subject: Internet Marketing Success - How To Make Your To-do List Work [print this page] When you work in Internet Marketing you need to be able to focus on whatever your main goals are (making money, building trust with your audience, getting better leads) and actually put in some real work to make those goals happen. The purpose of this particular article is to teach you specifically how to build a to-do list that will help you reach your objectives.
Clear Your Schedule: It's amazing what can be done when you clear out a big chunk of time for a specific task--you get into the zone, as it were--instead of just working on it in bits when you have a few moments. After you get your chores out of the way it's much easier to finish your to-do list because it gives you a great boost as well as a good amount of time to really work. If your schedule isn't clear then you'll find that even the smallest of the hurdles can break your flow, and stop you from completing your to-do list. To start, write down all of the errands and chores that you need to get out of the way so that you will be free to focus on what you need to accomplish to increase your productivity. Add Tasks to Your List, Not Goals: One of the reasons why many Internet marketers fail to finish their to-do list is because they feel overwhelmed. What happens is that they've added tasks to the lists that feel big enough to be goals on their own. Your to-do list needs to be made up of doable tasks that can help you actually achieve your end goals. These tasks need to be small enough so that they are easily achievable so that you can know without any doubts that you are moving toward your objectives. Also, the tasks that you add to your list have to give you clarity rather than making you feel vague. For example, "Get More Leads" is vague and overwhelming but "Call 5 Prospects" is clearly defined and something that can easily be done.
If You Miss It, Do It Tomorrow: This is one rule that is easily taken advantage of by procrastinators so if you have a bad habit of procrastinating, be careful when you are putting things off. Of course, if you look at it through a realistic lens, you'll see that missing tasks here and there will happen to everybody and that's okay. Because you cannot accurately predict how any day is going to go or if you'll have any hurdles. So if you miss a task, and don't do so on purpose, just put it on the next day's to-do list (don't just forget it totally).
When you use these tips to make your to-do list it becomes easy to see that these lists aren't just about taking action, they're also to help you stay correctly organized.
