It has taken me several years of my friends harping on me that I have too many projects going and none finished. Here in WA, I've been harped on for having too many campaigns going and getting none of them up to par enough to make money. It wasn't until the Bootcamp when I realized I had to put all but two of my highest priority sites to pasture. To this day, I'm working these two and ONLY these two. One is now making money!
This is a very common problem in the online business world amongst newbies and even seasoned folks!
I kept on coming up with new ideas...and had to have a campaign for each one! If I hadn't resolved to limiting myself to two campaigns, I'd still be living in a never-finished housing development of sorts...my own sea of projects.
What About All Those Projects You've Already Started?
This is where you must prioritize your projects by importance or viability. If you are sitting in clutter created by a never-ending barrage of open projects and find yourself dabbling from one to the other during the day, YOU NEED HELP!
What you have, are not projects...but basket cases.
Keep them in their baskets. Take a few notes on what you were doing in each project, so that when you can come back to them, you will be able to pick up the loose ends again. For now...put them aside and OUT OF SIGHT. Choose the most important projects and campaigns that you feel would be the best, most viable ones that you can move forward with.
It is HIGHLY recommended you have ONE that you are actively working on. You may want to switch off from time to time...do so...on another project you have on standby. This is okay. However you should focus your attention on the main campaign you've chosen to work on until you can get it making income for you.
If you are new to making your living online, you will notice that the most pervading theme for newbies is...ONE project at a time. This is one of the reasons why WA is set up the way it is. You are encouraged to work on one at a time...and the training here sets you up for that in the current Entrepreneur Certification Course and the BootCamp.
Prioritization
Prioritize your projects and choose the best one (two at the most) you will be working on until completion.
By the way: This holds VERY true to the single projects themselves! For example, an online marketing campaign...do not move on to the next page or post until you have completed the one you are on now!
Do things in order. For example: You should not monetize a page until it is ranking in the search engines (preferably achieving first page ranking.) It has been noted that failure to do this will not only produce nil results...it may even slow your page from ranking as quickly as it would without having monetized it prematurely.
As you gain experience, you will be able to take on more than one at a time. However, the most successful will delegate this into being without compromising the success rate. If you are new at this IM stuff...the words of the wise..."one."
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For a very long time, I had the slow atrocious Internet connection myself right here. My earlier content on here and in the old Forum was full of complaints about my connection.
Since then, someone on here taught me how to hack into my landlord's modem from my computer and have since, been able to reset it when needed. They all do. The modem is in the house behind which I live and many times the folks in there were reluctant to take the two or three minutes it takes to reset it. As a result, I'd be without the Internet for two and three days at a time until one of them needed to go on themselves and would reset it.
This was one of the things that impeded my earlier attempts to work in WA and get the job done.
I ran out of steam or I would have included an illustration for the summation at the end but then decided, well, it doesn't really need one and I need to go to bed. So I did.
Thanks for your comment :)
I did this just last Tuesday and came up with a pile of documents three inches thick that needed to be shredded. I don't have a shredder, so I used fire to shred them with.
Between my shed and my camper, I turned out two cans of rubbish. There's more work to do on this end, but when done, it is a GREAT relief to the mind and a sense of newness.
People with clutter often forget what it would be like to have it gone and there is a real sense of freedom that comes from tackling the mess and getting rid of it.
Like I said above, I decomissioned several websites I had. It was time to renew them and I let them go. No sense in paying for these year after year and not doing anything with them, even though they were good keywords.
Clean off that desk so all you have on it are the very essentials you need. You will find it will have a positive psychological impact on all of your work, including your campaigns.
If you have cubby holes and such around your desk, clean those out too and only have a modest amount of stuff that you use every day in them. Note that the office spaces of most highly successful people are very tidy and only what's needed is found in the space. The same goes for the entire home. I once had a lot of media and had it on shelving everywhere. I removed all of that and put it all out of sight. Except for an occasional book shelf, this stuff is neatly stored in closets.
I have 21 email accounts. You can be sure some of these have not been entered into for YEARS! I am probably a holder of a million unopened emails. Entire accounts need to be deleted. Albeit, they are out of sight, out of mind. My latest email accounts are based on content, and this works for me. One account is exclusively for WA. Another for liabilities. Another for other memberships. Another for alternative health, and so forth. These email accounts I use often. The others...
Well, there was a time when I used to delve into those giveaway opportunities. I fell upon one of these in 2004. It was the "119 Christmas Gifts" giveaway by Henry Gold. It was the very first one on the Internet. I've found some of the greatest resources I would ever find (until I found WA later) in that year. None of the later ones did much more for me except fill about ten more email accounts full of never-ending streams of emails that persist to this day.
My oldest existing email account is still bursting with email from subscriptions I created in 2004! I still go into this account and it contains a unique batch of subscriptions. One of these is among the earliest of my subscriptions - The newbieclub.com. I think it has finally updated from the old ugly green and yellow website that had been up since the late 1990s. It was once the main source of my learning online and about computers in general.
LOL! That old green and yellow website is STILL there! It is a relic today, and one that would make it in an Internet museum for pioneering sites that came up just after the days of the BBSs.
Amongst one of my email accounts, I have the very first email that made me aware of Wealthy Affiliate - sent by a friend who had found WA back in 2009 and passed it on to me as something I might be interested in, that she considered was junk.
This particular email, a welcome letter from Kyle & Carson, is the very thing that changed my life. So there are relics in these old emails however few and far they be.
In completing it, I rewrote much of it to make sense. It needed some work. Your expertise in the English language probably finds errors in it, but I try to write right.
I have another resource that was meant to be an ebook. It was a project I had with another member on here but it fell through. Instead of it sitting there, I need to perhaps put it up as a training resource like that no other besides Kyle has used.
It is so large that putting it into a format as used by the episodes used in the BootCamp and Entrepreneur Certification Course would be the only way.
I got your email. I will have it up today if you would like to chat later :)
Daniel
Others I have refurbished. One of these is a personal website I had created which contained my earliest writings on the Internet.
At Jay's advice, the site is now the only one I have that has made me money. It is now my WA campaign.
