The 3-Step Guide to Productive Internet Marketing
Here is a quick method a few of you might like to use to easily increase your daily productivity and get more quality work done. It is an age-old strategy that was even implemented over 100 years ago by Charles Schwab, you can read about him here.
As internet marketers we pretty much live online, and this poses some challenges for us. Mainly you can get distracted very easily from all the time wasting websites around. So how do we work around this? By setting up a flexible, daily schedule of tasks we have to complete.
The first step (which I found made the most drastic change for me) is to list your daily tasks the night before. This helps declutter your mind before going to sleep and when you wake up helps you get started immediately. Make the items on the list specific and doable, you don’t want a 20 item list because you simply won’t complete it. I try to aim for 3-5 tasks each day.
EDIT: Thanks to C G for pointing this out but an important step to add in here is determining the importance of your tasks. I would recommend doing this immediately after writing out your tasks. That way you'll focus on the more important parts of your business. As they say, it's the 20% of your work that'll get 80% of the results. So focus on that 20%!
The second step is to track your progress. Are you actually completing the tasks you set for yourself? Do this by ticking off the tasks when you complete them and at the end of the day give yourself a ranking (from 1 to 5) on how many tasks you were able to complete. This will give you more motivation to continue on this schedule and will show you when you start to fall behind.
The third and final step is reflection. At the end of each week look back over your notes on how you have done. Lots of poor rankings? It means something is going wrong, whether you’re setting too many goals or they’re just too broad. Lots of good rankings? Great! You should feel proud of yourself and keep that in mind for the week ahead. You this feedback to find out what is working or not and make adjustments from there.
Let me know how this goes in the comments. I’m really interested in hearing the results!
Cheers, Zach.
With my degree in Psychology I've made sure it's packed with all sorts of strategies and studies for increasing human efficiency naturally. Stop getting distracted and Work Smarter, Not Harder.
With my degree in Psychology I've made sure it's packed with all sorts of strategies and studies for increasing human efficiency naturally. Stop getting distracted and Work Smarter, Not Harder.