Without a doubt time management is one of the biggest problems if not the biggest problem that marketers deal with in starting a business. Information overload kills more businesses than any other thing.

Robert Plank has put together a great guide to get done the important things and actually take action. Breaking things down into little pieces as he will show you and taking very focused action will make your results expand easily.

Information overload and indecision or the need to make things perfect are business killers. Robert has put together checklists and time savers to get the important things done and stay focused.

Applying these techniques has been a difficult change but has paid dividends for me many times over. The techniques work if you take action.

Now the problem with this product is that you will need to make changes and some of them will not be comfortable. If you embrace it and actually apply the techniques you will become much more productive.

This is product that you will have to go through on a regular basis. Doing it once will help but you will backtrack and need to review this on a regular basis. I have a reminder set to go back through it every 60 days. Each time I do I get better at managing my time. It does take consistent reminders to get this done and why I schedule it for review regularly.

Check out Time Management On Crack today.

This is the first in a series of reviews of products that I have purchased and have applied to my business to improve it. All of these reviews will be evergreen products (not the latest fad but long term valuable products) that I continue to recommend and use the techniques today in my business.

About the author

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses PLR to enter various niches profitably.

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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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The biggest problem that most people I talk to have is information overload. This is really easy to succumb to. To avoid it I have been re-visiting things that I know are stumbling blocks for me. By discussing them this should help you.

The first person who has really helped me in this respect is Marlon Sanders. His ezine consistently discusses the actions you need to take and what matters. You can see some of his best by signing up to get the Best Of Marlon Sanders ebook. It is a compilation of some of his best ezines. Then make sure you do what is necessary to make sure you see his ezine and read and apply what he talks about.

The second person that has helped me to get organized and focus on what is important is Robert Plank. His Time Management On Crack has allowed me to pay attention to the things that really matter, The items that will make a return but more importantly to get things done one at a time. Kill the multi-tasking. Keep the focus. Eliminate the outside items while working.

Finally my good friend Joel Osborne and his Twitter prodding with “Have you taken massive action today” tweets. You can follow Joel and have him prod you too.

All of this has caused me to take some of the following steps in just the past week.

I am sorting my email and using the unsubscribe links. If the person does not give me information I can use and I tend to ignore the email most of the time why am I on that list? Doing this has made a big dent on my inbox saving me time. Hey even if you are on my list and you don’t read it or it does not help you then unsubscribe. It removes clutter that stops you from doing the important things.

Create my four must do tasks each day. These do not include any maintenance tasks like email, the support desk, etc. but are 4 tasks that will actually help my business.

For example Thursday most but not all of my list was based around finishing Twitter Time Saver.

1. Email about teleseminar with Doug Champigny on using Twitter and prep questions (Replay is available here.)
2. Finish the sales page
3. Create the download page
4. Final edit of report

By getting those items done I was able to hold a successful teleseminar, review and test everything for Twitter Time Saver on Friday and launch it on Saturday. All of those tasks were focused on something that can earn me money. Too often we get busy on the 80% that don’t bring results.

Now the regular tasks will get done like my blog posts, answering support inquiries but taking the time to prioritize the things necessary to make money was the key.

So by focusing on a very specific few things and doing them to completion I am able to move things forward faster.

So my new goal is massive action on specific tasks each day that I work. What is yours?

Mike Paetzold

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Well two months are done in this year already. Where did the time go? Not sure but things are really rolling along quickly or it just may be being old and bald that makes it seem that way.

Been behind most of this week as I a flu bug kicked my butt and I lost a day resting and then spent a day traveling to honor my ex-mother in law who passed this week. She will be missed but would have been very pleased with the service.

The other thing that has slowed me down this week is implementing the start of my outsourcing. I have outsourced frequently before but this time I am in the process of taking it to the next level using John Jonas ideas in ReplaceMyself.com. Like all new items added into your business this has a learning curve and you actually slow down a bit before you can increase your business.

