Marketing Online Secrets

Marketing Online Secret: 6 Effective Ways to Manage Information Overload - Part 1

You wake up in the morning feeling refreshed and ready to go. At 10 am, as you sit down at you desk and on your lap-top, 45 emails come in. You try your best to clear all of them. Along the way, some of the emails offer you freebies that you just have to download. Before you can do so, you need to register through the website and you are hit with a long sales letter. Afraid that you might miss out some great offers, you read through everything carefully and download more free tools that might be useful for your internet start-up. By the time you look up, it is 1 pm and half the day is gone…In the afternoon, since you have downloaded that 156 page free e-book, you started reading up on it. When reading page 12, the plumber came to repair the leaking pipe and you have to attend to him. By the time it is done, you have forgotten about the e-book and started clearing your incoming emails. You have been kept busy the whole day, but you wonder why you never get to finish what you have been planning to do?

Am I describing your typical day? Almost all work-from-home internet marketers will experience this from time to time in their career - it is called information overload. When I first started, everything is refreshing to me and the days are manageable. But soon, my mailbox starts to get flooded and my disk space becomes overloaded with downloads. And I find myself wasting my time flitting from one task to another. This is when I called it to a stop and brainstorm for ways to manage this information overload crisis. Next post I’ll talk about the ways to manage information overload.