On March 2th 2024 I posted “En route for the next milestone”. I gave in that post the plan I had to follow in order to get to my 3rd milestone which was to get my first dollar in commission.
Mission accomplished (or should I say commission accomplished 🤑)!
Now that I made my first dollar in commission what I do?
Start procrastinating and wait for the second one? Go play golf?
Of course NOT!
The plan I followed gave me the foundations from which to grow my business on.
Now it’s time to prepare the plan for the 4th milestone. See what works, clean what don’t work, tune what needs to be tuned, make experiments, learn from these experiments and leverage to the next step.
But you must wonder what is this next step? What is the next milestone to my dream life, a life of total financial freedom?
Well on July 9th 2023 I posted “Will I Reach My Goal” where I divided my pathway to success in milestones and made a sequential list of realistic goals to achieve where one can only be made once the previous one is reached.
Imagine! Now I go for my 4th milestone which is: a sustainable 100$ per month. Yes I know. This one is a big step ahead.
But it’s achievable from my stand point. It’s achievable because I made the required milestones before.
Think about it. If I would have said after my first milestone that now I was working for the 4th one, I would have been discouraged without being able to do any clear plan to make such a huge step.
But looking back at all I have accomplished, the things I’ve learned and the things I’ve built, versus the things I still need to do, build-up in me a growing confidence I never had when I started.
Others will called this progress.
I know how to get there, what I still need to improve and leverage, and what I have to do.
I must keep a clear, unalterable mindset, and trust the process to keep progressing. Progress being a step-by-step process.
In order to get a measurable means to acknowledge “a sustainable income”, I’m choosing 3 months. That is, if during 3 consecutive months I earn at least 100$ in commission, than I will be allowed to declare “Milestone Reached!”.
So here it is the plan to my 4th milestone.
MY PLAN
Own Assets: BLOG, Mailing List
Primary Traffic STRATEGY: TikTok
Secondary Traffic STRATEGY: Quora and Paid Ads
TODO LIST FOR MILESTONE 4
- Primary traffic strategy- Create and post videos on TikTok almost every day, build a strategy, learn to get the most out of the platform resources and possibilities, and get over 1000 followers;
- Secondary traffic strategy- Answer 2 to 5 questions per week on Quora, posting and sharing answers is allowed too;
- Optimize my Facebook lead ads campaign and lower the cost per lead (CPL).
- Search and make a list of my preferred “make money online” related websites and do some Blog Hopping by leaving comments on them;
- Continue posting each week on my blog by documenting my journey;
- Update my LinkTree page with a better look and include a link to a lead magnet;
- Take coaching lessons from my mentor Dean Holland and continue viewing the live events from Sophie and Glenn;
- Write and post my newsletter and follow-up emails at least twice a week;
- Continue to have fun!
This plan is not very different than the one I followed for my 3rd milestone, except that this time it’s not much about learning and creating than about gaining experience and becoming good at doing my tasks.
This time, no funnel to do, at least, I’m not expecting to build new ones. Also no email workflow to create, I did one already to reach this milestone and it’s up and running. My blog looks OK for me now so I’m not expecting to do any major modifications soon.
Regarding my primary traffic strategy, I need to get better on TikTok. This means I need to thoroughly deepen my knowledge of the platform, and analyze other more performing accounts.
I need also to apply and practice the video template that Dean calls “the viral video formula” and get good at it. This template involved the following pattern that one can uncover in a vast majority of video that came viral on TikTok, namely:
Hook, Buildup, Delivery, Action.
I think it could be interesting for you to learn more about this “video viral formula”. Maybe I could write something about it in a future blog post.🤔
My focus on TikTok is to aim at 1000 followers. At 1000 followers, I will be allowed to have a clickable link in my profile and this provides a big advantage.
A clickable link brings the leads out of the TikTok platform. In my case I want to drive them to my LinkTree page. Once there, they will have access to my blog, my optin pages, and my social media accounts.
Regarding my secondary traffic strategies, no change on Quora, I just need to be more consistent, hence posting answers more regularly.
Also, my Facebook lead ad needs to be tweaked a little. I need to gain a better knowledge of the Meta Ads Manager platform, and make a better use of the different analytic tools to improve my cost per lead (CPL).
It’s when I stop and look back at all the work I have accomplished so far that I realize I did something impressive and I’m proud of it.
Well, all this is rewarding even if I make no money yet. I recognize that with my efforts I made progress, and this is greatly encouraging.
En route to milestone 4 with my backpack again and let’s make this challenge even more exciting with you onboard.
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See you next week!
Martin
P.S. I thought you might be interested to read the following posts that covers the plans and milestones I did already:
- July 9th 2023, “Will I Reach My Goal”
- February 24th 2024, “On Track To Success: Milestone Reached”
- March 2th 2024, “En route for the next milestone”
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