May 27

Successful Routines Just For YOU!

How To Create A 1st Class Routine That "Begs" For Success... (Just - For - YOU!)

Some people may devote 40 hrs per week to their business. While others can only squeeze in one hour per day (if they're lucky).

But here's the thing...

No matter the time allotted, you "CAN" start and grow your dream business if you WANT to.

And one Major Key to consistent growth is to create a schedule and stick with it.

That's what this lessons is about.

So let's crack on...

List of Steps

Step 1: Decide The Minimum Amount Of Time You'll Work Each Week.

This might vary depending on other commitments. However, you should always decide specifically how much time you'll work each day (and week).


Don't fret about whether it's "enough time." And don't worry if there are days where you only have tiny chunks of time to commit ( like 10 minutes here... 10 minutes there). As long as you're consistently taking small steps towards your "TARGET." It's better than taking NO time at all. So, that's why you're going to develop a schedule to meet your lifestyle and needs.


TIP: Having said that, be sure you prioritize you business over less important things (For example... you may sacrifice some of your social obligations or social media browsing in order to launch your business).

Next...

Step 2: Consider Your Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly tasks

Now you'll want to create a list of the initial and ongoing tasks for each period. For example, initial tasks may include...

  • Choosing a domain name.
  • Setting up a website (e.g., installing and customizing WordPress).
  • Doing market research.
  • Creating lead magnet.
  • Choosing Auto-responder.
  • Creating content to upload to auto-responder.
  • Creating an offer.
  • Implementing a single traffic method.
  • Planning your sales funnel.

And so on.

Likewise, you'll also break down your ongoing tasks, which could include things like...

  • Working to grow traffic using the single traffic method.
  • Selecting and implementing additional traffic methods (One At A Time).
  • Working to grow traffic using these additional methods (E.G., finding and recruiting affiliate partners, finding guest blogging opportunities, and creating content, posting to social media, etc.).
  • Creating additional products for you sales funnel.
  • Cross-selling these products throughout your funnel ( E.G., creating emails to send to customers).
  • Crafting additional free content to send to your prospects and customers.

Tasks can be broken down into even smaller steps... so regardless of how much time you feel is important to your schedule, something can be checked off at every step (and more importantly, you'll SEE the progress made).

EVEN IF YOU'VE ONLY 10 MINUTES TO SPARE!

Plus... It's not only invigorating to witness the steps being ticked off, you'll also be creating valuable habits for the future YOU. 

Here are some smaller steps for creating a Facebook ad campaign...

  1. Deciding what to promote.
  2. Creating the ad text.
  3. Creating the graphic.
  4. Choosing your audience via the ad platform.
  5. Creating a landing page.
  6. Monitoring / testing the ad to optimize performance.

Once you've broken down your various tasks into bite-sized pieces, move onto the last step...

Step 3: Develop Your Schedule.

Now look at the tasks you need to do and fit them into the time you've allotted each week. Here are three example schedules filled with potential tasks to give you some idea (your tasks may vary).


  1. A 7-Hour Workweek Schedule where you work one hour per day for seven days.
  2. A 10-Hour Workweek Schedule where you work ten hours anytime during the week.
  3. A 21-Hour Workweek Schedule where you work three hours per day for seven days.

NOTE: Modify any of these approaches to fit the number of hours you have available to commit to your business.

Detailed Examples of The Above Schedules... Just For YOU!

Make sure you cut out time from "useless" activities, so you can move steadily towards a more fruitful life

7-hour workweek (1 hour per day)

With this schedule, the goal is to complete a project or milestone within a one-week period working only one hour per day.


Typically, this will be from one of the three major moving parts discussed earlier (list, offer, traffic) and can include initial set-up activities or ongoing tasks. Here's an example where the objective for the week is to set-up a new list.


  • Day 1: Create a free offer (AKA lead magnet) as an incentive for prospects to sign up to your list.
  • Day 2:  Create a landing page (highlighting the free offer)
  • Day 3: Setup an account with Aweber or some other provider to build a list and begin communicating through it. Write the initial email. Link the account to your landing page. Upload all moving parts. Test the process.
  • Day 4: Write a series of 4-5 follow-up emails with additional free content and adverts to promote your offer.
  • Day 5: Plan your additional email campaigns for the list (free content, follow-ups) and your traffic strategy for getting prospects to the landing page.
  • Day 6 - 7: Flex. Use this time to finish up any of the previous days' work that took longer than expected or get a head start on next week's project.

10-Hour Workweek (Work any time)

With this schedule you would complete the ten most important activities by working ten one-hour blocks at any time during the week.


In other words, the activities for product launch week will look different than the activities for blog set-up week. With this model, you could work a FIXED schedule like... five hours on Saturday and five hours on Sunday. Or you could work in a FLEXIBLE schedule of one-hour blocks wherever they fit into your current week. It could look like this...

