Hey guys what's up and welcome back to My channel I am so excited to be Shooting another one of these January Videos it's all about new year's Resolutions goal setting and just really Making this the best year ever if you do Not know already I am countering the Career the content bug and I'm here to Help you follow your passion by growing Your audience online it was so excited That you were here on my channel and That we were talking about setting Blogging goals today if you don't want Anything about my story I'm gonna tell You about it anyways I started my blog Back in October of 2016 that's when I Officially bought my domain for my Website but of course designing a Website takes a little bit of time so it Didn't officially launch until January 17th of 2017 so I'm coming up on two Years the official launch date of my Blog I was insane when I started my blog I started it really because I wanted to Completely transform my life and the Main goal was to really get out of the Job that I was in at the time so that's Why I started my blog was to kind of Make my own path career-wise So in 2017 the very beginning of the Year I decided to set five big blogging Goals for myself and one of those goals Was to be able to leave my full-time Position and work for myself full-time
That was my goal in 2017 now at the time I hadn't even launched my blog I had Just bought my domain I was trying to Figure out how to design a website how To create content how I was gonna Promote it I was really just trying to Figure things out in general and I told Myself that I wanted to be able to leave My job and work with my blog by the end Of that year it was an insane goal but I Have to tell you that setting insane Goals sometimes work and within 10 Months I did end up leaving my full-time Position and I transitioned into Freelancing work and working for myself Full-time a lot of people probably Thought that it was impossible and for Me I even some you thought that it was Impossible but I am here to let you know That your dreams are 100% impossible if You shoot big honey shoot big but I also Think it's extremely important to set Practical goals for yourself so you're Not letting yourself down so you don't Get discouraged and so you don't Actually give up on your dream because I Have set goals for myself the past Several years some of which have been Too low some of which have been way too High and some have been at that sweet Spot where they were good things to Strive for and things that I have Actually achieved so today I want to Talk about practical blogging goals that
You can set for yourself this year as Actually as a new blogger now if you've Already set your goals for the new year That's amazing this is just to provide You with some inspiration some ideas These are not goals that you have to set For yourself this is not stuff that you Need to accomplish within your first Year blogging this is just stuff that I Think are good goals to set for yourself If you want to grow your blog in 2019 so Enough talking for me let's get to what The nine goal recommendations that I Have for you yeah the first one is all About your blog page views I'm sure if You're trying to write your blog one of The things that you are trying to grow Is your page views how many people Actually land on your website how many Pages on your website are being visited That is what page views mean and if you Can go on Pinterest and see how some Bloggers have a 200,000 monthly page Views and that is a great thing to Strive for in the future but a practical Goal to set for yourself this year is to Reach 3000 page views a month on your Blog and it's something that you're Gonna definitely achieve this year Especially if you work with your Pinterest account worked a little bit on Facebook working on your promotion and Just growing your brand in general I Definitely think you can achieve 30,000
Monthly page views the next one has to Do with Pinterest now if you don't know Too much about blogging Pinterest is a Great platform to help grow your blog That grow your visibility Pinterest is a Search engine and it needs to be used That way if people are searching for Relevant topics that are on your blog on Pinterest then you definitely need to Make sure that your blog is on Pinterest And try growing your platform your Visibility there so I highly recommend The one of your goals this year via to Reach 500 thousand I know that sounds Like a lot but five hundred thousand Monthly viewers on Pinterest average Monthly viewers notice that statistic That a lot of Pinterest users look at When it comes to growing their Pinterest Account now I do think that it is Extremely important one your followers Are important but they're not as Important as like Instagram and other Platforms out there but it is extremely Important to pay attention to how your Website in general is doing on Pinterest So the visibility of your website as Well as the clicks to your website and The reshares from your website those are Really important statistics but just When it comes to your Pinterest account In general I think it's important to pay Attention to your average monthly Viewers and I highly recommend
