Posts Tagged ‘time management’

Applying CFT Will Bring About A Profits Increase

posted by TheMarbellaSEO 8:43 AM
Saturday, May 15, 2010

In my article “The Difference Between Making Riches and Loosing Money In Web marketing is CFT” I wrote about what Critical Focus Time is, in relation to an online business. (You can visit it by clicking on my author link at the bottom of the page). This additional piece of writing explains how to operate the principles of CFT and obtain the best from it.

Internet marketing coaching has taught me that A simple mistake to make when you first begin employing CFT to your on line marketing venture is to imagine that a commitment to being focussed is enough to make it so. It’s easy to begin really keen and resolute, but not so easy to keep up your enthusiasm. Roughly 6 days into your new way of  working you’re likely to discover that building a fresh habit is not as easy as just deciding to do so. CFT, like any new ability or habit, demands unfailing effort.

So, do not imagine that you will get your CFT right the initial occasion you try it out. Like all motivation techniques, the chances are you will need to practise until it turns into 2nd nature. While you are practising, recognize that you’ll make mistakes and let that be alright. When you understand this in the context of practising a new competence you will be more motivated to keep practising until such time as you’ve mastered it and less disappointed if you’ve set backs.

These 3 principles will make your CFT bring higher returns:

1. Eliminate Everything That May Distract You

Shut down your phone, close your workplace door, and ask your family/colleagues not to interrupt you for your prearranged period.  Concentrate exclusively on the jobs you’ve decided upon and do not be tempted to execute something else.

2. Use A Timer

Start off with 20 minute blocks if you’re a novice at this, building up to what your optimum work block time-span is. You’ll have to try different times and discover what is the best for you. However, don’t go past fo rt y five m inutes as research has shown that this is the maximum period of time we can focus for successfully.

3. Undertake Recurring Rests Between Sessions

Take rests, up to a maximum of 15 minutes for a 45 minute chunk of work. Take that time to get up from the desk and move away from your computer. Perform something that needs you to shift your body.

So, now the only thing that is outstanding is for you to make a commitment as to how many blocks you will do every day and make it a part of your success mindset. Start slowly and work your way up and, keep in mind, practice, practice, practice.

If you run an online business, you have so many things to think about. You must seize contol of the always growing list of tasks.

One of the many things that you must do is to manage your article marketing efforts to increase efficiency. Surprisingly, a very time consuming part of article marketing is simply coming up with unique ideas to use as topics for the articles. Whatever improvements you can make in speeding your article subject choices can have a positive impact upon the overall success of your business.

With that in mind, here are a few tips about how to find useful article topics.

- Every business should keep a list of every question asked by customers or prospective customers who email or call. Many of those questions can be turned into short, informative articles.

- Scour the trade publications to which you subscribe. View each article from the perspective of your potential customers. Find a way to present those ideas that is consumer oriented rather than simply being for the insiders who happen to be in that industry.

- Spend some time a Yahoo! Answers. Conduct searches on keywords that are within your niche. Learn what questions have been asked there, categorize those, and soon you will have a lengthy list of topics for future articles.

- Search at top article directories (maybe EzineArticles and GoArticles, for example) for articles dealing with your business category. You will probably find some ideas that could benefit from being approached from a different angle.

- Read again the articles that you published on your own website. Can these be written in a way that they appeal to a broader audience and have a bit less of a marketing focus?

Coming up with topic ideas tends to have a cascading effect. When you come up with one, that seems to bring up other, related subjects. Write all of them down. In other words, generate a big enough list that your brainstorming efforts result in enough topics to last you a while.

 

 
Marbella SEO | Website Marketing Marbella | SEO Consultancy Marbella