Reduce Your Stress:  Create a Countdown Marketing Calendar

Written by Catherine Franz


Just like there are reverse dictionaries, there is a reason to create a count down calendar. A count down calendar starts with Franklin Covey’s philosophy, “start withrepparttar end in mind.” The biggest advantage to a county-down calendar is that it makes you think and focus harder as well as makesrepparttar 120761 planning easier.

First, you write downrepparttar 120762 exact results you want or expect. Let’s say you have a teleclass, seminar, speaking engagement you are delivering on X date. This becomes your D-day -- sort of speaking. It may be end ofrepparttar 120763 event planning, however, it can also berepparttar 120764 beginning of your follow-up plan. For simplicity sake, let us stop atrepparttar 120765 D-day point.

Now you can prepare a count down calendar in several ways. One way would be to use a calendar withrepparttar 120766 days ofrepparttar 120767 month filled in. You mark downrepparttar 120768 D-day and then you back track from there to today.

Count downrepparttar 120769 days until __________. Number of marketing days to go until __________.   Example: Count down days until seminar. 20 marketing days to go until seminar.

Any doesn’t matter which calendar method you use, you will need to write down your measurements or your mini-results that will deliverrepparttar 120770 end results you want. I userepparttar 120771 pivoting question, “What is it going to take to…” to get my thinking moving inrepparttar 120772 right direction. I like to think through and write these onrepparttar 120773 back of my calendars. This gives me a bird’s eye view for that particular commitment that my software does not provide.

Another way would be to use a blank form like this withrepparttar 120774 appropriate number of days in between. Then cross outrepparttar 120775 days that you will do any marketing – say Sundays or days filled with other requirements. For my teleclass programs, my D-day back to Day 1 is always 3 weeks, so I have created a regular calendar for these. In fact, I use green color paper to print outrepparttar 120776 calendar.     If you don't want to create your own, visit your local office supply store, they have countdown calendars available for purchase (blank planning books).

Tracking Your Articles Properly...

Written by Martin Lemieux


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Tracking Your Articles Properly... By: Martin Lemieux

Writing articles related to your business is a great way to build your link popularity and also to provide more content for your site and other sites. Not too mention it's always nice when someone finds your site and uses it within their newsletter.

The only problem is, what if people dont tell you that they were using your articles??? How would you know who to reward?

I say reward because of another article I wrote, "reward those who publish your articles". It briefly outlines how to boost your articles popularity by boostingrepparttar 120761 other sites it's listed on.

Let's say for now, you just want to track your articles properly.

#1 Creating appropriate forlders within your "favorites". Every browser allows you to create a folder in order to hold your favorite web sites. Organizing your favorites folder is key when you plan to market your business 24/7. In this case, we'll create a new folder called "Articles Listed".

Within that folder, you'll want to start creating other "sub" categories for EACH INDIVIDUAL ARTILCE that you market.

For instance, let's say you have about 10 articles that you always promote, you'll want to add 10 folders within your new "Articles Listed folder". Make sure to give them a short but recognizable name that you would be able to distinguish which article it is for.

Ex. (I will use 3 of my title's)

1 Tracking your articles properly (Folder: Tracking Articles) 2 Writing Articles To Boost Your Traffic (Folder: Writing Articles) 3 Reward Those Who Publish Your Articles (Folder: Reward Publishers)

#2 Always keeprepparttar 120762 same headline for your article: I've visited many sites who consistently changerepparttar 120763 headline ofrepparttar 120764 article simply to make it seem like a different article. Don't be shy, I'm sure we've all thought about it, infact, I am also guilty.

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