Get Your Priorities Right!

We all have a variety of priorities in our lives which can affect the amount of time we can spend on our business activities. Those who are older or perhaps retired or self-employed might have many hours every day that they can spend on their online business. Awesome!

Those who have a full-time job or a young family might struggle to find even an hour per day to work on their business. This is a tough situation for some and perhaps you might wonder what you should do in the time you have available to make the most progress with your business.

To help you out I have made a list of activities that you might consider to be part of your business. I then categorised them into what I consider to be either high or low priority activities.

High Priority - Highly Productive - Money Making Activities

• Creating content for your website - blog posts, reviews, information
• Creating content for social media - Pins, Tweets, Facebook Posts (all business related of course!)
• Creating videos for YouTube
• Research for your next piece of content
• Studying and implementing WA training.
• Updating your swipe files (collections of content that you can model for your own business)
• Lead generation (creating a squeeze page with lead magnet and email list system)
• Product research - create your own products or find high quality affiliate products in your niche.
• Problem solving - use resources like Google and YouTube to find solutions to problems in your business - don't bury your head in the sand!
• Customer research - what are people buying in your niche and what do they need (create a survey on your site or use research tools like CBengine)
• Create and regularly update your TODO list so you always know what jobs need to be done.
• Build relationships with other marketers in your niche
• Maintain personal productivity by working in time chunks with short breaks - e.g. work 25 minutes then break for 5 minutes and then repeat.

Low Priority - Low Productivity - Money Neutral Activities

• Reading and replying to non-essential emails
• Reading and commenting on blog posts that offer no learning
• Installing or adjusting banner ads in your sidebar
• Choosing a colour scheme and images for your website
• Multitasking
• Using social media for non-work activities
• Searching for new business models (shiny objects) instead of focusing on the proven model you already have at WA
• Moving onto other jobs before finishing the existing one
• Choosing wordpress themes and plugins
• Setting deadlines rather than focusing on making progress
• Comparing software products to use
• Working out solutions to problems that "might happen"
• Choosing new domain names
• Planning more than 12 weeks ahead
• Deciding on company structure - sole trader, partnership. Limited company etc

If your time for working on your business is limited then make sure you are only doing tasks which are high priority and productive ones. By doing so you will ensure that whatever time you have available is being used to the maximum benefit of your business.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this! Is there anything else that you would add to either list or is there something on one list that you would swap to the other one?

All the best

Dave