What did you get done today?
It has been an ongoing topic here about taking action. Massive action to completion. Getting one thing done, finished, complete (see a pattern there) before you go to the next thing. A great way to avoid information overload.
It has been beaten into my head from a variety of people regularly and I am sure you have heard it too but like me until recently have too many things going at once and none done. Marlon Sanders talks about it in just about every email he sends.
Despite hearing that for years from him it was when I grabbed Robert Plank’s Time Management On Crack and started applying the items in it that it made a huge difference. After all if that young punk could do what he does I could surely do more than I was. (Yes that sentence was put there just because I know Planky will be by.) Getting things done good enough works and you can always go back and make it better.
That has allowed me to just get things done like the report I added to my list building. One of his rules is if you buy it use it in 24 hours. I did just that with the Social Networking PLR Pack from Doug Champigny.
I wanted a new lead generation system and the Social Networking Report in there was perfect for what I had in mind. I have a few products on Twitter and lots of stuff on WordPress so it would be a perfect ethical bribe for potential customers. It was what my potential customers would be interested in.
By following the 24 hours rule it was up and live at http://socialbiznetwork.com within four hours of purchase.
Tomorrow I am re-launching my WordPress Made Easy product (not linked because there will be a 4 day special discount for the re-launch so it costs more today) as I have just re-done all of the videos and the work books to bring it up to date, Created when WordPress 2.0 was the latest version the changes as we approach the release of 2.8 have been huge and it was either redo it or close it up.
Had it all done yesterday and when I saw the number and size of the files I knew it was time to learn something new. It had the potential to create havoc because of the amount of videos and bandwidth so it was time to figure out Amazon S3. That is accomplished now so there are no worries.
The key is that before this morning I knew nothing about Amazon S3 except that it was a good way to deliver high bandwidth items and lots of people use it for videos and downloads.
So off to Google and then YouTube and now although not an expert I have everything working and tested. Mainly because I decided that I would and ignored everything else until it was done.
So two questions today -What is holding you up?
And why aren’t you blowing it away?
Just about any technical question you have can be overcome using Google and YouTube so stop the excuses and as Larry “The Cable Guy” would say “Git’r done.”
Mike Paetzold
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June 9th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Hey Mike,
Glad to see you are, “Git’ ring done” once you start on the S3 you won’t know where to stop.
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June 9th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
I can see that it is a nice system and yes I will be using it much more.
June 9th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
If you want people to get their work done, Mike, better sell them your Twitter Time Saver first – I’m seeing marketers of every stripe spending more and more time there, much more than they need to.
I’m getting a lot done these days – new products, articles, blog posts and affiliate promotions, once I learned to leave my e-mail and TweetDeck closed and only open each for 15 minutes 3 or 4 times a day. It’s amazing how much time I was spending scanning e-mail and watching Tweets roll by.
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June 9th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I like the idea of taking massive action Mike and I hope you have inspired me enough to do just that. I would like to “Git’r done” so let’s see what we can do today. Thanks.
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June 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Great news Mike! Taking massive action is what it’s all about. Why not spend a whole day working on a new project instead of taking a week to do it slowly 1hr at a time?
I picked up Robert Plank’s course as well, it’s great!
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June 9th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I’m struggling to find the time to get social marketing done. So yes I’m a candidate for the time management book, but then if I do that I won’t get the project going. and Now I’ve joined the new Resell rights thing and have more on my plate. Ugh! I will get the solcial marketing project dome before I start anything else. Just need to dynamite some time free.
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June 9th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Yes, if you want to accomplish what you set out to do you have to take action.
Yesterday I put a free product online and setup the squeeze page, whitelisting help page, thank you page with upsell, and two download pages(one for the upsell and one without). Got all the products uploaded and began my twitter campaign to start driving traffic.
Is it perfect? Heck no, but it’s live and I can continue to tweek it until it is as close as I can get it.
Today I started an email campaign, made posts on two separate blogs, and continued the Twitter campaign.
All this because of your post yesterday!
Thanks for the inspiration Mike!
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June 10th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Nicely said Mike!
Getting things done is the hardest. Surprisingly I managed to get done more then expected and I think I’ll call it a day a bit earlier
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June 10th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Reminds me of something I forgot – reward yourself when you do things. Enjoy your early day.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Well I don’t know if it would be call taking massive action or not, but I completed a task today. Been working on it for 2-3 days. Today it all came together and I have it out for the world to see. Just about the same exercise as Brett’s second paragraph.
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June 11th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Mike, I have been taking some of your advise already and today (actually it was yesterday) even more. And that resulted in some great commissions overnight. Thanks for pushing me in the right direction..
Fred
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June 11th, 2009 at 11:03 am
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