I know I’ve said it before, but I’m gonna say it again. You have to take consistent action. Consistent DAILY action is even better.
How do you know where to focus?
This is where it gets a little confusing right? There’s so many pieces to the puzzle. There’s so many different things to do, how do you know what actions you need to take, when to take them and how much to do?
Let’s break it down.
There’s pretty much 2 pieces to the internet marketing puzzle right…
Content creation
Promotion
Where are you at? Do you have tons of posts or lenses done, but you’re not getting any traffic because you haven’t promoted them at all? Then I’d suggest you start taking consistent action on the promotion piece.
Are you still reading blog posts after blog post, and pdf after pdf trying to figure out how to get started? Then you probably need to start taking some consistent action in content creation.
When you make it really simple it gets much clearer to see where you need to put your focus and your consistent action.
How do you choose what to do?
This can be confusing as well… there are so many different techniques, rules, opinions, internet marketing strategies out there, how do you ever decide and start taking action?
You just do. One day you just make a decision, and you stick to it. One day you say to yourself. I’m going to work on Squidoo, or I’m going to build a niche blog, or I’m going to build an authority blog. You then put your blinders on to information that doesn’t help you accomplish that goal ~ and that includes not spending time at the warrior forum, and you just start doing it.
Let’s look at some consistent actions you can take depending on what you’ve chosen to do:
Squidoo:
Build 10 lenses this week. ~ Just focus on building the lenses… next week you can take consistent action to do the linking.
If you’ve got lenses up that aren’t doing well, then make your goal to consistently build 10 links to them each day. Set a clear goal so you know when you’ve reached it. If you say… “oh I’m gonna build links this week”. Then how do you know if you’ve done it? If you create 1 link? A hundred? It’s much easier to stay consistent when you know exactly what you need to do.
I’m going to build 10 links to these 3 lenses every day this week. ~ BAM! When those 30 links are done you’re done. You know it, and you also know when you’ve not kept your word to yourself ~ and that’s when you finish a day and don’t have those 30 links done.
It may come down to 9pm, and Castle’s coming on, and you realize you only have 20 links done. Guess what ~ you either need to keep Castle on in the background or you need to TIVO it, or if you live in a completely non electronic gadget house like me… you miss it that week. I love Castle, but I love being able to take care of my family more. If it means I have to miss Castle, then I have to miss Castle.
Those are the actions for squidoo ~ build lenses, or build links.
Notice…. I didn’t mention anywhere creating lists of products or keywords. Unless you’re planning on selling those lists to someone else, lists of keywords and products don’t make you money. Build lenses or build links.
Niche blog actions:
If you’re building a niche blog I hate to tell you but the action steps are pretty much the same.
Publish posts to your blog, or promote those posts. Again, we’re building content or building links. You can batch process those activities where you write a ton of posts ~ and then date them to post one a day. Then when that’s done you can go back and build links for each post. It’s sometimes easier to do this because it allows you to get into the flow, of either writing or link building.
Authority blogging actions:
Again… the actions are pretty much the same.
Write posts. Promote posts.
It can be a little more complicated because social networking comes in here as a form of promotion, but if you set clear goals for what you want to accomplish ie. get 10 tweets set up to publish throughout the day, you can also manage social media without getting sucked in.
post/promote.
Where are you?
Where are you in this puzzle? Where do you need to put your consistent action to get your sites to start making money and doing what you want them to do?
June Challenge
That’s the challenge for this month. Taking consistent action. Whether you decide to make a goal for the month, or set up a consistent action plan for each week of the month, figure out something to start taking consistent action.
I’ve got some tricks up my sleeve to help you with this one throughout the month so keep an eye out. I’d also love to hear what you’re going to do for your consistent actions… let’s use the comments section to put ourselves out there, to be accountable.
We can also set up a discussion on the Fanpage to help each other out as the month goes on.
It’s a new month, new chance to start fresh.
Decide. Take action.
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Awesome Jackie.
I read multiple blogs daily, and it is always a cool feeling when I read two articles from two totally different bloggers, but they seem to coincide nicely. I read one about an hour ago , that states similar actions, but he says to have the principles down before you start.
If I may leave the link: http://www.blogussion.com/marketing/blogging-marke...
My latest posts show that I am going to be in this exact spot very soon. The gist is "multiple blogs", when do I create vs. when do I promote...although I haven't written the solution yet, I think I may have a good one; wish me luck! lol
.-= Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing´s last blog ..The Future of DEDC – Part 3 – A Slight Modification You Might Like Better =-.
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