How Do You Manage All Of Your On-Line Activity?

G'day Aaaaarghhhhh

I found myself in a similar situation recently. What you are suffering from is information overload, and you are wasting too much time trying to do too many things at once, and your time is being spent to sparingly across too many different sites.

What you need to do is get back to basics. Focus on what it is that you are actually doing, and then prioritise the sites by the ones you spend most of your time at, or the ones that are most useful to you. These are the sites that you want to focus on, because they are more then likely the most informative, and the ones you have had the most success from.

Before you get rid of all the other sites though, make a list of all the sites, and your login details, that way you have a record of it, in case you ever need it down the track. Also, you may not need them for your day to day stuff, but they may come in handy, if you are launching a new product or service or something. Add all of these sites into your "Favourites" however group them all in a folder, so that you are not looking at them every day, however they are there in case you need to call upon them.

Only have directly available on your favourites, the sites that you use. There is a lot of useful information out there, but you can't read all of it. So just focus on your main forums.

Other tips that may help include:

- Thinking twice before you sign up for something
- Trying to use a standard set of Usernames and Loggin details.
- Get rid of those sites you signed up for years ago, but hardly use.
- Get back to basics and stop procastinating. Instead of actually doing anything, you time is being wasted hopping from one thing to the next.
- Clean out your favourites list

Good luck with it.

Limit your "forum time" each day. It's easy to spend hours on certain forums, but it's just not ultimately conducive to making money.

True, you can learn a lot, if you learn too much too fast, you'll end up suffering from the previously mentioned information overload. And THAT can stop you dead in your tracks, as I'm sure MANY on this forum can attest to.

Just received this and this looks promising so I thought I would share it here:

What's In My Toolbox

I thought it would be useful for me to share the tools (most free, some with a small charge) that I use on a daily basis when doing online marketing stuff. Most of these will be familiar to people, but I think new affiliates and affiliate managers will benefit from having a list for reference.


The Firebox Affiliate Blog: What's In My Toolbox

Learn to outsource Aaaaarghhhhh.

Managing your business needs while it grows would really allow you to do more things than you used to and working out all these things by yourself will lessen your productivity and focus to "dollar productive" needs.

I suggest you outsource first the admin tasks where participating on forums and managing your videos will be worked out for you. Bestjobs.ph and oDesk are good sources to hire your first virtual assistant. Alternatively, I could help you start with outsourcing and I'm happy to offer my sig for you to check out.

Good luck and if you need more help, just send me a message.

It is hard to manage and keep up with all the forums and blogging. What's in my toolbox is very interesting. Thanks for sharing it with us!