All good investment practitioners should review performance at the end of each year compared to expectations at the start of the year and set goals for the next year. My expectations for 2009 were low since I hadn’t even started despite 2 years of thinking about it, so that is the benchmark. So here goes for Texas Holdem Investing:
2009 Milestones
- Set up the TexasHoldemInvesting.com website in April 2009 on the WordPress platform *
- Published 54 blog posts
- Completed the introductory version of the Texas Holdem Investing ebook
- Posted as far as Step 12 of the introductory Texas Holdem Investing program on the website
- Set up the MaskdFinancier Twitter account and signed up to StockTwits
- Set up the TexasHoldemInvesting.com mailing list with MailChimp software **
- Received almost 2,600 visits in Q4 2009 with 6,150 pageviews
- Wrote guest posts for MarketFolly and WallStCheatSheet
- Received recommendations from a number of sites including Abnormal Returns
2010 Objectives
- Continue to produce blog posts with greater frequency
- Complete posting the introductory Texas Holdem Investing book on the website
- Produce an ebook report on poker and hedge fund managers based on previous content on the website
- Finalise the ebook version of the introductory Texas Holdem Investing book and distribute it for free as widely as possible
- Produce the advanced Texas Holdem Investing book and make it available for sale on the website
- Explore the issues around setting up a new blog under the Masked Financier brand based on my private equity industry experience
If there are any other objectives that readers think I should add to the list please let me know.
* The experience with WordPress was tremendous and I can thoroughly recommend WordPress to anyone who is setting up a website. Although it is known as a blogging platform, WordPress is in fact an excellent general website management solution.
** Mailchimp is another excellent piece of software so far, and is free for the first 500 subscribers – again I would recommend it.
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