What Are You Going To Do To Improve Your Productivity in 2010?

Well, here in Australia it is New Year's Eve - with 2010
fast approaching.

It's the time for New Year Resolutions to cover all aspects
of your life (so that you can achieve some balance).

However, I just want to focus here on improving personal
productivity in your online business.

I've been reading some great resources lately to help
me overcome information overload and to improve
my productivity.

Here's two of them:

Scaling Yourself 
(a superb blog post from Pro-Blogger, Chris Brogan,
that lists the ways he has been trying to improve his
productivity - we all suffer from the same temptations!!)

IM Productivity Secrets
(New membership site from Lance Tamashiro &
Robert Plank that addresses the issue of Information
Overload.  Focus is on time management for productivity
improvement - with free email course and excellent
hints in the sales page.)

My 2010 Goals and Activities

Well I've been thinking of how I'm going to put some
of these ideas into practise. So here's my first cut
(it's not New Year's Day yet!):

GOALS:
(allowing for my full-time job as an
organizational consultant):

1.  Build my Joint Venture with Squidster (Anne)
and Chef Keem (Achim)
(focused on helping small business to brand themselves
effectively through social media)

2.  Use my Internet Marketing expertise to promote
my HR consulting business, Merit Solutions:
http://www.squidoo.com/merit-solutions-brisbane

3.  Focus on promoting (via social media) 
two Affiliate Products/Services that I can personally
vouch for:
12 Second Commute 
(A suite of Internet marketing tools - I have known the CEO
for a couple of years and I can vouch for his generosity,
genuineness and quality offerings which I have used
since 2006.)
One Week Marketing Plan
(PotPieGirl's marketing plan incorporating Squidoo,
article marketing, blogging and other social media. I've
proven the effectiveness of this plan though marketing
the product itself using PotPieGirl's approach.)

4.  Produce 3 E-books/Reports
(linked directly to goals 1 & 2 - one is well on the way)

5.  Write 3 Blog Posts per week
(incorporating both this blog and my JV blog)

6. Provide a free, fortnightly webinar on
Squidoo and social media marketing, for
12 Second Commute members.


RESOLUTIONS:

1. Create one piece of original content per day
(blog post, article or e-book chapter)

2. Write original content each day before
processing email 
(to avoid getting side-tracked)

3. Spend 5 minutes each day accessing the power
of concentration system:
http://powerofconcentration.net/

Well that's my focus and goals for 2010- what's yours?

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Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and
Giant Squid100. He provides free resources
for Squidoo marketing on his Squidoo authority
site:
http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies

To learn more about Squidoo Affiliate Marketing
check out:
http://www.squidooaffiliatemarketing.com

Subscribe to Ron's free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the e-Book:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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Just do it!...take some targeted action

Ken McArthur recently provided a webcast where he
interviewed the dynamic Mary Wilhite and her associates,
Robert Plank & Jason Fladlien.

The webcast was titled:
Learn how a former Chicago Bears
Cheerleader partnered with two young nerds
who did $160,000 in the last 3 months.

The webcast is a tribute to Mary's energy and enthusiasm
and her colleague's technical abilities.

At the end of the interview Mary commented,
"Every day I took some action towards my goal...
It is necessary to take action...not just read and think.
If you take massive [targeted] action it will take you to
another level." [link and emphasis added]

Ken followed this up with his own comments to the effect
that you should not try to take action on multiple projects
at once. He suggested it's better to have one completed
project bringing in cash than many projects only 90% complete.

He argued that the completed project would then provide the
cash flow for further marketing and product development. The
completed project will also build your confidence.

His advice was to focus on one project at a time.
He strongly supported the idea of a modular approach
to product development

This would then involve serial development of more
complex products. The sequence could be:
. write articles
. build Squidoo lenses
. produce a free e-book/e-mail course from the articles
. build your list via the articles, e-book and squidoo lenses
. produce a paid product, e.g. a comprehensive e-book
. develop some podcasts and/or videos, and then
. build a membership site.

Each action builds towards the next level of achievement.

As you achieve your target, you move onto another level.

Just do it!...take focused action towards targeted
achievements!

Visit the following site for a recorded version of the podcast
and the inspiration to take the necessary next step:
http://theimpactfactor.com/blog/?page_id=234

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Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and
Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo
affiliate marketing on his Squidoo lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies

To learn more about Squidoo Affiliate Marketing
check out:
http://www.squidooaffiliatemarketing.com

Subscribe to Ron's free Squidoo Marketing e-course:
http://www.smsecourse.squidoomarketingstrategies.com/

Ron is the author of the ebook:
Squidoo Marketing Strategies

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