Business Launch Day 2: Prioritize My Marketing List

If you’re like me, frustrated by the sheer volume of tasks that cross my desk each day, then you’ll understand. I notice that I barely get anything done sometimes; it’s frustrating because things are just piling up. Sometime I wish someone can just tell me what to do first instead of having to play the guessing game. Well I’ve found a system- The Franklin Covey system of prioritizing your day (www.franklincovey.com). It’s a system that made a tremendous impact on the way I run my tasks each day. Steve Covey the author of the “The 8th Habit” was invited to Luxembourg to teach how to effectively manage our time and he mentioned the system.

Here is how I used the system. Instead of listing all the to-do’s that I have in my plate with no rhythm, I organize them into “What Matter Most” I suggest you go to the website I mention above and take their day long management course on prioritizing task for your business. It’s extremely helpful.

Here are the steps I took to priorities my task:

I wrote all the task I needed to get done including the day’s workload and other tasks. I didn’t bother to write them in a particular order, then I using a column labelled “A.B.C” and categorized each task.

“A” is what I MUST get done today without question
“B” is what’s important to get done
“C’s” are stuff that can wait for a few more days.

Once‘ve ranked them, I then re-rank the alphabet- A’s by numbering A1, A2, A3 etc. This has been a fantastic way for me to get all the important things done, instead of procrastinating.

If you really don’t have time to work on your marketing, then you might need to create daily breakout where you take time off for about 30mins to work on your marketing.

And if your existing clients are the one taking too much of your time, try clustering your client appointment for efficient use of your time, by having a new schedule about when clients can see/work with you. With that, you can free up time to market to new prospects, network, write articles/press release, or prepare for a talk.

Big virtual hug

Joyce

"The Business Growth Queen"



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Online entrepreneur Joyce Oladipo, "Business Growth Queen," is creator of the winning Attractive Marketing E-zine to Jumpstart Your Business offline and online. To learn to Grow You Business In Less Time wth Ease sign up for FREE how-to articles and FREE audio class, at www.BeAWealthyEntrepreneur.com.