Goodbye Information Overload...
Hello Opportunity Overload!
I've been done with information overload for a long time now. This is when you learn so much you almost freeze and don't know what to do next.
Awhile back my mentor, Craig Desorcy (fellow Warrior) helped me learn how to put things into action. He'd make video tutorials for me on how to do something specific and pretty soon I discovered how to try to implement something first before turning to him out of frustration. It's helped me learn how to buy something or read something, and then DO it right away without delay.
But then I started facing a different problem. I knew how to do so many different things that I wanted to do them ALL. I wanted to:
1.) Have my own info products
2.) Run my PLR site
3.) Build mass volume of web 2.0 sites (Squidoo lenses, Hub Pages, and Google Knols)
4.) Become an AdWords Affiliate Marketer
5.) Become an AdSense Blogger
...and so on.
It's almost like having a smorgasbord of goodies staring at you. Instead of sugar-laden sweets, it's profit potential luring me to the table. So I made a decision and if you're having this same problem, you might benefit from it too.
I will cross out the ones least likely to work out for me (that takes care of #4 since I have never grasped AdWords even after ghostwriting several top selling AdWords guide).
I will then outsource as much work as possible (and as fitting in my budget) for the ones I want to do. That means:
1.) Have my own info products - I write all my info products myself. I don't like anyone else trying to be my voice. That said, I will continue outsourcing my graphics and I WILL outsource all promotional content I want to stick out on the web.
2.) Run my PLR site - Again, the writing is something I like to do. But I AM outsourcing content to drive traffic back to my PLR site.
3.) Build mass volume of web 2.0 sites (Squidoo lenses, Hub Pages, and Google Knols) - I am outsourcing the content for these lenses UNLESS it's specifically something I personally want to write about.
4.) Become an AdWords Affiliate Marketer - DELETED
5.) Become an AdSense Blogger - I downloaded a free AdSense template from Dosh Dosh. I wrote the first two articles for it to show my ghostwriter what I wanted and now I'm outsourcing the rest.
Now what happens for those who have no income to outsource these tasks? Well, you make a schedule. You can do it one of two ways. Let's say you have 4 opportunities you'd like to pursue - we'll use info product development, web 2.0, affiliate marketing, and adsense as our examples.
WEEKLY SCHEDULES:
Week 1: Work on your info product development. In the first month, use the whole first week to write the content of your eBook. For a 50 page eBook, you'd write 10 pages a day. In month two, you would spend Monday creating your graphics, Tuesday setting up your product on affiliate marketplaces, Wednesday developing an affiliate toolbox, Thursday approaching JV partners, Friday going live. Something like this - break the tasks up into specific segments per day.
Week 2: Web 2.0 sites. You could spend all day every day of the week working on one site like Squidoo, OR you could do Squidoo on Monday, Hub Pages on Tuesday, Google Knol on Wednesday, WetPaint on Thursday and so on. OR...you could do the writing for the pages on Monday and Tuesday and spend Wed-Friday setting everything up with images, links, etc.
Week 3: Affiliate marketing. You could spend Monday gathering your product promotion information - evaluating products, making a file of your hoplinks, cloaking them, getting the HTML for banner ads, etc. Spend Tuesday writing your content an deciding where you want to put them. Wednesday buying and redirecting your domain, etc.
Week 4: Break it up - Monday choose your niche, gather keywords. Tuesday get a domain, install WordPress, find a relevant theme and put it up with AdSense code. Wednesday write several blog posts and post them. Thursday, work on getting your blog indexed and getting traffic, etc.
You can also do your opportunity tasking a little bit different. Do everything, every week. I like this way because then I feel like I'm not abandoning my efforts along the way. So here's what I would personally do if I had no outsource budget:
Each Week I Would:
Monday - Work on my eBook project
Tuesday - Build a lens
Wednesday - Create more content (EZA maybe) for my affiliate offers
Thursday - Post AdSense content
Friday - Bookmark, ping, and Tweet all week's new links and conduct research for the coming week.
You can do this however you want. I use a simple legal notepad and pen to map out my tasks. There's nothing wrong with wanting to taste everything out there. Some people tell you to focus on ONE thing - but I think that's good advice for those who hop from opportunity to opportunity and ABANDON the previous task.
Don't abandon it. Come back to it. Whether it's a once a week or once a day thing you work on, you DO have the ability to grow "multiple streams of income" like those top marketers always brag about - even if you're a total newbie to making money online.
