Hello All,

Considering it is now the second week of March I thought I had better get my Monthly Tasks post out to you to let you know what I have been up to in learning how to create my business online adventure.

Some of you may have read my last post where I mentioned I had a social life and went to an ACDC concert. Just thought I would mention it again, not because I enjoyed the concert, (I had a blast and felt like a teenager again! ) but to remind myself and you about the importance of “work, life balance”.

I have been concentrating so much when ever I have had a spare moment on learning how to set up this internet business that I forgot to have a social life. Having the social life last week reminded me to have fun and enjoy life in the moment as well as to work more towards my future to give me the freedom to have more of a social life.

It has given me an energy burst that was well needed. And I have decided as a way to reward myself for my efforts, that once a month I need to do something fun, social and for me! Time to have some fun and learn too!

The last month has been a very busy month and I have been completely focused on the tasks I have wanted to achieve. At the beginning of each week I wrote a list of tasks I wanted to achieve. What ever I didn’t achieve for the week I moved over to the list for the following week and added a couple more tasks to do. The one thing I do not do is beat myself up or get disappointed if I don’t complete everything.

Sometimes life can get in the way and we can only achieve so much and I do believe it is important to celebrate what we have achieved instead of thinking about what we haven’t done. The reason why I am mentioning this is because I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine about achieving goals and tasks.

When we were talking on the phone she was telling me everything she wanted to do and how quickly she wants to achieve each task. (She is learning about online business too!) While I listened I could feel in her tone of voice that she was getting frustrated with herself and felt like she wasn’t achieving anything at all.

I told her to slow down, write down the big goals and then break them down into bite sized chunks. I then told her to set up a notebook writing down all the tasks she has done each day, such as research, tasks, emails, conversations she has had about her ideas, her thoughts, websites she has visited, articles she has read etc etc.

The reason I suggested this is because I used to think that way about what I was doing. It wasn’t until I started writing my daily tasks down and the lists of tasks I wanted to achieve did I realise I actually get a massive amount done in such a short amount of time. I wanted my friend to realise the same.

What people don’t understand is that this industry does not happen over night. It takes time, determination, perseverance and lots and lots of little tasks!!!!

Speaking of tasks without further comment here is the list to my daily tasks for February 2010.

February’s Daily Tasks:

I completed the following:

