"10 Ways To Grow Your Business In 5 to 30 Minutes"
On the subject of Business Time Management, Increase Web Site Traffic, Internet Marketing Business, Niche Marketing, Time Management, marketing tips, online marketing10 Ways To Grow Your Business In 5 to 30 Minutes
By Paul Kleinmeulman
It’s 5:30pm, you have just come back from work and there is 30 minutes before dinner. You are feeling motivated to do something to grow your business, and you need to do it while your wife is not looking ;).
What do you do?
Most people would check their email, or read a sales page, or read a few forum posts… but that doesn’t really grow your business does it?
No it’s dead time, it’s treading water, and you have been doing that for far too long. It’s time to change that attitude and do something that will grow your business even with those few spare minutes of your time.
Here are 10 ways to grow your business with just 5 to 30 minutes.
1) Write An Article or Blog Post
Writing an article can take time, especially when you have to do research, or you have come back from work and mentally drained. But with the right mindset and an ounce of motivation, you can use your time to grow your business. You must put content out there if you expect people to find you. This article took less then 20 minutes to write, you can do it.
2) Submit An Article or Old Blog Post
Along the same lines is to take that article or old articles you have previously written for your blog and submit them to different article directories. I find that it is easy to write articles, but I don’t get around to submitting them very often. 5 to 30 minutes is just the right amount of time to submit one article to numerous different places.
3) Research And Write For Links
Building links to your web site is very important, and not just for search engine optimization, and increasing your ranking. It is also building relationships with other related sites (how else will they hear about you?). 5 to 30 minutes is just enough time to research and contact webmasters requesting links, and putting links to their site on yours.
Or if you don’t want to do it yourself, then take the time to write or video showing how somebody else can do it for you.
4) Research And Write To JV Partners Or Affiliates
Emailing JV partners or affiliates shouldn’t just be a ‘one off when you launch’ thing… You should be constantly contacting new JV partners and or affiliates to promote your products. Take 30 minutes and send them a personalized message on how you can help each other.
5) Add Another Message To Your Autoresponder
What is so good about an autoresponder? It sends out messages when you are not there, building relationships, and promoting products. But you need to fill it first, most people just have 7 messages… BEEEEEP… WRONG!
Use this dead time, and add another message to your autoresponder, either a content message, or a promotion message, or even just a link to your blog if you are adding content to it regularly.
This is a great example, of doing something once, and getting paid for it constantly.
6) Add A "Recommended Product" To Your Download Page
Your download page, is most likely your most underutilized page on your whole website. Take the time to add a ‘Recommended Product’ for your targeted customers and increase your $ value per customer.
7) Rotate Some Ads On Your Blog
If you have had the same ads on your blog for more then a month, then take 30 minutes, to rotate them, and give your blog a minor face lift. We are not talking about a major redesign here, we are just talking about a few changes, so people can notice the difference, and it looks like you genuinely care about your blog.
Write A Script For Your Next Video
I’m the type of person who can’t record a video in less then 30 minutes, I need a lot of preparation time, but I can write a small script in that time. Take the time, to write your next JV video, or a personal message to add to your autoresponder or website, to grow your relationship with your prospects. And then record it later. Or if you care somebody who can just record… then just do it.
9) Research Your Competition
Most people when they come home from work, just want to waste the time and surf the net. Ok but how about we do something useful with our time. How about you do a little bit of spy work on your competition.
Find out…
What keywords they are using for Adwords?
How long they have been online?
Who is linking to them?
How many links do they have?
How many articles they have in Ezine Articles?
etc,
And then see what they are doing that you are not and then do it better!
10) Brainstorm How You Can Drive More Traffic To Your Websites
You can’t have enough traffic, and there are times when you need to think out of the box. Take that dead time and sit down with a pen and piece of paper and think of all the methods you are NOT using to drive traffic to your websites.
Try and come up with 30 different methods, and sort through your list, to find the ones that are going to give maximum results for minimum time. And then use your next spare 30 minutes to do number 1 and so on.
10 things only just cracks the surface, as I was writing this article, I was thinking about all the other things, I could add. Why don’t you take the time to write your own list right now, you will find that it really focuses your mind? Post it near your monitor, and the next time, you want to waste those precious minutes online, do something constructive instead.
Hope that helps,
All the best for your online success.
Sincerely,
Paul Kleinmeulman
Australia
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As you can see it had nothing at the start of March. When I launched it grew. When I found some JV parters it exploded to just under 600 visitors a day and now is leveling off to 300 visitors per day just from SEO and Adwords.