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)
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Those before-and-after picture are insane! You are effing rockstar! You’re really a inspiration. Props to you, Jeremy.
wow your wife is a very lucky woman! Money and looks!
well you did get a little more hairy ! lol
congrats though, thats amazing. I do like the half fold on the underwear in the old pic
I believe I predicted shoemoney stripping… Not far from it… Only 2 clothing articles left…
Dude, shave off the hair.
hey the year is not over yet
I tried that … once… my wife said she felt like she was sleeping next to a porcupine =(
Dear lord, now that’s what I call progress.
Unbelievable.
Hey thanks… I cheated at first to get started with weight loss surgery… I have a follow up post in que I will be posting. I get a lot of questions about it.
we all have our fetishes… even if it involves porcupines
(I’m not speaking for myself here)
I think the hair is super sexy!
Great job with the weight loss, that can be difficult even with the surgery. A lot of people just end up going back to the way they were. Also congrats on doubling your profits!
Wow, congrats on the transformation. Losing 225lbs is no easy task even if part of it is due to the surgery. Looks like the training sessions are really paying off.
Was that also in the list?
“increase hair (not in head) by 500%”
Great job on the goals but you’ve turned down 3 invites to the Mansion?!?!? Damn you!
I’m showing my sister this blog, four years ago she had gastric bypass surgery and lost originally around 200 – 230 pounds, she weighed 400 before the surgery. Now she’s gained back some of it and eats for crap because she never had to actually work to get the weight off, kudos for not copping out with a surgical procedure. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but I personally believe the discipline it takes to lose it once the right way, will stay with you for life.
A shortcut is just that, you usually have to go back over that same ground eventually. Congrats on ALL of your success! You motivate me.
Super true. Its a major give and take. If you have weight loss surgery but then never do anything you will get fat again and also have all the negatives with weight loss surgery. I now do weight training 3x a week and cardio at least 1 time a week. I also have to take Vitamin supliments from the malabsorbtion effects of the weight loss surgery (vitamin d-e-a-k + calcium)
Lots of people have the surgery and get fat again, the surgery hardly guarantees anything, good job man.
What did you do when you “restructured ShoeMoney Media Groups focus”? Care to go into that or is that trade secrety?
And the Playboy mansion party invites that he doesn’t go to
LOL. “Done! We Provide Solutions!” Lol That made me laugh. I always am saying goals are important.
Did you know that you’re among the only 6% of people in the US who actually write down their goals and review them?
It is great to see that you not only have goals, but you are also closing in on most of them. I strongly agree that you need to have goals in mind in order to increase profits!
He said he never got the chance to attend; means that he would like to but can’t…
Wow, super cool to see all the goals you had and how you are coming along. A 100%+ increase in profits is really impressive. And I love your corporate website
not sure that there is any improvement in your looks from those 2 pictures!
That before after shot is insanely crazy!
Notice how noone cares about the profits, they come here to read about your inspiring stories, i.e. weight loss. Its not always about the doe (although its nice). Keep up the good work and lead by example.
Wax on, wax off grasshopper
I should talk, hairy beast that I am.
Always a good idea to do a mid year goal review. Looks like you are on track in everything that matters.
The only time my sister got real disciplined about her vitamins was when she was pregnant with my nephew. It’s great you follow Dr.’s orders…my sister was even in a support group and all that, still didn’t stick to it…I always was the willful child, lol….
Those vitamins are very important…
My bad, I didn’t think you’d had the surgery, but I’m glad you’re following docs orders. If only every person did that, lol…
That picture is amazing. You couold put there some ad to some weight loss pills and make bank with it.
The surgery was realy working. I have seen some people who looked same after such surgery and few years.
LOL…I last one rocks!..I thik I need to make my own this list as well! If you translate this site…i think it could count for making a world differance. I mean you get daily post..your helping all of us…which then we help someone else and that reaches everyone!…
Your site is why started printnpost where i’m now helping others make money online and i’m no where at the skill level you are..but i know i can still help newbies.
You are nuts for not going to the Playboy mansion. I would drop everything attend one of those. Imagine the value of seeing all those perfect women without their airbrushing?
Send me in your place if you can’t make it:)
Massive kudos on the weight loss!
You’ll live longer and be able to enjoy all that money more because of it.
fyi: I tried logging in with my OpenID, but it still asked for the name and email fields to be filled in.
Shoemoney is not more hairy. The hairs are just closer together
I am not gay, but Shoemoney looks hot!
Dude those before and after pics are crazy. Looks like you are really going all out with your weight loss.
Talk about turning your life around. You’re great proof that anything can happen if you put your mind to it. Congratulations!
Very sexy man, with hairly body…
Congrats on the weight loss. Being married and going to the Playboy Mansion just sounds like a recipe for disaster. So again please forward them to this married man
Wow, I had no idea that you used to look as big as you did in 2003. That’s a huge accomplishment to lose all that weight and gain the muscle mass you have! I’m truly inspired.
With that said, I have a serious question that I hope you can answer. Do you think losing the weight has positively effected your professional efforts in any way, whether it be something as simple as encouragement, greater vigor, demonstrating your ability to succeed to yourself, or something similar?
Cool man. Congrats on it all. The website thing is hilarious. A few days ago when I went there I thought my computer was screwed up and not loading.
Heh. Apparently not. Or at least not yet…
Wow.
A great example of writing your goals down and acheiving them.
Keep Smiling,
Kevin
UK
Anytime you don’t get to go to those parties, you’re more than welcome to send the invite to me!
Shoe, I’m curious – what is your greatest accomplishement that you didn’t plan on? What was your greatest mishap this year?!
