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What Are You Doing Today For Your Business In 2009?
Great question Paul. I'm running a survey (using the free service of http://www.SurveyMonkey.com) and asking our prospects:

What is their biggest challenge right now?
What are their learning preferences?
How strong is their desire to enroll for one of our programs?
What is holding them back?
And some other practical questions, like the most convenient venue, Internet access.

We want to know how best we can serve our prospects in 2009 and will formulate our marketing plans and offerings based on their responses.

After 20 years as a Marketing exec in the software industry I've left it behind after being smitten with the "internet marketing" bug over the past 2 years implementing internet marketing strategies for my employers. Now, I want to do it for myself. I'd like to educate my fellow mainstreamers on the internet marketing strategies, tools and techniques that REALLY work. I paid almost $1M dollars to media agencies who were so called "experts" to help drive traffic, acquire customers, implement SEO etc, and the return would have made Ed and Paul LOL!!!!! So, I think I need to help cut some of those corporate america marketing budgets and teach them what works to achieve greater ROI. I'm building my own site/internet business and loving it! I hope over time I can build a viable business helping others reach their goals.

I have several neat ideas for products and content that I ant to bring to fruition and bestow upon the world in 2009. So I want to get serious and get it done. I want to set the world on fire with some novel approaches and earn my 15 minutes of fame and leverage it into whole lots more. I want to master this internet marketing thing and drive masses of traffic to my sites.
I want to build a great list of qualified and interested buyers and followers. I want to generate wealth that I can invest back into the business and into yet to be born charitable ideas and tools to help peopleI want to get the recognition and revenue and rewards that I so richly deserve. And I want to develop meaningful relationships and romance... so I can continue to set the world on fire. . I want to live a bit more frivolously and flamboyantly and fabulously. I want to unleash my true passion and purpose, and have fun doing it. I want to make up for lost time. You all heard it first, here, now.
In 2009 I will WOW you.

Hmm, what am I doing today for business in 2009..

First off, I want to close out this year with a bang. With the birth of our fourth child (our first boy) last night, things are looking great!

We started our first, original site a month ago and we are getting great buzz for it. Now that it's nearly complete, we can move onto our next goal- 2009.

We will be launching dozens of other sites that we will be monetizing since the first one we created is a charity-based site. The "mall" will be built this weekend to we can start donating even more to charity.

It's going to be a fun, exciting 2009!

-Kevin

I am working with 2 partners and we are planning to launch 2009 with some local seminars to help people with Computer basics...and also with learning how to turn their computers into 24 hour money making machines.

Right now we are doing surveys so we can plan our curriculum...and then of course we will need to launch a new site. We will be doing PR and all other steps in 2008 to make this a success in 2009.

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Hi all,
Barbara's and my website is primarily about faith, Biblical faith. Therefore, I continue doing what I always do...pray for God's people, America, the Bible Lands, etc. And I work on content and on this new-thing-to-me of a presence on the Internet. I am 68 years, spent 10 years in electronic design and research, quit the rat race long ago and have lived for 34 years in a little town in the Wyoming mountains. Our life has been and is about the faith of heaven and the God who gives and respects it, which put our son through college to the level of MS electrical engineering at no monetary cost to us. This faith is the most successful thing that I know of.

Join us at www.christianwildernesspress.net . Everything there is free and down-loadable including two of my rather large books God's Hook (about faith) and God's Rock (the life of Moses and the Exodus Epoch), brief Bible studies, several pages of the work of missionaries with pictures and videos, ebooks for children, and loads of pictures from our region of the Rocky Mountains.

The learning curves that I have had to go through in the last year or so (our site is only several months old) has re-stretched my little gray cells. It is all fun almost to point of exhaustion, but fun nevertheless.

May the Lord bless in the new year, we surely may need it.

Ron

What am I doing to help 2009 be profitable? Well for a start tonight it is bonfire night here tonight so don't expect to get too much sleep lol
A stroll along the freezing beach wrapped up in winter woolies as we eat fish and chips and watch everyone crowd the beach and light them as it gets dark is something not to be missed lol
So once tonight is over?
I will finish my shopping cart that I started earlier in the year - you see I am a webdesigner of 15 years and I LOVE it still! but I can only work on my websites when I am not working on my clients websites and I have been extremely busy this year :)
so I will finish my shopping cart
I will update my website
I will learn how to make tutorials using camtasia
and will probably do another shop on another niche
there that should keep me off the streets lol
oh and (almost forgot!) I am going to loose this weight, get fitter because this too will help my business :)
cheers
sue

Hi Paul,

I just started my own business here in Belgium, so I'm still in a Startup phase. What I know so far is that I should try to look at the bigger picture.

I'be been doing tutorial podcasts and screencasts in Dutch for a while now, but I have been asked a few times already to provide the same things in other languages. I have always been hesitant to that because, although my written English isn't too bad, I know I might end up with a funny little accent in English. People have been convincing me though that I shouldn't think about the accent, but about what I'm telling. If the content is good, people might not notice small gramatical errors or a funny pronounciation.