You do that so if you are looking to Grow your average monthly viewers on Pictures this year I do have several Resources that you wanna join but I Specifically have to a blog post that I Think you'll like the first one is my Blog post however my Pinterest account From 7k to 100k Pinterest monthly Viewers and then the next one is how I Grew up from 100k to is 600 K Pinterest Monthly viewers and I share my complete Strategy with you on how I was able to Grow my Pinterest account now I'm Receiving about 1.3 million monthly Viewers on Pinterest so it is definitely Possible within a year ago your Pinterest account up to five hundred Thousand and I think that that is a Realistic goal for you to set yourself Now let's talk about Instagram if you've Been on Instagram for a while then you May think that this goal is pretty weak And that you could set something higher For yourself but I think it's good to Strive for more followers on Instagram Always when I got started with my blog I Had about like a hundred followers on Instagram when I really started to grow It and I felt that the first year I Would get up to 50,000 followers it Still hasn't happened but I think it's a Good go-to set for yourself your very First year of blogging to reach that First 1,000 mark on Instagram get your
First thousand followers now let's talk About money passive income is one of the Perks of having a blog you can make Money passively and what that means is It's not work for an income is what I Call the other term so it's not like Specific jobs that you get paid for once And done it's systems that are already Set in a place that make you money Whether you're sleeping whether you're Traveling or whether you're actually Working So what passive income can be made Through affiliate marketing or through Ads and there's a lot of other different Ways out there such as paid products and Stuff like that but one of the best Places to get started is through Affiliate marketing and joining Affiliate marketing networks and Applying to affiliate marketing Platforms programs out there that are Relevant to you and that you are Actually interested in so a good goal to Set for yourself is to become a member Of five different affiliate marketing Either networks or programs so programs With companies or networks in general so That could be shares sale and within Share sale you can join as many Different programs underneath that they Try to strive for five different Affiliate marketing programs that you Are in and then start including those
Legs on your website so you can start to Generate money and then the next goal Goes hand in hand And that would be to land your first Affiliate sale or your first affiliate Leaves so there's two different things There within affiliate marketing you can Make money whenever people will click on Your referral link they sign up for Something for free a free trial or if They actually buy a paid product or Service so really the goal with Affiliate marketing is to recommend Products that you actually use our Services that you actually use things That you really love recommend them to Your audience as you would a friend or a Relative and by them signing out for it You're going to receive a commission so A good goal two three you to site Yourself this year is to start making Some money with affiliate marketing and It may take a little bit of time I don't Think I got my first affiliate sale Until I think it was probably six months After I'd started including links on my Website so it took a while to build up Those resources and those links for People to click on so affiliate Marketing is a longer term strategy in My opinion but within your first year I Do think that you can get your first Sale or your first lead with an Affiliate marketing number six would be
To create a money plan that generates at Least to a hundred dollars a month from Your blog you may think this is low and I understand if you are on Pinterest and You see those income reports that share How bloggers made over a thousand Dollars the second month of blogging I'm Here to tell you that I've got a hair or Something on me right here that is Tickling me that that is not the norm That is a rare scenario where people do That sure you can make money quick off Of blogging if you have the right Strategies in place even if you don't Have the right strategies in place and You're just kind of fooling people and Making money however you're doing it That's really up to you that's not for Me to judge but if you want a long-term Strategy a long-term growth within your Blog I highly recommend that you build Up your money plan and think about how Much money you're gonna be making Through ads affiliate marketing if You're gonna get into paid products or Maybe sponsorships or ads actually like Paid ads on social media stuff that you Actually create you can have a variety Of different income streams flowing to You and at the beginning you're probably Not gonna know how much money is coming On each of those income streams but when You start to create a money plan try to Strive to make 200 bucks a month I think
That's a pretty realistic goal within Your first year of blogging to be making Two hundred bucks a month the next don't Recommend a goal I have for you is Land your first brand collaboration now You may be thinking that this is like a Paid sponsorship but that's not really What I'm talking about if you land one Of those that's frickin awesome I highly Recommend that you go after those from The very beginning but it's important to Start building up relationships with Brands that you like friends that you Trust and brands that you want to work With in the future so to talk about my First brand collaboration it wasn't Anything paid it was actually kind of an Exchange of services and it was a little Bit outside of my niche most people Would say because for the most part I Talk about digital marketing and social Media and SEO and websites and blogs and All that stuff that you guys already Know but my first brand collaboration Was with actually a fitness boutique Here in Rochester they reached out to me Offering me to attend five free classes And then if I liked it I would be able To do a giveaway with them giving my Followers free classes to that place so It was kind of an exchange I got free Stuff and then they also got more people To try out their business or fitness Place not the right term for that right
