My
wife laughs every time she sees me doing it.
At
least once or twice every week, I'll be at my
desk (or at the dining room table) with my Franklin
Covey planner open and a stack of laminated checklists
in hand.
"What
are you doing, honey?" she calls, already
knowing the answer.
"I'm
planning", I reply with a smile.
She
laughs and I get back to work.
She
laughs because she swears I spend half of my time
"planning". But, if you ask me how I'm
able to get as much work done as I do in only
3 hours a day, I'll point to a black Franklin
Covey planner with about a dozen laminated checklists
inside.
Building
an Internet business is easy. Seriously. I'm not
saying that it's not complicated, because it is.
I'm just saying that it's easy to accomplish if
you just have a system in place.
There's
very little in this world that can't be accomplished
with the right set of action steps in front of
you.
Today,
I'm going to give you such a system for building
your Internet business. There are only 4 steps...
1.
Decide What You Want To Do. Do you want to run
an eBay(R) business? Be an affiliate marketer?
Buy and sell reprint rights? Get involved in niche
marketing? While all of those things will likely
find their way into your plan in time, you gotta
begin with one thing at a time.
My
recommendation: Choose a "broad" topic
you are interested in and begin building a list
of folks interested in that topic.
2.
Determine A Weekly Action Plan. After you decide
what you want to do, it's time to determine how
to get it done. What I do is this: I create a
weekly set of action steps. That is, I have a
set of things I do on Monday, on Tuesday, and
so forth. Decide how many hours (as little as
ONE) you want to work each day and schedule yourself
a reasonable amount of things to get done in that
time frame. Repeat this process week after week.
My
recommendation: Begin writing ezine articles to
promote your list ... and affiliate programs.
It's the easiest way to get free traffic and build
your list at the same time.
3.
Devote Yourself To Staying On Schedule. The important
thing here is to stick to it. The easiest way
that I know of to make certain you develop discipline
in your schedule is to NOT set unrealistic expectations.
Give yourself ample time to do each day's action
step - don't overschedule. Look for progress along
the way to celebrate. Reward yourself when you've
reached a milestone. And, remember, you're GROWING
a business. Just like physical growth, it takes
time ... it WILL happen if you remain committed.
My
recommendation: Weave in simple activities related
to the following categories - List building (ezine
articles), product creation(conduct interviews
or hire ghostwriters), site development (making
your site convert more visitors into buyers),and
education (continuing to learn new ways to grow
your business).
4.
Develop Additional Shortcuts. As you get better
and better at working with your lists, creating
products and tweaking your site, you'll want to
continue to improve your business with new ideas,
strategies, tools, and resources. The key is simple:
never stop learning!
My
recommendation: Visit forums. Read articles. Download
reports. Identify sites and resources that CONTRIBUTE
to your success in educating you. You want faster
results, bigger increases, automated processes,
and other ways to get more accomplished and more
profit, with less work involved.
Everything
depends on your developing a plan and sticking
to it.
And
that is the REAL secret to building a high-profit
Internet business!
Believe
it or not, there is a tremendous "operations
manual" that you can download right here
at SR Zone to help you create a plan that works
for YOU. Check out "Homepreneur Habits: How
To Run A Successful Home Business " by clicking
here. You'll learn all the tools you need,
how to setup your work space and how to create
a day-by-day schedule of recommended activities
to start and grow your business.
