If you want to make money online, you need to set goals.

Without goals, you’ll find that your tasks start to get difficult, as you’ll not know when to stop, whether you’re successful or not and how hard you should push yourself.

When setting goals, a good formula to follow is the S.M.A.R.T formula.

What does S.M.A.R.T. stand for?

Specific

Measurable

Ambitious

Realistic

Time Bound

What would be an example of a BAD goal?

“I want to better my website”

That tells you nothing. How do you want to better your website, which metrics, when by?

Here’s my goal this month for Da Blogger:

I want to increase my RSS subscriber count to 200 before August 30th, 2008.

It tells you exactly what I want, when I want it by, and is both achievable without being too easy.

I know that the above goal is definitely possible.

I also know that I will not do it unless I put in some work.

I have not really worked on promoting this blog the last few days, but it continues to grow. Mainly due to you guys.

However, I have a lot planned over the next few weeks, and I think this will make it easier to reach my goals.

What are your goals, and how do you plan to reach them?

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