How To Make Your Internet Business Plan Fun

by Mark Salmon on 24/03/2010

Have fun with your planning and goal setting – life is too short to do otherwise

Internet Business Plan also better to have fun to achieve. Let me explain how…

I’ve turned my internet business plan into a game, and I don’t know about you, but I like to win when I play games.

I’m playing this game with every other website on the planet and also with myself, always trying to improve my scores.  It’s like ‘Monopoly’ but much more satisfying because it is real.

I’ve therefore set up a scoring system that relates to the objectives within my plan. My scoring system is on paper so it has maximum visibility but you may wish to keep yours on a spreadsheet.

I keep the scores weekly but there is no reason why you should not keep yours daily or monthly.

Here are some of the scores I am keeping:

  • my site’s worldwide ranking on Alexa (- I have the free Alexa toolbar).  So far, within a couple of months, I have improved my ranking from over 600,000 to 363,070 so I am definitely moving in the right direction.(You can see my Alexa score in the side-bar of this blog.)
  • by clicking on the Alexa toolbar, I can access the Alexa site for more information – specifically my sites ranking in the UK which is currently 13,881, down from well over 16,000.  I find it rather exciting that my site ranks this highly after a relatively short time on the internet.
  • I can also track the number of incoming links to my site which currently stands at a paltry 13.  I have therefore just invested in a programme to boost my link building exponentially (-watch this space!)
  • I am also tracking the activities that generate traffic such as:
    • no of articles and blog posts
    • no of videos
    • no of forum and social comments
    • Google Adword stats
    • and so on.
  • all this activity should generate leads, so I am monitoring the number of leads generated weekly
  • the size of my list is also monitored.
  • The number of marketing funnels and the amount of my sales are also scored.

The point about all this is to score those things that are critical to my success.  I set myself some specific goals and then go after them.

If I don’t achieve my goals, then I realise that it is important not to ‘beat myself up’.  I’m still ‘in the game’ and I just realise that I may have to change my activity in some way.  I know I just have to keep persisting, and adjusting, until I reach my goal.

Play it like a game, have fun, and you too will find yourself achieving your goals more easily.

When I reach a goal, I reward myself in some way, reflect on what I have achieved and then re-do my internet business plan and set higher goals.  I now find I am ‘playing the game’ more intelligently, realising what works and doesn’t work.

I am just having fun taking it ‘higher and higher’ as I build my business.  That’s all there is too it. How about joining me in this great game of ‘Webopoly’? – bet I can beat you! Come on, ‘play up’ and join the fun.

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