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Super Productive ActivitiesBasically there is three
activities you perform online :
Super Productive activites
Productive activities
Inefficient activities
Super productive activities are really easy to identify, they
are the activities that you do, that will establish a system to
set someone else up to do what you are doing. Did that make
sense?
An example is if you are building your own links, it would be
building a system behind that link building process, and then
outsourcing it to someone or hiring someone to do that activity
in house... if you were spending say, 20 hours a week on just
link building, you've just bought yourself back 20 hours.
Productive activities are pretty simple as well...
these are things like finding jv partners, MOST aspects of
building your websites (so long as they are monetized), making
sales calls, getting your ebooks and putting them online and in
clickbank, writing sales letters etc. basically any activity
that is monetized.
Now, ALL these things can be outsourced... yes, I said ALL.
I can guarantee you that out there somewhere in the world there
is someone out there who is better than you at doing those
activities, now you might have to pay for them sure, and when
you're starting out, you'll be doing most of these yourself,
but you start by outsourcing a single component of this process
(the monetization aspect) and as your sites grow, so to does
your outsourcing/hiring.
Inefficient activities is where most people spend their time
on. Checking forums, checking stats (I remember when I first
started I used to check my stats at least 6 times a day... this
was when I was making MAYBE a few bucks a day or something in
adsense... now I get a report done for me that shows me the
stats daily/weekly/monthly, and funny enough, Marc and I are
doing a lot more now)
Don't get me wrong, inefficient time can be useful... but just
recognize what it is you are doing... you are NOT building your
business in forums (unless you rely on it somehow, and if you
are, then that can be outsourced too), you are NOT building
your business by checking your stats 10 times a day... it can
be fun, but just recognize it for what it is.
When starting out, you should focus your time at about
10/80/10... meaning 10% super productive, 80% productive, 10%
inefficient (you'll always have about 10%... in reality it's
more like 50% but let's just say we're hardcore into this...
but we're not total robots)... as you grow your income past the
$2,000 per month mark, it should look more like 20/70/10, at
$5,000 per month, 30/60/10, $10,000 50/40/10 and so on... at
the end, all you should be doing is working on super productive
activities.
The first thing you should outsource, is any income generating
activity that you do, to someone who is better at doing that
activity (writing copy, generating leads etc.)... just make
sure you are making back more than you are spending.
Unfortunately this is a topic that is a book all in itself, but
hopefully I've opened your eyes a little bit into how you
should be looking at building your business, rather than in
just 'dabbling online'.
Rich Schefren from www.strategicprofits.com was the guy that I
heard this from
http://www.strategicprofits.com/
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