Another Day, Another Learning Curve..Get Productive!

As you get more and more into the world of Internet Marketing you’ll soon learn that there just so much information to soak in that it can be overwhelming, you ever heard the term “Information Overload?”  Well this can be a discouraging thing.. You’ll spend the majority of the day reading, browsing, and soaking up all of this information yet at the end of the day you really haven’t done anything productive towards your business.

Let me give you an example -

You power up your computer and you and spend some time reading the emails, maybe get sucked into a few sales promotions that you received and end up spending some more time reading the sales letter pages….then you decide to check out if you got any new messsages or friend requests on your myspace or facebook account.  Then after spending some time replying to everyone you check up on some of your visitor stats from last night on your web page, then you punch in your domain and end up going over your webpage…twindling around here and there..Sounds familiar so far?? Then maybe hop on Youtube to browse around on some videos for a while, then you open up a ebook on Internet Marketing and spend more time reading through it..yada yada ya…

You get where I’m going with this.

After a few hours of really doing nothing productive you shutdown your computer and maybe grab a bite to eat and end up repeating this same routine the next time you open up your computer. Funny thing is you feel as though you’ve been productive but in reality you have done nothing towards the growth of your business..Nada, Zilch.  And this pattern repeats itself over and over daily, No wonder you feel as though your seeing no progress wanna know why?  It’s because your spending the majority of your time focusing on things that aren’t building  your business!  I know I’ve been there!

Let’s change all that around!

Instead of focusing on things that don’t bring in any money lets focus on some things that will. Try to focus on doing these productive things first before you reward yourself with spending time doing leisurely things on the Internet.

You can split it up like spend an hour doing something towards your business and then take a break for 30 minutes or so and enjoy some funny videos on youtube, something of that nature if your the type that can’t stay focused on a task without some break time. As long as you are doing more ‘work’ than ‘play’ you will be okay.

Anyhow, here are some things you can work on doing.

1. Write 250-350 word Articles – This is content for your blogs, website, products, reviews, etc…
2. Keyword and Product Research  – Finding new niches, New Keywords to use for you articles, headlines, and new possible niches to think about monetizing for profits.
3. Web Site Design – Update your website, load up content, improve your conversions, learn more about it…etc..
4. Write Emails – Contact JV partners, Reply to Customers, also these can be used for future email promotions in your Autoresponder series, save yourself the hassle and get some done and ahead of time.
5. Learn Productive Things! - How to use that new software you got, web design, how to create a blog, how to do some html, how to set up an autoresponder, etc.. Doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to do so just spend some time learning the ropes, no ones gonna laugh at you if you mess up, I promise!  Getting hands on experience is worth sooo much more than just reading about how to do, trust me..give it a shot!

These are just a handful of things, I’m sure you can come up with a few more productive things but I wanted you to see what I mean by spending your time creating and building for your business instead unproductive things, you’ll be amazed at how much your business grows just by doing one thing a day, even if its small..it all adds up.

Everyday I learn something new, wether its how to use the latest video editing software, or some html stuff, or how to write a better article.. As long as your time is spent on something productive it’ll pay off in the long run, so if you feeling as though you’ve been a little unproductive then make sure the next time you fire up your computer to set a goal to get some work done first, you’ll thank yourself later for it!

Til next time,

Tuan