Marketing Online Secrets

Marketing Online Secret: 6 Effective Ways to Manage Information Overload - Part 2

1) Plan your day. Before you start your lap-top, write down 3 things you want to complete by today. Choose the most important one and post it on a writing board near your lap-top. This serve as a constant reminder of your top task-of-the-day. Schedule every Sunday to plan your week ahead by setting weekly goals.

2) Organise your accounts. How many hours have you spent looking for that lost password and user name? Keep a booklet that records all your registered passwords and usernames and important information for your accounts such as click bank, web host, gmail, paypal etc. Make sure that the booklet is easily accessible.

3) Keep track of your affiliate links. If you are into affiliate marketing, every product that you promote has an unique affiliate link to it. The worse thing that can happen is to enter the wrong affiliate link and wonder why you never get paid! You can save them all into a word file so that you do not have to log on to retrieve the exact link., whenever you need them.

4) Download post-it note freeware. These handy, colourful post-it notes will appear on your desk-top. I use them to record affiliate links, java scripts that I need to copy and paste frequently. They are also very handy for jotting down ideas when you are surfing or reading an e-book.

5) Set a schedule. Most of us work better with a schedule. You may want to set a schedule when you are working from home to instil some discipline. For example, a typical schedule could be to start work by 9 am, take lunch at 1 pm, break at 5 pm to hit the gym. You can also schedule your e-book reading and surfing to the evening, after you have completed your task-of-the-day.

6) Minimise distractions. Be focused on the task at hand. When you need to work on something important, you should shut down your Outlook, off your phone and TV, and log off from instant messaging until you get it done. Write down where you stop before you go off to attend to other things so that you can continue from there once you come back.

So by getting more organised and coupled with some self-discipline, I’m sure you can keep this grisly monster at bay and get more things done in a jiffy!

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.