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Happy New Year from The Sugarbuzz Project!

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Welcome to 2010, everybody! It's time to look ahead and see what kind of goals we can wreck...er...set for this new year. But before we do that, let's take a look at our goals from the past year and see how we did.

So my biggest goal was to see if I could make $1000 on the internet this past year. If you recall, back in 2008 my goal was only $500, which I reached. Doubling that amount really was easy to do, especially thanks to a stellar CPC campaign that I found over at Logical Media. Unfortunately, that campaign is now a thing of the past, but with that single campaign I ended up pulling in over HALF of my goal. Not bad for $0.10 per click, right?

2009 was definitely the year of Twitter income for me. Not only did I find a beautiful CPC campaign to (ab)use on Twitter, but I found many other avenues that worked great for monetizing my Twitter account. If you want to know a bit more on how I made money on Twitter, just click here.

Another major goal was to start building my Twitter following. If I remember correctly, my goal was to have 1,000 followers. What can I say? That was easy.

So what about 2010?

I'm glad you asked. Here's a short list of goals for 2010:

1. Instead of increasing my monetary goal twofold like I did last year, I think keeping it at the same level will be a good idea. So my goal for 2010 for web-based income will stay at $1000.

2. Find creative ways to do some marketing. I would actually like to have a decent side income from my web activities. I mean, I realize that this blog is really just a hobby, but if it can help me pay my bills, why not? Especially since my job is at risk and I've been dealing with some very serious personal issues. The more money I can make the better. My goal is to actually find new techniques that work.

Really, those are my two goals for 2010. I have proven to myself that it is doable. Now I just have to do it.

Outside of this blog, my goals are to be a better role model to my children and friends. This year has been personally devastating for me. I've pretty much lost everything that I held dear; namely my family. So now that I'm dealing with a painful divorce, it's been difficult to keep myself motivated as I should be. The last six months have been hell on earth for me, and I plan to do better for my children as well as for myself. The last thing they need is a dad who they perceive as someone who doesn't care about them. And right now, the best (if not only) way I can do that is to work hard, pray hard, and just try to do the best I can.

I've also submitted my application to go back to college, so we'll see how that works out. I've got about 14 days left to sign up for classes, and my car is dead where it stands. I'm working on a plan to get another car right now, so that should be fun if I can get it going.

Well, that about wraps it up for this year. I hope you all have the best year ever in 2010!