Checking In On 2007 Goals

So last year I posted my Goals for 2007:

• increase company profits by 25%
• 300+ Google Coop subscribers and I am not doing anything with it. Need to integrate Google Coop more.
• Hire a full time web designer (been looking for abut 5 years now)
• Attend an event at the Playboy Mansion
• Make a website that makes a difference in the world
• Play more with 3rd tier PPC engines
• Do more experiments with PPC
• Do more video on my blog
• Be more humble
• loose 20 lbs of fat gain 30lbs of muscle
• Complete my corporate website with good info on services we do offer

Being its almost August we are about 3/4 of the way through the year. Lets see how we are doing.

increase company profits by 25%

We totally restructured ShoeMoney Media Groups focus in Jan/Feb. It was a big gamble but its looking like we will more then double last years profits.

300+ Google Coop subscribers and I am not doing anything with it. Need to integrate Google Coop more.

I still want to do something with this. More of a fun/cool thing to do. I think it would be pretty easy to write something to integrate it with wordpress tagging... I don't want to get spammy though. This is something that I will probably never do.

Hire a full time web designer (been looking for abut 5 years now)

I think I have learned that I like having a good arsenal of contractors for various things.

Attend an event at the Playboy Mansion

I have been invited to 3 so far this year it just hasnt worked out yet... I still have 4 months ;)

Make a website that makes a difference in the world

Hmmm I am not sure I have done this one. I think AuctionAds being that we started in March and have grown to 25,000 publishers showing 300 million impressions a day on over 80,000 unique domains is the hottest new advertising product for 2007. Many people have told me it has helped them a lot. Not sure about a world impact. Dillsmack and I have some bigger fish that might make a bigger splash in the works for 2008.

Play more with 3rd tier PPC engines

I am finding they are not worth it.

Do more experiments with PPC

That will be coming soon. I look forward to ramping up PPC again.

Do more video on my blog

I have done some. I do want to do more though.

Be more humble

Geez I do think about this one a bunch. The problem is everyone wants real world numbers to backup your examples. Its kind of a damned if you do damned if you don't.

loose 20 lbs of fat gain 30lbs of muscle

Getting there In 2007 so far and have gained a bit of muscle mass. I am guessing at this point I have probably lost 30 lbs of fat and gained 15-20 lbs of muscle but who knows really.

Complete my corporate website with good info on services we do offer

done! "We provide solutions" (generally just to ourself)