Tiff
I've been done with information overload for a long time now. This is when you learn so much you almost freeze and don't know what to do next.
Awhile back my mentor, Craig Desorcy (fellow Warrior) helped me learn how to put things into action. He'd make video tutorials for me on how to do something specific and pretty soon I discovered how to try to implement something first before turning to him out of frustration. It's helped me learn how to buy something or read something, and then DO it right away without delay.
But then I started facing a different problem. I knew how to do so many different things that I wanted to do them ALL. I wanted to:
1.) Have my own info products
2.) Run my PLR site
3.) Build mass volume of web 2.0 sites (Squidoo lenses, Hub Pages, and Google Knols)
4.) Become an AdWords Affiliate Marketer
5.) Become an AdSense Blogger
...and so on.
It's almost like having a smorgasbord of goodies staring at you. Instead of sugar-laden sweets, it's profit potential luring me to the table. So I made a decision and if you're having this same problem, you might benefit from it too.
I will cross out the ones least likely to work out for me (that takes care of #4 since I have never grasped AdWords even after ghostwriting several top selling AdWords guide).
I will then outsource as much work as possible (and as fitting in my budget) for the ones I want to do. That means:
1.) Have my own info products - I write all my info products myself. I don't like anyone else trying to be my voice. That said, I will continue outsourcing my graphics and I WILL outsource all promotional content I want to stick out on the web.
2.) Run my PLR site - Again, the writing is something I like to do. But I AM outsourcing content to drive traffic back to my PLR site.
3.) Build mass volume of web 2.0 sites (Squidoo lenses, Hub Pages, and Google Knols) - I am outsourcing the content for these lenses UNLESS it's specifically something I personally want to write about.
4.) Become an AdWords Affiliate Marketer - DELETED
5.) Become an AdSense Blogger - I downloaded a free AdSense template from Dosh Dosh. I wrote the first two articles for it to show my ghostwriter what I wanted and now I'm outsourcing the rest.
Now what happens for those who have no income to outsource these tasks? Well, you make a schedule. You can do it one of two ways. Let's say you have 4 opportunities you'd like to pursue - we'll use info product development, web 2.0, affiliate marketing, and adsense as our examples.
WEEKLY SCHEDULES:
Week 1: Work on your info product development. In the first month, use the whole first week to write the content of your eBook. For a 50 page eBook, you'd write 10 pages a day. In month two, you would spend Monday creating your graphics, Tuesday setting up your product on affiliate marketplaces, Wednesday developing an affiliate toolbox, Thursday approaching JV partners, Friday going live. Something like this - break the tasks up into specific segments per day.
Week 2: Web 2.0 sites. You could spend all day every day of the week working on one site like Squidoo, OR you could do Squidoo on Monday, Hub Pages on Tuesday, Google Knol on Wednesday, WetPaint on Thursday and so on. OR...you could do the writing for the pages on Monday and Tuesday and spend Wed-Friday setting everything up with images, links, etc.
Week 3: Affiliate marketing. You could spend Monday gathering your product promotion information - evaluating products, making a file of your hoplinks, cloaking them, getting the HTML for banner ads, etc. Spend Tuesday writing your content an deciding where you want to put them. Wednesday buying and redirecting your domain, etc.
Week 4: Break it up - Monday choose your niche, gather keywords. Tuesday get a domain, install WordPress, find a relevant theme and put it up with AdSense code. Wednesday write several blog posts and post them. Thursday, work on getting your blog indexed and getting traffic, etc.
You can also do your opportunity tasking a little bit different. Do everything, every week. I like this way because then I feel like I'm not abandoning my efforts along the way. So here's what I would personally do if I had no outsource budget:
Each Week I Would:
Monday - Work on my eBook project
Tuesday - Build a lens
Wednesday - Create more content (EZA maybe) for my affiliate offers
Thursday - Post AdSense content
Friday - Bookmark, ping, and Tweet all week's new links and conduct research for the coming week.
You can do this however you want. I use a simple legal notepad and pen to map out my tasks. There's nothing wrong with wanting to taste everything out there. Some people tell you to focus on ONE thing - but I think that's good advice for those who hop from opportunity to opportunity and ABANDON the previous task.
Don't abandon it. Come back to it. Whether it's a once a week or once a day thing you work on, you DO have the ability to grow "multiple streams of income" like those top marketers always brag about - even if you're a total newbie to making money online.
Tiff
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KenJ -
Thanks
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