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It’s a slow cycle when you are trying to learn everything you can about the Internet, Search Engines, Social Media and all the rest that just creating a presence online entails.
There is no easy way to do it all at once on the job. The goal would eventually outsource some of these tasks, but if that is not yet affordable, you have to do it yourself.
I started out selling on Ebay. I didn’t know much more than HTML. I knew nothing about SEO. And I knew that some people had made money with affiliate programs. It was sort of like being a freelance salesman.
I started playing around with PHP. I had bought my first domain. And I was learning SEO. I had yet to make more than a few hundred bucks in a month from affiliate programs but it was a start.
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When you do a lot of things, you have to have a system of priorities. I say that and yet I can also say that I get sidetracked about 50% of the time. There are those days when everything comes together. But I am driven like a MoFo, so even on those days, the to do list is never empty at the end of the day.
And if these things you do are spread apart, you must create your own system. No one will show you how. Being a blogger means wearing more hats than you ever thought you would. Throw anything else in that mix and add even more hats.
Doing one thing at a time. It’s a nice concept and may seem easy, but I guess it depends on how you handle things. I know it works. I know the sense of accomplishment that comes with actually finishing something. But that does not stop me from getting caught in the whirlwind of multitasking.
The computer is a mind trapping machine. I bounce from thought to thought, task to task, until I get about 50 things half done and nothing completed. When I do a lot at once, I make myself look like I am getting a lot of work done. Until I’m done. And then it looks like I delegated to a crack head.
It is good to live with someone you trust to tell you that you are being stupid. Of course, part of the deal is actually listening when that person says you are.
I am not good as hearing that I am wrong. I do not take it well. In fact, it usually is fuel for me to go in the opposite direction.
But for a lot of the stuff I do, I can only trust my opinion and experience. I can pick up a few pointers here and there from forums and blogs. But when I am done there, it is only me here to tell me what to do.
I have been so wrapped up lately trying to replace desktop software with web apps that I haven’t looked into desktop feed readers for a long time. I used Firefox live marks until I realized that 700 feeds will slow down the browsing experience.
After that I went to Google Reader and have kept my feeds there for a while. I maxed out Google Reader with Monkeyscripts to the point it runs real lyslow and then I went to the mobile version in the sidebar of Flock.
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