How to Plan Out your Web Business for New Years 2009 Resolution!

For the year 2009, I plan to do a lot of planning and of course, more planning.

Whether you are running a blog, e-store, or any other website, you will have realized how “long-term” goals and planning affect your web business more than anything else.

More importantly, these long-term plans will ultimately make you money in the long run or put you in a financial hardship.

So how to go about it?

1. Analyze your web traffic stats, sales-to-conversion ratios, advertising, and all the stats you will need to plan for the year ahead.

For example, last year, my blog network daily average was around 6,000 pageviews per day. Since then, I have made about 6-8 new websites and brought up the daily pageviews to about 24,000 pageviews per day.

That’s about 400% growth in web traffic in the course of the year.

Of course, this didn’t come as plain luck, I “planned” it, using efficient strategies to create new content/blogs, and in return, collect the goals, or increase in web traffic.

2. After analysis, do something about it.

One of the most important things in any kind of web business is that you “do something about it”.

If you are selling wallets online and your sales are down, try something new. If you have been using AdWords to advertise, try an affiliate program such as CJ or you could even get an affiliate software for a hundred bucks.

If you blog stats are down, try targetting different topics such as “New Years” or maybe even hire a blogger so you have a good balance of personalities on your blog. (I really think that having multiple bloggers helps as you get different viewpoints, writing styles, and more readers in the long run.)

3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for the month of January through March.

If you can get some good results during that trial-and-analysis period, put your web business on automatic pilot for the rest of the year and enjoy your profits. That’s what it’s about, you need to setup the skeleton that works and let the skeleton work itself.

Web business is about continuous analysis and changes you make during the first few months of incubation, whether that’s the New Year or you have just launched a new site.

As for another example, I launched SiteHoppin.com on January 1st 2008. It’s been a year and web traffic has been steady around 5000 pageviews per day. My next goal? Of course, it’s going to be around 50,000 pageviews by December 2009.

I hope you take year 2009 with a new, clear outlook on how you will “plan” the months ahead. Without plans, you are as good as a sailor lost in the deep, blue ocean.