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Even if your desk is neat and your surroundings spotless, what about your affiliate IDs, passwords, to-do lists, email folders, ads and campaigns, address book, site blueprints, article submissions, bookmarks, spreadsheets, and computer files? We thought so.
Very few affiliates can immediately put their finger on their affiliate IDs, let alone navigate to an important file immediately. Most of us spend way too much time sorting through old emails to find important business details. If you think it would take you more than one working day to collect all your affiliate IDs and passwords and make a complete list of your business projects, then you’re probably LOSING at least one hour every day on these inefficiencies!
If the idea of slogging through all those old files to collect information sounds like a horrible chore, it’s time to look at project management tools. If you already own Microsoft Project and know how to use it, you can start there, though it tends not to adapt well to one-person operations. The same hold true of most other off-the-shelf or online project management tools—they’re designed to be used in collaborative environments, where teams work on multiple projects concurrently.
You might be better off creating separate Excel spreadsheets to list IDs and passwords, track progress on site development, manage link partners, track ad campaigns, and record article submissions. If that sounds like a lot of work, remember that dealing with a backlog of disorganization is the toughest part. And don’t underestimate the basic time management tools that come with Microsoft Outlook. While they’re not very flexible or robust, they can at least help you keep to-do lists and remind you of deadlines.
Of course, if you belong to The Affiliate Classroom, you already have access to a secure, step-by-step marketing management system. So explore it and USE it. Start by creating a “private profile” for every affiliate program you join. It takes about 2 minutes to record your IDs and passwords, and about 2 minutes more to record those marketing ideas that are so exciting right now, but that you’re bound to forget if you don’t write them down.
And don’t underestimate the power of using your Affiliate Classroom step-by-step system DAILY. In fact, this is true of any other project management tool of your choice. Setting it up is one thing, but training yourself to be more organized every day is another!
To motivate yourself to stay organized, think of it this way: Remember that if you waste just half an hour a day digging for lost items and fiddling around, that’s two and a half hours a week down the drain. That’s serious time you could spend watching a movie, reading, relaxing, enjoying nature, hanging out with friends and family… or making more money!
Because the Affiliate Classroom step-by-step system is designed specifically for affiliate marketers, it only takes an hour or two to get comfortable with the system. If you’re using project management software or building your own spreadsheets, you need to set aside a couple of days to develop a system you can live with and use easily.
But after that, you still need to USE what you’ve learned. Affiliate Classroom members say that it takes about 3 days of using the step-by-step project management system to make it a habit - probably because the system allows you to keep notes, site ideas, link partners, article submissions, and your exact progress of every affiliate site you’re building all in one place. Your own project management “training” may take longer. But no matter what, it’s worth it.
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