  • [HOUR 1] Plan your next sales funnel or free offer, front-end, foundational, and finishing offer.
  • [HOUR 2] Outsource logo and graphics to a qualified freelancer for the new projects.
  • [HOUR 3] Research and outline the free offer and front-end offers.
  • [HOUR 4] Write and send a content piece (article) to your list, along with a special promo offer.
  • [HOUR 5] Monetize / test Facebook ad campaigns to optimize performance.
  • [HOUR 6] Meet with a major partner to discuss mutually beneficial joint venture.
  • [HOUR 7] Create the new free offer (lead magnet).
  • [HOUR 8] Write on the next paid information product.
  • [HOUR 9} Write on the next paid information product.
  • [HOUR 10] Write on the next paid information product for 30 mins and plan next week for 30 mins.

Again, the activities on this schedule will change from week to week based on what your most pressing needs for you business are.

NOTE: It's worth mentioning you shouldn't go very long without incorporating activities from all three major moving parts... offer development, list marketing, and traffic generation.



21-hour workweek (3 hours per day via four 44-minute blocks)

With this schedule, you would cover the three major categories (product creation, email marketing, and traffic generation/conversion) along with a flex block every single day.


This equates to four forty-five-minute blocks per day for a total of three hours per day or twenty-one hours per week.

Here's an example...

Schedule

Day 1...

BLOCK 1 -> Product Creation: Research your next info product.

BLOCK 2 -> Email Marketing: Write and load an email to your follow-up autoresponder.

BLOCK 3 -> Traffic Generation: Find 2-3 new potential affiliates and contact them.

BLOCK 4 -> Flex: Use this block to plan, evaluate, catch-up, or whatever is needed.

Day 2...

BLOCK 1 -> Product Creation: Organize and outline your next information product.

BLOCK 2 -> Email Marketing: Create an article to send to your list (and give to affiliates).

BLOCK 3 -> Traffic Generation: Create social media blurbs and load to your affiliate centre.

BLOCK 4-> Flex: Use this block to plan, evaluate, catch-up, or whatever is needed.

Day 3...

BLOCK 1 -> Product Creation: Write your next information product.

BLOCK 2 -> Email Marketing: Create a free offer (AKA lead magnet) to send to your list.

BLOCK 3 -> Traffic Generation: Find 2-3 new potential affiliates and contact them.

BLOCK 4 -> Flex: Use this block to plan, evaluate, catch-up, or whatever is needed.

Day 4...

BLOCK 1 -> Product Creation: Write your next info product.

BLOCK 2 -> Email Marketing: Create a special promotional mailing to send to your list.

BLOCK 3 -> Traffic Generation: Create an affiliate training manual for your affiliates.

BLOCK 4 -> Flex: Use this block to plan, evaluate, catch-up, or whatever is needed.

Day 5...

BLOCK 1 -> Product Creation: Write your next info product.

BLOCK 2 -> Email Marketing: Buy PLR content to load to a new autoresponder series.

BLOCK 3 -> Traffic Generation: Find and recruit new affiliates or create new affiliate content.

BLOCK 4 -> Flex: Use this block to plan, evaluate, catch-up, or whatever is needed.

Day 6...

BLOCK 1 -> Product Creation: Create Power point slides for your next info product.

BLOCK 2 -> Email Marketing: Set-up a landing page for the new autoresponder series.

BLOCK 3 -> Traffic Generation: Plan out an affiliate contest or launch.

BLOCK 4 -> Flex: Use this block to plan, evaluate, catch-up, or whatever is needed.

Day 7...

BLOCK 1 -> Product Creation: Record slide presentation video for your info product.

BLOCK 2 -> Email Marketing: Analyze your email marketing stats to look for ways to improve.

BLOCK 3 -> Traffic Generation: Work with your top 1-2 affiliates on a joint-venture.

BLOCK 4 -> Flex: Use this block to plan, evaluate, catch-up, or whatever is needed.

Listen...

What's important, isn't the activities listed above, but rather how the schedules are organized into important time blocks.

Point being...

You can build a business no matter what your schedule looks like, as long as you devote what precious time you do have into making progress towards your specific target. Here are three take-aways to focus on from this session...

  1. Use one of the example schedules in similar blocks.
  2. Tweak one of the example schedules for blocks of time that work for you.
  3. Brainstorm your own block of time schedule with these examples as inspiration.

Have FUN!



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      Great to know you’ve taken something from my article… and I hope you find a way to become more organized in life and in business.

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  • Thanks for an informative article.

    It’s easy to fall into the routine of just allocating time only when you feel like it, but I completely agree… 

    That to succeed in any business venture you need to structure and allocate time on a daily/weekly basis. 

    I’m building a business alongside a busy work schedule, and have adopted this approach quite successfully.

    Time that I would have normally wasted browsing social media can be better applied to building my business instead! 

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      In business, it’s always best to “organize” everything you can into systems that work.

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    In order to obtain the desired results, organization and planning are the basis of any activity. 

    Done correctly, email marketing can bring great financial satisfaction. There are many people who do not understand how this works, and there are also those who love it. The advantage of this activity is that it can be automated with the help of an autoresponder.

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