@Addicted2Italy Thanks. Appreciate the positive feedback. Should be an interesting 2012.

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I’m glad you posted this. I was on your feed due to some very valuable content you wrote a few months back, but lately very little had come through. A few days ago I was ‘spring cleaning” my feed reader and was actually deleting the feed for the blog in the lest above yours (which had also grown cold) when this post came in. Saved by the bell. You have good stuff and value to share. I’ll keep reading, you keep writing and here’s to a great 3012 for both of us.

— Here was my reply

Saved by the bell — yep. 2011 was not my best year from an internet marketing standpoint. Thanks for sticking with me. I will do my best not to disappoint you.

The comment was caught up in the comment system transition (she was commenting as I was importing comments into the new system.) I am reposting her comment here for completeness.

Hi Mark I came across your blog post via Pat’s Facebook wall which is proof that all this social media voodoo really does work so like you I plan to do it more consistently in 2012. I was struck by your comment about how you can’t teach someone how to do something unless you’ve done it yourself first. Glenn Dietzel (creator of the New Stealth Guru Model) says is that the skills of making it and teaching it are completely different. Seems to me there are lots of people in the online marketing world offering coaching programmes who claim to have made millions. The key thing is that they have credibility because we believe they are successful and they have lots of testimonials. But does anyone ever check out their track record? And does it really matter at the end of the day so long as their content is good and they can help others to be successful? Are those of us who insist on walking the walk before talking the talk effectively competing with one hand tied behind our backs? I’d love to hear your take on this. In the meantime good luck with your plans for 2012. I will be sure to check in from time to time to hear how you’re doing so do post updates from time to time.

Thanks Franck — should be very interesting, that’s for sure!

Franck

Great, looking forward to it. And also, let me know if I can be of any assistance on your goals as well. I’d be glad to help out as I’m sure I would learn a ton as well!

That is totally creepy Pat. Did you hack into my web cam again?

LOL.

Seriously. Thanks Man. You Inspire Many. Me included.

Mark

Thanks Chris. Agree that Pat totally rocks.

I like your goals a lot. Very smart to get lists up and running at the very beginning, and helpful to set achievable revenue targets.

Regarding MS, I plan to restart the OPEN NICHE PROJECT — that will certainly cover keyword research in a way simular to Pat’s Free Keyword Webinar.

Thanks again for your comments.

Thanks. I have a great Virtual Assistant. That should help a lot!

Thanks. Appreciate the support, Kent.

As a result of Pat’s post I too posted both last years goals and this years goals on my personal blog. I’m new to the internet marketing side of things and one of my main goals is to create 3-5 sites with at least 10 unique posts initially on each to help my audience solve a particular problem or achieve a particular end goal. As a result of providing epic content, I plan to derive revenue from those sites through several different means. Primarily through affiliate links to related products which will help my audience solve their problems, in addition to Adsense content and eventually sponsor ads. That would be through a combination of email subscriber lists and click through links/ads. I’d like to obtain an email subscriber list of 10 people by June 30th and 50 by Dec 31st. My revenue goal is to bring in $100 by June 30th and $250 by Dec 31st.

The goals are no where near the level of yours or Pat’s, but I think for a newbie they’re realistic and the more I learn through both of you, the more I hope to be able to substantially raise those goals as time goes on.

I’m getting familiar with Market Samurai right now to help me choose the right niche for the ideas I have, so once you get started I’d really be interested to see the process you go through. I plan to document the process that I go through as well. Thanks and good luck!

That’s quite a lot of work for 2012 but I know that you can do it. Your goals sound amazing. I’ll watching out for your new blog posts and podcast. 🙂

Thanks David. I hope to post an average of 3 times per week to meet my
125 post goal. I hope every post is well worth the time it takes you to read it. Thanks very much for the encouragement. I’ll need it in March or April For sure.

I feel like checking out your blog every day now when I know the purpose of your blog and where you want to go. Some of your goals are similar to mine as well.

All the best!!

That sounds creepy – but you get the idea. 2012 baby!