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Bloggers: Are You Procrastinating Right Now When You Should Be Working? This Article Will Get You Back To It

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Procrastination is in many ways the blogger’s worst enemy. You haven’t uploaded a new post in a long time and have a small window to do it in, so you sit down hoping to write a few blog posts only to find yourself browsing around YouTube and watching funny videos of cats. Sure, those cats are often hilarious, but they aren’t going to make your blog any more successful, appease your impatient readers or earn you any money. This is a problem faced by many of us and it’s one of the biggest time (and therefore) money wasters that we deal with on a daily basis.

In fact, I’d say that there’ a good chance you’re procrastinating right now. Perhaps you sat down planning to write an article for your site, but then got distracted while you were browsing through the research. You maybe read a couple of unrelated articles, checked your email, then went back online to ‘close the tab’. Maybe you were just about to when you saw this article title and though ‘just this one more article’.

Well it’s time to stop, and fortunately I know just how to get you back to work. Below I’m going to share some strategies that can make it much easier to work through your to-do list, and by the end of it you should be back to work and have stopped putting it off. Then, whenever you find your eyes and mind starting to wander, you can just apply these same strategies again…

Step 1: Create a To Do List

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The first thing you need to do is to outline exactly what’s required of you for today. By doing that, you will be able to better plan your day and you won’t find yourself putting things off because you’re not sure what’s best to do next. Make this detailed too so that nothing vague is on that list. For instance, don’t just write ‘write blog post’, but instead write the title and subject of that post. This way you won’t lose time deliberating on what precisely to write and you can disengage that part of your brain to just work through the tasks directly.

Step 2: Start With the Fun

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You’d think that it would make more sense to start with the most boring or the largest task on your to-do list first would make sense, but in reality that’s often a mistake. Instead, try starting with the job that’s mot fun or at least most bearable. That way, you won’t dread getting started quite so much and you’ll be less likely to carry on putting it off. But then, once you’ve done the fun task, you’ll find that the whole list looks much shorter and more bearable.

And if you don’t have a fun or a bearable task on there? Well then find a way to make the jobs more interesting. If you need to do some writing for your blog, then you should try and make the posts you write relate directly to something that’s currently on your mind. Likewise, if you were putting off going to the gym, you could make it more fun by using new exercises or making a challenging routine to push yourself. However you do it, if you make the job fun and challenging then it won’t be so likely to feel like work and it will be easier to stay focussed on it. This is an example of working with your brain. There are more here.

Step 3: Don’t Check Your E-Mail… Or Anything

So you have your to-do list and you’re raring to get started with work. What do you do now? If the answer you were about to say was to ‘check your e-mail’ then that’s what you’ve been doing wrong. Checking your e-mail at the start of your ‘shift’ will mean you’re not focussing on your work right from the word go, and will create too many opportunities to get even more distracted (by thinking about what’s been written, or by writing a response). Instead then, make checking your e-mail a ‘reward’ and use the same attitude for making tea or doing anything else that distracts you from your main job (and only award yourself one at a time after you’ve done a good amount of work). That way, rather than making tea, checking your email and reading the news and finding you’ve done no work after an hour, you can do one of those things at the end of each hour and find you’ve finished most of your work by the time you’ve done all three.

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5 Reasons You Should Never Give Up When Trying To Make Money From A Blog

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Did you know that it’s easier to increase your earnings each month from 2K to 10K than it is to go from 0 to 2K? This is because when you reach the 2K per month point you already have a well-oiled machine. Starting from scratch is really hard and it can almost take forever to earn a decent wage from your blog. If people know how long it took before they would be earning enough money to quit their job they might never start blogging. Those are the people who quit before they see any results.

If you want to be one of the people with a well-oiled machine you have got to put the work in now. The last thing you want to do is quit because you might have only been a few months away from hitting the jackpot and you would have never known. You will be making enough money to quit your job one day, even if it takes you 3 years to do it. That is a long time for anyone, so I want to look at some important things that can give you encouragement and will hopefully stop you from giving up.

Little wins when you least expect it

You could be doing your thing and nothing is going right for you. It’s not for your lack of trying because you are putting in a lot of effort, but for some reason, it almost feels like you are going backward. Then one day you get an email asking if you would like to be featured on a big blog. Or you might receive thousands of visitors because the right person has linked to an article you wrote. Those kinds of things can’t be planned for and they just happen somewhere along the way, usually in your second or third year.

You become well known

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When you are trying to network with people it is draining. You try your best to be nice to them and it’s not working. They might respond to a tweet or a blog comment, but it’s obvious they never gave it much thought and they were just trying to be nice. They still don’t know who you are. When you stick at it and have been constantly on someone’s radar for a few years they will definitely know who you are unless they are senile. You just have to stick around and wait for the magic to happen.

Sometimes turning up is enough

People get far too stressed out about how much effort is required. I think there are a few people who don’t even get any sleep because they try too hard. Sometimes all you need to do is turn up. I know that might sound strange, but you don’t need to start doing everything possible to succeed. You just need to follow a straight path and keep publishing posts for your readers. Then when you see an opportunity you should snap it up. Sometimes smart thinking beats going crazy.

