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I have some goals for 2009 that I am going to reach.

500 Posts

The first one is to achieve 500 posts on this blog.  Bluenoser.net has been online for years, but I have only around 300 posts and some of those are useless ones that I put up at the beginning just to have content.

MORE PROFIT

In 2009 I have a goal to quadruple my online profits.  This is not an overly ambitious goal, and I think that by the end of January I will be making it a TEN fold increase.  Tim of 4HWW and some of has followers have said that making high goals actually increases your likely hood for success.

More Time

I am in 2009 going to increase my productivity to the point that I can spend more time doing what I want to be doing.  That includes travelling and reading.  This is the first year that I have read less than 10 GOOD books in a year.  I miss reading and increasing my knowledge.

Professional Equity

Along with my various online endeavours I am going to start working on building “professional equity”.  I am not sure if this term has been coined before, if not here is my definition.  Anything that increases your worth to your profession and company which in turn increases the demand in your services.  I have started doing this by achieving my LEED AP designation, and in the first of the year I will be gaining my P.Eng (once I finish my diaries).  There are two more on my list one is to get my FE in April and follow with my PE in Maryland, or another state in the US.

The other BIG thing is staying tight to my chest, but hear is a hint,  it is going to be a teaching program for a tight niche in my industry that I have expertise in, and believe that there is a lack of information available to fellow engineers and industry in general.  I hope for this to be my muse(read 4HWW if you don’t know what this is)

I can’t believe that it has been an entire month where I didn’t write a damn thing on this site. WOW

It has really been crazy around here.  The first week of September I was on Vacation in NYC.  If you have never visited New York, do it soon.  It is really a blast and you can do it on the cheap.  The shopping, Central Park, the shows and the people are amazing.  We have been there twice in the last 12 months.

After I got back from there I worked a 60 hour week and then headed to the IEEE sections Congress in Quebec City.  This was a great trip, I was able to hang out with a lot of great people and meet some new friends.  IEEE is a great place for Engineers to network and meet people of the same vein.  Engineers are a odd bunch they usually have to have two lives, one geeky one at work and a “normal” one at home.  When at an IEEE event you can sit down with a beer and talk about sports and the LHC.

I even had time inbetween meetings to tour around the city. Old Quebec is the closest that I have ever been to an old European city.  It has made me decide that I Old Europe is my next adventure.

And then last week I was in Minneapolis to visit a generator manufacturer and get some classes in.  It was a decent trip that involved a very convoluted trip from Halifax to Minneapolis, but that is a story for another day.

I didn’t have a lot of time to spend touring the town.  I was staying directly across from the University of Minnesota, and that place is huge.  I ended up working in a coffee shop across from the hotel, which was a lot of fun.  I talked to some of the students, not locals since I don’t think that I talked to one person who was actually from there.

And then I spent last weekend and this week trying to get everything settled, put out some fires and figure out where all my projects stand.  I finished that by the end of the day today, so now life should be reaching something closer to normal.

So what is next?

Well I am back to developing my business plan.  There are some courses that I have to finish and then I am going to get back to developing my latest project.  I still have the intention of reaching the modest level of $500 of passive proft by end of year.  Currently I am at $200 so it is entirely doable.

One thing that is amazing about making money online is that even when you are not working on it you are still making money. I am a big fan of the subscription payment. Pretty much all of the money that I make now is through subscription payments, automated systems, etc. So basically my profit INCREASED when I was not working.

Like I mentioned last week, I have been crazy at the day job. But now it has stopped, something like running into a brick wall, one minute you are going full tilt and the next you are stopped dead and sore. I am sore, but not from work, I was playing ball hockey last night and got a ball off the top of my foot, but I will write more over at HoserLife on that, so go over there and check that out, or just register for the HoserLife feed and get all of the great updates.

I know that this is not something that was going to continue for ever but at least I know that I don’t have to worry about losing everything next time I have to take a short break from my constant online work. This is something that is not true if you do a lot of SEM and such, since that stuff changes on a constant basis.

Now that I have more time to spend I will be completing my blog series on how to start your own site. I am going to try to go into as much depth as I can talking about how you pick your niche, how to start your site with free tools, when you should pay for something, how to get ideas for great content, how to get your first traffic and then how to get your first dollar.

From there it is up to you.

Don’t get fooled by all of the “Get rich today” schemes that will tell you that they have a fool proof way to make money by doing nothing. All they have is what I am going to tell you, for free.

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I just finished a very interesting read. I wasn’t expecting much out of it when I ordered it on Amazon, I just had some aff money in the US store, and you can pretty much only buy books if you are not in the US. I am doing a review of the book right now, so I will let you know what one it is then

Anyway, it really changed the way that I look at the way that I do online business, and my life/job in general. I think, however, that I tried to jump into the process laid out in the book way too fast. I got into the product creation portion way before I was ready, and before I had the spare time to do such. I have to learn how to “eliminate” before I “automate” (if you read the book, you know what I am talking about), I am working too many hours at the day job, and there are a few of my sites that currently need a lot of TLC. So what I am going to do is use some of the techniques in the book to see if I can raise my productivity at work so that I can get more done and get home at a decent time and therefore I have more time to work on my own projects.

I think that I will have the books review done soon, but if I don’t have time I will simply edit this with the title

It is a recommended read, as long as you have the correct mind set and don’t take the title too literally. You really have to do work, like every successful person online says so, however it is the way that you set up your company that is the biggest thing.