How To Achieve More Results In Half The Time - 3 Simple Steps

January 8, 2008

I initially planned another kind of post but was quite caught up with a bunch of work last weekend right until now.

However, during this time of work I learned some pretty useful ways to make my marketing work more effective.

In turn, I felt that it would be nice to share this with you as well. For the past few days (and late nights) I’ve been toying with the idea of revamping my main name squeeze page plus another project for placing classified ad or paid advertising.

While this is a fairly new idea for me, it isn’t new to the Internet marketing or affiliate marketing arena. Sure, I’ve been blessed with a quite good stat of visitors coming to my main site at simple-riches.com but I figured if there was ever something that helped me get to where I am today is how I have utilized my time to the best.

Thats why I’m going to give you the 3 steps that will help you get more done in half the time it takes:

1. Make a determined plan and stick to it, follow through every step

I’m going to elaborate this a little more. Say for instance you have a plan to setup a website and need to drive traffic. Which should you do first? Of course, its setting up the website.

But here is where it gets interesting. While you’re designing your website and putting all those nice words and images… get started by giving thought to ways on how to drive traffic to it.

Sure, there’s lots of ways that you can generate traffic online. I’ve already covered them in my Quality Web Traffic Report, so just go download and read up about it.

The one thing you need to keep in mind is that when you have a plan stick to it and don’t get distracted by reading other reports and buying more tools than you ever need.

Try not to do anything you usually do for entertainment unless it involves spending time with your family and friends for good clean fun. You work time should be scheduled in very tightly into your daily activities time slot.

2. Initiate a discussion with fellow marketers to swap ideas

Sometimes, the best advice you can get is a 3rd persons pespective. Some of the things that I couldn’t see were seen by other colleagues of mine in a forum that I actively participate in.

Sure, they may not be billionaire guru’s but the one thing I respect about them is at least they are honest. The truth might hurt sometimes but you will find that the more honest the opinion… the faster you can correct or tune your design for the better.

On the other side of the coin, there are some discussions that you may learn a bunch about what you’re doing as well. Such as, if I’m doing web design and I read up on a discussion thats talking about where to place opt in boxes or the right headlines to use.

Heck, these are things you should take immediate notice and take them down as sideline notes.

By the way, let me mention this here.

I’ve got a lot of respect for freelancers, but you should be cautious when you’re selecting someone to do some work for you. The only way to tell if someone is honest is to work with them or ask other peoples opinion.

Don’t go nuts and buy into their hot sales page about how great and mighty their sales pages are to you.

3. Anticipate varying results and learn to improve them

When you have got your marketing campaign rolled out or start seeing some fruits of your labor, don’t stop there.

Expect to do more than you have planned. The top marketers online really achieved great success by doing more than their competition did. So, if you wrote 1 article last week, then try doing 2 articles this week.

Better yet, if you see a new way to generate traffic , take 1 weekend to test it out by doing a ‘preliminary’ project. There’s may ways to really improve yourself literally.

The only key thing is not to lose your momentum and keep updating yourself with new trends or marketing tactics.

I spend my “free” time scouting the forums and article directories for extra information on what I need to learn. Plus, sometimes if there are other products which I find useful and good value for money I’d purchase it too.

After all, you can’t expect to get the best value content for free all the time!

Learn to believe in not only improving yourself via investing in good products but also constantly test and tweak your marketing results.

Even right now, I’m still planning a few ‘mini projects’ to up my marketing campaigns. Call it momentum in action

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