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As I told you in my previous post (in the welcome-to-my-blog one), I do have a real-world job, but I won’t be too specific about it. On the other hand, I will be extremely specific about everything that is to happen on this blog.

I believe in perfect transparency, both in personal and in business life, and will post accordingly.

First things first, I’ll be very clear and specific about setting the goals of this blog (rather the goals of those activities this blog is about than the goals of the blog itself).

The aim is to double my real-life salary with my internet revenues within six months.

As I said, I can’t be too specific concerning my real-world salary (as there is a high possibility that someone from the office will sooner or later find this blog), so let’s say this: six months from now (May 7, 2009), I’d like to make $100 a day from my internet activities.

How about that for a goal?

This income, (a gross profit in my understanding) would roughly equal my 9-5 income. I do not take weekends into consideration (so the goal refers to $700 a week and not $500 a week), and also I’m talking about profit and not revenue. This latter is important, because I’m ready to invest cash in buying PPC traffic to one or more of my future sites.

I always have to keep in mind, that I’m doing it (the blog as well as the whole web-game-thing) only part-time, as a “hobby” (I will have an entire post on the rules later on), so obviously when and if I lose my job for one reason or another, that will modify the deadlines as well.

So if I lose my job (which I have no intention of doing), the original deadline will move to not later than three months from that specific point in time. Obviously, this only modifies the original deadline if it happens in less than three months from now, and that is, luckily highly unlikely. Still, the possibility can not be ruled out.

One more thing: setting a goal for six months is nice, and although it may seem a long period, in business life it isn’t long at all.

But I thought that the work and the achievements are easier to handle if we break our big goal down to tinier parts. These parts, of course, can be modified as time goes by, ideally without changing the original “big” goal. But even if one has to change the big, final goal, these smaller steps help keeping track of the actual achievements, furthermore, they are pretty useful when forecasting whether the big aim is still in connection with reality at all.

I also have to acknowledge that the road ahead is pretty steep. $100 A day is a lot of money. And probably making the first few bucks is the most difficult part of it all.

Thus, my first tiny goal is to make $1 a day by the end of this calendar year. It’s easy to calculate that I want to achieve the first 1% of my goal in the first 13% of my time. It may sound (and seem) weird at first, but taking all the difficulties of starting from zero into account, I think it is more than realistic. If you disagree, feel free to leave a comment.

Anyway, fingers crossed, and let’s get started!