I should probably even look further than that. Since my French isn't all to bad neither, some people are trying to convince me to provide the information in 3 languages. It might require more time to produce everything, but the exposure of what I'm producing will grow well beyond the Dutch community.

I'm still thinking how I should handle it, but I'm starting to get convinced that you shouldn't be looking at your own neighbourhood, clients or contry, instead you should think BIG.

Regards,



Stefaan

I will start the year with written goals...of which learning and implementing a successful pay per click campaign will be one of them. I also plan to match my day job income through Internet Marketing. I anticipate a fantastic year.

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My wife and I just had dinner with a great couple that we know and love. She had run a brick-n-morter women's ministry for years and she literally ran out of steam. Our dinner turned into a web 2.0/new media "awakening" for her, which in-turn got us pretty excited as well!

So my plan/goal for 2009 is to help "new mediate" (I may have to trademark that one...) a message of hope and encouragement to at least 1,000,000 women next year.

Big task since I just started all this with StomperNet2!

Thanks for the awesome content!!!

Well, I started the 30 day challenge this year (and yes, I'm not done) I got soooo overwhelmed with all the information and the special bonuses and the buy this and buy that; THAT I'm really confused.
2009 will be a time to start from scratch

I've spent years learning how to market my products on the internet. Now I have the whole shebang - I just need to start implementing it. Hopefully by the time I hit 2009 I can boast with some higher internet income...

I'm going to start the year off by investing into a Roth IRA. Then I plan to leave the money there until I'm ready to buy my first house, but I plan to put $100/paycheck into it and hope it adds up for me.

This will be the first year of living on my own, and I want to celebrate by sponsoring a child in southeast Asia.

Also, I want to to finish writing my book.

Engage. I've spent the past two years learning, developing great content, and figuring out how things work. 2009 is when I bridget the 'knowing-doing gap,' get out of idle and put this sucker into gear - a new book is hot off the presses, a membership site is under design, and we have a clear objective in sight. Full speed ahead!

That and get an iPhone. And a new mic. Maybe a phone patch...

For me it's all about 2009.

- Building up monitoring dashboards for all the projects I am working on (per http://budurl.com/k4h5).
- Continue to build my social network. Pass the 1000 follow mark on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/geoffk
- Launch my locally focused Portland Blog
- Formalize my consulting offerings and launch a consulting micro site
- Podcast
- Enhance the writing I do with videos and use http://www.tubemogul.com/ to post them across the Tube sites
- Lifecast at least 2 more events by EOY. My Trick or Treat cam was a hit: http://budurl.com/dwag

That of course is on top of all the writing I'm currently doing.

Thanks for posing this question, always good to have someone nail you down on what your exact plans are.

My Plans for 2009

1. Buy a new watch to replace the one that toddler recently dropped onto concrete while she was playing with it "to keep her fascinated".

2. Buy some more pants. No sinister reason, just could do with some more.
Oh, that's underpants for the US audience, btw.

3. Stop staying up until 2:30am to make "just one more change" to my website/blog/twitter account/Kunaki products etc.

4. Stop staying up until 12:38am to answer quizzes for Paul Colligan.

5. Do more with Geraint Powers, the near-legendary Wife Coach from mid-Wales. See http://www.wifecoaching.co.uk . Possibly the most under-rated personal development guru west of Bronllys.

6. Use the word "guru" more.

7. Discover a way to get fit for skiing that doesn't involve eating less, drinking less (perish the thought) or exercising.

8. Make so much money in internet marketing that I can buy the internet.

In 2009 I will take my VA business (started in July of this year) to new heights, through continuing to educate the business community about the value a virtual assistant offers. I am creating the Maine Association of Virtual Assistants and will be looking to put a membership site online (not sure which program I will use yet - so research is on the horizon for me).

I will continue to step outside of my comfort zone as I have done for the past 4 months. In the last 4 months I've learned to develop my elevator speech and present it without the butterflies, gave a seminar presentation, a magazine article interview and recently had a radio interview. Wow- I just realized all I have accomplished this year - thanks Paul.

So back to business 2009- more networking, more marketing online, more social networking, more speaking engagements, more blogging, and developing technical skills to higher efficiency. By the way - for all you looking to outsource --- I'm a VA it's what we do! Peace to all and best wishes for an awesome 2009!

@Bob Keyser: Regarding SEO, I've recently read a lot of Brad Callen's info. http://www.seomindset.com I'm a relative newcomer to SEO, and I found his book (hard copy with paper pages and everything...woo hoo!!) VERY good.

Since I write a conservative political blog, I am awaiting the results of the election.

If McCain wins, I get the President I wanted to win and I can congratulate myself on making a difference (whether or not it's true).

If Obama wins, my blog will be more relevant, since I will have far more to write about from a conservative political perspective (that means criticism, of course).

Either way I win!

