When you first begin learning online marketing you will devote a great deal of your time focusing on specific, short term milestones to help you achieve your long-term goals. Much of the work in the beginning is quite repetitive but it’s this repetition that will ultimately make you successful.

Once you’ve got the basics drilled into your mind and are beginning to see some of the returns on your investment of study, money, and labor you’re probably going to have a “what next?” moment. For some marketers this moment becomes a mini crisis of sorts. But you can head it off if you begin making intermediate goals early in the process.

Defining Your Internet Marketing Goals

The first goals are often basic goals. Learn this. Do that. Build your online marketing empire one blog post, Squidoo lens, or Hub Page at a time. As your business grows your goals need to grow, change, and expand. You need to be able to define short-term, intermediate, and long-term goals for your business and revisit those goals often to ensure they’re still valid.

How do You Define Intermediate Goals?

Intermediate goals for online marketing need to be three things: specific, aggressive, and achievable.

If you make the goals too simple or easy you aren’t challenging yourself enough and you certainly won’t be living up to your potential. You also run the risk of becoming bored and losing interest or letting your campaign(s) slide. Either of these is bad for your bottom line and should be avoided.

If you make them impossible you’ll get bogged down in the details, frustrated, and might quit right before your business has the chance to really take off. There is a bit of a tight rope walk involved but when you find the right combination of challenge and “do-ability” you’ll have created goals that are going to grow your business at a reasonable rate and you’ll avoid many of the “growing pains” other businesses (online or brick and mortar) face.

If you’re too vague about your intermediate goals while learning online marketing you’ll find that you have destination you wish to chart a course towards. In other words, there’s no direction for your business to go. Vague directions don’t work well on a roadmap and they only lead to confusion when it comes to defining business goals. Be as specific as possible for your goals and the plans you make to meet those goals.

There’s a sort of Goldilocks philosophy to Internet marketing that you’ll need to get a handle on in order to be hugely successful. When you find the path that’s just right for you, your business will really take off. Learning online marketing and developing intermediate goal setting skills are vital to that success.

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