Does your head spin when you are told to Take Action? Here are 8 quick tips to help you increase productivity instead.
1. Less Consuming, More Producing
Are you devouring all the latest info products one after another and not producing any products of your own? Ask yourself if you are more of a consumer of information products or more of a producer?
Stop concentrating on what everyone else is producing and focus on what you want to achieve. You are going to find it much easier to make money online if you start to develop your own product line. Only use other products to support where you already plan to take your Internet business.
2. Only Buy Relevant Products
Do you buy everything your favorite guru produces just because it’s their latest product? Or do you stop to consider if you really need it? Does it fit in to your current business plans? Will it help you achieve your goals or distract you from them?
Only buy products that are relevant to the goals you have for your Internet business. A product that helps you achieve something faster, better and more easily is good. A product that teaches you a brand new strategy that is separate from your current business, whilst not necessarily bad, might only distract you from acheiving greater success in your existing business. Put simply, know how you will use the product before you buy.
3. Take Immediate Action
When you buy your products do you skim through them or do you read slowly so you fully absorb and understand the concepts? Whichever method you use isn’t really important. What you need to ask yourself is, did you take any action on what you just learned?
If you don’t apply your new found knowledge, the chances are you might never apply it. You might find yourself back on the Internet marketing carousel spinning from sales page to sales page looking for the magic product that is going to work for you. The truth is, if you don’t take action, the best product in the world won’t work for you.
4. Perfection = Inaction
Now that you’ve decided to create your own products you’re not trying to create the perfect product are you? One that is grammatically correct in every way, formatted perfectly and a cover that Leonardo DaVinci would be proud of?
Yes we want our products to be of a great standard but we aren’t concerned with perfection. I could show you a whole host of top selling Info products full of spelling mistakes, grammatical errors and badly designed covers. The point is they are selling and that’s what we want. Your product doesn’t have to be perfect it simply needs to solve a problem and has a hungry crowd of buyers ready to pay for your answer.
5. Keep it Simple Stupid!
Are you trying to come up with a one size fits all 300 page report that covers every topic you can think of concerning Internet Marketing or every aspect of your niche? Are you trying to create a product that appeals to everyone?
Ask yourself what would be easier to read, one huge 300 page manual or Ten 30 page reports each covering a single topic. Which do you think would be easier to sell?
6. Make a Plan
Do you know what you’d like to accomplish today? What about tomorrow, this week or by the end of the month? Have you got any idea at all or are you just winging it?
You need to be disciplined and make a plan of action. If you don’t like the word action… just make a plan! You might want to think about keeping a notepad on your desk somewhere where you can refer to it easily and update quickly if need be. At the end of the day you can write what you want to accomplish the following day. At the end of the week plan out what you want to achieve the following week. You’ll find you accomplish much more if you schedule your tasks.
7. Stop Checking Your Email!
You switch on your computer and what’s the first thing you do? Rush off to your inbox to see if you have any messages! You read a message from your friend who asks you to check out a great new site! You run along to the site and your friend is right there’s some really great stuff there!
What have you done? Immediately you’ve wasted 30 mins or maybe an hour or more of your time. If you are going to check your mail in the morning make sure you set aside a specific time to do this. This time must not eat into the hours you put in to working on your business. Alternatively check your email at the end of your working day. At least that way you can be confident you’ll get the work done without distraction.
8. Overcome Fear of Failure
You’ve taken the first step and you’re creating your first product but in the back of your mind you keep wondering if it’s really good enough? You tell yourself that you hope it doesn’t fail. You’ve poured your heart and soul into this project and you can not let it fail!
First of all you shouldn’t be betting your success on only one product you need to create multiple products. Secondly failure is nothing to be feared. If you haven’t failed I’m willing to bet you haven’t made much progress either. If a product fails the only thing to fear is not learning from your mistakes. Failure can provide you with some great data for improving your next product. Don’t be afraid to fail – be afraid of having no failures.
I’ll leave you with this quote from Thomas Watson Sr. (founder of IBM):
“The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate”
