, I’ll have the capacity to turn it from idea to reality like clockwork.
At any rate, here’s the business plan, scanned:
This scrappily drawn up business plan is going to get me a dependable, affiliate marketing income by the end of 2009.
Hmm… this isn’t Blogger, is it? Damn, I was hoping to be able to click on it and have it enlarge so people could see it.
I’ve nearly been an Affiliate Marketer for a year now. Once June 28, 2009, comes around, I’ll be one year old. It’s been one year and I don’t have any dependable affiliate income yet. I have worked pretty hard for the few sales that I’ve had and I’ve learnt a lot through the process:
- I better understand my limits. I remember for one product I was trying to promote, my days were filled with article writing. I’d try to be writing up to 10 a day and frankly, it turned me off article writing even until now.
- I learnt how to set better goals. Typically, a lot of my goals are really crazy and pretty much unattainable at my current “level”. What I’ll be doing in the next 3 months or so is attainable and I’ve “left room”, assuming that I get it up and running. =]
- I learnt more about what it means to be a Marketer. Talking about this reminds me somewhat of something I read in some of Ann Sieg‘s material. She’s a specialist in Network Marketing and owns a hugely successful Network Marketing empire, employing “The Renegade Network Marketer” tactics that she learnt through trial and error over two decades. Even though she’s in different industry, what she had to say rings very true across all forms of Marketing. She said something along the lines that the definition of Marketing was grossly misunderstood across the board and that’s why there were so many people who were unsuccessful with Network Marketing. This can be reflected in the Affiliate Marketing industry as well. A notable gem I gleamed from her is, “people purchase with emotion and justify with logic.” So true.
At any rate, I intend to approach this with much maturity and entrepreneurial flair. I’m still going to allow myself to dream, but I have to learn to see it from an external perspective, ie. practise metacognition, so that I don’t end up dreaming large but doing jack all.
We’ll see how this goes.
Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Ann Sieg, business plan, goals, Johnson Kee, limits, The Renegade Network Marketer