Set Smaller Goals, Get More Rewards

Author: Mitch Keeler

What is the big secret to becoming a success Online?

Set reasonable goals for yourself. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and the Web sites or Web projects that take off over night are few and far between. Unless you are some sort of underground Internet celebrity building a audience that cares about your product, your ideas or what you have to say is hard work.

In the past I have built several different audiences around several different projects of mine. Don’t be disappointed when after a week you don’t have thousands of people coming into your Web site hourly.

Now you want an example? Lets say you have an RSS feed for your blog and you want to have millions of subscribers. If you wait around for a million, chances are you’ll get bored and quit within the next few days. Instead of looking at the big picture, take smaller steps. Set a goal of maybe 10 subscribers to your RSS feed by the end of the month. This is a much more reasonable goal and it gives you something to get excited about when you reach it.

As time passes by you can bump up your goals inch by inch. Truth be told, the only time you should be worried is when you start loosing attention. If you focus yourself on small steady growth (instead of large leaps and bounds) you should be alright.