Monthly 2010 Goal Progress Update

Remember when I made a list of goals for the new year at the beginning of January?  Well, I intend to keep them.  And part of that is reporting my progress once a month to hold myself accountable.  While I did make some personal financial goals, I’m not the type of blogger who gives out that kind of information, so I’ll stick to reporting on my business goals.

So here they are, in particular order:

Goals For Amateur Asset Allocator

Goal: Generate $5,000 in monthly revenue by the end of the year
After one month, I am on target to reach this goal assuming a reasonable monthly growth rate I think I can sustain.  After a slow November and December, traffic has picked up considerably this month.  In fact, it’s my second biggest month ever in terms of traffic.  That said, it’s probably only my 3rd or 4th best month ever in terms of income.  Still, my outlook is positive.  There’s no room for setbacks, though, so that may be a bad sign.

Goals For Learn Spanish On Your Own

Goal: Generate $750 in monthly revenue by the end of the year
I still haven’t had much time to work on my Spanish blog this year.  Still, traffic continues to grow at a modest pace, even without new content.  If I can manage to put out only one or two posts per week, I think this number is obtainable.  January was an above-average month, but nothing spectacular.  I’m going to need to bump up my output to reach this goal.  Consider this one behind schedule.

Early Retirement Blog Goals

Goal: Generate $1,000 in monthly revenue by the end of the year
Early Retirement Blog is my newest project.  I just got around to putting adsense on the site a few days ago, so not really anything to report income-wise;  however, a few of my posts have gained a bit of traction with a few bloggers linking to them.  Nothing significant by this blog’s standards, but it’s made a major impact on ERB’s traffic.  The blog has started getting search traffic as well, but it’s still at a pretty low level.  If I can build the site up to average about 500 search visitors per day, I think I can easily reach my income goal.  Put this one down as “too early to tell.”  I’m optimistic, though.

How are you doing on your goals?

Carnival Of Personal Finance

Thanks to My Journey To Millions for including my article Easy Ways To Save Money On Auto Insurance in this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance #241.  Other articles of particular interest to me:

Is Buy And Hold Investing Still Relevant by Simple Financial Freedom.  Without fail, after every bear market people begin questioning the value of buy and hold investing.  Needless to say, I am a fierce proponent.  And with index funds, nobody is getting rich off your investment dollars.

Five Reasons 401k’s Kick Butt et al by Personal Finance Ninja.  Mostly I find his cartoons amusing.  Reminds me of Punny.  Say, what happened to Punny, anyway?

Lifestyle Inflation:  Can It Be Avoided? By Mike at Four Pillars.  Personally, I find the easiest way to avoid lifestyle inflation is to stay inebriated at all times so I can’t find my credit card.  I hilee recmmed it.

Why You Probably Won’t Give To Haiti by Free Family Finance.  I haven’t yet.  Oops

Women Outperforming Men? by DQYDJ.  Ummm, I could use a sugamama.  Anybody wanna be my sugamama?