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Some
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Website Traffic
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© by John
Baril
The Internet is
one of the easiest places to get
distracted, so how is your Internet productivity? You may have good
intentions
when you get on, but if you do not have a clear plan of action and set
goals
that you want to accomplish, you may find yourself easily getting
distracted
and ruining your productivity. This is not a good approach for you to
increase
website traffic.
For instance,
you might check your e-mail when
you log on, but if you find an interesting e-mail and click a link in
it, you
can easily be lead away from your main objective and spend most of your
time
reading and clicking and not getting any of your tasks done.
As much of a
distraction the Internet can be, it
can also be a great productivity booster if used correctly. For
instance,
contacting 100 people without the Internet would require you to stuff
100
envelopes or make 100 phone calls, whereas now, one message can quickly
be sent
to 100 people via e-mail at the click of a button.
To help you
boost your Internet productivity and
ultimately increase website traffic, prioritize and plan before logging
on, and
make use of certain productivity enhancers when doing your work online.
The below steps
are a routine you can go through
before you log on to help you increase your Internet productivity:
1. Write down a
list of things you want to
accomplish while you are on the Internet. Do not make it too long, and
make
sure to prioritize the tasks. A short, prioritized list is better than
a long
list that includes relatively non-important tasks.
2. Give
yourself a schedule for each task you
want to complete, and allow for a few breaks if there is time. Setting
a time
schedule will help you monitor your progress and keep yourself on task
more
easily.
3. Write down a
quick list of all the things
that you will NOT do until your important tasks are completed. This
might
include not checking your e-mail, social networking sites and news
sites until
after you have completed your jobs.
4. Now, take
your top priority and make yourself
a promise such as:
"I will get
.... done by ...am/pm today. To
do that I will NOT .... and I will/won't .... until the job is done."
Write this down
and keep right it next to your
computer monitor where you can see it at all times.
In addition to
these four basic techniques which
are designed to help you focus on the tasks immediately in front of
you, it is
important that you remind yourself about the "big why" that causes
you to do the tasks in the first place. If you can place your immediate
tasks
in the context of your "big why," the big reason why you are doing
all this in the first place, it will serve to motivate you to get your
tasks
done.
For instance,
you may want to write a chapter of
an e-book that you are planning to publish on your website. But what is
your
purpose for publishing an e-book on your website? Is it because you
want to
create a range of unique products to offer your visitors? Why do you
want to do
that? Is it because you want to build a successful Internet business so
you can
say goodbye to your job and work at home full time? Why do you want to
do that?
Is it because... Well, I think you get the idea by now!
The point here
is that if each task that you do
can be seen as a stepping stone towards your ultimate goal, then you
will be
much more focused on getting the job at hand done.
My next article
will look at how you can boost
your Internet productivity and increase website traffic by using
various tools
and software programs.
I
wish you the best of success,
John Baril
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