Working online is one those things where it's real easy to trick yourself.
It's possible to do a lot of "keep busy" work.
It's easy to get caught up in doing a lot of things, so it seems like we're working.
When in reality, we're not doing the things that make us money.
In other words, we're focusing on activity, but not productivity! That's the subject of this article: How to be more productive in your online business.
If our bottom-line goal is to make money online, then we have to make sure that's our focus in our online business activities.
Don't do anything that doesn't produce sales and an income.
How do we do that? Remember, there is only one thing that makes you money.
That is Sales.
Somebody sells something.
That's how all businesses make money.
This may sound very simplistic.
You may be saying to yourslef, "No kidding, Joe.
Who doesn't know that sales is how you make money?" I'd say back to you, "Of course you know that sales is the key.
But do you focus on what you know?" So, to make money online, you define "productivity" as "making sales.
" Hang this by your computer, where you can see it: PRODUCTIVITY = SALES If we accept that "PRODUCTIVITY = SALES" then a productive "activity" or "task" would be any activity or task that leads to a sale.
Are you creating your own info product? Well, that's good, because that leads to a sale.
Are you spending your time "chatting" in some joke telling forum, without you URL in your sig file? That's not productive, because it's not leading to a sale.
Once you define productivity in terms of sales, you're able to look at your business activities and ask yourself, "Will this particular activity eventually lead to a sale?" If it will, go ahead and do the activity.
If it won't, you're best off putting the activity aside for now.
Always define productivity as sales.
That way you'll stay on track, accomplish your goals, and make money online!