Mr. Shoe… I have an excellent idea, you could give 2 of those Playboy mansion invites away on your blog and become the ultimate link bait master of all time!
And even though I would have to travel many continents and risk life and limb to get to it – I would take the 3rd off your hands for coming up with such a superb idea.
Love your corporate website – its nearly as informative as mine!
How about learning proper English grammar as a goal?
lol… whatever you say.
thats interesting, i would definitely be interested in that follow up post
haha another fool bites that always cracks me up
Hah, I like your company website.
Yeah, I knew that you had the surgery, but what impressed me the most is that you kept the weight off and gained muscle, like everyone else is saying it’s hard to maintain, GPS is not the cure-all, it still takes effort. Props to you.
Good job on everything there so far. I wish I could create great goals like that.
Oh, and Jeremy, if you still need another designer, I highly recommend Matt Brett, one of the best around
good things come to those who search for them …
good post, correct me if im wrong , but didnt you posted the before and after photos already in another site? i could swear i saw them in another site..
wow, while your other goals were interesting to see and review, but i think the photos take the cake! So any weight-loss companies signed you up as spokesperson yet?
Congrats on reaching some of the goals, shoe! Well done on losing so much weight, too. Imstruggled with obesity too in my youth and it’s good to see you looking all the better for sticking to it.
Steve
I have been to Heffner’s hilltop two times. It is much classier than you might think. Beautiful grounds.
Went to a reunion party for the Playmates of the Year, which sounds great but most of the ladies were dressed down, older and smoking a lot. Not quite the fantasy, they were regular people! Most of the ones I spoke with wanted to complain about the company and what it hadn’t done for them lately.
Great place for a party. Hef didn’t ask me back.
I can’t wait to see what you come up with about PPC and a website that changes the world. I’m sorry..but AuctionsAds hasn’t changed the world.
(PS: I use it on two blogs and have made a few bucks from it)
*Warning* Provoking statement incoming: but I guess if you are American, the US is the world and AuctionAds works great there
I did forget to say: I had you idea you were overweight. Great job!
Yeah me too. I think a lot of people put the weight back on easily because they dont change anything about their diet/lifestyle.
Good to see you kept it off and then some.
3 parties at the playboy mansion? How could you turn that down? I think I remember you mention one invitation that your wife got? What are the other 2?
Progress? Get your ass to work on that corporate website!
Forget changing the world, help change me
Congrats on losing all of that weight, it’s certainly no easy task. If you ever need help with a weight lifting or training regimen – shoot me an email and I would be happy to help.
Just as an idea, I think you would be successful with a site on losing weight, with your own example of “before and after”.
Holy crap, are those before and after photos real? If so, that’s amazing mate!
Don’t even get me started on what it’s like to be a hairy guy! Thanks a lot for those genes, Dad!
Haha, yeah, I’ll gladly take your place at one of those Playboy parties!
Great Job Jeremy, stick to the diet and excercise
This post inspired me to update my goals list last night. Once again, thanks for the reminder on this!
Nice goals, hopefully you can stay humble
Good picture!!! It looks like one of the guys i put through my dating bootcamp.
the before and after is amazing.
i am all about transformations. good post.
david wygant
ya may want to take a pair of clippers to that hair shirt shoe… I do…
Goals goals goals.. the most important thing in successful business. Great post, more informative stuff the better.
Thanks!
I guess I’m pretty new to this site in that I’m only used to the skinny Jeremy. That’s a really impressive improvement over the last 4 years or so!
Also, I wanted to say that it is really good to set goals like this. Back in May, I set a goal for myself for the month of August. Unfortunately, I don’t know if I am going to reach it
Impressed with the shoulders but your chest needs more work.
Incorporate some good old fashion pressups into your routine but balance your feet about 1 foot above the gound when you do them for extra effect.
As for the overall results – suberb
You are missing the buy me a beer script on this post
“Throw me a dollar im topless”
Your getting ripped out. Thats a hell of a lot of weight to have lost.
dude, forget ppc consultancy. you should totally dedicate to coach me in weight loss.
yes. definitely motivating
Great job with that. Lots of success after hard work is the best reward ever.
wow that weigh loss is so inspiring to others who are overweight
What is your secret in the weight loss
I know right… I’m on it right now…
Not a big reader are we Ouchs?
Shoe, I stumbled upon WannaBeBigForums the other day and there were guys posting ‘before and after’ shots of themselves with millimetres of difference. You should post these pics of yourself there and listen for the sound of their jaws hitting the floor.
Wow, those before and after photos are incredible. Congrats, man!
I almost can’t believe that’s the same guy… you probably just photoshopped yourself, or found some random photo on Google Images, right?
I’m trying to run 30 minutes a day just to shed some pounds. It doesn’t take much to start losing weight.
great post…5 months to go…goals..goals..
Isn’t there a saying: “Shoot for the moon, you’ll hit a star?” It makes no sense because stars are farther out..
keep on truckin’!!!
Ok….As of Today printnpost is doing about $10 per day with adsense. My goal is to be doing $50 per day by the end of the year!…Ummm So if any of you want to support my goal..dont be shy to clicking on adsense ads on my site
lol, everyone congratulating shoe for loosing so much weight, just remember he got his stomach stapled. I don’t know if he had a thyroid problem but if he did not he is just lazy. Less than 2% of the population has a thyroid condition, the rest of the fat people have themselves to blame!
Well done, thats amazing! Keep up the good work
I was also wondering the same!!!
Not anymore hair just less space to distribute it!!!
Just checked back on this, such an inspiration. Great job again.
I’ve been a fan of this blog for a long time, keep it up.