I divide my time into what I call “high value” and “low value” activities. High value generate cash and low value does not. Certain things in the day have to be done whether they are low value or not, such as answer or read email. Here is my order, hopefully someone can get some value out of it.
1. Plan my goals for the day
2. Assign the goals in order that will generate cash. For example, on my ecommerce site, I want to add new products or improve my descriptions, so that I can sell more. This leads to more sales.
3. Promote and market said products by my marketing plan. My plan consists of a mix of SEO tactics such as bookmarking, article marketing and video marketing. These three give me the best results and thus land in the high value category. this also includes managing anyone that I have outsourced to do some of these plans.
4. Ship or prep product, since I sold it, it needs to go out. This is sometimes outsourced by employee or anyone I can pawn it off on.
5. Add a new post to one of my blogs. This keeps things moving and i am big on moving projects forward.
6. Fix Problems, could be a customer service thing or other assorted pains.
7. Answer emails or phone calls.
8. Clean off my desk. ( I hate this)
9. Clean up my office. ( I hate this more, but if I get to absorbed into promotion my workspace gets trashed and then i cant work)
10. Plan for tomorrow. I am a list maker, if I can get something down on paper and hang it on clip boards or on my white board, this helps me tremendeously. I have four clip boards that I label. One is called “problems” the second is ‘warehouse”, third is “projects” and the fourth is “misc” I also have a huge white board in which I track a lot of progress and think outloud on.
I hope this helps someone. The Plan changes a lot, but I use this basic outline.
Ken
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