The snowball effect

Have you ever made a giant snowball? When the snowball is small and it starts to roll it picks up some snow and it gets a little bigger. When it’s huge it will pick up much more snow and it will get bigger a lot quicker. This is what happens with a blog and in the beginning, you are the small snowball. No matter what you do there is only a certain amount of snow you can pick up. When you have been around for years your snowball will pick up much more snow with everything you do.

Becoming better at everything

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Everyone who starts out writing doesn’t have their voice, but they find it after a year. They start out doing rubbish videos, but soon the quality will rival anything you see online. Throw in podcasting, marketing, networking, and millions of other things that make people successful. Even though it might seem hard to believe, you get better at things the more you do them, so sticking in for years will mean you turn into a great blogger who can’t fail.

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Increase Your Chances Of Success By Using A Virtual Office.

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The poor economic climate here in the UK has left many small businesses struggling to survive. Many have had to put plans of growth on hold as they simply cannot secure the finance they need from the banks. If you are looking to expand your business in the near future and increase its chances of success, why not consider utilising the services of a virtual office? In this article we will explain how virtual offices can benefit small businesses and help them to achieve their goals successfully.

Using a virtual office can help you turn your small home-run business into a national successBenefit #1: Prestigious business address

The quality of your business address goes a long way when it comes to creating the right impression on your customers. If you use a virtual office in a big city like London, you will immediately become associated with the other successful businesses that reside there. A prestigious business address (courtesy of your virtual office) can help you to build up you customers’ trust in your company and widen your customer base nationally or even internationally. Creating the impression of success is the first step to take and will help you to compete with some of the larger players in the industry you are part of.

Benefit #2: Improved customer service

Today companies simply cannot operate without providing their clients with a good customer service. The better your customer service is, the happier your customers will be. This will make them more likely to recommend you to their peers, helping you to gain more clients and increase your profits. Using a virtual receptionist can help you to improve your customer service, which will in turn increase your chances of success.

Virtual receptionists have the skills, knowledge and expertise to be able to offer your customers the best service possible. Whether you lack customer service skills yourself or simply do not have the time to handle your customers’ calls, a virtual receptionist is the perfect solution. Whilst answering your customers’ calls in a friendly and professional manner, many virtual receptionists also offer extended hours of service. This means that your customers can contact your business at a time that is most convenient to them. Increasing your business contact hours is a great way of pleasing customers, which of course has an impact on the overall success of your business. A good reputation goes along way after all!

Benefit #3: Increased focus on important business tasks

When handling all aspects of their business themselves, many business owners end up having to turn down work and let down clients because they have to work non-profitable tasks into their busy schedules. By working with a virtual office you can outsource some of your non-profitable tasks to a virtual assistant. This will lighten your work load enabling you to spend more time on doing the things you do best, such as securing new clients, growing your business and guiding it into the realms of success.

Working with a virtual office will help you build up a great reputation for your business

Conclusion

Building up a positive reputation for your business is the key to success. This is something that is easily achievable with the help of a virtual office. Not only will you be able to secure a prestigious business address for your company which will create a great first impression on potential customers, but you will also benefit from the expertise of virtual assistants in terms of customer service. The more effort you put into creating a good impression on customers, the more likely they will be to recommend your business and use your services again and again.  The more people that know about your business, the more potential there is to secure new clients, which will in time lead to higher profits and overall success.

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Why And How SEO Services Are Extremely Beneficial.

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When it comes to SEO services, there are a number of benefits that you’ll find as a business owner. Using SEO services can help make your business become a little more professional and can take your business to new heights in your online marketing efforts, as well as your rankings in search engines.

Some of the many services that you can take advantage of include copywriting, website redesigning, customer service, link building, social media, and many other internet marketing tactics.

These solutions can help in a systematic manner and this can give your business the advantage it needs. These services are provided by a number of companies that offer a wide array of experience in different elements of SEO.

With this experience and working with an SEO company, anything you pay for is going to help your business gain an online presence and can help gain a better reputation.

Beat Your Competition

One of the biggest aspects of using these SEO services is that they are going to give you an advantage that not many other sites currently have. There are a number of websites that have different services working for them but some are not as professional as using SEO services.

Using SEO services enables you to get the advantages that you can’t get by doing things on your own. They offer extensive experience and skills that are needed to turn your website and products into lucrative income.

Time Is Money

Some SEO services give you the guarantee of seeing results in as little as a few days while others may need a little bit more time to deliver high quality results. Some may even say to give them a few months and if that is the case, consider asking what their plans are to help you out.

Hiring an SEO service is going to help cut back on the amount of work you have to do for your business especially if you don’t have the necessary experience or skills to get the work done. This is going to allow you to focus on other aspects of your business. An SEO company can take care of implementing strategies to help make your business stronger.

Price versus Quality

These days, it’s become easier for companies to find SEO services that they can afford. This is because there are so many available that the demand is decreasing so they are offering lower rates. Before you hire an SEO service company, call a few different companies and compare what each one has to offer.

Robert is a web security consultant. He focuses on advising his clients on the best vps hosting services for their business. When not assisting clients, he is either at museums, parks, or reading to expand his knowledge.

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