1. My usual downloads from the membership programs I have joined. PLR Monthly, Resell Rights Fortune and 30 Day Challenge Plus. (I am starting to have a few ideas on what I am going to do with all the PLR and MRR I have.)
2. My usual daily emails. (I still need to cull myself from a few more lists. The more internet savvy I am becoming the more I realise I do not need to be on every one’s list!)
3. My usual daily Twitter activity. (I have over 1,000 followers now! I know that does not sound like a lot and on average I am only writing a tweet every 2nd to 3rd day, however these followers have just grown over time. I do want to look at twitter more as a marketing tool but at the moment I have other projects I need to focus on and complete. If you want to follow me click on the link at the top right of my site. )
4. I spent quite a bit of time on Facebook both professionally and personally. (I have found quite a few other marketers online on facebook and some really cool fan pages and groups to join. It really is an amazing network. If you want to befriend me click on my facebook link on the top right under my twitter link. )
5. Continued writing up my PLR database. (I need to get this finished and up to date asap. I have promised the people that signed up through my link with JT’s Masterclass that I would give them access to the PLR products I have. Better make this task a focus one! )
6. Continued writing up the questions and answers from my membership with Easily Answered. (I need to get a move on with this task too. I have written up 80 now and have another 700 to go! As soon as I have written everything up I want to cancel this membership.)
7. Visited MyBloglog daily and joined communities. (You are allowed to join 15 communities a day. I have noticed over the last month my traffic increasing from visiting Mybloglog and joining various communities. My time on the site only takes around 15 minutes now that I know what I am doing. My traffic has nearly doubled since doing this regularly, plus I have noticed I have new loyal readers! If you want to join Mybloglog or my community I have a link at the bottom of my right side bar. )
8. Visited fellow marketers blogs. (I still believe it is important to visit other people’s websites and comment where appropriate, not just from the traffic generation and ranking point of view but also to keep the community spirit alive. I have made some really cool friends since becoming more active in the blogging community and what’s more I have noticed we are all helping each other out where we can. )
9. I changed my spray tanning website a little. (I turned my affiliate page into a squeeze page for potential affiliates to sign up with before they get access to my affiliate tools. I did this to avoid spammers illegally using my content. Someone spammed me with my own stuff. I will write about this more another time. It is a blog post in itself! My new affiliates sign up page looks like this www.spraytanningsuccess.com/Affiliates)
10. I signed up with Wizard Responder. (Now that I am focusing on list building I am also focusing on how much things are costing. Although Aweber is great and I have never had a problem with them, they are also quite expensive once your list starts getting big. Wizard Responder have all the features of Aweber at half the cost. Over the next month I will be slowly moving all my little lists over ready to become big lists! )
11. I created a newsletter sign up for my ebay hosting site. (I am about to start selling on ebay and thought I will try and list build at the same time by offering incentives to sign up for my newsletter. At the moment I am offering John Thornhill’s 90 Day Powerseller Challenge as my freebie. I am hoping to add more at a later stage. I have used Wizard Responder for this list. Here is the page link www.jadsdeals.com/news.html. )
12. I re-branded and uploaded a copy of John Thornhill’s 90 day Powerseller challenge to my Jad’s Deals website ready for my new newsletter sign ups. (This took me ages to do. The uploading took nearly a day. I had to do it twice! Here is a link to the page. www.jadsdeals.com/powersellerchallenge.html)
13. I added all my legals to my Jad’s Deals website. (I use the Legal Forms Generator software by Mike Young. There is a link to his website on my legals page here if you want to check it out. It is great software and really easy to use. I haven’t signed up as an affiliate yet. I still need to do that! )
14. I had some new website graphics made by Planet Divinity. (I got some banners made www.jadsbookshop.com, www.jadsbeautyspot.com and www.jadsdeals.com. As always Steve is excellent at delivering awesome graphics. You can see some of the banners on www.jadsdeals.com. )
15. I created an up-sell to use for my bonus CD that I will be sending out to people when ever they buy from me on ebay. (I am going to include a CD when ever some one buys from me on ebay as a way of list building. I am sure that most people may not even look at the CD or join my mailing list or even buy the up-sell, however even if 1 out of 50 does it is still worth trying. The CD concept is from John Thornhill’s 90 Day Powerseller Challenge. When I bought into the program that is offered through the challenge “Your Own Ebook Website”, John gave us access to a product of his that we could use as an up-sell as well as the CD layout. I have had some new graphics made for the CD design. The up-sell I am using is here www.jadsdeals.com/info_bonanza.html)
16. I made my first sample CD for giveaway. (I haven’t used my printer before to print CD’s so it was a fun learning experience. I like learning a new thing every day! )
17. I finally learned how to create a payment button to paypal for my up-sell. (I had no idea how to do this one, so I went hunting for help in John’s Online Training Forum. I found a fellow student in there David DeWitt. He has created a book called “The PDF Paypal Button Guide”. I read the book and it was awesome. Very easy to understand and I followed the instructions step by step and it worked perfectly. If you have no idea how to create paypal buttons then you should read David’s eBook. )
18. I finished creating my ebay sales template. (I am using the template design from my Jad’s Deals website to sell products on ebay. I needed to add in my policies and procedures ready for creating my auctions and sales pages.)
19. And finally, I wrote 5 blog posts over the course of the month. (JT Training Promotion, January’s Daily Tasks, JT Training Week 22, World Internet Summit Promotion, and JT Training Week 23. )
    

OK so that is my list for the last month. As you can see I was a busy girl. My focus over February was to complete my ebay website. I really wanted to get my up-sell and bonus and newsletter prepared and ready for selling. I have 2 sheds worth of stuff I am going to try and get rid of and as people say “Someone Else’s Trash Is Someone Else’s Treasure”, plus I have a credit card I need to pay off!!

Over the next couple of months I am going to focus mainly on selling on ebay and re-establishing myself on there. I also want to look at other alternative sites like eBay to sell products on. I am actually going to try and do the “90 Day Powerseller Challenge” to see if it still is possible to sell digital products on auction sites and not just on eBay. I will keep you posted on that one. (If you want a copy of the challenge for free, sign up to my Jad’s Deals Newsletter! )

So now that this post is nearly finished I had better sign off and get back to March’s daily tasks to do!

So until next time……..

Enjoy Your Learning!

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