My Squid Life

Well, it’s time for me to look at my 2009 goals and see how I did. Then, think forward to next year.  My year took a dramatic turn mid-year as my mom came up with some health issues that ended up grabbing a great deal of time, and then end of year I decided to have some surgery that completely stopped me in my tracks during this holiday season. Because of these events, I know I’m going to be way off on some of my goals….but here goes…

1. To get 55,000 visits per month to my lenses. I met this one pretty easily. My visits vary alot; 60,000 to 78,000/month appears to be my range in the last several months.

2. Create a Zazzle Gallery.  I met this one as well.  In fact I have two.  This goal was mostly just for fun.  Thus far I’ve only made pennies from it so it’s good I didn’t have lofty goals here.

3.  Get Squidoo revenue (alone) to $600/month. I met this as well, in fact I’m hoping to double that for the December payout despite my inability to really promote anything for the last few months.  I’m still not using my own Amazon affiliate links on my Squidoo lenses. I continue to feel like Squidoo should get their cut. I donate to the Acumen fund and ASPCA but I still take the majority for myself, so I don’t feel that I’m being overly generous by leaving more of my Amazon proceeds with Squidoo.

4. Find a direction for my SquidTop blog.  Uh, yeah, right. I’m still directionless with this…I’m just basically providing a diary of activities and progress.  In otherwords, no, I didn’t meet this goal.

5.  Have 300 completed lenses by end of year.  I also wanted 50 Hubs.  Failed miserably on both of these!  Lol! I think I ended up with 25 hubs and 241 lenses. On the otherhand, I added probably many dozens of other pages of content elsewhere.  Bukisa, Qondio, etc.  My time was limited but I continued the effort to spread myself around a bit more.

Well that’s the end of year update.  I guess, I need to sit down and think up more agressive goals for next year.  I imagine Squidoo will continue to figure very prominently but I’m also very aware of the need to diversify and to provide support for my Squidoo work on other sites.  So next week, I’ll try to have some basic goals to talk about.

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