Now but their fitness place their Fitness classes but to explain why I Worked with that company because Typically the thing that I would work With like Pinterest or I would work with Other social media platforms or maybe Like WordPress or specific plug-in you Would think that those would be the Brands that I would go after well this Brand end up reaching out to me and I Really enjoyed it because one of the Things that I talk about on my platform Is just creating a well-balanced life And a life that I love and doing things That really make me happy and perform Best in my work life and creating this Business for myself and one of those Things is Fitness I like to work out Just about every single day because of The mental clarity provides me and it Just it creates a well balanced Lifestyle for me so to be able to work With a company that shared unique Classes in the Rochester area just Thought that was awesome just give you An idea of what a brand collaboration is Or what it can be it that was my brand Collaboration I didn't get paid for it It was just kind of an exchange of Services to get back to the goal that we Were talking about there it would be a Good go-to set for yourself to be able To work with one brands this year now I'm not sure if you have an email list
Yet but if you don't have an email us I Highly And they start one from the very Beginning it's going to become a real Moneymaker for your blog and I do think It's extremely important to have an Email list I started mine I think like Three months after I launched my blog I Think it started in March of 2017 and I'm really glad that I did but for a While I was generating about ten to Thirty and thirty was high subscribers a Month for the first few months until I Started to really work on my email list And grab my strategy and then I Generated over a hundred email Subscribers a month so one goal that I Would recommend for you is to start Generating over 100 email subscribers a Month and if you're wondering how the Heck can you do that I have the exact Strategy that I used in my blog hustler Ebook talking all about how you can grow Your blog the exact strategies that I Used for social media Pinterest SEO Website design and honestly just so much Information in there including how you Can completely transform your Regeneration to start getting 100 email Subscribers a month so if you're Interested in that it's included in the Description bar down below then the last Goal I would recommend you guys it might Seem a little weird but it would be to
Invest at least $100 back into your blog If you just started your blog you may be Thinking that you've already invested a Lot of money in your blog and I get it Because you bought your website domain So just your www or maybe 9ww website Domain you bought your hosting server Maybe you bought your website fee maybe About plugins maybe higher or website Developer there's so many things that go Into just starting a blog and it can be Pretty costly at the very beginning Whenever you see those blog posts it's Like start a blog for four dollars it's Like that's not it's just not true sure There's those free websites out there But I would never recommend them to my Audience so if you're thinking about Starting the blog please use WordPress.org with Bluehost or GoDaddy That's really where you want to be but To get back to investing I do think it's Extremely important to invest in your Blog whether that would be plugins that Help to enhance your blog maybe pay Someone for something that would just Make your life a little bit easier maybe Buy of course buy an e-book and honestly Just invest back in your blog where you Think it is appropriate to invest your Money where you think it's going to be Worth it I highly recommend that you do It 100 bucks Really isn't that much money I have
Spent I think well over three thousand Maybe more dollars in my blog and I Extremely happy with every bit of Investment I made – the ones that ended Up kind of screwing me over such as Getting a wordpress.com website instead Of a wordpress.org site things happen And you're going to lose some money here And there but you want to make sure that You're investing your money wisely and I Do have a video on that if you want to Check it out and we'll include that in Description bar down below as well as How much money I've invested in my blog And some other ideas on how you can Invest money in your blog so I will Include all that in the description Right down below it's just gonna fill With the ton of resources that you would Want to check out and that is it for my 9 of practical goals that you can set This year for your blog as a newbie Blogger if you want to share your goals Please share them in the comment section Down below I do have a video sharing my Goals for 2019 as well as some tips on How you can create your goals and then I Also have a blog post that shares my Goals as well as my personal intention So if you're interested in that I will Include them in the description bar down Below there's just gonna be a ton of Stuff in there so just check that out And I will see you guys back here at
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