Probably a lesson though that we all need to consider and remember. Yes the sales letter for each and every product will tell you how easy it is and for most good products it is…

Once you get through the learning curve and apply the information. You will always have a learning curve and application time and all too often we don’t take that time or the effort to get through it. Think about that fact the next time you are looking at the next shiny object and make sure that you have applied the last one before you head off in a new direction. Understand that sometimes it takes a small step backwards (the application time) to move forward.

Well enough pontificating today I guess funerals (and at my age they have become all too regular of an occurrence) makes me look back and rethink things. Off to the blogs.

WordPress Made Easy

• Some great theme tricks to check out
• Input, ideas and you
• Blogging and you call last night
• New blog with traffic stats

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• What is the matter with this picture?

Whats new

Joel Osborne launched his Product Creation Success package and I did a white paper for purchasers on why he would sell so much value for such a low price. If you grab the package send a support request with a copy of your receipt to my help desk and I will send you the download link.

Robert Plank released his new Time Management On Crack product which I reviewed and loved. Not sure what Planky’s thing is with on crack but it is a common theme in his products. Something for inquiring minds to figure out? If you can figure it out let me know as it must be a young whippersnapper thing that is beyond this old bald guy.

Dr Mani released a free report that you don’t even need to opt in for that is worth checking out Business Multiplier. Very powerful ideas and won’t take you long to read. However, like most things the key is to apply them.

Been lots of big launches like the PPC Classroom and Ewen Chia’s book. I have not reviewed any of them but am sure you got pounded with email on them if you are on more than one list.

Will be doing a seminar today at noon if you read this early enough at Affiliate Funnel on Tracking – the key to improvement. Affiliate Funnel is free to join and the weekly seminars are valuable even when I am not the speaker .

Upcoming

Last thing as this has become a huge review this week but Doug Champigny is launching his Free PLR Giveaway Sunday at noon. This is an invitation only event for contributors so there will only be quality new PLR products in there. Can be a great way to get some quality PLR for free. Properly applied (see the continuing theme today ) these can be a great boost to your business.

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Today I did my email a bit different and violated some of the “rules”. Will it work? That is the real question and the answer will show up soon. That is one of the nice things about the internet – speed.

So I was different – here is the email

Subject – A 4 letter word that may not be bad?

Just a few quick things today that I have found
that can help you and be prepared because
sometimes I use the 4 letter word. You have
been warned.

First Dr Mani has a new report you can grab
with no opt in just go and download it. Well
worth the time to read it.

WARNING: This report may cause you to have
to do some of that four letter word WORK but
only if you apply it and if you do you will benefit.

http://mikepaetzold.com/likes/multiply

Second that crazy friend of mine Robert Plank
who Twitters me telling me I suck and he rocks
just launched Time Management On Crack.

http://mikepaetzold.com/likes/tmoc

I bought it last night and ended up reading the
whole thing and started applying it immediately.

Some really great tips and easy to apply. The follow
through may be a bit tough but then you get back
to that dang 4 letter word again.

It is a dime sale format so the price is rising as he
sells more copies.

Final thought for the day – Got some strange tweets
over yeterdays blog post including this one from
Joel Osborne

“Thank you @MikePaetzold for not calling me stupid
http://tinyurl.com/dzczvx “

Sometimes doing something different can create a
bit of a stir. What have you tried different lately?

All for today – have a great one and don’t be afraid
of that 4 letter word – It can improve your business.

To your success in 2009.

Mike Paetzold

Follow me on Twitter
http://twitter.com/mikepaetzold

Couple of things here that you are usually told to avoid like multiple items in the same email and using that dang 4 letter word work. After all people don’t want work they just want the easy button even though we all know that you need the work.

So what do you think? Will this work or won’t it? Do you even care about documenting experiments like this? Let me know in the comments. Will talk about the actual results in a couple days.

Mike Paetzold

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