1-2-3 Sort

Written by Eve Abbott, the Organizer Extraordinaire


Article excerpted fromrepparttar new book, "How to Do Space Age Work with a Stone Age Brain" by Eve Abbott

1 - 2 - 3—SORT!

Every time you start to clean up your office so you can work better instead of harder—that big backlog of information is just too overwhelming. Sorting can actually put you into a better working space in very short time.

The good news is you don't have to do it all at once. Userepparttar 100290 first cut to trash, recycle, shred, and archive leaving justrepparttar 100291 items requiring Action on your part.

Now dorepparttar 100292 Action sort beginning with your desktop, desk drawers, then, wall mount shelves or cupboards at your desk. You'll have a clean Action zone to put these items back in better working order. Then, it's 1 - 2 - 3—SORT!

Sort and only sort—no reading a newsletter or making one quick call. Also, work for two hours or less, take a break, then, finish it off with another two hours atrepparttar 100293 most. Otherwise, our stone age brains overload and start putting things inrepparttar 100294 wrong place. There are three essential Action domains: 1) to Do 2) to Read 3) to File.

TO DO: Inrepparttar 100295 to-Do domain there are some basic categories: Call, Pay, Sign, Schedule, Correspond, Read, Review, Write, Research, etc. Everyone has unique information categories in their work and lives, but, these will get you going and you can add Actions as your piles take on definition and turn into Action files.

When a piece of info is sticking to your fingers, ask yourself: Am I pastrepparttar 100296 due date? Trash or if you need other info from it, file it. Will anyone care if I do or don't do this? If not, why spend time on it? Trash Do I really need to do this? If no—trash. If yes, into an Action file and calendar it.

TO READ: Set up magazine files to sort your reading material as it arrives. Label these by topic, project or subscription. Do not read anything yet! Thisrepparttar 100297 time to decide which articles are really worth your time and energy to read.

9 Steps to Success in Affiliate Marketing

Written by Curtis S


1.Join an Affiliate Program. I would suggest joining programs that interest you personally. There are affiliate programs for almost any product or service you can think of so do some research and find one that is right for you. If you have a passion for your product niche it will be a whole lot easier to stay motivated. 2.Build your own website to promote your product: You will need to build a website with your own domain name (ie. yourname.com) and pay a monthly fee for hosting as opposed to goingrepparttar free route and sharing a domain (ie. freespace.yourdomain.com) If you don’t know much about web design that’s quite ok. You will find there are lots of companies out there who offer very affordable website design.

3.Start a reciprocal linking campaign: Start exchanging links with other websites in your niche. You will find lots of webmasters willing to add a link to your website as long as you returnrepparttar 100289 favor. The more websites that link to you,repparttar 100290 higher page rank you will have inrepparttar 100291 search engines, therefore leading to more traffic to your website.

4.Start your own newsletter. The newsletter can simply consist of articles related to your products and website. Always add a signature containing a link to your website atrepparttar 100292 bottom of each newsletter entry. That way when people read your articles they can continue on to your website. If you don’t want to write your own articles, there are many websites that will let you use theirs for free.

5.Build an Email List. Owning your own email list is one ofrepparttar 100293 most important tools you can have as an affiliate marketer. The best way to build a list is to buy leads, that way you don’t have to worry about getting in trouble for spamming. Lots of companies sell quality leads (email addresses) consisting of people who want more information about your products. With every lead you buy you can in turn sign them up for your newsletter.

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