It’s that time of year… the time when everyone sets New Years Resolutions.  There’s the usual losing weight, eating better, exercising more, etc., but this year my goals are all based around this blog, my YouTube videos, and Internet Marketing in general.

Up until now I’ve been posting about once a week on this blog and making a YouTube video about once every couple of months.  (Although, December was so busy for me I didn’t manage to do either.) Well, things are really going to move into overdrive on here now starting this coming week.

The first thing I’m going to be doing is writing a blog post every weekday covering the usual topic of things to do (or not to do) to get famous online.  I’m also going to be making the posts more dynamic by adding video to them.  I’ve created a second YouTube channel called JoshRimerVlog where I’ll create a short video (ie. 1 to 2 minutes) to be embedded into each blog post that I write.  In the video I’ll elaborate a bit further on the topic that I’ve written on so that my blog posts are more interesting and interactive — they’ll now have text, photos, and video.  Speaking of which, here’s the video to go with this one (although I still put it on my main channel for now)…

The second thing I’m going to do is produce another video every weekday in which I’ll be discussing the top trending topics that are being discussed online that day.  To start I’ll mostly be using Twitter’s Trending Topics as my guide, but as more and more social media sites get on the trending bandwagon and share details on what people are searching for or talking about, I’ll start to incorporate more of those as well.  I’ve created a third YouTube channel for those videos called Top Trending Topics.  I’ll also put each one into a separate blog post on this site… making for a total of two blog posts per day.

And finally, the third big change for 2010 will be to get back to creating more comedic content for my main YouTube channel.  I’m going to be collaborating with other people to be able to produce funny & entertaining comedy videos including the usual spoofs & parodies as well as other original topical sketches.  I’m really looking forward to having more people involved in those videos all the way from writing them, to acting in them, shooting them, and editing them.  I’m the organizer of a big meetup group in Vancouver for people interested in film & video so that’s where I’ll find most/all of my collaborators.

So those are some pretty lofty goals when you consider how much time is involved with each thing. It actually means going so far as to turning my main career of running my own video production company doing corporate and event videos into a part-time job so I can have enough time in the day to work on these things as well.  It’s definitely risky because this past year the video production company paid the bills, while YouTube and my blog only gave me a bit of extra spending money, but making a career out of YouTube and blogging and social media is what I really want to do… and I’m not going to be successful at it unless I take some risks and really put in the effort to make it happen!

What do you think? Am I trying to take on too much at once?  Or could I be doing even more?

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