The 5 Most Important Things
Hey all… I am pushing toward my goal of $50 a day in adsense, and I am happy to say things are moving right along. I hit $9 yesterday! Yeah! Of course, with adsense one the things that is important to know is that you can make $9 one day and then $3 the next and that is perfectly normal. It can kind of freak you out though.
Over at wp goldmine a few days ago Rachel mentioned the rule of 5 from Jack Canfields success book. If you don’t know he is the guy from chicken soup for the soul and the book is quite good, I’ve read it. The rule of 5 is simply doing 5 things every day to move your business forward. It doesn’t matter what they are, as long as you are consistent.
Well with internet marketing the tasks can get a little overwhelming and somewhat repetitious. There is always so much to do between building new sites and promoting them, and of course there is always expanding old sites (lots of money to be made that way). So the rule of 5 really helps me to cut to the chase so to speak.
I have been writing down what 5 things I MUST get done in my business for the next day before I close up shop that day and then I do those things. Today, I knew I had some stuff to get accomplished with Girl Scouts, so I scheduled 5 shorter activities. They are crucial, just not ones that take me a long time. It is now 11:21 in the afternoon, and I can break for lunch, get dressed (because I am still in my PJs) and get my girl scout stuff done.
Before I implemented the rule of 5 I would have felt guilty, but not now. I know I have made a dent in my online business today. Yeah!
Happy business building to you!
Heather
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I like the idea of the 5 things you must do each day to move your business forward.
When you are starting out online there seems to be so much to learn that many people never get beyond the learning to the doing. Unless you are “doing” actual work to increase your links, traffic or conversions you can find yourself learning everything and doing nothing.
I am on number 3 of todays list ..
Paul
That’s great Heather! If we start at the source, with the basics we can’t go wrong. I decided to just make a feed of my blog, using Feedburner and monetizing it. Now when I visit newbie sites and forums where people are asking a lot of questions, I just keep it relevant. If anyone clicks my link, they see my feed covered with Adsense and Feedburner features (pictures, mp3’s, wav files, videos, EVERYTHING!)
This way I’m able to bring the fight to ring, instead of just sitting on the couch. I tend to get long winded in forums, so I just copy those posts and put them in my blog. Also, seeing as how those posts were discovered using Keyword Tool to form key-phrase-questions and Google Alerts to seek out the people referencing and asking all those questions, my blog becomes more & more virally optimized! Mean while the back links are all over my feed, instead of my feet.
Take the feed from your blog and go burn it at Feedburner.com, then you can fully analyze it, optimize it, publicize it and monetize it. That way, instead of sharing your link in all the blogs and forums, you just post your feed, with audio, video, pictures, special headings & links, twitter, delicious, digg, and adsense riddled all through it. I don’t have to tell you that your site will get a lot more targeted hits that way. And your Adsense will be seen 100 times more. The only catch is, you gotta get out there and participate in online blogs and forums. That’s it!
Finally when people do click on the many links leading to your site, they do it based on something that interested them from within your feed, rather than just going to your site because they wanted to see if your main page had anything nice to offer. Thus, the moment they get to your page, they’re in the groove and are likely to be very impressed with how they ended up there, as well as how nice your blog looks (which BTW really looks good my friend) best of luck!!! Paul
I am still stuck on number one this morning. Seems no matter how much coffee I drink, I can’t wake up. I really like this blog though. Heather is taking the right steps. She’s honest about her purpose and has clarified her plan. Being active on the web and not just fancying up your site is key. You can’t be afraid to interact with others. That’s what blogging is all about. And that’s what business blogging is all about too. Blogs come readily optimized, so you don’t need to pay a guy for SEO, snazzy designs or anything else. Having a good affiliate program eliminates the need to create products. Now an online business is possible for anybody. I just hope that people see it and make use of it. This would result in the government and the public sector being forced to consider that perhaps people are not so expendable.