I am working on getting ads written to promote our new product. Also learing better keyword strategies to start driving organic traffic to the site as well. Lastly, launched a nationwide telephone campaign to people who are looking to take control over their financial future - no matter who is elected President.

I just started working with a Life and Business Development coach. I am looking to expand my business in 2009. I am a freelance writer and I am hoping to double my clients every three months through various sources.

I am also hoping that in 2009 I can begin using my writing skills to provide pro bono services to our local homeless and battered women's shelters.

Going fulltime into New Media Creation for the purposes of making a new life for myself.

2008 was the year I decided to make an investment in myself, and spared no expense to learn new media and social media for my own benefit as an infopreneur, and for my clients as an infopreneur and marketing coach. I have also leveraged my higher online profile in new ways to make some great strategic alliances.

I truly feel that this dedicated effort has finally brought together everything for me. I believe that all my past knowledge and experiences in the business world, and then my years of work in the online world, boosted by this learning process, have put me in a positon to make 2009 the money year where I truly break out and realize the monetary goals I have set for myself--which will make my very supportive husband very happy :)

BTW I thank you for the role you played in that process when it came to Podcast Secrets 2008 and ongoing with NMIC. I wish a super 2009 for you!

I am working on content that positions me as an expert in my field, working on generating more leads (online & in the real world) and sharpening my skills in paid and organic search marketing. (Answering lots of Yahoo Answers - Google Loves that site.)

I am also paying close attention to what Paul posts as most of the tips he shares are very cool. ( I LOVE BudURL. Thank you!!)

Actual my work today -- just draggin' through 2008 deliverables. I could say that keeping current customers happy today brings in repeat and new customers in 2009. (which is true, but not I think the intent of your question)

There is some specific work I know I should be doing more of to prepare for 2009, namely improving my processes and out-tasking more of what I do.

Good question Paul, and good reminder...

I second what James said - outsourcing the stuff that I hate to do is center most in my planning for 2009. And, increasing ROI on every biz unit.

Amelia

Boy, you got me on that one. I hate the word guru too. What exactly is a guru? Someone who has enough money and decides to throw the rest of us a few tidbits so we can make them more?

Hallelujah*! Most of new business technology in place-for me the hard part!
2009 I get to play in the new media sandbox with interviews with thought-leaders, authors, and COOL people lined up! I am playing with twitter and video and its all about building those relationships to launch new media network for midlifers! Thanks to your coaching Paul...you make it fun.

B. Warner Ent.
http:\\www.UnleashPossibility.com
Goal: $30,000/mo

This business combines the power of Personal Development with Network Marketing. The compensation plan is fantastic. Profits range from $1000-$8000.

Target market are those who are looking to earn (or who already earn) multiple six figures.

My marketing strategy will include: Internet as well as print media (trade magazines and newspapers). I am going to take full advantage of Social Networking tools (Friend Feed, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, etc.) as well as Google Adwords. Basically a "reverse marketing" strategy. I may also do some bandit signs or some other "creative" type marketing (door hangers, fryers, etc.)

In addition I will be building my "list". Collecting business cards, using Social Networking, etc.

I currently have a site that was designed by a company that does sites for home businesses. However I LOVE technology and have ordered Dream Weaver and will be designing my own site.

I am new to the Entrepreneur world and a bit fearful, so mindset is going to be crucial!!!

Not sure if this is what you were looking for. Let me know if more detail is required.

I have more than a little reason to believe the store I manage (sort of - it's a long story) will not survive past the end of the year - there goes my day J.O.B.
I have bits and pieces (blogs, domains, affiliate memberships, physical products, domains, reseller hosting acct, a myriad of tools, etc) of an online "empire" in the works, but nothing is completed, functional, coordinated or connected at this time - ie no income. I really need a jumpstart.

I'm outsourcing the things I hate to do so I can concentrate on what I want to do, create content.

I'm best-known for releasing free audiobook podcasts of my fiction. I'll continue doing that in 2009, but am developing a scalable fiction property that can accommodate monetization (via ad-supported, patron-based and subscription-based models) and spinoffs into other media. 2009 is the year I make money off this podcasting thing. :)

I want to learn more about Search Engine Marketing, who are the experts (I hate the word guru)?

I am meeting witha coach at the Small Business Development Center (www.BizCenter.org) to help me wrap my head around my business numbers. I hit a wall earlier this year when I started hiring subcontractors because I realized I was in danger of collecting money from clients and having it all go right back out the door to sub-contractors with nothing left over for me.

While I'm a very organized person - I have all the data re. income and expenses - I just don't know how to use it for business planning. (I'm ashamed to admit that I got through 7 years of college without taking one Accounting or Econ class.)

So far, it's been very helpful. My first assignment was to calculate a monthly average net income and to assign expenses to projects. The probable conclusion is that I'm not making nearly as much per hour as I think I am. A painful lesson but good to know!

Elge

Storing up guns and ammo and canned food. (J/K *LOL*) Working on a tighter more marketing centered budget.